Blog - FASE

How Impact Investors Can Strengthen Democracy and Unlock Venture Capital’s Full Potential

Thriving democracies and systemic innovation don’t happen by chance – they require conscious, strategic investment. [...]

FASE celebrates 100 successful transactions

100 successful transactions in 11 years – and no end in sight The FASE team [...]

10 years of FASE: crossing wild waters and gearing up for new adventures

Where passion for impact meets capital to scale: After 10 years, FASE is still dedicated [...]

Social enterprise success studies: Healthy Entrepreneurs

No doubt, raising a new financing round is a big success for any social enterprise. [...]

Social enterprise success studies: ignitia

No doubt, raising a new financing round is a big success for any social enterprise. [...]

Catalytic capital in action: Four lessons learned from the ESIIF

The European Social Innovation and Impact Fund (ESIIF) uses catalytic capital to enable better access [...]

Key Takeaways from the Impact Fire Talks 2022

So many burning topics in our IMPACT FIRE TALKS this year: A big thank you [...]

SEFEA Impact: Why patient capital should also be friendly

Why is “friendly capital” better than “patient capital”? Massimo Giusti, President and Managing Director of [...]

Impact Investing in Times of Global Pandemic

A year into the pandemic and we are still struggling to see its end. How [...]

Four takeaways from the “Impact Fire Talks”

Together with Ashoka, EVPA, Green Rocket and avesco, FASE recently hosted the first “Impact Fire [...]

Press release: Successful first closing for the ESIIF

Connecting impact investors with social enterprises: the European Social Innovation and Impact Fund launches after [...]

“We want offices to have more vegetable patches than soccer tables”

Close contact to nature and appreciation for food: these topics are not only vital to [...]

Impact investing in times of global pandemic

How are investors reacting to this crisis? Are investors continuing to invest in impact ventures, [...]

Investors tips for social entrepreneurs

How to survive the global crisis Like everyone else, we were first very worried when [...]

Vision versus reality: What we learned in 6 years of building bridges for social finance

Inspired by EVPA’s reflections on „15 Years of Impact – Taking Stock and Looking Ahead“, [...]

The financing rounds were real highlights to me

It’s not always easy for social entrepreneurs to find the best solution for financing and [...]

How we learned to speak “social finance”

How does a social enterprise embark on the trip to raise growth capital? How do [...]

Hybrid social finance is key to impact investing growth

A brand new study by Ashoka, McKinsey and FASE provides a harsh reality check but [...]