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With $400 billion in assets, Temasek leans into emerging markets, climate adaptation and ‘sustainable living’ (podcast). Geopolitical uncertainties and shifting policy environments have global fund managers and operators flocking to the relative stability of Singapore. Many have found a receptive ear at Temasek, the $400 billion state-owned investment fund that calls itself a “generational investor”. Temasek is one of the most visible global investors, with major partnerships with Leapfrog, Brookfield, BlackRock and other asset managers. Temasek has also backed managers such as North Carolina-based Aurora Sustainable Lands, which has a permanent capital vehicle for sustainable timber and carbon credits; Zurich-based Emerald Technology Ventures, which has raised its second Global Water Fund; and Stegra, which is building one of Europe’s largest green steel plants in Sweden. “We always say there are no returns from a dead planet or a divided society,” Eliza Foo, who leads Temasek’s impact investing team, says on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “I think it's our responsibility to leave the planet a better place for future generations as well.”
Three dozen LPs that invest alongside Temasek. LP profiles on ImpactAlpha Edge now highlight co-investment relationships, offering a richer view of the networks surrounding LPs like Temasek, which has co-invested with Alterra, Prudential, La Caisse and other global investors. Other LP Edge profiles: Family office Ceniarth has more than 170 co-investors. Woodcock Foundation connects to nearly 150 other LPs through shared fund investments, including more than 10 investments with Ceniarth.
More than two dozen 'transformative' fund managers sync systems change with financial returns. The latest “Transformative 25” cohort from Collective Action for Just Finance features emerging managers for whom “the mission and the mechanism are inseparable, and where financial returns and genuine systems change are not in tension, but in service of one another.” Turtle Island Community Capital, an Indigenous-led, place-based fund manager, designs its capital to serve investees and their ecological, cultural and economic relationships. Such creative, community-rooted, first-time fund managers again dominated this year's list. The 131 funds and vehicles Collective Action has listed over six years have mobilized a combined $1.9 billion. "The assumption that impact scales linearly with size is one our field is slowly, and rightly, unlearning," the team wrote. "Small can be mighty."
Alder Point secures $4 million from Rockefeller Foundation to build climate-resilient forests and farmland. Alder Point Capital Management acquires timberland and farmland and partners with local farmers, foresters and operators to restore soil, water and forest health. Such practices aren't just good for the land, they're good for local workers and economies, and for investors. It's a recipe for "impact alpha," says Alder Point’s Chris Larson (listen to our podcast conversation with Larson). The Rockefeller Foundation's $4 million commitment will support Alder Point's land acquisitions in rural communities.
AI power demand revives climate tech funding. Demand for energy by AI hyperscalers is so great that BloombergNEF has upped its 2035 energy demand forecast for US data centers by 83% since December, to 194 gigawatts. The boom is driving billions of dollars into clean power and related technologies (see “Pulling climate tech to commercial scale with the energy demand from data centers”). That helped lift climate tech investment to its strongest first half since 2022. Companies developing clean energy, electric vehicles, green data centers and climate-risk technologies received $26 billion from venture investors in the first half of 2026, up 55% from a year earlier, according to a new report from Currence (formerly Sightline). Clean-powered data center developers captured 34% of all global climate tech funding, up from just 3% a year ago, led by DayOne's $4.5 billion Series C round and NScale's $2 billion round.
Djalal Khimdjee, formerly with Proparco, will take the helm of Africa50's Principal Investment Fund in August… Adaptation Asia's Panra Fund, Big Valley's Ag360 fund and Gawa Capital's Secure Fund are among the grantees selected by the SDG Impact Finance Initiative's climate adaptation and resilience innovation window… Charm Impact is recruiting an investment officer, with a preference for Nairobi-based candidates.
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