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Our services | Venture support
For success that grows with your ambitions
It’s pioneering entrepreneurs like you who lead the way to a sustainable future. Your vision and solutions are crucial and deserve the attention and traction they need. We’re here to help you every step of the way. Leverage our tools, expertise, and global network to ensure you make the right moves to achieve your goals.
The foundation for forward thinking impact entrepreneurs
In our entrepreneurship support programs, we give your solution the spotlight it deserves, collaborating on a detailed growth strategy complete with a concrete action plan.
You’ll do all this alongside a group of like-minded impact entrepreneurs, sharing both the highs and lows. We offer you the opportunity to step back from the daily grind of running your business and focus on working on your business.
Our emphasis is on identifying the right chain partners or investors and making those connections for you. With our global network and sector-specific expertise, you’re assured of the right strategy and partnerships.
Current program offering
Do you have a question about one of our programs? Program specific contact options are available on each program page. Answers to frequently asked questions are available in the FAQ section at the bottom of this page.
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As an up-and-coming impact entrepreneur, would you like to learn more about finding capital, building a brand, or perhaps master the intricacies of negotiating? Or do you want to learn everything about growth marketing, building a commercial strategy, or to take a closer look at your own business model? Find more about The Impact Entrepreneurs…
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Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Fair Future Challenge
The DOEN Foundation, in collaboration with Impact Hub Amsterdam, is launching a new competition for sustainable and social entrepreneurs. Do you have a sustainable and/or social consumer product or service? Five impactful and sustainable entrepreneurs will win €100,000 to support their innovation.
OCT 2024 - JAN 2025
Food Chain Accelerator 2024
FOOD CHAIN ACCELERATOR IS BACK – Running a startup or scale-up that is working on a more sustainable food system? Apply for our Food Chain Accelerator! In 12 days of training and strategy sessions at Impact Hub, you will work on your strategy, marketing, organisation and investment needs in order to grow your company and…
JUNE - OCT 2024
IKEA Foam Collaboration
Through the IKEA Foam Collaboration, innovators specialising in sustainable foam, innovative foam solutions, or alternative foam materials have the opportunity to collaborate with IKEA. Together with Impact Hub global, we aim to revolutionise the furniture industry by making sustainable solutions accessible to all.
March 2024 - 2025
Green at Heart – Build an even more impactful SME
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…
APRIL - NOV 2024
Food Pioneers Program Spring 2024
Are you an early-stage food entrepreneur eager to further develop your idea, business, or project? Are you looking for an inspiring workplace and like-minded community that helps you grow both personally and professionally? Are you in Almere, Flevoland or the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (AMR)? The Food Pioneers Program has got you covered.
SEPT 2023 - FEB 2025
SoTecIn Factory Open Call for Higher-R Textile Solutions
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.
Some of our partners in impact
Questions & Answers
In our programs, we focus on developing the strategy for the next phase of your business. Through masterclasses, coaching, exchanges with fellow impact entrepreneurs, and expanding your network with strategic partners and financiers, we ensure that you have a clear action plan for the future and know exactly who to work with to achieve it. In concrete terms, this means you’ll have a well-defined strategy, a solid action plan, insight into your funding needs, and relevant contacts.
Our programs are always tailored to a group of entrepreneurs within a specific impact theme and growth stage. The criteria for each program are clearly outlined—think about the type of impact you want to achieve, whether you’re already generating revenue, and more. This ensures that you only sign up for a program that truly benefits you. Have a conversation with our team to find the program that fits you best.
For most programs, we charge a small participant fee that covers a portion of the costs. The majority of the expenses are funded by our impact partners. It’s important to note that we do not take equity in the companies that participate in our programs.
Most programs consist of several sessions spread over approximately 3-4 months. Once companies are accepted into a program, we begin with an in-depth diagnosis, matching you with a suitable mentor, conducting content-rich group sessions and individual coaching, and connecting you with relevant partners. Programs usually conclude with a vibrant networking day full of pitches to partners and financiers.
We don’t make ‘standalone’ matches with potential financiers outside of our programs.
During our events, we bring together innovators around various themes. Additionally, through our open innovation projects, we create matches between pioneers and established companies—a win-win that leads to the creation of a market for sustainable innovations.
Send us an email at amsterdam@impacthub.net or find program specific contact details on the program pages in the overview above.