Within the scope of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summit organized by the Istanbul Entrepreneurship Club (İGK), which aims to explain the innovative ideas, creation and development process of successful startups at first hand and to shed light on them in terms of turning their ideas into entrepreneurs, Etkiyap Chair of Executive Committee Şafak Müderrisgil talked to young people about impact investment. Şafak Müderrisgil, at the event organized by İGK, a career-oriented student club established within the Istanbul University Faculty of Law and working on fields such as entrepreneurship and law, gave information to the students through a very detailed presentation starting from the emergence of the concept of Impact Investment to the examples of “impact” in our daily lives. gave.
Examining impact investing in terms of its elements, themes and focuses, Müderrisgil talked about the spread of impact investing on a global scale. Şafak Müderrisgil summarized the opportunities in the impact investment ecosystem in Turkey:
- Young, dynamic and well-educated population
- Philanthropic culture
- Growing entrepreneurship ecosystem
- Geopolitical location: MENA+EECA+OIC
- Developing social entrepreneurship network
- Facilitating environment
- Global funds
