Dealflow | March 29, 2024
The Week’s Dealflow: March 29, 2024
ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Agrifood investing. Ireland-based MyGug raised €900,000 to convert food waste into renewable biogas as an alternative …
Impact Careers | March 29, 2024
The Week’s Jobs: March 29, 2024
Foundations, private equity investors and fund managers are on the hunt for impact talent. Just this week: US Jobs In New York: The …
Low-carbon transition | March 29, 2024
Deal spotlight: Trickle of financing to phase out coal
Predictions of peak coal have come and gone as global efforts to phase out the dirty fossil fuel founder in regions reliant on …
Deploy! | March 28, 2024
EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank
The announcement of the winners of “green bank” funding under the Inflation Reduction Act is so close at hand that the Environmental Protection …
The Brief | March 28, 2024
The Brief: Assembling partners for the US’s green bank
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank. The …
Climate Finance | March 28, 2024
How a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets
Local and community lenders in the US have been preparing for a windfall of financing from the federal government to support communities—particularly underinvested …
Dealflow | March 28, 2024
Capria Ventures backs fintechs in Nigeria and Bangladesh to expand financial services
Capria Ventures, a Seattle-based venture investor in emerging markets, continues to deploy capital from its Global South Fund II, which achieved a first …
Investing in Health | March 28, 2024
InStride Health raises $30 million for pediatric mental health services
About one-third of young people will struggle with anxiety disorder or obsessive compulsive disorders by the age of 18. Boston-based InStride launched in …
Latin America | March 27, 2024
The path to growth in Brazil runs through the impact economy (videos)
Sign up for ImpactAlpha Latin America to follow the people and money powering Latin America and the Caribbean’s impact economy. In May, thousands of visitors …
The Brief | March 27, 2024
The Brief: Building an inclusive impact economy in Brazil
Greetings Agents of Impact! The latest edition of ImpactAlpha Latin America, our newest specialized newsletter, drops later today. As a subscriber to ImpactAlpha, …
ImpactAlpha Latin America | March 27, 2024
ImpactAlpha Latin America: Investing in Brazil’s impact economy
Sign up for ImpactAlpha Latin America to follow the people and money powering Latin America and the Caribbean’s impact economy. Saludos, Agents of Impact! 👋 …
Impact Voices | March 27, 2024
Investing in life vs. tech: Lifting up nature-based solutions for ecosystems and communities
“We need to invest in life, rather than expensive infrastructure investments,” Anne van Leeuwen, a founding farmer from the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture, pleaded …
Latin America | March 27, 2024
Mexico’s Savia Ventures backs Chilean alt-protein startup Done Properly (video)
Santiago-based biotech company Done Properly uses fermentation to produce healthy and sustainable food alternatives, including meat and additives. Mexico City-based climate tech VC …
Climate Finance | March 27, 2024
New Global Innovation Lab cohort dives into regional climate finance solutions
Climate Policy Initiative’s decade-old Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance has mobilized $4 billion to urgent climate efforts in the Global South. To …
Ownership Economy | March 26, 2024
Wealth-building and community ownership in the next stage of The Great Deployment
Later this year, solar panels will be installed on the roof of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Like thousands of emerging green projects across the …
The Brief | March 26, 2024
The Brief: Ownership and wealth-building in The Great Deployment
Greetings Agents of Impact! 🗣️ ImpactAlpha Latin America. The next edition of our newest newsletter drops tomorrow, March 27. Opt-in to this special …
Climate and Clean Tech | March 26, 2024
Evari raises $7.5 million to build more efficient heat pumps
More than 100 million households globally use heat pumps, which are gaining popularity as a more sustainable alternative for heating and cooling. Most …
ImpactAlpha Open | March 26, 2024
ImpactAlpha Open: De-risking The Great Deployment + clean cooking’s carbon credits
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, a free weekly newsletter on the news, deals and people powering impact investing and sustainable …
Impact Voices | March 26, 2024
Why Beta Impacto combined venture capital and an NGO to scale impact in Latin America
Over the past 15 years, my personal journey has been dedicated to making the world a better place, navigating through various stages of …
Financial Inclusion | March 26, 2024
Nsave secures $4 million to democratize Swiss offshore accounts
Amer Baroudi from Syria and Abdallah AbuHashem from Gaza launched inclusive fintech venture Nsave to give people from countries with high inflation, political …
Podcasts | March 26, 2024
Building an inclusive economy with Lenore Champagne Beirne
ImpactAlpha podcasts are back! We’re pleased to share our revamped interview show, Agents of Impact, hosted by David Bank and Sherrell Dorsey, founder …
Podcasts | March 26, 2024
Impact(ed): An introduction to CDFIs and equitable community lending
Impact(ed) is part of the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network, a set of shows hosted and produced by leading voices in impact and sustainable investing, …
Catalytic Capital | March 25, 2024
Smarter targeting of capital gaps can make catalytic capital more effective
(Editor’s note: The insights in this article reflect the work of a diverse array of Catalytic Capital Consortium partners. The outputs of this …
The Brief | March 25, 2024
The Brief: Smarter catalytic capital
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Catalytic Capital How smarter targeting of capital gaps can make catalytic capital more effective. Some …
Sponsored | March 25, 2024
Elevating Outcomes Beyond Clinics: Investing in diverse-led startups to advance health equity in the US
Editor’s note: This guest post is sponsored by Impact Ventures by J&J Foundation, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. In partnership with Impact Ventures, ImpactAlpha is exploring the …
Financial Inclusion | March 25, 2024
Optimo Loans secures $10 million to offer credit to rural India’s micro businesses
Just one-quarter of India’s micro and small businesses have access to formal financial services; an estimated 53 million businesses are unbanked. Bangalore-based Optimo …
Climate and Clean Tech | March 25, 2024
World Fund raises €300 million venture fund for European climate tech
World Fund invests in Europe’s early and growth-stage climate startups. The three-year-old, Berlin-based VC firm crossed the €300 million mark for its first …
Call Recording | March 22, 2024
How green banks are blending finance for community infrastructure and greenhouse gas reduction (video)
In New Orleans, the city’s housing finance agency has become a “green bank” to underwrite community solar, water treatment projects, and resilience hubs. …
The Brief | March 22, 2024
The Week in Impact Investing: De-risky Business
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 De-risk premiums. Talk about catalytic capital. One of the most effective uses of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas …
Water | March 22, 2024
Deal spotlight: Turning on the capital tap to finance water and sanitation in Africa
As climate change makes water supplies and management more critical than ever, public budget allocations for water access and treatment in Africa are …
Dealflow | March 22, 2024
The Week’s Dealflow: March 22, 2024
ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Agrifood investing. Beneficial Returns re-upped with Indonesian nut producer Kawanasi… HeavyFinance raised €20 million to help …
Impact Careers | March 22, 2024
The Week’s Impact Jobs: March 22, 2024
Impact investors in the US, Europe and the rest of the world are looking to fill newly-vacant positions ahead of a busy spring …
Podcasts | March 21, 2024
How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
On This Week in Impact, Brian Walsh dives into some of ImpactAlpha’s top stories, with commentary from editor David Bank. This week: the …
Climate Finance | March 21, 2024
Leveraging the carbon markets for clean cooking, climate justice and social impact
Nairobi’s slums are dotted with little aqua blue signs alerting residents to top-up points for cooking fuel. Many households don’t have electric stoves …
The Brief | March 21, 2024
The Brief: Accelerating clean cooking with carbon credits
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Carbon Markets Leveraging the carbon markets for clean cooking, climate justice and social impact. Companies …
ESG | March 21, 2024
Texas boots Blackrock, saddling Texans with the costs of its campaign against ESG
House Republicans kicked off “Energy Week” on Monday with a tour of a Texas oil rig and a promise to “protect American jobs.” …
Inclusive Economy | March 21, 2024
Beneficial Returns re-ups with Indonesian nut producer Kawanasi
Jakarta-based Kawanasi Sehat Dasacatur buys and processes wild-harvested kenari nuts, a type of tree nut, from the Indigenous Kayoa people in eastern Indonesia. …
Dealflow | March 20, 2024
Mad Capital raises $14 million in blended capital for regenerative farmland transitions
Mad Capital raised $10 million in 2021 for its debut Perennial Fund, which went on to finance two dozen farmers in the US …
The Brief | March 20, 2024
The Brief: Shareholders get their say
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Zoom in to today’s Call: The Great Deployment. It’s a policy-meets-execution moment. Community lenders are preparing …
Corporate Impact | March 20, 2024
This proxy season, shareholders will have their say on AI, biodiversity and corporate political activity
Ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence and biodiversity protections for deep sea mining are among the newcomers among the environmental and social issues on …
Dealflow | March 20, 2024
Nigeria’s Moove raises $100 million for revenue-based vehicle financing
Since it launched out of Lagos in 2020, Moove has provided revenue-based vehicle financing for over 20,000 ride-hailing and delivery drivers in Nigeria, …
Impact Voices | March 20, 2024
Three ways impact investors can help CDFIs provide stability in a high-cost environment
Even as inflationary pressures begin to subside, affordable housing and community-based organizations continue to operate on thin margins. That means they’re less able …
Water | March 20, 2024
Tanzania turns to green bond market to improve urban water infrastructure
The East African country is new to the global green bond market but has quickly become one of Africa’s most active issuers. The …
The Brief | March 19, 2024
The Brief: Standardizing and scaling green financing
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Deploy! Bringing standards and certainty to financing for community infrastructure and the green transition. Organizations …
Deploy! | March 19, 2024
Bringing standards and certainty to financing for community infrastructure and the green transition
Organizations across the US are anticipating the announcement – expected any day – of who will get to manage parts of the Greenhouse …