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The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Catalytic capital for local news publishers
Greetings Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha Open, a free weekly sampling of the top news and views from ImpactAlpha. In this week’s …
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Aqua-Spark aims to build an African value chain around ‘aquatic chicken’
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UK’s Manufacturing Africa to launch $200 million fund for green manufacturing startups
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The ‘ethical nature’ of Islamic finance opens new markets
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With working capital and warehousing, Small Foundation boosts emerging fund managers in Africa
The Call
Exclusive video calls with industry insiders
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 …
Laying bets on entrepreneurial households in industrious communities
Among the misperceptions that have kept capital from flowing to broad sectors of emerging markets: Risks are too high. Customers are too poor. …
Agents of Impact converge on financing solutions to ‘light every clinic’
The people and principles needed to solve the challenges of financing solar power for frontline health clinics were represented on ImpactAlpha’s Agents of …
Changing investment algorithms to advance racial justice
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – What got us here won’t get us where we need to go. Guidelines that govern global finance need to …
Rooting out racism as a systemic risk
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate …
Impact Voices
Provocative opinions and insightful analysis from the community
The climate case has become an affordability case
For years, the climate investment conversation was framed around the energy transition. That was the right framing for a long time. It helped …
What impact funders should know about opportunities in reproductive health
The US is facing a reproductive and maternal health crisis that practitioners on the ground navigate daily. As CEO of Rhia Ventures, I …
AI-generated ESG reports are a greenwashing scandal in the making
A senior partner at a mid-market private equity firm recently told me they had stopped reading the ESG sections of their portfolio companies’ …
A Juneteenth challenge: Political freedom requires economic freedom, too
Juneteenth is often described as a celebration of freedom. And it is. But freedom was not the end of the journey. The harder …
Why we launched the Employee Ownership Fund Accelerator
A recent McKinsey report puts the stakes of the Great Ownership Transition in stark terms. By 2035, roughly 6 million small and medium-size …
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