Eight projects selected for the last phase of the Tiina programme

Tiina, the impact investment program launched by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation with the collaboration of the Ship2B Foundation, enters its second phase with the selection of eight projects whose business models have the greatest possibilities of generating a social and/or environmental impact. The chosen entities will enter an intensive acceleration program in which they opt to receive a soft loan for their financing.

The selection committee of Tiina, an impact investment program, promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation in collaboration with the Ship2B Foundation has already determined the eight finalist entities that will move on to the second and final phase.

Let us remember that, in this first edition of the program, Tiina has an endowment of 600,000 euros to be distributed over three years to support and finance social enterprises, start-ups or non-profit entities that operate in Spain and that have an innovative project, with potential for profitability or self-sustainability. The maximum premise of these incipient companies must be to promote a real transformation towards a more ecological, just and inclusive society through sustainable food or citizen art.

After the evaluation of applications and the initial diagnosis of the projects at the level of social and/or environmental impact, business model and team, sixteen projects were selected to participate in an Impact Business Bootcamlast June in Barcelona.

At this meeting, the different entities received training and mentoring on key topics such as impact measurement, business model, investment readiness, leadership and communication. In addition, these days of intense interaction allowed us to learn more about the potential and willingness to generate systemic changes of all these initiatives, and finally, after an exhaustive analysis, eight proposals were selected to move forward in the programme.

Selected sustainable food projects:

Wonderfood
Madrid

The first European e-commerce for home delivery of prepared meals with organic and carbon neutral certification. Its dishes, which can be obtained through weekly subscriptions nationwide, are 100% vegetable (which saves water, emissions and cultivated land area) and organic (which avoids the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and promotes the ‘health’ of soils with crop rotation).

Jaramera Cheese Factory
Madrid

It produces artisanal cheeses in the Community of Madrid based on local, organic and natural products. Its objective is to end the social gap between rural and urban reality and, to this end, its fundamental pillars are the enhancement of the primary sector and the artisanal food industry, the defence of decent work and environmental sustainability.

Collective (Menjadors Ecològics)
Catalonia

A non-profit association whose objective is to digitize the management of collective kitchens to facilitate day-to-day processes such as purchasing, validation of the food batch, production in the kitchen and food safety and hygiene. They carry out adapted studies to ensure the transformation of conventional kitchens and menus into healthy and sustainable menus that promote organically produced, local and seasonal foods.

Biotremol
Valencian Community

A cooperative society based in the Valencian Community that was born with the firm desire to recover, both in rural and urban areas, the control of food through a transformation in consumption, production and distribution habits that allows effective responses and solutions to be provided to the food crisis.

Selected Citizen Art Projects:

Aptent
Madrid and Catalonia

Its mission is Accessible Theatre project to achieve a barrier-free world in which people with disabilities and the elderly can exercise, on equal terms, their legitimate right of access to culture and, specifically, to the performing arts. It is a very innovative initiative because it uses technology to optimize and automate processes and because it brings together the country’s accessible theater offer in a single portal.

Another Way Partnership
Madrid

It organises cultural events in order to inform, educate and raise public awareness of the climate crisis, including Another Way Film Festival, a film festival on sustainable progress that promotes a message of real and possible change in the face of the environmental challenges that affect us today.

AulaFilm (The Gleaners)
Madrid

Digital platform that promotes the use of cinema as an indispensable and transversal educational resource for the training of children and young people of the 21st century. Its objective is to democratize access to diverse cinema from school through community cultural experiences that provide rich and shared imaginaries to young people, with the ultimate goal of combating inequality and contributing to greater social cohesion in Spain.

LaJoven
Madrid

A theatrical project that unites professionals in the performing arts with the teaching community and serves as a professional space for young people. Its main objective is to spread the love for culture and theatre and contribute to the creation of future professionals, artistic and technical, promoting dramatic research and seeking the incorporation of young audiences into theatre through a pedagogical project.

These eight selected projects will participate over the next few months in an intensive acceleration programme in which they will receive group and personalised support and which will culminate in February 2023 with a Demo Day in which they will present the evolution of their proposals. After being reassessed under criteria of social impact and maturity to receive investment, they may be chosen to receive financing through the soft loans offered by the Tiina program fund.