The Brief: Catalyzing climate finance in India, biodigesters in Cambodia and Bangladesh, Kenya’s rural Amazon, student-led impact funds

Featured: "Catalyzing finance for climate action in India: A Q&A with Tata Trusts’ Shloka Nath"

Will impact investing be swimming naked when the tide goes out? (podcast)

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The Brief: Impact in a downturn (podcast), impact-linked loan, peer-to-peer in Indonesian, edtech in Nigeria, blue bonds

Featured: Will impact investing be swimming naked when the tide goes out? (podcast)

Australia’s IIG backs Xceptional with impact-linked loan

The more social impact Australian employment startup Xceptional has, the less it has to repay on an A$600,000 loan.

The Brief: Revenue-based financing, Cloudfactory’s Nepal play, a community bank’s Opportunity Fund, climate-smart rice bond

Featured: "As unicorns stumble, investors warm to revenue-based financing for ‘zebras’ and ‘Clydesdales.’"

Financing climate-smart rice

Production of the staple commodity that feeds 3.5 billion people needs a radical overhaul to reduce emissions and build resiliency to climate change.

CloudFactory raises $65 million, providing a partial exit for Dolma Impact

It took four years for Dolma Impact Fund to raise its first fund in Nepal, and only took two years to achieve its first exit.