On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh is back from Glasgow and joined for an institutional impact roundtable by Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank. They sort out the Marks and the Gretas at COP26 and chew on inflation’s impact on… impact. Plus, the headlines.
November 12, 2021 | Podcasts
Impact Briefing: “The Marks,” “The Gretas,” and Inflation — Oh, My!
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The Reconstruction | December 6, 2021
A global bio fund is centering women founders and customers to drive equity and returns (podcast)
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 1 – Growing up in an unequal society in India prepared Ipshita Mandal-Johnson to overcome limitations. With a new life sciences fund, …
Sponsored | November 30, 2021
Impact investing to support health equity
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. In partnership with J&J Impact …
Investing in Health | November 23, 2021
Investing in caregivers to fill gaps in long-term care
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is partnering with Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures to explore purpose-driven entrepreneurs and impact investments in health outcomes for underserved …
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Impact Investing | November 18, 2021
Achieve Partners acquires Ro Health to create apprenticeships for school health workers
ImpactAlpha, November 18 — New York-based Achieve Partners has acquired Ro Health, a Seattle-based medical staffing and home health agency, to advance an …
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Dealflow | November 16, 2021
DrugStoc scores $4.4 million to improve Nigeria’s pharmaceutical supply chain
ImpactAlpha, November 16 — Lagos-based DrugStoc is on a mission to fix the country’s broken pharmaceutical supply chains and distribution channels. The company …
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Dealflow | November 4, 2021
Brazil’s Memed scores $17.8 million to scale medical e-prescription platform
ImpactAlpha, November 4 — The round was co-led by Singapore’s Temasek, Brazilian financial services company Fit Participacoes and DNA Capital, a Sao Paulo-based …
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Dealflow | November 2, 2021
Virohan raises $1.3 million to build India’s allied health workforce
ImpactAlpha, November 2 — India needs at least 50 million health care professionals. Of the 10 million health workers today, around 90% are …
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Dealflow | November 1, 2021
ShiftMed secures $45 million to expand gig health care workers platform nationally
ImpactAlpha, November 1 — The U.S. is facing a major shortage of health care workers due to COVID-19. Four out of every five …
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Investing in Health | October 27, 2021
Farmacare raises seed funding to digitize community pharmacies in Indonesia
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 27 – Jakarta-based Farmacare helps local pharmacies manage sales records, inventories and relationships with customers. The company has the potential to …
Investing in Health | October 25, 2021
How the pandemic is propelling innovators to bridge healthcare gaps in emerging markets
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is partnering with Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures to explore purpose-driven entrepreneurs and impact investments in health outcomes for underserved …
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Dealflow | September 9, 2021
Elvie scores $97 million to make health products for women
ImpactAlpha, September 9 — The London-based company offers women tech-based products for pumping breast milk and pelvic floor health. “Our goal is to …
Dealflow | August 18, 2021
On-demand women’s and family health startup Maven raises $110 million
ImpactAlpha, August 18 — Former journalist Kate Ryder launched Maven in 2014 to bridge a gap in women’s health care. “Our plan is …
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Catalytic Capital | November 22, 2021
Navajo Power secures $9.5 million to provide clean electricity for Navajo Nation
ImpactAlpha, November 22 — Navajo Nation, which spans more than 27,000 miles in northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Utah, is home …
Impact Investing | November 18, 2021
Evergrow raises $7 million to provide offtake and funding for carbon reduction projects
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 18 – San Francisco-based Evergrow will act as an intermediary, pooling capital from institutional investors to provide “long term, bankable offtake …
Catalytic Capital | November 17, 2021
Climate Fund Managers raises $675 million for green blended finance fund
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 17 – The Dutch fund manager reached a first close towards a $1 billion target for Climate Investor Two, its second blended …
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Faith-Based Investing | November 17, 2021
Higher risk, higher principles: A simple investment thesis for Christian impact investors
Are the world’s Christian investors the stakeholders uniquely positioned to bridge the $2.5 trillion funding gap for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by …
Impact Investing | November 3, 2021
Finance to the fore as catalytic climate capital rallies COP26
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – Pledges and pessimism gave way to concrete commitments of climate capital as world leaders clinched two major agreements before …
Catalytic Capital | October 29, 2021
Call No. 33: Using catalytic capital to fill climate finance gaps from the bottom up
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 29 – As the COP26 global climate summit kicks off this weekend, much of the focus will be on the massive …
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Catalytic Capital | October 28, 2021
Black Vision fund raises $25 million to support Black-owned small businesses
ImpactAlpha, October 28 — Expanding Black Business Credit, a consortium of Black-led community development financial institutions, or CDFIs launched the fund even before …
Catalytic Capital | October 28, 2021
Blended finance struggles for traction in the ‘decade of action’
ImpactAlpha, October 28 – Blended finance that leverages public or philanthropic capital to increase private investment in sustainable development has unlocked about $160 …
Catalytic Capital | October 26, 2021
Offtakes, guarantees and blended finance: A lexicon of catalytic climate capital
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 26 – Investments in climate solutions are crucial. Purchase orders can be transformative. Hertz’s order of 100,000 Model 3s underscored the …
Joe Scantlebury, CEO of Living Cities
The Reconstruction | October 21, 2021
Living Cities’ Joe Scantlebury sees cities as the template for an inclusive America
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 21 – U.S. President Joe Biden wants to ‘build back better.’ Joe Scantlebury is out to make sure the rebuild includes all …
Catalytic Capital | October 21, 2021
$100 billion is just a down payment on financing the climate transition in developing nations
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 21 – For want of a nail…the kingdom was lost, as the old proverb goes. For want of $100 billion, a …
Catalytic Capital | October 20, 2021
Deploying catalytic capital to bridge financing gaps for climate action
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 20 – Climate finance is on a roll. Climate finance is stuck. Both statements are true. Investors have poured record sums …
The Reconstruction
The Reconstruction | December 6, 2021
A global bio fund is centering women founders and customers to drive equity and returns (podcast)
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 1 – Growing up in an unequal society in India prepared Ipshita Mandal-Johnson to overcome limitations. With a new life sciences fund, …
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The Reconstruction | December 2, 2021
The Reconstruction this time: Retelling the history of the past to change the story of the future (video)
That the past is never dead – it’s not even past, as Faulkner observed – was hard to dispute last month in the …
The Reconstruction | November 18, 2021
The list of 160 funds creating opportunities for Black, Indigenous and other people of color
This work is a joint project of Bridgespan Social Impact, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), PolicyLink, and CapEQ. Since the social unrest …
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The Reconstruction | November 18, 2021
How impact investors can leverage the infrastructure bill to help disinvested communities catch up
After years of discussion, negotiation, failed efforts, and disappointment, we finally have a once-in-a-generation bill that will invest in the physical infrastructure of …
Kelly Burton, Black Innovation Alliance
The Reconstruction | November 16, 2021
The Reconstruction: Building an ecosystem for Black and Brown entrepreneurs
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 16, 2021 – As co-convener of the Black Innovation Alliance, Kelly Burton is working to bring together small business owners and …
Dealflow | November 10, 2021
Equitable economic growth tops agenda at Commerce Department convening
ImpactAlpha, November 10 — Top officials across the Biden administration committed to advance economic equity for communities of color and underrepresented groups, at …
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Dealflow | November 8, 2021
Northwestern Mutual accelerator backs five Black founders
ImpactAlpha, November 8 — The inaugural cohort of the Black Founder Accelerator, launched by the Milwaukee-based financial services giant earlier this year, includes …
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The Reconstruction | November 1, 2021
The Reconstruction: Moving racial justice to the center of climate philanthropy
ImpactAlpha Nov. 1 – Climate justice leaders are mobilizing their own Conferences of the Parties around the world as heads of government meet …
Konda Mason, Jubilee Justice
Agents of Impact | October 29, 2021
Konda Mason, Jubilee Justice
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 29 – Konda Mason’s move from managing jazz musicians to financing regenerative farmers “felt pretty seamless to me,” Mason said at the …
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Impact Voices | October 29, 2021
Institutionalizing the racial reckoning in Community Reinvestment Act reforms
After a tumultuous two years of unraveled reforms, the Community Reinvestment Act, known as the CRA, has a real chance of being modernized …
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Regeneration | October 28, 2021
Embracing regenerative practices to restore climate and community
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 28 – Take a deep breath. We’re 60 years into an 80-year paradigm shift away from economic extraction and towards the regeneration …
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Catalytic Capital | October 28, 2021
Black Vision fund raises $25 million to support Black-owned small businesses
ImpactAlpha, October 28 — Expanding Black Business Credit, a consortium of Black-led community development financial institutions, or CDFIs launched the fund even before …