Investors

INVESTORS ARE THE ENABLING AND SCALING ANGELS OF THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISES!

Would you like to leverage your skills to empower students to develop their ideas to solve social and/or environmental challenges and evaluate their projects at the end of the challenge?  Would you like support students in the crowd-funding event and help them launch their ideas?  Are you looking for potential special investment opportunities?

Levels of Involvment

Evaluate the Projects

Social impact investors have terrific knowledge and experience in identifying projects with high potential as well as scaling social enterprise projects. Would you like to evaluate the projects in the challenge and assess their sustainability, social impact and innovativeness factors to identify those with the highest potential? If yes, please contact us at gc2[at]beta.senstation.org.

Support Crowdfunding Event

8 projects will take part in the crowd-funding event. If you would like to contribute some initial seed capital for the pilot projects and be advertised as a SENStation partner please contact us at gc2[at]beta.senstation.org.

Scale Projects

If you would like to partner with SENStation and invest in the Global Cooperative Challenge projects please contact us at gc2[at]beta.senstation.org.

STAGE 1: IDEATION

Application Process and Market Test
(01 Oct. – 15 Dec. 2013)

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Students

  • Teams of students register their ideas and create social media accounts to promote their idea.
  • 20 projects will be selected that will go to the next round!

Evaluation

20 projects will be selected that will go to the next round! We will look at:

  • Team Spirit and Abilities
  • Impact
  • Scalability and Replicability
  • Wow-effect and Innovativeness

STAGE 2: CREATION

Business Plan Development

(08 Jan. – 31 Mar. 2014)

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Students

  • Teams of students will have to design a business plan for their social enterprise.
  • They will record 3 minutes videos about the ideas.
  • They will present the ideas during the SENS conference.
  • A maximum of 8 teams will be selected by the community to go to the ACTION STAGE

Evaluation

  • All professionals and other stakeholders will vote for their favourite projects

STAGE 3: ACTION

Crowd-funding and Implementation
(1 Apr. – 30 June 2014)

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Students

  • Finalists will participate in a crowd-funding event and develop an implementation plan.
  • 3 projects with the highest potential will be chosen by the panel of experts and announced at the end of the challenge.
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Investors

  • Investors endorsement during the crowd-funding one month period will be critical to raise subsequent funding to implement the 8 finalist projects
  • Investors are invited to take part in the judging panel and evaluate the projects with the highest potential
  • Investors might consider providing additional seed capital for the highest potential projects in the challenge and scale already sustainable projects
  • Cross advertising of the results of the GC² by all investors will increase their individual exposure

Evaluation

The panel of judges will choose the 3 projects with the highest potential by June 30th, 2014 .

Progress

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