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How can impact incubators'Incubator' refers to any organization whose programs primarily focus on vetting and selecting, promising social enterprises, and providing them with a comprehensive range of support services aimed at building and growing them to achieve maximum sustainable impact. help SMEs move from invisible to investable? In this edition of The Pollinator’s Toolkit, Pollinate Impact members came together for a hands-on, practitioner-led workshop tackling a persistent barrier to SME finance: informal financial records.
What We Explored Together
Led by fellow member ONOW, this session explored how everyday financial behavior often captured through photos, chats, voice notes, and memory can be translated into credible, lender-ready financial signals.
Through a practical exercise comparing paper tracking with digital, behavior-based data, participants unpacked how clarity can emerge from chaos. The session demonstrated how incubators'Incubator' refers to any organization whose programs primarily focus on vetting and selecting, promising social enterprises, and providing them with a comprehensive range of support services aimed at building and growing them to achieve maximum sustainable impact. and ESOs can coach entrepreneurs using real cash-flow and profit insights with far less friction.
Key topics covered:
- Why informal record-keeping keeps strong SMEs invisible to capital
- Turning day-to-day financial activity into clean, dated financial records
- Behavior-based tracking and “investability” signals for lenders
- Coaching entrepreneurs using real cash-flow and profit data
- Reducing friction between SMEs, incubators'Incubator' refers to any organization whose programs primarily focus on vetting and selecting, promising social enterprises, and providing them with a comprehensive range of support services aimed at building and growing them to achieve maximum sustainable impact./ESOs, and lenders
- Practical implications for supporting capital readiness in the Global South
Speakers
- Matt Wallace, ONOW
- Nathan Temeyer, ONOW
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