Piet Colruyt

Impact Investor Co-founder of Impact Finance Belgium
Photo by Anne Nygård

Closing the Gap: How to Get There – IFB’s Ambition

My personal journey into impact financing began 15 years ago, sparked by a powerful idea: social entrepreneurship. What drew me in was not just the concept, but the mindset — the refusal to accept the status quo. Social entrepreneurs are, in many ways, like the indignados: they see injustice, failure, or neglect in society — and instead of complaining, they rise up and act. They are innovators, changemakers, and above all, doers.