Maike Striffler is a social entrepreneur and impact finance practitioner working across Europe and East Africa. She is Co-Founder of Social Innovation Academy (SINA) Global and Relevant s, where she designs and manages capital pools that mobilize concessional and blended finance for the blind spots of markets—especially refugee-led and marginalized enterprises in Uganda. Maike collaborates with NGOs, foundations and ecosystem actors to build practical financing models that can scale in fragile contexts, and she also lectures on social entrepreneurship at ESMT Berlin.