International Projects

Fondazione Social Venture Giordano Dell’Amore


FSVGDA promotes the impact investing culture in Italy and Europe. As advisor and institutional investor, supports companies that tackle social, environmental and cultural challenges in the adoption of innovative and sustainable business models, alongside tailor made financial instruments.

FSVGDA uses its endowment to realize both direct and indirect investments in Social Impact Funds, Start-ups and SMEs capable to generate intentional and measurable social and environmental impact following the impact investing principles. The Foundation adopts a social venture capital approach providing patient capital.
Moreover, FSVGDA:

  • Supports the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in its ability to express social innovation via advisory activities and dedicated instruments and programs (calls, platforms, workshops, conferences, etc.)
  • With Get it!, supports new start-ups with incubation/acceleration/scaling programs

Description of the project

The goal we would achieve with this project is to examine the international ecosystems of startups and individuate the instruments, organizations and policies that allow small enterprises to grow up successfully. The research will focus on the most relevant countries worldwide and will analyze, in particular, the following elements:

  • Legislative instruments for startups, in terms of favourable conditions for the development of innovative enterprises
  • Market facilities like advisory and mentoring organizations, startup incubators and accelerators, coworking spaces, value paths, startup competitions and other service providers for startups
  • Financial providers or similar like venture capital companies, business angels networks, equity crowdfunding portals, banks and other corporates
  • Focus on social entrepreneurship, mapping instruments and actors who play an important role to build the ecosystem
  • Case studies


EthicalFin Limited (http://ethicalfin.com)


EthicalFin is a London-based impact investing advisory boutique, which aims to bring ethics (back) into the financial industry by catalysing capital for positive change and by promoting the use of money for good.

As an advisory service it assist clients in defining and implementing both sustainable growth strategies and capital raising transactions. It works with more than 2,000 professional investors across Europe, including venture capital and private equity funds, credit hedge funds, single- and multi-family offices, high net worth individuals, financial institutions and impact investors such as trusts, foundations and religious organisations.

Its core areas of activity are corporate finance, non-performing loans/capital markets, investment advisory and sustainable real estate.

The holding company of EthicalFin, Pommes D’Or Family Office, commits to co-investing in each sustainable company/project that EthicalFin works on.

Description of the project

The project is a joint collaboration between:

The project aims to research social impact practices currently used by wealth management industry stakeholder across Europe. Its specific objectives include mapping the key European wealth management stakeholders involved in philanthropy and social impact investing, evidencing current practices and lessons learnt, as well as identifying possible ways to better integrate sustainability, consciousness, increased awareness, evolved mindsets and philanthropy advisory services within the wealth management industry in Europe.

In particular, the project will seek to respond to the following questions:

  1. Who are the main wealth management stakeholders driving social impact investing?
  2. What are the main approaches used by sustainable and philanthropic wealth managers?
  3. What are the barriers and opportunities for a mainstream development of a sustainable approach to investing and the full integration of philanthropy advisory services within wealth management?