Raise
Programme
Raise is an intensive 10 week in person programme to get underrepresented founders with impact businesses in Belgium investor ready.
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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.
"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.
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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 6 weesk 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!"
Nora Van Cauwenbergh
Co-Founder - BitaGreen
"A fantastic opportunity for personal and professional development in a safe environment"
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.
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.
Timing
Rolling Applications
Applications Close
15 May 2024
​Interviews
Rolling
Selection
30 June 2024
Kick off - Retreat
Sept 2024
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