Dear Citizenfund supporter,
June brought us a lot of good news!
🚀 Finance&invest.brussels joins our fund and invests €150,000 via its CoopUs mechanism!
📈 We reach the milestone of 200 cooperator-investors!
⭐ Our co-operators have decided to fund 2 new projects: Ma Ferme and BPart have been validated at 89% and 61% and join the 15 impact startups previously funded.
🎯 We unveiled our goals for 2021: €500,000 of capital, 20 funded projects and 250 cooperators. Now is the time to invest and help us reach that half million euros!
🌱 Our investments
🚴♂️ urbike takes care of the logistics of supplying the 7 Brussels guinguettes of Guinguette Belge. They are also looking for a junior mechanic.
🥕 Incredible Company welcomes the AGC teams for 3 weeks on its Oasis in Louvain-la-Neuve for a re-connection programme. Watch the video.
📖 The 16th Wilfried (FR) is out this month. The theme of this summer edition: “Nos années féministes“. The 3rd Flemish issue was also published in June: “Belgische Landschappen“. Their sports brother Eddy is also still available: “Road-trip chez les Diables rouges“.
🤝 Give a Day is hiring a “Partnership Manager“.
🎞️ The public tender for the creation of student accommodation in the Usquare.brussels area (currently See U) is launched! And the CinéCité cinema, the Kinograph, will be part of it! More details here.
🚚 Happy Hours Market is coming to Ganshoren to offer its unsold food at half price! They now have 7 collection points in Brussels and 2 in Namur and are currently recruiting several profiles.
♻️ Waio.co is reinventing and evolving. They are joining forces and bringing everything together on the slow-cosmetique.com platform they acquired a year ago.
🏦 NewB was one of the actors interviewed for the Benelux series “SDGActors” of the United Nations Regional Information Centre: La finance durable comme norme.
🧱 BC Materials is recruiting a production manager to meet growing demand. BC Materials, which works with the Hermès brand to decorate its shop in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris with earthen modules.
💰 Test Achat gives a clear buy recommendation for Incofin cvso: “We find Incofin to be by far the most interesting cooperative in the category of microfinance cooperatives, thanks to a thorough risk policy and a strong balance sheet.”
🌳 Sonian Wood Coop was visited by TADA (ToekomstATELIERdelAvenir) to tell the children their wood stories and to do a small practical activity with the group.
🩲 Entusia is testing its highly absorbent leak-proof underwear and the feedback from users is positive so far.
🥜 Another article in La Libre for Bulkbar, which has installed distributors at NRJ and Nostalgie.
🏡 La Menuiserie de Novacitis continues to raise funds. To invest directly, click here.
👗 Coucou gets an article in Trends and sees her outfits worn at the Queen Elisabeth competition.
✋ The BPart tool, which we have just funded, is used by the Brussels-Capital Region to detail its public expenditure.
🚜 Ma Ferme, which was also funded a few days ago, closes its public offering with €1,952,550 raised!
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The Citizenfund team