Raise
Programme

Raise Funding to Scale your Impact Solution!

Join a programme, a community and an ecosystem to help you build a successful impact business.

This Raise cohort is set up to help more diverse founding teams in Belgium successfully fundraise and scale their business.

Raise offers access to knowledge, network & capital through a mix of knowledge, insights, practical tools, exercises, technical understanding and networking opportunities with local investors.

This bespoke programme is adapted to the participating founders and works with small groups of underrepresented founders that are ready to scale their business.

Raise is a hybrid support programme including a kick off retreat and an intensive 10 week sprint to help diverse founders with impact businesses in Belgium get investor ready.

"I am immensely grateful for the remarkable learning journey that the Raise programme has afforded me. The collective improvement among us is nothing short of impressive!"

Marie Logé

Co-Founder

Better

Join Raise

Raise was set up to help diverse founding teams get the unfair advantage of being the best prepared person in the room. You will get to learn and grow with a community of exceptional founders and impact investors. The programme is designed and taught by investors, which makes it unique.

Join the other side of the table.

The programme will focus on the following subjects and will host sessions with experts and networking events with investors.

Understanding
the Basics

Fundraising
Strategy

Creating
an excellent
pitch deck

Venture
Economics

Talking and negotiating
with investors

Navigating and addressing bias

Residential Leadership
Retreat

Investor Event

Our Approach

Modules

During 10 weeks we'll host in person sessions in Brussels in which we'll take you through the material and make room for questions and discussion.

Tools & Exercises

We developed tools to support you during and after the programme and a number of practical exercises that help you integrate what you learned.

Guest Q&A

We invite some of the most credible investors out there to share their experience with you.

Curated Content

We share some of the best sources we have come across from experts across the globe.

Case Study

We built a case study so you can go through at least one full process that helps you apply the new investment skills. The best way to learn about fundraising is to discuss different possible scenarios and implications of different instruments and economics.

"Best learning experience of the past years!"

"A fantastic opportunity for personal and professional development in a safe environment"

Nora Van Cauwenbergh

Co-Founder

BitaGreen

Diane Umunyurwa

Founder

GHitech

Who we're looking for

Impact Businesses in Belgium

Exceptional Diverse Founders

We invest in people. Your business will still change a lot and we invest in those that have the resilience and strength to steer it and their team into the future.

Scalable Impact Solutions

Understand the impact you want to make. You don't have to have a shiny impact model yet, we'll build one together and help you keep your mission in focus.

Problem Market Fit

We love learning about the problem you want to solve and the market and your place in it. Teach us something new and we'll be the happiest and most curious kids in class.

User Passion

If you understand and care about the real pain points of your users and can offer them a solution, you're well on your way to building a successful business.

Residential Retreat

We will kick off the programme with a residential retreat in Belgium.

You take care of transportation and we take care of everything else!

The retreat will be focused on personal development and will give us the opportunity to truly understand who wants to build which type of business and how.