True Balance closes $23 million to expand mobile payments to rural India

The Gurgaon and Seoul-based startup offers utility payments, small loans and insurance products, like “mosquito insurance,” to India's prepaid mobile phone users.

Q&A with IFC’s Neil Gregory: A deadline looms for transparency in impact investing

Scaling impact investing with integrity requires, well, integrity. The International Finance Corp. has a plan for that.

Clean Energy Ventures closes $110 million first fund for early energy tech

The Boston-based venture capital firm will use its first fund to scale up its investment capabilities and build the clean energy pipeline for later-stage investors.

The Brief: Farewell to Paul Polak, IFC’s Neil Gregory, de-risking cleantech, affordable lab-grown meats, sustainability-linked loans, climate-smart in Africa

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Climate-smart private equity investors take leadership in Africa

Rather than viewing climate change as a threat, Africa’s investors should view it through the prism of opportunity, Michelle Kathryn Essomé, CEO of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Future Meat and Wild Type raise Series A funding for clean, lab-grown meats

Both companies are part of a hot “alternative protein” market promising to deliver more sustainable, cruelty-free proteins to feed a growing planet.

Agent of Impact: John O’Shaughnessy, Franciscan Sisters of Mary

John O’Shaughnessy walked away from his first Social Capital Markets, or SOCAP, conference with a sense of shared values with impact investors in attendance. "This was our community, faith-based or not,” he told ImpactAlpha. "It didn’t, quite frankly, matter.”