Search Results for: blockchain
Blockchain/AI/IoT | May 2, 2017
Blockchain startups make it cheaper to send money across borders
First came mobile phones and digital money. Now comes blockchain and digital-only currencies to further cut costs of cross-border remittances. A new crop …
Climate Finance | May 2, 2017
Bond market in community development, Acumen’s off-grid solutions, blockchain for remittances
#Featured: ImpactAlpha Original A private bond market emerges for low-income community development. If you need an example of how catalytic public and private …
Agrifood Tech | February 9, 2017
Blockchain startup raises $2.5 million to trace food supply
Arc-net, based in Northern Ireland, is using the technology behind bitcoin to tackle food fraud — part of what could become a $14 billion tech …
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 …
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 …
Impact Tech | March 7, 2024
VilCap and IBM propel new technologies as a catalyst for life-improving services
The explosion of new technology and AI solutions promising improved efficiency, creativity, and sustainability coincides with record inflation, pessimism around economic resilience, and …
February 28, 2024
Senior Consultant Sustainable Finance & ESG
About the job Come join us in assisting our financial services clients accelerate their sustainability transition, by advising them on Sustainable Finance, Climate …
Impact Investing | February 27, 2024
Risks and opportunities in early-stage climate tech in Africa
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – Climate concerns figured prominently in conversations among investors, development agencies, startups and corporations at this week’s Africa Tech Summit …
Catalytic Capital | February 21, 2024
Multi-donor funds emerge as a creative architecture for collaborative, catalytic capital
A new model is coming into vogue that enables impact investors and philanthropists to collaborate easily in a light, fast and community-oriented manner. Multi-donor funds which …
The Brief | February 21, 2024
The Brief: Fusing philanthropy and investing in multi-donor funds
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Catalytic Capital Multi-donor funds emerge as a creative architecture for collaborative, catalytic capital. Heading for …
February 1, 2024
Research Consultant, Impact Investment
Summary/Objective The Impact Investment Research Associate – Contractor (IIRA-C) position aims to support Avivar in 1) completing comprehensive landscape scans and research projects across …
January 12, 2024
Senior Associate in ESG and Impact Investing
About the job We are looking for a Senior Associate in ESG and Impact Investing to grow our unique value proposition and impact …
The Brief | December 7, 2023
The Brief: AI for climate, sustainable forestry investing, Congruent’s climate tech fund, Zestmoney’s shutdown, crypto and ESG
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Transition AI’s killer app: Guiding humanity through the climate challenge. The power of artificial intelligence (as well …
ESG | December 6, 2023
ESG and FTX: How VCs can invest more responsibility into crypto this time around
This crypto rally can be different. Crypto’s rise, then fall, then recent rise again, presents an opportunity for venture capitalists to invest more …
Oct 10th to Oct 10th, 2023
The Ownership Economy Summit
The Ownership Economy Summit® Conference will feature a range of sessions covering various aspects of the ownership economy, including: Register today and use …
The Brief | July 7, 2023
The Week in impact investing: Leaning in
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Navigating complexity. Basic challenges can often be maddeningly complex. In this holiday-shortened week, celebrate the creativity, resilience and …
Impact Investing | July 7, 2023
Empowa: Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy
David Bank chats with Empowa’s Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global …
Impact Investing | July 5, 2023
Overheard at Salzburg Global Seminar: Complexities in connecting capital to communities
There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives, as the poet Audre Lorde once said. …
The Brief | April 28, 2023
The Week in Impact Investing: Maturity
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Growing up. You know the market for impact and sustainable investments is maturing when CEO succession becomes a …
The Brief | April 26, 2023
The Brief: Clean energy transformation, new age nukes, AI in the Global South, launch Africa, banking on climate chaos
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Energy Transition How Biden’s climate policies are driving a clean energy transformation. The trio of climate and economic …
The Brief | April 13, 2023
The Brief: Marketplace for social outcomes, students of sustainable investing, bee-friendly pesticides, renewable energy in Africa, AI for climate finance
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Marketplaces The next step in pay-for-performance: A marketplace for buying and selling social outcomes. A new marketplace …
Dealflow | April 13, 2023
MBA and other students rise to the sustainable investing challenge
ImpactAlpha, April 13 — A dozen finalists in the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge are swapping debt for nature, tracking water credits, insuring …
Banking Impact | March 13, 2023
Climate tech and other startups exhale after the U.S. backstops Silicon Valley Bank depositors
ImpactAlpha, March 13 – At the end of a nervous weekend, disaster was averted for Silicon Valley’s ecosystem of climate tech, health tech …
ImpactAlpha Open | February 28, 2023
ImpactAlpha Open: Impact in real estate + BIPOC-led climate startups
Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome back to ImpactAlpha Open, your weekly dose of news, trends, deals and people moves in the impact economy. 🤝 …
Climate and Clean Tech | February 13, 2023
EV supply chains are riddled with human rights abuses. Tech can help eliminate them.
More electric vehicles (EVs) were sold each week of 2022 than in all of 2011. Analysts expect this explosive growth to remain unabated …
The Brief | January 31, 2023
The Brief: Municipal finance for fiscal justice, financing restoration with future carbon credits, impact notes, green steel, community-led funds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Muni Impact Activest’s FIRE strategy seeks to bend the arc of municipal finance toward ‘fiscal justice.’ It’s distressingly …
Climate Finance | January 31, 2023
Obvious Ventures backs Senken to finance reforestation through ‘carbon forwards’
ImpactAlpha, January 31 – Berlin and Cape Town-based Senken is a blockchain-based carbon credit trading platform. Its next offering is a form of …
The Brief | December 12, 2022
The Brief: Adasina’s fiscal justice strategy, ESG bonds for cities, domestic work in Senegal, carbon credits in India, worker ownership and revenue-based lending
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Muni Impact What Adasina learned about advancing ‘fiscal justice’ by investing $60 million in muni bonds. Adasina Social …
Dealflow | December 12, 2022
Varaha scores $4 million to help smallholder farmers create nature-based carbon credits
ImpactAlpha, December 12 — Gurugram-based Varaha has raised $4 million in a seed financing round backed by Omnivore, RTP Global, Better Capital and …
The Brief | November 30, 2022
The Brief: Exiting to employees, TPG enters carbon market, accountability in healthcare investing, insurance for gig workers, chemical-free crop treatment
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Alt-Capital Through ‘ownership trusts,’ investors can help employees become owners and help owners retire. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s …
Good Jobs | November 30, 2022
Igloo raises $46 million to provide insurance for gig economy workers in Southeast Asia
ImpactAlpha, November 30 — In Southeast Asia, insurance coverage as a benefit for employees is a luxury most small and even medium-sized businesses …
Impact Investing | November 30, 2022
TPG seeds Rubicon Carbon’s carbon marketplace with $300 million
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 30 – Private equity giant TPG is the latest player to tackle the opportunity – and challenge – of buying and …
Institutional Impact | November 22, 2022
Beware of paper billionaires bearing gifts, and other lessons of the FTX implosion
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, contributes a bi-weekly column on the policies, practices and strategies of the …
ImpactAlpha Open | November 15, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: ESG after the midterms + muni impact
TGIT, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open. Three quick announcements: 🎮 Impact: The video game. ImpactAlpha has partnered with E-Line Media and the Ford Foundation to explore the potential of …
The Brief | November 11, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Deliver
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Take a moment to thank a vet on this Veterans Day. 🗣 Unfinished business. We launched The Brief the …
The Brief | November 10, 2022
The Brief: Impact: the video game, emerging markets’ energy transition, regenerative ranching, telemedicine in India, Web3 for climate impact
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🎮 Impact: The video game. ImpactAlpha has partnered with E-Line Media and Ford Foundation to explore the potential of …
Impact Voices | November 10, 2022
How Web3 can shift power to the climate-vulnerable
Innovative financial services and blockchain/Web3 solutions are a passport to greater climate resilience, writes Scott Onder, Mercy Corps’ chief investment officer
The Brief | November 3, 2022
The Brief: Keeping fossil fuels in the ground, climate tech pipeline, microfinance exit in Honduras, Indigenous-led waste recycling, impact-linked compensation
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Stranded Assets A new kind of carbon credit incentivizes fossil fuel producers to ‘keep it in the ground.’ …
Impact Investing | November 3, 2022
A new kind of carbon credit incentivizes fossil fuel producers to ‘keep it in the ground’
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – ‘Keep it in the ground’ has long been a rallying cry for climate activists. A new company is creating …
Impact Investing | October 20, 2022
Dealmakers seize the return of SOCAP to move capital toward impact
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 20 – Tired: talking. Wired: doing. Impact fund managers and startup founders, placement agents and headhunters worked the halls and terraces of …
The Brief | October 20, 2022
The Brief: Dealmaking at SOCAP, forestry in Africa, EV manufacturing in the U.S., clean energy infrastructure in Europe, disrupting development finance
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: SOCAP Dispatch Dealmakers seize the return of SOCAP to move capital toward impact. Tired: talking. Wired: doing. Impact …
Climate Finance | October 18, 2022
Rockefeller Foundation’s new climate strategy: A Q&A with Thomas Belazis
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 18 – In late July, The Rockefeller Foundation announced a major shift: it would make climate central to everything it does. …
ImpactAlpha Open | October 11, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: Impact funds hit $1 trillion, VCs ♥️ ESG, and more
TGIT, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open, your trusted source for must-read news and actionable intelligence on the impact economy. Some politicians are trying …
The Brief | October 7, 2022
The Week in impact investing: Gateways
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a Brief break for Monday’s U.S. holiday. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, Oct. 11. …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 27, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: Making markets for women – and the world
Hi there, Agents of Impact – welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha Open. I’d like to share a special invitation to tomorrow’s subscriber-only Agents of Impact call, “Creative …