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📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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6
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13y
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Impact Investor
Sep 2018
Muse Projects (MP) has been founded to generate measurable social impact by doing business differently for a more inclusive society. MP uses the power of marketplace to unlock particularly "for-profit"​ private investment capital to address societal challenges while generating financial profit for further investments. MP also works with governments to leverage innovative funding for impact investing. MP is driven not by money but by values to trigger innovate ideas to fulfill its mission. MP primarily works in the fields of arts, culture and science to build-up the infrastructure to lead transformational change for people and communities. MP highly believes in the power of arts, culture and science in wider societal and economic development. Thus, MP aims at mobilising private and public capital to facilitate access to arts, culture and science on personal and community development in the UK. MP’s core mission is to scale experiential learning and to facilitate access to information. Apart from schools museums and exhibitions are the most important places for learning and have great potential to contribute society positively. MP has developed a contemporary experiential learning concept that can be considered as a light house for impactful learning to transform individuals. Museums and exhibitions are foremost important tools to reach transformational change and significanlty powerful to convey the right messagge for for topics, such as; diversity, accessibility, social inclusion, human rights and etc.
Board Member
Jan 2017
imece, farklı disiplinlerden birey ve kurumların sürdürülebilir ve yenilikçi çözümler bulmak için bir araya geldiği sosyal inovasyon platformudur.
Impact Investor
Apr 2016
Bu dükkânda satılan ürünlerde hibrit ve GDO yok! Zehirli kimyasal yok! Zararlı endüstriyel işlem yok! Katkı maddesi yok! Sağlık var, doğallık var, güven var! Artık tedirgin olmadan gönül rahatlığıyla yiyeceğiniz, çocuklarınıza da yedirebileceğiniz ürünlerin gerçek bir adresi var!
mid stageRetail
Board Member & Impact Investor
Apr 2016
Bu dükkânda satılan ürünlerde hibrit ve GDO yok! Zehirli kimyasal yok! Zararlı endüstriyel işlem yok! Katkı maddesi yok! Sağlık var, doğallık var, güven var! Artık tedirgin olmadan gönül rahatlığıyla yiyeceğiniz, çocuklarınıza da yedirebileceğiniz ürünlerin gerçek bir adresi var!
mid stageRetail
Impact Investor
Dec 2013
Istanbul Diyalog Müzesi/Istanbul Dialogue Museum is "A museum without any collections, and an exhibition with nothing to see and to hear."​ The museum has three distinct parts: the "Dialogue in the Dark"​ the "Dialogue in Silence"​ and the "Dialogue Cafe"​. In this museum we create experiential learning opportunities. Research suggests that experiential learning is an effective way to increase learning in general, and empathy in particular. Istanbul Dialogue Museum also offers various workshops. Our workshops are based on the experiential learning methodology and its four stages: concrete experience, observation and reflection, experience interpretation and conceptualization and application. Participants of our workshops spend two to three hours in the dark. Blind facilitators create a range of exercises in unpredictable situations similar to many business landscapes. And this is our added value. Teams, leaders and executives do not learn anymore from theory but from experience. And the actual business experience is subject to abrupt changes and unpredictable scenarios. You choose the topic you or your client would like to work on: • Teambuilding • Leadership • Effective Communication • Change Management • Empathy, Trust, Diversity The benefits of the workshop in the dark are re-enforced by an extended time for debriefing, reflection and consolidation of learning. Returning to a lit environment, participants share their experiences, observations, surprises, frustrations and learning. • Learn to operate in an unfamiliar environment • Discover and overcome one's own limits • Increase awareness of human diversity • Improve ability to communicate clear and precisely • Increase ability to self-reflect and empathise • Improve active listening and cooperation • Work out a common vision
Founding Partner / Impact Investor
Dec 2013
Istanbul Diyalog Müzesi/Istanbul Dialogue Museum is "A museum without any collections, and an exhibition with nothing to see and to hear."​ The museum has three distinct parts: the "Dialogue in the Dark"​ the "Dialogue in Silence"​ and the "Dialogue Cafe"​. In this museum we create experiential learning opportunities. Research suggests that experiential learning is an effective way to increase learning in general, and empathy in particular. Istanbul Dialogue Museum also offers various workshops. Our workshops are based on the experiential learning methodology and its four stages: concrete experience, observation and reflection, experience interpretation and conceptualization and application. Participants of our workshops spend two to three hours in the dark. Blind facilitators create a range of exercises in unpredictable situations similar to many business landscapes. And this is our added value. Teams, leaders and executives do not learn anymore from theory but from experience. And the actual business experience is subject to abrupt changes and unpredictable scenarios. You choose the topic you or your client would like to work on: • Teambuilding • Leadership • Effective Communication • Change Management • Empathy, Trust, Diversity The benefits of the workshop in the dark are re-enforced by an extended time for debriefing, reflection and consolidation of learning. Returning to a lit environment, participants share their experiences, observations, surprises, frustrations and learning. • Learn to operate in an unfamiliar environment • Discover and overcome one's own limits • Increase awareness of human diversity • Improve ability to communicate clear and precisely • Increase ability to self-reflect and empathise • Improve active listening and cooperation • Work out a common vision
Experience · 12 entries
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2022
Strategic Advisor & Partner
Jan 2022
Sustainability performance and targets can be easily tracked if data is stored properly. MAP° makes this easy! Manage the data flow throughout your organisation and visualise your progress. Make data driven decisions to generate value! MAP360 is a certified software partner of GRI.
2020
Partner
Apr 2020
NOW is a global partnership of 100+ senior business leaders, change experts and their teams united to accelerate the economic evolution of multinationals, large family companies and systems institutions. We empower our client-partners in their transition towards fully integrating economic success with equitable benefit for all stakeholders, including shareholders and Nature. We call this Regenerative Value Creation, which must become the DNA of a healthy economy. Together we co-create concrete corporate models and a new logic for the necessary economy that respects our unavoidable planetary boundaries and catalyzes our full human potential.
2018
Impact Investor
Sep 2018
Muse Projects (MP) has been founded to generate measurable social impact by doing business differently for a more inclusive society. MP uses the power of marketplace to unlock particularly "for-profit"​ private investment capital to address societal challenges while generating financial profit for further investments. MP also works with governments to leverage innovative funding for impact investing. MP is driven not by money but by values to trigger innovate ideas to fulfill its mission. MP primarily works in the fields of arts, culture and science to build-up the infrastructure to lead transformational change for people and communities. MP highly believes in the power of arts, culture and science in wider societal and economic development. Thus, MP aims at mobilising private and public capital to facilitate access to arts, culture and science on personal and community development in the UK. MP’s core mission is to scale experiential learning and to facilitate access to information. Apart from schools museums and exhibitions are the most important places for learning and have great potential to contribute society positively. MP has developed a contemporary experiential learning concept that can be considered as a light house for impactful learning to transform individuals. Museums and exhibitions are foremost important tools to reach transformational change and significanlty powerful to convey the right messagge for for topics, such as; diversity, accessibility, social inclusion, human rights and etc.
Partner
Sep 2018
B-corp certified Reflect Studio operates on three levels: a studio, store, and brand. As a lifestyle brand, we create thought-provoking collections around the aesthetics of the contemporary era. We seek #NextSustainability, a notion that explores different ideas about the future of sustainability and what it means to be sustainable. Our stores go beyond the commercial motives of traditional shopping experiences to create a playground for alternative sustainability practices by embracing DIY culture and its endless possibilities. Reflect Studio stores are home to a curated selection of premium goods, ranging from our own label to a collection of multi-brand products. Having started off as a design + manufacturing studio, we continue to collaborate with institutions that share our values to create aesthetic, functional, and sustainable merchandise.
early stageDesign Services
Co-Founder
Sep 2018
Muse Projects (MP) has been founded to generate measurable social impact by doing business differently for a more inclusive society. MP uses the power of marketplace to unlock particularly "for-profit"​ private investment capital to address societal challenges while generating financial profit for further investments. MP also works with governments to leverage innovative funding for impact investing. MP is driven not by money but by values to trigger innovate ideas to fulfill its mission. MP primarily works in the fields of arts, culture and science to build-up the infrastructure to lead transformational change for people and communities. MP highly believes in the power of arts, culture and science in wider societal and economic development. Thus, MP aims at mobilising private and public capital to facilitate access to arts, culture and science on personal and community development in the UK. MP’s core mission is to scale experiential learning and to facilitate access to information. Apart from schools museums and exhibitions are the most important places for learning and have great potential to contribute society positively. MP has developed a contemporary experiential learning concept that can be considered as a light house for impactful learning to transform individuals. Museums and exhibitions are foremost important tools to reach transformational change and significanlty powerful to convey the right messagge for for topics, such as; diversity, accessibility, social inclusion, human rights and etc.
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