The Brief | September 17, 2024
The Brief: Lessons from billion-dollar blended funds
Greetings Agents of Impact! 🔌 Plugged In: Inside Wisconsin’s game plan to tap federal financing for the green transition. Get Plugged In with …
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Dealflow | September 17, 2024
Germany’s Smalt scores €8 million for green workforce training
Workforce development is key to accelerating the green transition. In Europe, more than three million workers are needed for solar and heat-pump installations …
Climate Fund Managers last year invested in one of the largest debt-for-climate conversions in history to protect the Galapagos Islands
Climate Finance | September 17, 2024
Blending billions: Lessons in catalyzing capital at scale for climate and development
As host of last year’s COP28 climate gathering, the United Arab Emirates made a splash with its $30 billion Altérra climate fund. Tucked …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 17, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Ethical fashion in NYC + student-led impact funds
Hi there, Agent of Impact! This week, take advantage of these opportunities at ImpactAlpha: 📞 Agents of Impact Call 64: Blending Billions. Here come the billion-dollar …
Smart Cities | September 17, 2024
ADB mobilizes more than $86 million for electrifying public transport in India
The Asian Development Bank has issued a loan of 3.6 billion rupees ($43 million) to Indian electric vehicle and renewables conglomerate JBM Group to …
Impact assets in UK surged more than 33% to almost £77 billion over three years, according to a new report | Photo source: The Impact Investing Institute
Impact Investing | September 16, 2024
British impact investing market gains steam
Impact assets in UK surged more than 33% to almost £77 billion (nearly $102 billion) over three years through 2023, according to a new report.
Ownership Economy | September 16, 2024
Ownify seeks to pave a fractional pathway to home ownership, brick by shared-equity brick
First-time home buyers in Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina, are getting a new path to owning their own house – or at least …
The Brief | September 16, 2024
The Brief: Paving a pathway to owning (a fraction of) a home
Greetings Agents of Impact! This week at ImpactAlpha: 📞 Agents of Impact Call 64: Blending Billions. Here come the billion-dollar blended finance funds. …
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Investing in Health | September 16, 2024
Lightsmith and Chan Zuckerberg invest $16.6 million in Beep for in-home health in Brazil
Beep Saúde has developed an app that helps patients obtain more than 30 vaccines, including for influenza and HPV, set up appointments with …
Signals | September 15, 2024
Rather than only punishing emissions, why not reward solutions and systems-level climate impact?
A new Harvard Business Review paper argues that assessment of a company’s progress toward combating climate change should include a “sphere of influence” lens that measures its “societal-level climate solutions.”
Latin America | September 13, 2024
Bigger tent of impact investing in Latin America includes new funds, mergers and catalytic capital
The first wave of impact investors in Latin America built a big tent for individuals and institutions to mobilize capital for solutions to …
Edgar Villanueva speaks during Celebrating Indigeneity at NYFW hosted by Decolonizing Wealth Project on September 09, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images for Decolonizing Wealth Project)
Agents of Impact | September 13, 2024
Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth Project: Championing Indigenous fashion and finance
Edgar Villanueva is a model – literally – for the principles of reparative finance. On a Soho rooftop at New York Fashion Week, …
The Brief | September 13, 2024
The Week in impact investing: Creative edge
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Fresh look. From Fashion Week in New York to Indigenous villages in Mexico, the ImpactAlpha …
Dealflow | September 13, 2024
The Week’s Dealflow: September 13, 2024
ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Agrifood investing. Agriculture-focused impact investor AgDevCo secured £25 million ($32.8 million) from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth …
Careers | September 13, 2024
The Week’s Jobs: September 13, 2024
Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: Opportunity Finance Network is recruiting a chief financial officer in Washington, DC… Prologis has …
Dealflow | September 13, 2024
Deal spotlight: Yes, the fundraising environment is improving, even if it doesn’t feel like it
The ice is starting to thaw for private market fundraising after a frigid couple of years. “While not in the numbers yet, we …
Podcasts | September 12, 2024
A near climate-free debate + sustainable fashion
Host Brian Walsh takes up the top stories in impact with editorial director Amy Cortese. Up this week: The scant attention to climate …
Remake's 'Walk your Values' show at New York Fashion Week
Sustainable Fashion | September 12, 2024
Ethical and inclusive are in style at New York Fashion Week
Celebrities including Rihanna and Madonna descended on New York City for Fashion Week, where venues from the Guggenheim Museum to basketball courts in …
The Brief | September 12, 2024
The Brief: Sustainability on the runway at New York Fashion Week
Greetings Agents of Impact! 🔌 Plugged In: Inside Wisconsin’s game plan to tap federal financing for the green transition. On Sherrell Dorsey’s next …
Water | September 12, 2024
Earth Finance acquires Water Foundry to advise corporations on water strategies
Earth Finance launched last year with $14 million from investors to help global corporations map their net-zero strategies. With the acquisition of Water …
Climate Finance | September 12, 2024
WaterEquity notches $100 million for fifth fund
WaterEquity reached the $100 million mark for its Water and Climate Resilience Fund. The fund will make debt and equity investments in water …
Emerging and Growth Markets | September 12, 2024
Paymob lands $22 million to scale merchant payments across the MENA region
Egypt’s Paymob launched in 2015 as e-commerce was taking off in the country. The company’s app provided merchants with otherwise limited access to …
The Brief | September 11, 2024
The Brief: Indigenous communities, the creative economy, and the future of finance in Latin America
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: ImpactAlpha Latin America Meeting of ‘impact minds’ in Oaxaca aims to catalyze capital for Latin …
Impact Management | September 11, 2024
Corralling the ‘Wild West’ of impact management to wrangle capital for underinvested markets
The government of Zambia in 2021 committed $200 million to a fund aimed at building an investable pipeline and catalyzing private capital to …
Agrifood Tech | September 11, 2024
German alt-protein startup Formo lands $61 million for animal-free cheese
Germany alternative-protein startup Formo lands $61 million, launches animal-free cheese in more than 2,000 stores.
Sponsored | September 11, 2024
Reimagining disability investing: Lessons from an actually Autistic advocate
The week before the launch of Heading for Change, the legacy foundation founded by my late wife, Suzanne Biegel, of which I am …
Oaxaca, Mexico
Catalytic Capital | September 10, 2024
Meeting of ‘impact minds’ in Oaxaca aims to catalyze capital for Latin America
Orgánico. Justo. Bueno. Indigenous communities and the inclusive creative economy are the inspiration this week for Latin American capital providers gathering in Oaxaca …
Dealflow | September 10, 2024
Energy Impact Partners scoops up $1 billion for third decarbonization fund
New York-based EIP is back with a $1 billion fundraise for its third flagship fund focused on ready-to-scale climate solutions, according to an …
The Brief | September 10, 2024
The Brief: The VCs who are reclaiming ESG from compliance – and for materiality
Greetings Agents of Impact! 👋 Meet the ImpactAlpha editorial team. As an ImpactAlpha subscriber, you are part of the incredible community of professionals …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 10, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: Sustainable fashion disruptors + African capital for African infrastructure
Hi there, Agent of Impact! I’m on location at Latimpacto’s confab of Latin American capital providers in Oaxaca, Mexico. And ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese will be sniffing out …
Podcasts | September 10, 2024
Capitol Gains: How capital flows shape communities (podcast)
Editor’s Note: Capitol Gains is a member of the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network. The show is made possible by Court Street Group. Mapping the multiple …
Dealflow | September 10, 2024
Demex scores $10.3 million to backstop insurers against extreme weather events
Insurance companies are struggling with mounting losses from more frequent and severe extreme weather events as global warming accelerates. Demex partners with reinsurance …
ESG | September 10, 2024
How VCs are reclaiming the promise of ESG for private markets
The consideration of environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG, has stumbled in public-markets investing. Now, venture capital funds and startups are reclaiming …
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Gender Smart | September 10, 2024
WIC Capital invests in sustainable carpentry company in Côte d’Ivoire
WIC Capital backed Wood Packaging Industry, which uses sustainably sourced wood for locally-made pallets for moving goods and shipping. Wood Packaging Industry company …
The Brief | September 9, 2024
The Brief: How business schools help students make real world impact with student-led funds
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Back to School Business-school funds give MBA students a jump on careers in and out …
Impact Investing | September 9, 2024
Business-school funds give MBA students a jump on careers in and out of impact investing
At Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Professor William Towns pushes his students to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. “Somebody might end up …
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Dealflow | September 9, 2024
MCJ raises $80.6 million for early stage investments in climate resilience and the energy transition
Boston-based venture capital firm MCJ has backed dozens of early stage climate tech companies since 2020, including carbon capture and storage startup Heirloom, …
Low-carbon transition | September 9, 2024
Indonesia’s GRP aims to cut steel carbon emissions with a $60 million IFC loan
Steel is essential to energy and other critical infrastructure, but coal is no longer essential to steelmaking. To support Indonesia’s green transition, International …
Sponsored | September 9, 2024
SOCAP24: Going deeper and catalyzing systems change
The global impact community gathers again, for a 17th time in San Francisco, this October 28-30. In a year like 2024, it is …
Podcasts | September 6, 2024
This Week in Impact: Policy planks for the ownership economy
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: bipartisan policies to mobilize private financing for transitions …
The Brief | September 6, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: Sustaining the surge in entrepreneurship and ownership
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re getting out and about. Connect with ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese, who will be sniffing out signs of the sustainability …
Dealflow | September 6, 2024
The Week’s Dealflow: September 6, 2024
ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Agrifood tech. Asia Impact led $17 million investment in India’s Agrim, a marketplace for agriculture inputs… …
Emerging and Growth Markets | September 6, 2024
Deal spotlight: Socializing the seriousness of social bonds
Social interventions have long been considered harder to measure and manage than environmental ones. But countries, companies and investors have persisted in experimenting …
Impact Careers | September 6, 2024
The Week’s Jobs: September 6, 2024
Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: Blue Like an Orange is looking for an investment analyst in Mexico… CVS Health …
LP / GP | September 6, 2024
Chart: Impact investing in African infrastructure
The number of impact-focused infrastructure funds around the globe has more than tripled over the last decade, to 357. Managers remain concentrated in …