Our Impact in 2022
Our impact in 2022 Impact Hub Amsterdam is part of the fast- growing global Impact Hub network of impact entrepreneurs and innovators with more than 28,000 members in almost 100 cities worldwide. Our purpose is to build a new economy that works for all, where impact is the norm. Our passionate, entrepreneurial team has already helped more than 4,000 companies to become more sustainable and make more impact.
Our results.
335
28K
>25 M
Global impact makers.
Euros in investment in impact companies in our community.
Innovations accelerated and connected.
5
12
8.6
EU projects, including one focused on empowering women entrepreneurs.
Innovations successfully matched and implemented to solve sustainability challenges.
out of 10 is the outcome of our 2022 employee happiness survey.
Program rating. Food Pioneers
8.6 /10
Impact Nation
8.5/10
Food Chain Accelerator
8.2 /10
Boost je Buurt
7.7 /10
CIRCO
7.5/10
Other highlights.
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4
2nd
Innovations were scouted worldwide fot the global design competition by What Design Can Do and the IKEA Foundation.
Of CIRCO Tracks were cohosted to help SMEs create circular revenue models for their products and services.
Food programs were deliverd to accelerate positive change in the food sector.
Edition of the Boost je Buurt program with the City of Amsterdam was organised.
European projects.
Cases.
IKEA | Marine Materials Innovation Program 2022 About 50 per cent of the total IKEA value chain climate footprint comes from materials used in products and food. To become circular and climate-positive, IKEA is searching for innovations to reduce its footprint, including sustainable marine material solutions. We scouted over 280 innovations working with materials such as algae, bacteria, fungi, seagrass or fish industry by-products.
Sollas | Impact Nation Sollas is a well-known designer and manufacturer of machines for sustainable packaging materials. It has delivered more than 15,000 automatic packing systems to customers in over 150 countries. As part of Impact Nation, we helped Sollas identify the best sealable coatings for alternative packaging materials to offer customers more sustainable packaging solutions. The company chose a strategic partner from the innovations we sourced to build a new marketleading solution.
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Amsterdam Metropolitan Area | Circular Innovation Collective We joined forces with Metabolic, Bankers without Boundaries, Amsterdam Impact, Goldschmeding Foundation and DOEN Foundation as the Circular Innovation Collective (CIC) to develop a new approach to achieve a regenerative and circular economy. The method will be implemented for the first time in the textile sector to support the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to achieve 70% circular textiles by 2030. In the first phase of CIC, we identified 300+ regional stakeholders and scouted 803 innovations, of which 10 joined the 2023 CIC accelerator.
AM | Innovation matching AM, part of the Royal Bam Group, creates and develops inspiring and sustainable living environments. The company aims to be climate positive by 2040 and teamed up with Impact Hub Amsterdam to explore growing crops on land that AM cannot (yet) build houses on and use these crops as input for sustainable construction materials. We helped the company scout for innovative partners that process crops such as elephant grass, flax, mycelium and bamboo into, for instance, brick, insulation, textile or other (interior) materials.