Impact Hub Leipzig is a dynamic business club that supports companies with tailor-made networking and strategic advice to achieve their goals faster and more efficiently. Their innovative service, “Serendipity as a Service,” ensures that the right connections are created to ensure long-term, sustainable success. Through inspiring events and targeted programs, the Impact Hub specifically promotes green technologies and social innovations and thus actively contributes to the positive development of the Leipzig region.
When did you start?
In 2018, we applied for a license for an Impact Hub Leipzig. In July 2019, we founded Impact Hub Leipzig GmbH with four equal founders, namely Anja, Anne, Helen and Martin.
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What type of service (s) do you offer?
We are a business club, our main service is “Serendipity as a Service”, networking and consulting companies from small to large. We make the right connections so that a company can achieve the desired results faster and find suitable, trustworthy partners. In addition, we develop events and programs for specific target groups, often in joint projects, e.g. Sinn-Sachsen.de for social innovations. And we operate event and business spaces.
How did you come up with the idea for your service?
We began with start-up advice and short event formats. Over time, new inquiries and requirements arose, and we focused on what we received the best feedback for: connecting the most suitable partners and helping them make their projects successful.
What is your vision/mission?
We want to support our region in Leipzig and Central Germany in its transformation and development into a great living and economic area.
Who is your target group?
That is why many of our more than 100 member companies are working on green technologies or social innovations, or they also support such projects to work better.
What does your roadmap look like?
In terms of content: From founding consultant and organizer of smaller formats, we have now become program developers. The next stage of expansion will probably include own investments and perhaps also a private venture building.
Business: After 4 years of start-up phase (and Corona Survival Mode), we reached profitability for the first time in 2023 and want to consolidate and expand these profits.
How did you hear about Tokenize.it?
One of our partners, Oliver Papavlassopoulos, told us about it.
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What prompted you to use this type of fundraising?
We are an infrastructure and have expanded our circle of shareholders three times in the first few years. Due to administrative expenses and notary fees, we have always defined around €15,000 as the smallest ticket, but have also already become 16 shareholders. At the same time, we want to continue to learn entrepreneurial action together, like to experiment, and like to participate. And that's why it was very exciting for us to also make smaller tickets possible, get closer to crowdinvesting, and reach even more swarm intelligence and participants.
What was the reaction of your investors to the introduction of GmbH tokens?
Impact Hub Munich has been working successfully with profit participation rights and community participation for 10 years. For us, this was a relatively quick decision with the convincing technology and felt right. We are still a bit of a family business, and the majority owners agreed very quickly that we wanted to do this.
What opportunities do you see in the future with Tokenize.it?
In particular, we receive expressions of interest in their own projects from many people and projects around us and will share information. In our own projects, we can of course imagine this again and again, and as always, we are concerned about the availability of good offers for as many people as possible, i.e. 8+ billion people. Impact Hubs exist in 68 countries, which is why we are also talking to Impact Hubs in new markets about whether comparable offerings are already available from them or whether the market for Tokenize.it could make sense.
