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🚀 Last week in Munich: impact startups, honest discussions, and a lot of ambitious ideas about how to build a better future. From accessible sports programs and easier pension support to fighting loneliness and simplifying bureaucratic language - the founders in our latest Public Value Academy cohort are tackling real societal challenges with deeply practical solutions. But good intentions alone are not enough. If we want social innovation to create lasting change, it needs to become scalable, measurable, and investable. That’s exactly what last week was about. During two intensive workshop days at UnternehmerTUM, seven startup teams worked together with our founder Alexander Hertel and our partner Nina Schöttle from PHINEO gAG on refining their business models, sharpening their impact logic, and structuring their impact data through our impact measurement and management platform Inluma. 📊 Because impact measurement is not just reporting, it’s infrastructure for better decisions, stronger credibility, and future investment readiness. The conversations continued during the side event around the UnternehmerTUM Forum, where founders exchanged directly with investors, VCs, and experienced entrepreneurs about fundraising, scaling, business strategy, and the realities of building impact-driven companies. A huge shoutout to the incredible teams: Fruit Yourself, GovernLens AI, OpenCircle, Regcircle, RentenNavi, supodo, and zetteln. 👏 And thank you to all experts and mentors who shared their time and experience throughout the week: Martin Lacher, Maximilian Klinke, Tiago Morelli, Mariana Pedraza-Copete, Nikolaus Karpf, Claudius Ebert, and David Photien. Weeks like this are a reminder of why we do this work. There is no shortage of people willing to tackle society’s hardest problems, only a shortage of the infrastructure and support systems to help them scale. Follow us and the Social Impact Republic to stay updated! #ImpactEntrepreneurship #PublicValueAcademy #SocialInnovation #ImpactStartups