#10 Financial Spring Clean Impact investing - how impact startup investing can boost your purpose with Katja Ruhnke

Financial Spring-Clean - Using you investments to make a
difference with Katja Ruhnke


Katja Ruhnke co-founded and runs CK Venture Capital, which
specifically represents impact startups. She says that this kind
of investing won't just affect your finances, but also your
career - while making a positive impact on the world that we live
in.


"You learn about entrepreneurial skills, because you work with
founders at a very early stage,” she explains. "And that’s what
for me is so interesting. You learn so much outside of your box,
outside of your comfort zone. It gives you new ideas and
innovation.”


She’s big on gender balance too, focusing on female-led startups
to help counter the fact that only 16% of business founders in
Germany are women. "Men invest in men,” she says. "So we need
women to invest in women."


If you want in, you don’t need to invest huge amounts to become a
#BusinessAngel. Her recently published book, Female Money,
explains that you can start small and that you can contribute
more than just money to the businesses that you invest in: they
will value your know-how and experience too. We talk about this -
and more - in our latest podcast.


Speaker: Katja Ruhnke, Co-Founder & CEO CK
Ventures.


Interviewer: Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier -
Founder @MyCollective


Music: sponsored by @Michaelkadelbach


Picture: Katja Ruhnke


Graphic & Production: MyCollective


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