Jessica started her career in financial journalism in 2008, the day Lehman Brothers collapsed. She's been following the financial market cycles with an impact lens since 2012. Jessica manages ImpactAlpha's investment news coverage, Dealflow, and the emerging markets beat. She loves getting into the weeds of new and wonky financial structures and funds and meeting the creative minds behind them. Jessica hails from Charleston, SC, and is based in Lisbon, Portugal.
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CalPERS-backed Inox Clean Energy gets funding from Indian family office to ramp up renewables development
Inox Clean Energy is the renewable energy business of Indian conglomerate INOXGFL Group. The energy company manufactures solar modules and cells, then feeds ...
Generation’s Just Climate invests in clean data center development in Brazil
Brazil’s data center boom is relatively small in respect to global development. But in Latin America, it’s the undisputed leader for both pace ...
Age Care Labs secures 850 million rupees to support healthy aging for India’s seniors
Gurgaon-based Age Care Labs is trying to get ahead of a fast-growing social and health issue in a country of nearly 1.5 billion ...
Catalyst Fund raises $30 million to derisk African climate tech for global use
Climate adaptation solutions are as essential as mitigation solutions, as last week’s extreme heatwave in Europe made clear. “Adaptation and resilience have never ...
Spotting climate investment opportunities in the growth markets of the Global South
I did not plan for events about extreme heat to be cancelled…due to extreme heat. Arriving for London Climate Action Week on the ...
Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is ...
Impact experts ‘words of wisdom’ on landing an impact career (video)
Kimberlee Cornett’s inbox has in recent weeks been flooded with messages from recent university and graduate school graduates hoping to get career advice ...
Climate First raises $67 million to combine impact retail banking and solar lending
One look at the big ugly bar charts illustrating banks’ addiction to financing fossil fuels would make anyone rethink who they bank with. ...
The Brief: Catalytic capital for local news publishers
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Many thanks to the hundreds of you who tuned into The Call yesterday on building a career in impact ...