Follow the Talent: ImpactAlpha’s ‘Agents of Impact’ Special Report for July 19

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

Renew rightsizes checks with new East Africa fund for female founders

Kijani became the first investment of a new $500,000 “mini-fund” targeting women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and Uganda from angel network Renew, an impact investment firm based in Addis Abba.

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Impact lens, famtech market, forest risk, better drones, valuable farmers, Agent of Impact: Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

ImpactAlpha’s Big 9: Impact lens, famtech market, forest risk, better drones, valuable farmers, Agent of Impact: Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

The Brief: Female founders in Ethiopia and Uganda, clean water in India, vertical farms in Brazil, lifting new voters and voices, drones for development

Today's feature: Renew rightsizes checks with new East Africa fund for female founders.

Getting drones to deliver for global development

In a new report, “Drones for Development,” Devex surveys the state of use of unmanned aerial vehicles in global development today and identifies ways to fulfill their potential for impact.

Pink Farms secures early funding to bring vertical farming to Brazil

The funding round was backed by agribusiness venture capital firm SP Ventures and seed venture fund Capital Lab.

Clean water startup Aquvio raises capital to build out purification technology

The company has raised an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A funding from India’s Technology Development Board, early-stage impact investor and accelerator Villgro, and the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.