Impact Days 2025

12–13 May 2025 | Vienna, Austria

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Yonca Braeckman

Co-Founder and CEO

Impact Shakers

Brussels, Belgium

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Building & Scaling Inclusive Impact Ventures | Impact Investor | Founder & CEO at Impact Shakers

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Impact Shakers

Impact Shakers

Financial Institution

Brussels, Belgium

Impact Shakers is a global impact ecosystem tackling societal and environmental challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship. Our mission is to create impact at scale by evolving how we build businesses, for what purpose and who gets to build them.
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About me

Yonca is the founder and CEO of Impact Shakers, an impact ecosystem investor tackling societal and environmental challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship. She is a mission-driven entrepreneur and investor in underrepresented founders. She helped build the Belgian and European tech startup ecosystems and has advised and mentored hundreds of startups and considers herself a misfit champion. She was selected as 'Woman of the Year' in 2024 by ELLE for her role in catalysing capital into impact. She was named as one of the 'Top 100 most influential women in the European startup and VC ecosystem' 3 years in a row.

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Speaker sessions (2)

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

15:20 - 16:10

Embedding ESG and Impact into Financial Instruments: Progress, Gaps & What’s Next

Location:Rathaus - Nature Stage

From funds to banks and corporates, this session explores how ESG and impact are being embedded into financial instruments — what’s needed next to ensure credibility, alignment, and scale.