(Free) Circular Sprints 02: Financial Strategy for Circular Growth
NOV 2026
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Our ecosystems | Fashion
Fashion Ecosystem
Through our ecosystem approach we create the resources that are needed to foster positive change in the fashion sector. Projects include FABB, Province of North-Holland Circulair Textile tour and the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge.
Projects
Which products or services are putting pressure on your margin? Where are costs creeping up? And which small changes could free up cash to hire, invest or simply create more room to manoeuvre? In this sprint, you’ll work with your own financial data to spot the weak points and identify practical adjustments that can strengthen…
(Free) Circular Sprint Workshop 01: Unlocking New Markets & Sales
OCT 2026
A high-impact workshop sprint for experienced circular entrepreneurs looking to achieve their commercial goals for 2027. Whether you want to close deals faster, stop reinventing your value proposition for every potential customer, enter new markets with a clear strategy, or build the commercial traction needed for your next funding round, this three-session sprint helps you…
The Regeneration Program 2
Nov 2026 - Apr 2027
The Regeneration Program is a five-month venture-support program for ambitious entrepreneurs and organizations working on regenerative solutions. Together, we’ll help you build the strategy, financial foundation, partnerships and leadership needed to take your organization to its next stage of growth.
Boost je Buurt 2026 (Dutch)
MAART - JUNI 2026
Door heel Amsterdam maken ondernemers impact. Met Boost je Buurt krijgen zij een podium en een kans om door te groeien. Ben jij een ondernemer die met jouw bedrijf het verschil maakt in de stad? Meld je aan voor Boost je Buurt, de challenge voor impactondernemers in Amsterdam.
Operators for Impact (Dutch)
NOVEMBER 2025 - JUNI 2026
Ben jij klaar voor de volgende stap? Jouw onderneming maakt sociale impact, maar het opschalen brengt nieuwe uitdagingen met zich mee. Want hoe vergroot je je omzet duurzaam? Hoe scherp je je verdienmodel aan? Hoe bouw je processen die meegroeien met jouw ambitie? Dit programma helpt jouw onderneming verder. Operators for Impact koppelt jouw onderneming…
Boost je Buurt 2025
APRIL - JULY 2025
Ben jij een impact ondernemer die Amsterdam gezonder, inclusiever en duurzamer maakt? Dan is dit dé uitdaging voor jou! De Boost je Buurt uitdaging van de Gemeente Amsterdam omvat een business development programma ter waarde van €20.000,- en een aanvullend ontwikkelingsbudget van maximaal €7.500.
Green at Heart – Build an even more impactful SME
March 2024 - 2025
Green at Heart helps social SMEs close all the loops by building a business that is environmentally as well as socially sound, well-governed, and circular. Through state-of-the-art diagnostic tools, expert guidance, and financial support, we empower you to integrate all aspects of sustainability into the heart of your business and prepare you for incoming ESG…
SoTecIn Factory Open Call for Higher-R Textile Solutions
SEPT 2023 - FEB 2025
SoTecIn Factory is a new project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. This year Impact Hub Amsterdam leads the North-West region of the project. Together with a consortium from the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, France and Luxembourg, we will specifically focus on solving circular textile challenges.
Circular Textile Accelerator – by CIC
8 JAN 2023
After extensive research the Circular Innovation Collective has identified the most urgent innovation gaps to create a circular textile chain. As a result we are scouting Startups and SME – B2B as well as B2C – national or international that are working on high value innovative circular solutions in Refuse, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Repair.
Impact Nation for Startups | 2022 | Textaafoam
11 NOV 2022
We’ve teamed up with ABN AMRO and TNW to develop Impact Nation, a programme in which we match innovative impact scale-ups with SMEs & organisations to collaborate on implementing innovations at scale.
Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge 2022/2023
Mar 2022 - Q1 2023
We’re scouting for the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge for the fourth year running! The global program aims to support entrepreneurial start-up and scale-up businesses who are developing solutions that promote inclusive and positive change in fashion.
Impact Nation for Startups | 2022 | YAYA
26 OCT 2022
We’ve teamed up with ABN AMRO and TNW to develop Impact Nation, a programme in which we match innovative impact scale-ups with SMEs & organisations to collaborate on implementing innovations at scale.
Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge
Mar 2021 - Q1 2022
We’re scouting for the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge for the third year running! The global program aims to support entrepreneurial startup and scaleup-stage businesses run by BIPOC entrepreneurs who are developing solutions that promote inclusive and positive change in fashion.
FABB | The Sustainable Fashion Accelerator
2020
Fashion Accelerator for Better Business (FABB) gave sustainable startups the chance and skills needed to grow in the fashion industry. FABB offered expert guidance, one-on-one coaching, and peer-to-peer learning in a small group of like-minded entrepreneurs.
Soft-landing Program | Fashion
2020
During our Softlanding Program to Vienna, participants got the chance to present their sustainable fashion brand to various stakeholders in Amsterdam: retail, social enterprises, the municipality, startups, investors, and sustainability experts. The program is an initiative of Impact Hub Amsterdam and Amsterdam Impact.
Business Model Challenge | Fashion
2021
During our Business Model Challenge, Fashion edition, we brought together entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas for the sustainable fashion industry. With experts from organisations such as Accenture, we shared the growth techniques we’ve used to finetune business models of the 350+ startups we’ve incubated to date in our Business Model Challenges!
Stories
7 September
Our 2025 Impact Report brings together the progress we made over the past year, from the entrepreneurs and organisations we supported to the partnerships, programmes and innovations that moved forward.
Inside, you’ll find key results, stories from across our work and some of the lessons shaping what we do next. It’s a snapshot of where we focused our efforts, what that work made possible and where we see the biggest opportunities ahead.
1 September
When Impact Hub Amsterdam started in 2008, impact entrepreneurship was not a mainstream topic. We have advocated for a sustainable economy built on measurable impact, not marketing budgets, and we have watched the corporate landscape evolve from compliance checklists to ambitious Net-Zero pledges...
21 May
Six Dutch recyclers within the Dutch Recycle Group are joining forces to secure funding for the transition towards a circular textile value chain in the Netherlands and Europe. Will you join us on 30 June for this financial hackathon?
31 March
Door heel Amsterdam maken ondernemers impact. Met Boost je Buurt krijgen zij een podium en een kans om door te groeien. De selectie is gemaakt en een nieuwe groep impactondernemers is begonnen aan hun reis. Maak kennis met de deelnemers en hun organisaties: volg hun voortgang en ontdek de impact die zij maken in de stad.
23 December
In 2025, we kept coming back to a simple idea: meaningful change starts close to home, and scales through collaboration. That’s why we’re looking back on the year through three lenses: what we built locally in Amsterdam, what we advanced nationally, and how we contributed globally. Because in a network of 130+ Impact Hubs we’re happy to be locally rooted and globally connected.
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