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Businesses that create jobs, services and dignity, and stand on their own feet
Social enterprises are no longer a niche. They run reuse hubs, welfare services, care, inclusion and community services, and they need capital that understands both returns and mission. I have spent more than ten years building these models from the inside. Now I am looking for investors and partners to scale the ones that work.
Why now
Impact investors, foundations and family offices are looking for real projects with measurable social value and a business model that can last.
EU social economy policies, ESG reporting along supply chains and public procurement increasingly reward companies that work with social enterprises.
Corporate welfare, CSR and inclusion targets create demand for services that social enterprises can deliver well and at scale.
Ammar Shawesh
Founder & Strategic Business Advisor, Yalla Europa (since 2016) · Managing Director, Cooperativa Impresa Sociale Ruah (since 2015)
About AmmarPublic examples from around the world, shown for inspiration. They are not my projects or clients.
Basque Country, Spain
A federation of worker cooperatives founded in 1956 that grew into one of the largest cooperative groups in the world, spanning industry, retail, finance and education.
Lesson: Cooperative ownership can scale when governance, training and finance are designed together.
Denmark → worldwide
A company that employs autistic people as IT and data specialists, turning a different way of thinking into a competitive advantage. Its model has been replicated in many countries.
Lesson: Inclusion works best as a business proposition, not as charity.
Denmark → Europe
An app that lets shops and restaurants sell surplus food instead of wasting it, now present in many European countries.
Lesson: A simple digital product can connect a social and environmental problem with everyday consumer behaviour.
Italy
Under Law 381/1991, these cooperatives integrate disadvantaged people into work while selling real services to companies and municipalities.
Lesson: Italy already has a legal framework that investors and corporates can build on.
Business angel, investor or looking for a partner?
Stage: Pilot-ready
Replicating the Triciclo model of reuse, repair and textile valorisation with job integration in other cities and regions, with a shared brand, processes and digital tools.
Looking for: Seed capital for equipment and logistics, municipal and corporate partners, retail and fashion brands.
Let’s talkStage: Concept
A platform where companies buy employee services (ironing, laundry, maintenance, care) delivered by social enterprises, measured with simple impact indicators.
Looking for: A tech partner, corporate pilots, and impact-oriented investors.
Let’s talkStage: Concept
Turning diaspora communities into a transnational infrastructure of skills, capital and relationships between Italy, West Africa and MENA, through joint ventures, missions and co-investment.
Looking for: Diaspora entrepreneurs, foundations, development finance and chambers of commerce.
Let’s talkStage: Concept
Cooperatives that keep services, jobs and hospitality alive in mountain and rural areas at risk of depopulation, combining local services with tourism.
Looking for: Municipalities, local action groups (LAGs), impact funds and tourism operators.
Let’s talkInvesting together in a new company (NewCo) or special-purpose vehicle for a specific venture, with clear governance.
Building a product or market with an industrial, tourism or tech partner who brings capabilities and distribution.
Companies fund a pilot linked to their ESG, CSR or innovation goals and get first access to the results.
Foundations, impact funds and public programmes share risk with private investors to make social and environmental projects viable.
Gulf family offices and companies co-invest and open their markets; European partners bring know-how.
I join your board or advisory team in these fields, or invite you to join a venture’s advisory board.
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Tell me who you are and what you are looking for. I reply personally within a few working days, usually with a proposal for a call.
This page presents business ideas and partnership opportunities for preliminary discussion with qualified counterparties. It is not a public offer of financial products, securities or investments, nor investment advice. Any collaboration or investment will be agreed privately, after due diligence and in compliance with applicable law. Examples of third-party organisations are public and shown for inspiration only.
