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Emerging and Growth Markets | April 22, 2020
Survey of emerging markets capital managers aims to shape COVID solutions for small businesses
ImpactAlpha, April 22 – Local providers of equity and debt capital in emerging markets have become “economic first responders” to small and growing …
Beats | April 15, 2020
The Sustainable Investing Challenge has become a leading indicator of talent and ideas
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 15 – MBA programs generally teach students what’s achievable using common investment tools like venture capital, private equity and debt. Business (and …
The Brief | April 10, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Forgivable
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a “brief” break on Monday. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, Apr. 14. Keep the …
The Brief | April 9, 2020
The Brief: CDFIs in action, African Development Bank’s $10 billion plan, at-home medical exams, mitigating systemic financial risks
Greetings, Agents of Impacts! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original How community banks and local lenders are bridging racial gaps in COVID recovery. While many big …
Catalytic Capital | April 8, 2020
Inter-American Development Bank issues $2 billion bond for COVID relief
ImpactAlpha, April 29 – The Inter-American Development Bank has issued a $2 billion, five-year bond as part of its $12 billion COVID relief …
Beats | April 8, 2020
Professor Perspectives: Deploying bridge loans, pay-for-success and other creative responses to the COVID-19 crisis
The economic and community-level impacts of the global COVID-19 epidemic continue to reveal themselves layer by layer. Many of the impact sector’s most …
The Brief | April 8, 2020
The Brief: Jack Dorsey’s impact LLC, LatAm COVID bond, corona-tech progress, restoration hydro, return of Keystone XL, finance profs talk pandemic responses
Greetings, Agents of Impacts! Dealflow: Follow the Money Square’s (and Twitter’s) Jack Dorsey commits $1 billion for COVID, girls education and UBI. The …
The Brief | April 7, 2020
The Brief: Responsive capital for small and growing businesses, Visa Foundation’s gender lens, farmers-to-market in India, keeping impact on track
Greetings, Agents of Impacts! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Needed: Responsive, aggregated and accessible capital for (once) growing businesses in Africa, Asia and Latin America …
Emerging and Growth Markets | April 7, 2020
Needed: Responsive, aggregated and accessible capital for (once-) growing businesses in emerging markets
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 6 – A viable company is a terrible thing to waste. A whole generation of otherwise cashflow-positive small and growing ventures …
The Brief | April 3, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Essential
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s new weekly podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Jessica Pothering about flattening the curve of small and growing business failures in …
The Brief | March 20, 2020
The Week in impact investing: OMG
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s newest podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about emergency small business bridge loans and David Bank reveals this week’s Agent of …
The Brief | March 19, 2020
The Brief: ImpactAlpha U, Main Street bridge loans, Nature Conservancy’s new CEO, GSG postponed
Greetings, Agents of Impacts! Impact voices. We’re updating our running post, “Resilience and disruption: Agents of Impact share lessons from the pandemic,” with …
Beats | March 19, 2020
ImpactAlpha U: Training a new generation of MBAs to reshape business and finance
March 19, 2020 – Campuses are closed, but ImpactAlpha U was in session last week. Faculty and students from dozens of MBA and …
The Brief | March 13, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Resilience
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Thanks to all of you who turned out for yesterday’s Call No. 13. We’ll post a roundup of ImpactAlpha …
Africa | February 5, 2020
Call No. 12: How local early-stage funders are finding impact alpha in emerging markets
ImpactAlpha, February 5 – Small and growing businesses are the pillars of local economies, in both developed and developing economies. Startups are engines …
The Brief | February 5, 2020
The Brief: Impact alpha in emerging markets, $1B for sustainable infrastructure-as-a-service, consolidating ESG data, reshaping finance
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Call No. 12 Capital on the Frontier: How local, early-stage funds find impact alpha in …
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The Reconstruction | January 31, 2020
Centering Blackness in the U.S. economic recovery and reconstruction in 2021
The period after the Civil War was a time of great ferment, division – and systemic change. Today’s confluence of pandemic, division and …
Dealflow | November 14, 2019
Reskilling frontline workers, Guild Education becomes a B Corp unicorn
ImpactAlpha, November 14 – Denver-based Guild Education helps companies invest in workers who keep sales and operations rolling in storefronts and on factory …
The Brief | November 8, 2019
The Week in impact investing: Climate wake-up call
TGIF, Agents of Impact! ImpactAlpha’s system upgrade. You asked. We answered. We’re upgrading the subscriber user-experience and refreshing our website. We’ll have details and (simple) …
The Brief | November 6, 2019
The Brief: Faith-based investing call, fund raises in the Netherlands and New Zealand, SEC clips shareholder advocates
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Faith-based institutions answer The Call for impact investing (audio). On ImpactAlpha’s Call No. 11, Agents of …
Features | November 6, 2019
Faith-based institutions answer The Call for impact investing
Audio recording of ImpactAlpha Call No. 11: Faith and investing: ImpactAlpha, Nov. 6 – On ImpactAlpha’s Call No. 11, Agents of Impact aligned with …
Gender Smart | October 17, 2019
Gender-Smart Investing: More than two dozen new funds investing with a gender lens
ImpactAlpha, October 17 – I’m getting calls regularly from people who are starting new funds or who want to reshape the funds they …
The Brief | August 14, 2019
The Brief: Cleantech rebound, financing drugs for neglected diseases, fintech for gig workers, Agents of Impact call recap
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Cleantech venture capital rebounds with smarter, more patient investors.A contrarian story is emerging in cleantech venture …
Call Recording | August 14, 2019
Call No. 10: Calling trends and scooping ideas in ImpactAlpha’s newsroom
ImpactAlpha, April 14 – Don’t refer to conventional finance as ‘mainstream,’ ImpactAlpha’s David Bank said on The Call earlier this month. Call it ‘legacy …
The Brief | August 2, 2019
ImpactAlpha’s Big 5: Quality jobs, resistance to revival, summer dealflow, Agent of Impact Kristina Newman-Scott, themes and memes
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Take five. It was great to see so many Agents of Impact on yesterday’s Call, in which we aired …
The Brief | June 7, 2019
The Brief’s Big 9: ESG at Goldman Sachs, women and entrepreneurship, listening better, restoring reefs, family values
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Infect the hosts. Skepticism is appropriate when big Wall Street banks claim to be sustainable and impact investors. Goldman …
The Brief | June 3, 2019
Recapping Call No. 9, treating chronic disease in Africa, managing student debt in the U.S., smart place-based investing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Agents of Impact Call No. 9: Impact investors move “beyond trade-offs” (audio). “There’s no one right …
Beyond Trade-offs | June 3, 2019
Call No. 9: Impact investors move “beyond trade-offs”
ImpactAlpha, June 3 – The early days of impact investing were all about proving that you didn’t have to sacrifice financial returns to do …
The Brief | April 23, 2019
Advice for advisors recap, tilapia in Zambia, charter-school finance in Atlanta, accelerating impact in Latin America
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Agents of Impact Call No. 8: Financial advisors spill their secrets of sustainable investing (audio). Financial …
Agents of Impact | April 23, 2019
Call No. 8: Financial advisors spill their secrets of sustainable investing
ImpactAlpha, April 23 – Financial advisors are transforming themselves into “agents of impact” in order to deepen their relationships with existing clients, build their …
The Brief | March 18, 2019
Techstars impact, SF Foundation’s $50 million mandate, professional women unite, reclaiming the impact narrative
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Techstars looks for startups to help mitigate mounting social and environmental risks. The new new thing …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | March 18, 2019
Whispr secures early funding for app to support deskless workers
ImpactAlpha, March 18 – Workplace startups are mostly geared towards desk workers – think think Zoom, Slack or Trello. Copenhagen-based Whispr wants to change that …
Gender Smart | March 7, 2019
Women are leading the way – in about 30% of ImpactAlpha’s dealflow
ImpactAlpha, March 7 – Let’s give an International Women’s Day shout-out to the women who, pardon the expression, get shit done. As ImpactAlpha’s …
The Brief | February 12, 2019
Contrarian take on Opportunity Zones, entrepreneurs of color, global goals in Latin America, underwriting and optimizing impact
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Bobby Turner: Successful Opportunity Zone investments will pull people up, not push them out. The former …
Call Recording | February 12, 2019
Underwriting – and optimizing – for impact on Call No. 7
ImpactAlpha, February 12 – Limited partners are demanding more rigorous impact underwriting by fund managers. Successful projects also require ongoing impact management. On …
Creative Economy | February 12, 2019
Acumen’s Latin America fund backs Peruvian skills startup Crehana
ImpactAlpha, February 11 – Acumen-backed Acumen Latam Capital Partners (ALCP) has invested in Lima-based Crehana, a startup that offers low-cost online training in …
The Brief | February 4, 2019
Gender-lens declaration, agtech in India, healthtech in Nigeria, BP’s climate concession, Agents of Impact in Mexico
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Gathering Agents of Impact in Mérida, Mexico. The Latin America Impact Investing Forum gathers this month on the Yucatán …
The Brief | January 7, 2019
New day for Agents of Impact, Bain’s double healthcare impact, Lyme’s $300 million timber fund, 15+ new job openings around the world
Greetings, Agents of Impact, and welcome back to The Brief. Our takeaway from the holiday break: A movement is breaking out. We are …
Agents of Impact | January 7, 2019
Call No. 6: A new year, and a new day, for Agents of Impact
Something changed in 2018. For years, Caprock Group’s Matthew Weatherley-White has found families and institutional investors ‘skeptical but interested’ in impact investing. In …
Dealflow | January 7, 2019
Bain Capital’s Double Impact acquires HealthDrive to improve long-term care
ImpactAlpha, January 7 – Bain Capital’s Double Impact fund marked its second investment in health services with its acquisition of Wellesley, Mass.-based firm …
The Brief | December 21, 2018
The Impact Alpha: Year in Review. Standout stories, smart series, popular podcasts, All-star Agents of Impact
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! Ring out the old, ring in the new. We kicked off the week with a few lines from Tennyson’s “Ring …
Inclusive Economy | December 19, 2018
Ring out, wild bells: The Year in Impact Alpha
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,” Alfred Lord Tennyson advises (listen above and see below). Wild bells were indeed ringing during …
Gender Smart | December 19, 2018
The Gender Alpha: Year in Review
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! The Gender Alpha If the cascade of #MeToo revelations and heightened awareness of continuing gender inequities raised the questions, gender-lens …
The Brief | December 7, 2018
The Brief’s Big 8: Impact in a recession, alternative capital, cookie-cutter products, adaptation finance, Agent of Impact Paul Polman
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! President George H.W. Bush, impact investor. There’s a lineage from the late president’s 1988 “thousand points of light” speech; through …
The Brief | December 4, 2018
Six sources of gender alpha, ride-hailing in informal markets, U.K. community-impact fund, biotech in Japan,, Shell’s climate commitment
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Six sources of ‘gender alpha’ and other takeaways from Agents of Impact Call No. 5 (audio). There’s …