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.”
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 is a model – literally – for the principles of reparative finance. On a Soho rooftop at New York Fashion Week, …
TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: 🗣 Fresh look. From Fashion Week in New York to Indigenous villages in Mexico, the ImpactAlpha …
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 …
Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: Opportunity Finance Network is recruiting a chief financial officer in Washington, DC… Prologis has …
The ice is starting to thaw for private market fundraising after a frigid couple of years. “While not in the numbers yet, we …
Host Brian Walsh takes up the top stories in impact with editorial director Amy Cortese. Up this week: The scant attention to climate …
Celebrities including Rihanna and Madonna descended on New York City for Fashion Week, where venues from the Guggenheim Museum to basketball courts in …
Greetings Agents of Impact! 🔌 Plugged In: Inside Wisconsin’s game plan to tap federal financing for the green transition. On Sherrell Dorsey’s next …
Earth Finance launched last year with $14 million from investors to help global corporations map their net-zero strategies. With the acquisition of Water …
WaterEquity reached the $100 million mark for its Water and Climate Resilience Fund. The fund will make debt and equity investments in water …
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 …
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: ImpactAlpha Latin America Meeting of ‘impact minds’ in Oaxaca aims to catalyze capital for Latin …
The government of Zambia in 2021 committed $200 million to a fund aimed at building an investable pipeline and catalyzing private capital to …
Germany alternative-protein startup Formo lands $61 million, launches animal-free cheese in more than 2,000 stores.
The week before the launch of Heading for Change, the legacy foundation founded by my late wife, Suzanne Biegel, of which I am …
Orgánico. Justo. Bueno. Indigenous communities and the inclusive creative economy are the inspiration this week for Latin American capital providers gathering in Oaxaca …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Insurance companies are struggling with mounting losses from more frequent and severe extreme weather events as global warming accelerates. Demex partners with reinsurance …
The consideration of environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG, has stumbled in public-markets investing. Now, venture capital funds and startups are reclaiming …
WIC Capital backed Wood Packaging Industry, which uses sustainably sourced wood for locally-made pallets for moving goods and shipping. Wood Packaging Industry company …
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 …
At Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Professor William Towns pushes his students to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. “Somebody might end up …
Boston-based venture capital firm MCJ has backed dozens of early stage climate tech companies since 2020, including carbon capture and storage startup Heirloom, …
Steel is essential to energy and other critical infrastructure, but coal is no longer essential to steelmaking. To support Indonesia’s green transition, International …
The global impact community gathers again, for a 17th time in San Francisco, this October 28-30. In a year like 2024, it is …
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: bipartisan policies to mobilize private financing for transitions …
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 …
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… …
Social interventions have long been considered harder to measure and manage than environmental ones. But countries, companies and investors have persisted in experimenting …
Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: Blue Like an Orange is looking for an investment analyst in Mexico… CVS Health …
The number of impact-focused infrastructure funds around the globe has more than tripled over the last decade, to 357. Managers remain concentrated in …
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Sustainable Fashion To disrupt the $3 trillion fashion industry, VCs back tech for sustainability and …
Innovation loves inefficiency. Mismanagement of resources, workers and customers in the $3 trillion fashion industry has opened multiple lanes for creative founders with …
Small businesses in Southeast Asia employ 85% of the region’s workforce and contribute nearly half of its GDP. They face a financing shortfall …
Kasha Global launched in 2016 to improve access to menstrual care products, contraceptives and pharmaceuticals for low-income women in Africa. Customers can order …
Among the biggest barriers to plugging Africa’s $100 billion annual infrastructure finance gap are private investors’ risk perceptions, lack of awareness of investable …
Greetings Agents of Impact! No, we haven’t launched a specialized ImpactAlpha Africa newsletter – yet. But today’s full package of stories highlights the …
Close to 300 million people in Africa are undernourished; one out of every four people on the continent faces food insecurity. Incofin Investment …
Wages won’t bridge yawning racial wealth gaps or reverse income inequality. Ownership might. “The way people can really have a stable economic base …
Kenyan startup Chpter integrates an AI-powered conversational tool with WhatsApp and Instagram to help consumers and entrepreneurs leverage social selling. The new venture …
