Give a Day 6: Leveraging Collaborative Approach to Support Entrepreneurs in Accessing Investment

Entrepreneurial ecosystems
22.07.2022
On 22 July, Khmer Enterprise, WE Act via Pac and Swisscontact organized the 6th “Give a Day” monthly meeting which is an initiative within the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building (EEB) Project. The meeting was attended by The meeting was attended 44 participants representing investors, entrepreneurial support organizations, government among others. 
 

This morning, we organized the 6th “Give a Day” monthly meeting which is an initiative within the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Project (EEB). The topic focused on “Leveraging Collaborative Approach to Support Entrepreneurs in Accessing Investment”. The discussion centred around a role of intermediary –brokerage service using innovative mechanisms to connect investment capital to impact businesses and share the best practices and recommendation for ESOs regarding brokerage service model. There was a lively discussion about the challenges of impact businesses in reaching financial closure as well as collected feedback to foster collaborative approaches among system’s actors to fill the missing middle.

The Best Practice of a Brokerage Service Model was delivered by Guillaume Requin, Head of the SMEs & Finance Department, Sevea.

The 6th edition of “Give a Day” monthly meeting was covered by the following media:

Cambodia
Entrepreneurial ecosystems
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building
The project aims to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems by deepening trust-based relationship among the system’s actors that will help to strengthen an enabling environment for entrepreneurial networks to form high quality connections to support entrepreneurship.