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In this week’s Open:
- Scaling impact fund managers
- Podcast: Emerging market mood
- Spotlight: Biodiversity finance in Europe
Let’s dig in. – Dennis Price
Must-reads on ImpactAlpha
- Capricorn stakes out the next wave of large-scale impact fund managers (Q&A). Capricorn Investment Group is paying it forward – and taking a stake. ImpactAlpha spoke with Capricorn’s William Orum and Marie-Céline Damnon about the firm’s GP stakes strategy, the need for fund managers to specialize, and what’s next in impact. Read the Q&A and the latest ImpactAlpha LP/GP newsletter.
- Cloudy Skies: DOE backs sustainable aviation fuel, but airline demand is slow to take off. Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, has become the first climate sector to escape the Trump administration’s funding freeze. But with cost a major barrier to SAF adoption and Biden era tax credits for the use of such fuels still on hold, the future of sustainable aviation remains murky. Learn more.
- In the category of sustainability-themed entertainment, the winner is… The film industry is starting to regularly take on sustainability as a key narrative and storytelling device. To bring more attention and scrutiny to such efforts, Dmitriy Ioselevich of 17 Communications, in partnership with ImpactAlpha, is launching a kind of Rotten Tomatoes for the impact investing crowd. The first two reviews.
Agents of Impact
- BlueMark added Nick O’Donohoe, ex-CEO of British International Investment, to its board of directors.
- Nonprofit Finance Fund brought on Kareem Thomas, formerly with Reinvestment Fund, as chief credit officer, and named Bhavani Daryanani, previously with Capital for Change, as chief financial officer.
- UBS Optimus Foundation promoted Gayatri Suri to director of social finance.
The Week’s Podcasts
🎧 This Week in Impact: Emerging Market Mood
Host Brian Walsh chats with ImpactAlpha’s senior reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: Why the mood at two impact investing conferences in Nairobi was hopeful, despite the US foreign aid freeze. Plus, a roundup of some of the most interesting recent emerging markets deals.
- Listen to the new episode of This Week in Impact. Get the podcast in your feed by subscribing on Apple or Spotify.
The Week’s Deal Spotlight
🌱 Biodiversity funds gain momentum in Europe
More than $700 billion a year is needed to close the global biodiversity financing gap. As institutional investor demand rises, private fund managers, including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, French impact investor Eurazeo, and Rewilding Europe Capital, an impact debt fund backed by the European Investment Bank, are seizing the opportunity.
- Read more and catch up on all of last week’s dealflow reporting.
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