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Impact Investing | January 19, 2022
Institutional Shift: ‘Net-zero’ becomes ‘uh-oh’ and other sustainability trends to watch in 2022 (podcast)
Getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions is going to mean a deep re-engineering of every industry, every corporation, every community, Equilibrium Capital’s Dave …
The Brief | January 19, 2022
The Brief: Institutional shifts (podcast), revenue-based financing in Mexico, e-scooters in Taiwan, small farms in India, Larry Fink’s conventional wisdom
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Institutional Shift ‘Net-zero’ becomes ‘uh-oh’ and other sustainability trends to watch in 2022 (podcast). Getting to net-zero greenhouse …
Emerging and Growth Markets | November 19, 2021
Call No. 34: How tech innovation is bridging gaps in small business financing in emerging markets
ImpactAlpha, November 19 – The boom in African fintech startups began before COVID-19. The economic shutdowns and financial dislocations of the pandemic supercharged …
The Brief | November 19, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Convergence
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Connecting the dots. Climate commitments. Conscious consumers. Technology disruptions. And more capital committed to equity and inclusion. The …
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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 …
The Brief | November 15, 2021
The Brief: Finding a sustainable bank, decarbonization tech, anaerobic digesters, revenue-based financing, carbon-market rules
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 🌍 Tomorrow’s Call: The disruption in small business financing in emerging markets. Enterprise software. Crowdfunding. Fintech. Crypto. A new …
The Brief | November 12, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Consensus
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Going exponential. We tend to overestimate change in the short-term and underestimate change in the long-term. That truism comes …
Emerging and Growth Markets | November 10, 2021
African startups develop crypto tools for inclusive prosperity
ImpactAlpha, November 10 – Nelly Chatue-Diop was a teenager in 1994 when her family lost much of their savings overnight with the devaluation …
The Brief | November 10, 2021
The Brief: Africa’s crypto boom, electrifying commercial fleets, equitable economic growth, new climate funds, rising carbon markets
Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call: The tech disruption of small business financing. Traditional financial institutions see informal and small businesses in emerging …
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The Brief | October 28, 2021
The Brief: Regeneration in practice, Just Climate, Fifty Years, Black vision fund, India’s smallholder farmers, carbon management, fixing blended finance
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Regeneration Embracing regenerative practices to restore climate and community. Take a deep breath. We’re 60 years into an …
Fifty Years' Ela Madej and Seth Bannon
Impact Tech | October 27, 2021
Fifty Years raises $90 million for high-impact bets on deep tech
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 27 – San Francisco-based venture firm Fifty Years’ early bets on “deep tech” include chemical decarbonization firm Solugen, now valued at …
The Brief | September 24, 2021
The Week in impact investing: The Great Unf**kening
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Dead serious. If you don’t like our language, you’ll really hate comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s take on the state of …
The Brief | September 22, 2021
The Brief: Inclusive creator economy, streaming Audius, Bezos’ Earth funding, banking Egyptian workers, cellular meat, planet forward, China rethinks coal
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👏 Optimizing for impact. This is going to be big. Hundreds of Agents of Impact have signed up for …
Creative Economy | September 22, 2021
Investment opportunities in expanding access and ownership in the creator economy
The creator economy is a burgeoning new segment for all investors – art-lovers or not – who want to drive impact through quality …
The Brief | August 27, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Decentralized
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Things fall apart. This week’s message from educator and social entrepreneur Sakena Yacoobi offered a bit of counter-programming …
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Inclusive Economy | August 24, 2021
Artists are startups and creators CEOs as technology decentralizes the creative economy
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 24 – Musicians, actors, artists and other “creators” are getting creative about reaping the economic gains of their influence and turning their …
The Brief | August 24, 2021
The Brief: Artists as startups, financial access in Ghana, long-duration batteries, Bridges’ impact exits, farm carbon, innovate Alabama
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Creative Economy Artists are startups and creators CEOs as technology decentralizes the creative economy. Musicians, actors, artists and …
The Brief | June 29, 2021
The Brief: Fiduciary duty to Africa, consolidating impact managers, back to work in America, conservation in Peru, voting rights for small shareholders
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on The Call: Capitalism Reimagined. Today’s Agents of Impact Call will take up the challenge of “Rewriting rules …
Cusco, Peru
Dealflow | June 29, 2021
Land Accelerator gets a worm’s eye view of Peru’s conservation entrepreneurs
ImpactAlpha, June 29 — Blockchain forestry. Water “planting.” New superfoods. Twenty-five entrepreneurs participated in World Resources Institute’s second country-specific Land Accelerator program, called …
The Brief | June 18, 2021
The Week in impact investing: Juneteenth
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Independence day. This three-day weekend may have caught you by surprise, but the first federal Juneteenth holiday was a …
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The Brief | May 18, 2021
The Brief: Shareholder flex, Ulu’s Latino-led fund, decarbonizing buildings, refurbished electronics, banking Egyptians, greener crypto
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Finance Shareholders flex their muscles as drama builds for a showdown at ExxonMobil. Slowly and then all …
Climate Finance | May 18, 2021
Bitcoin’s energy consumption has crypto investors seeking green alternatives
ImpactAlpha, May 18 – Elon Musk sent the cryptocurrency world reeling last week when he backpedaled on Tesla’s offer to accept Bitcoin as payment …
The Brief | March 19, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: The crowd
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Madness and wisdom. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, broke into the public consciousness last week when a digital version of …
The Brief | March 3, 2021
The Brief: Net-zero water, principled voting, end of Indie.vc, southern resilience, vegan startups, Kenyan artisans, rolling impact tech fund
Featured: Net-zero means water, too, for corporations serious about climate risk
The Brief | February 17, 2021
The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 27: Opportunities at the intersection of gender and climate. GenderSmart’s Suzanne Biegel joins ImpactAlpha’s …
Climate Finance | February 17, 2021
Farmers harvest ‘soil carbon’ to meet rising corporate demand for emission offsets
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 17 – Candidates in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Iowa were asked in a televised debate to cite the clearing …
The Brief | February 10, 2021
The Brief: Due diligence 2.0, overlooked founders, sustainable SPACs, green wall in Africa, mobile health in Bangladesh, stashing corporate cash
Featured: How unlikely partners came together to fight racial bias in asset allocation
Mural of Frederick Douglass, Winston-Salem, N.C.
The Brief | February 5, 2021
The Week in Impact Investing: Leadership
Featured: The Week’s Agent of Impact, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development economist
The Brief | February 3, 2021
The Brief: Climate-smart boards, net-zero electrofuels, inclusive fintech in Africa, supply chains in Brazil, Carmen Rojas on The Reconstruction
Featured: Corporate boards are not leading companies where they need to go
Climework's 'Orca' carbon cature plant in Iceland is expected to begin operating later this year.
Climate Finance | February 2, 2021
Microsoft emerges as a major customer for captured carbon
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 2 – The software giant paid an average of $20 per ton for up 1.3 million metric tons of carbon removal …
The Brief | February 2, 2021
The Brief: The Reconstruction podcast, lab-grown chicken, Backstage crowdfunding, sustainable rolling funds, Microsoft’s carbon capture
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: The Reconstruction The moment when everything was possible… is now (podcast). The presidential election just finished had a …
Climate Finance | January 27, 2021
Larry Fink’s corporate net-zero mandate pushes carbon markets mainstream
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 27 – Think all those corporate 2050 net-zero pledges are nothing but hot air? The price of carbon credits in voluntary …
The Brief | January 27, 2021
The Brief: Larry Fink’s net-zero mandate, catalyzing economic opportunity in India, solar fintech SPAC, guaranteeing small biz lending in West Africa
Featured: Larry Fink’s corporate net-zero mandate pushes carbon markets mainstream
The Brief | December 18, 2020
The Brief: Institutional shift lookahead, solar irrigation in Togo, microfinance in America, waste-picking robots, lab-made milk, Biden’s climate agents
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Year-end bonus. In lieu of our usual Friday roundup, we bring you the fifth in this week’s series of …
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The Brief | December 16, 2020
The Brief: Racial justice lookahead, equitable path forward, liquidity for lenders, affordable residential solar, microbial engineering
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 26: Looking ahead to 2021. New year, new possibilities. With our year-end roundups behind …
The Brief | December 8, 2020
The Brief: Activist hedge funds, climate fintechs, impact benchmarks and classes, SoLa’s Black Impact Fund, Latin America’s gig workers
Featured: There’s a new impact sheriff in town: activist hedge funds
Impact Tech | December 8, 2020
Can fintech startups combat climate change?
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 8 – Financial technology has transformed how we pay for things, invest, raise money, and assess risk. A new focus: making …
Clean Energy | September 29, 2020
Eight climate finance innovations that can help accelerate a green recovery
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 29 – Innovation in climate finance is critical; with a global COVID pandemic raging, it’s doubly so. Eight new financial solutions …
Beats | August 19, 2020
Yes, impact investments can reduce the threat of nuclear weapons
Unimaginable catastrophes can and do happen if we don’t work to prevent them. Climate change, COVID-19 and, most recently, the accidental detonation of …
The Brief | August 19, 2020
The Brief: Investing in nuclear threat reduction, real estate + small business finance, social justice startups, Acumen’s solar exit, agri-investing in Africa
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Yes, impact investments can reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. If you thought climate action or, …
Walking the Talk | June 17, 2020
Erika Karp: How I have invested in the road less traveled
It feels like a hundred years ago that I first walked onto the vast trading floor of one of the world’s largest global …
The Brief | June 11, 2020
The Brief: Today’s Call, spectrum of justice, barbershop tech, philanthropy’s COVID bonds, crowd-financing community solar, Nestlé vs. Danone
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Zoom into The Call. How are emerging markets investors safeguarding impact in the COVID crisis? On today’s Agents of Impact …
Inclusive Economy | May 27, 2020
10 ways to redesign venture finance for a more inclusive post-COVID world
Impact investing was created to revolutionize capital markets. Instead, we are replicating them. This needs to change. The good news is, the structures …
Beats | April 29, 2020
‘Enterprise PPE’ and ‘financial vaccines’ for COVID’s economic pandemic
It’s time to shift some attention from fighting the current crisis to fighting the crisis that is fast upon us. I’m not arguing …