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Catalytic Capital | January 11, 2021
How to invest in an inclusive business recovery in Latin America
Small and growing businesses are significant actors in economic production, employment, and growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the OECD, …
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Africa | January 4, 2021
PremierCredit raises funding for micro-entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe and Zambia
ImpactAlpha, January 4 – PremierCredit offers Zambia and Zimbabwe’s micro businesses loans and asset financing for basic business tools like smartphones, solar lighting …
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Gender Smart | November 25, 2020
Call No. 25 recap: Gender smart investing for a sustainable recovery
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 25 – The pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women is exposing the need and opportunity for more investors to embrace a gender lens. …
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Gender Smart | November 17, 2020
A guide for fund managers investing in gender equity
ImpactAlpha, November 17 – Venture capital, private equity and debt firms raised $4.8 billion for strategies focused on gender equity in 2019, up …
Frontier & Growth Markets | November 16, 2020
With billions as bait, development financiers seek to hook private investors on gender-lens investing
ImpactAlpha, November 16 – Private equity and venture capital fund managers have an added incentive to apply a “gender lens” in their investment …
Call Recording | November 13, 2020
Call No. 25: Gender-smart investing for a sustainable recovery
What: The Call No. 25: Gender-smart investing for a sustainable recovery Join SME.NG’s Thelma Ekiyor, Trade Depot’s Onyekachi Izukanne, Development Partners International’s Takudzwa Mutasa, Alitheia’s Temilade Denton, …
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Gender Smart | November 11, 2020
From workforce to infrastructure, 10 ways gender is ‘material’ to the COVID recovery
If material factors are those that would affect the judgment of an informed investor, gender is decidedly material. The decline in women’s employment, …
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Africa | November 11, 2020
Swedfund commits $1 million to health products marketplace Kasha
ImpactAlpha, November 11 – Rwanda-based Kasha operates an e-commerce platform to improve low-income women’s access to menstrual care products, contraceptives, pharmaceuticals and other …
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Dealflow | August 13, 2020
How Women Invest closes first $5 million for new gender lens fund
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 13 – How Women Invest, a San Rafael, Calif.-based venture capital firm, is aiming to raise $10 million for its first …
Catalytic Capital | July 30, 2020
Beyond gender-lens: CARE’s new impact fund opts for ‘gender justice’
As impact investors who have launched a new “gender-justice” impact investment fund, CARE wants to make it clear: we seek deep systems change. …
Gender Smart | July 15, 2020
Surge in funds investing in and for the benefit of women
ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Rising awareness of the value of gender and diversity in business has led to a spike in venture funds …
Dealflow | July 13, 2020
Female investors power Rethink Impact’s $182 million gender lens impact fund
ImpactAlpha, July 13 – Jenny Abramson and Heidi Patel launched Rethink Impact in 2016 to invest in female entrepreneurs tackling tough problems. Interest …
Victress Capital's Suzanne Norris and Lori Cashman
Dealflow | July 8, 2020
Victress Capital closes $21.7 million fund to back female founders
ImpactAlpha, July 8 – Lori Cashman and Suzanne Norris started Victress Capital in 2015 to help close the gender gap for venture capital …
Africa | June 25, 2020
COVID-recovery financing facilities aim to bridge capital gaps for small and growing businesses
ImpactAlpha, June 25 – A quarter of small businesses will fail and a quarter will succeed, and even thrive, in the aftermath of …
Gender Smart | June 10, 2020
How gender power imbalances put the COVID recovery at risk
Power is the thread that connects the surge in gender-based violence during the COVID crisis with violence against people of color, including by …