Follow the Talent: Agents of Impact Special Report for Feb. 15

Follow the talent with ImpactAlpha’s weekly report on career moves, job openings, events and opportunities.

All in the family: KKR’s Global Impact Fund co-invests with KKR’s Asia fund

Private-equity giant KKR hasn’t yet closed its planned $1 billion Global Impact Fund, but it has been busy warehousing deals.

Building local startup ecosystems that work for entrepreneurs of color

Entrepreneurial hubs around the country are rethinking how they attract and support a group of business founders they’ve historically overlooked and underserved: entrepreneurs of color.

No need to wait for Washington to mobilize around a ‘Green New Deal’ (podcast)

The kinds of financing mechanisms in the Green New Deal proposal – to mobilize capital, apportion risks, protect stakeholders and ensure accountability – have been built by elements of the impact investing industry in recent decades, he said.

Overheard at the Economist’s 2019 New York Impact Investing forum

The Oxford-style debate at Tuesday’s Economist impact investing forum in New York was less a debate on the motion – "This house believes that impact investing will turn out to be the most profitable way to invest" – than a dialogue about how to make it so.

The Brief’s Big 8: Green New Deal financing, impact co-investments, Opportunity Zone contrarian, Mexico’s Agent of Impact Rodrigo Villar

The Brief’s Big 8: Green New Deal financing, impact co-investments, Opportunity Zone contrarian, Mexico’s Agent of Impact Rodrigo Villar

All in the KKR family, African SDG startups, ecosystems for entrepreneurs of color, Skoll’s new chief

All in the KKR family, African SDG startups, ecosystems for entrepreneurs of color, Skoll’s new chief

I&P raises €75 million for African startups targeting the Global Goals

ImpactAlpha, February 13 – French impact investor Investisseurs & Partenaires has reached a second close for its I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2 fund. The fund, which invests in African startups working on issues related to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, has raised €75 million ($84.4 million) since launching in late 2017. Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) manages

Svasti Microfinance raises $4.8 million to extend financial services to low-income Indians

Nordic Microfinance Initiative, Serum Institute of India’s Adar Poonawalla and other investors backed the Mumbai-based microlender.
The new funding will provide exits for early investors, which include Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Bamboo Capital Partners, venture capitalist Sajid Fazalbhoy and angel investor Rajiv Dadlani.