Francesca is an experienced strategist and business advisor. Over the last eight years she has consulted and mentored over 400 start-ups all over the world. Her core expertise areas are growth strategy, financial management, investment readiness and impact assessment.
Francesca started her career in Berlin, where she worked for four years in the start-up ecosystem. Working at first to support a Business Angel in assessing investment opportunities, she quickly grew her career toward one of the most structured and famous incubators in Europe, Rocket Internet, covering investment and growth strategies for a portfolio of over 100 ventures all over the globe.
During the past four years she then decided to pivot her career to support more purpose driven ventures and launched her own consulting firm P.I. for Impact with the aim to support impact start-ups to grow their businesses, increase their bottom line and achieve higher impact through their operations.
Her client spectrum is quite diverse, from large scale charities (Comic Relief, UnLtd, The Challenge) to small high potential impact ventures (Gold Finger Factory, Change please, Think for the Future) to high calibre intermediaries supporting a multitude of ventures worldwide (GIZ, British Council, Cambridge University, A Million Reality, Oxford University).
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Trainer, Multiple organisations (Oxford University - On Purpose - A Million Reality): Delivering workshops to train start-ups and impact businesses on a multitude of subjects, some of the most requested trainings are related to:
a) Starting an Impact Business & Social Business Model Canvas;
b) Impact - What is impact and how to track it;
c) Impact - Theory of Change Framework;
d) Impact Investment - Different capital options;
e) Pitching and storytelling;
f) Business growth and business diagnostic (more on a 1:1 or small groups). -
Mentor, Multiple organisations (Cambridge Judge Business School Centre for Social Innovation, Allia's Social Venture, University of Paris Dauphine Accelerator): Mentor supporting start-up in business model canvas, growth strategies, governance, finance, impact and pitching.