Impact Hub Leipzig

Impact Hub Leipzig is a dynamic business club that supports companies with customized networking and strategic consulting to achieve their goals faster and more efficiently. Its innovative service, "Serendipity as a Service", ensures the right connections are made to ensure long-term, sustainable success. Through inspiring events and targeted programs, the Impact Hub promotes green technologies and social innovation, actively contributing to the positive development of the Leipzig region.

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When did you found the company?

In 2018, we applied for a license for Impact Hub Leipzig. In July 2019, we founded Impact Hub Leipzig GmbH with four equal founders: Anja, Anne, Helen, and Martin.

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What kind of service(s) do you offer?

We are a business club. Our main service is "Serendipity as a Service," networking and consulting for companies from small to large. We make the right connections to help companies achieve the desired results faster and find suitable, trustworthy partners. We also develop events and programs for specific target groups, often in joint projects, e.g., SINN-Sachsen.de for social innovations. We also operate event and business premises.

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How did you get the idea for your service?

We started with startup consulting and short event formats. Over time, new requests and needs arose, and we focused on what we get the best feedback for: connecting the most appropriate partners and helping them make their projects successful.

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What is your vision/mission?

We want to support our region in Leipzig and Central Germany in its transformation and development into a great place to live and do business.

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Who is your target audience?

That's why many of our more than 100 member companies are working on green technologies or social innovations, or supporting such projects to make them work better.

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What is your roadmap?

In terms of content: We have moved from being a startup consultant and organizer of smaller formats to being a program developer. The next stage of expansion will probably include our investments and perhaps our venture building.

Business: After a 4-year startup phase (and Corona Survival Mode), we reached the profit zone for the first time in 2023 and want to stabilize and expand these profits.

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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 capital raising?

We are an infrastructure and have expanded our shareholder base three times in the first few years. We have always defined around €15,000 as the smallest ticket because of the administration and notary costs, but we have already become 16 shareholders. At the same time, we want to keep learning about entrepreneurship together, we like to experiment and participate, and that's why it was very exciting for us to make smaller tickets possible, to get closer to crowdinvesting, to reach even more swarm intelligence and participants.

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How did your investors react to the introduction of GmbH tokens?

The Impact Hub Munich has already 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 very much a family business, the majority of owners agreed very quickly that we wanted to do this.

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What opportunities do you see for Tokenize.it in the future?

First and foremost, we receive expressions of interest from many people and projects in our environment for their projects and will share information. Of course, we can always imagine this for our projects, and as always we are driven by the question of the availability of good opportunities for as many people as possible, i.e. 8+ billion people. There are Impact Hubs in 68 countries, so we are also talking to Impact Hubs in new markets to see if there are similar offerings in their country or if the market could be useful for Tokenize.it.

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