We accelerate the best social impact startups.
We invest in startups able to develop innovative solutions by addressing contemporary societal challenges.
STARTUP ACCELERATION: OUR PROGRAMMES
OUR ACTION MODEL
Every year we launch our impact call to accelerate social impact startups able to offer innovative answers to current societal challenges.
From 2015 to 2024 we have organized 16 editions of the acceleration programmes. The programme was initially known as FOUNDAMENTA and in 2021 it became PLANET FOUNDAMENTALS with the aim of addressing the key challenges for a more sustainable future of our planet. Every year the Startup Acceleration Team co-designs the call basing it on the global challenges ensuing from international reports and research.
SocialFare’s Startup Acceleration is unique in its kind.
Our approach combines our offer and the resulting system:
Impact
Consulting
Expert consulting and equity investment to produce impact entrepreneurship using the dedicated impact finance instrument.
Intentional Impact consulting
For startups ‘able to develop a future’ thanks to innovative products, services and models effectively rising to the key challenges of the future of our society and the planet.
The Lean Startup Approach
SocialFare has adopted a Lean Startup Approach to help identify a path to sustainable business, drastically reducing time and cost and hence the chance of failure.
Design and Networking
Developed by a multidisciplinary team of designers, business and finance experts, in cooperation with an excellent network of expert mentors and consultants with a range of skills such as marketing, business modelling, economic-financial management, growth strategy, social impact assessment.
Social Impact Investor Community
The Social Impact Investor Community has developed over time and is now a unique network which we can present our accelerated startups to: on Impact Investor day 50+ national and international impact investors meet and exchange ideas with our startups.
WHAT DOES OUR ACCELERATION PROGRAMME OFFER?
Our multidisciplinary team blends, hybridizes lean start up, design thinking and human centred approaches, availing itself of the expertise accrued in over 15 editions of the PLANET FOUNDAMENTALS programme. We work in close contact with the startups to support them in their growth and prepare them to attract investments:
Product Service Co-Design
Business Modeling & Impact Assessment
Networking for Scalability
Investment Readiness
We are an Incubator certified by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE): twice a year we launch and organize a 4-month acceleration programme, when we work at close contacts with startups to help them grow and prepare them to attract investments.
The support startups with a seed fund up to €125k paid out from the beginning of the programme through the SocialFare Seed.
Seed Fund up to €125K cash
Dedicated Acceleration Team
Networking with +50 Impact Investors & Mentors
Co-Working Space
ACCELERATION PROGRAMME CONTACTS
ACCELERATED STARTUPS
THE OTHER ACCELERATION PROGRAMME WE HAVE JOINED.
Discover our acceleration programmes and apply to the active calls.