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Misfits Market raises $200 million to sell 'ugly' fruits and vegetables. The raise brings funding for the New Jersey-based food startup to $301.5 million and pushes its valuation north of $1 billion. Misfits multiplied its customer based and order volume by five last year, shipping 44 millions pounds of food. In January, its food reuse peer Imperfect Foods raised $95 million. Investors are eyeing the $14 billion annual investment opportunity in halving U.S. food waste. Accel and D1 Capital led Misfits' round. Valor Equity Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Sound Ventures, Third Kind Ventures and others also participated.
Fifteen startups offer solutions for land restoration in Latin America. Latin America a testing ground for innovative environmental financing and business solutions: Lending incentives supporting smallholder farmers. Partnerships with Indigenous communities on forest restoration. Carbon credits for Amazon restoration. And pay-for-success forest conservation. Fifteen entrepreneurs in the first Latin American cohort of the World Resources Institute’s Land Accelerator are rolling out solutions to restore 50 million hectares by 2030 (see, “Land Accelerator helps close financing gap for African soil startups”).
ISF Advisors is hiring a project manager and an investment associate… Lowercarbon Capital seeks a synthetic biology associate… Great Lakes Protection Fund is looking for a project development manager in Evanston, Ill.
ImpactAlpha, March 1 – Capital is flowing to climate solutions. Climate bonds have topped $1 trillion. SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies are …
ImpactAlpha, January 6 — A few of the keywords thrown around on last month’s Agents of Impact Call No. 26: accountability, electrification, institutional, …
What: The Call No. 25: Gender-smart investing for a sustainable recovery Join SME.NG’s Thelma Ekiyor, Trade Depot’s Onyekachi Izukanne, Development Partners International’s Takudzwa Mutasa, Alitheia’s Temilade Denton, …
The people and principles needed to solve the challenges of financing solar power for frontline health clinics were represented on ImpactAlpha’s Agents of …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – What got us here won’t get us where we need to go. Guidelines that govern global finance need to …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate …
It’s long past time to get political. Impact investing, with appeal on both the left and the right, has generally steered clear of …
“It’s a great time for new entrants, but for those of us who’ve been doing this for a while it is equally urgent to raise our game right and to not get complacent,” said Margot Brandenburg of the Ford Foundation.
ImpactAlpha, Jun 24 – The action in climate action is shifting to infrastructure. Driven by falling price curves for renewables, mispriced risk, and …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 4 – A disruptive technology has to be 10 times better than what it’s replacing. Tech venture capitalists aim to recoup …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – The first annual assessments of impact investors are coming in under the International Finance Corporation’s Operating Principles for Impact …
ImpactAlpha, February 5 – Small and growing businesses are the pillars of local economies, in both developed and developing economies. Startups are engines …
ImpactAlpha, April 19 — The case for breaking down philanthropy’s historical divide between the investment side of the house and a foundation’s mission …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 16 – In this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh takes stock of two of the premier showcases for student talent in impact …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 13 – Institutional investors took awhile “to get comfortable with the fact that we were going to process manure and urine and …
ImpactAlpha, April 12 – Tiffany Manuel’s handbooks for social change warn about messaging “backfires.” These days, she’s wielding such tools to overcome backlash. …
Host Monique Aiken speaks with B Lab’s Andrew Kassoy about why impact-driven businesses and investors are stepping up their policy advocacy.
Host Brian Walsh dissects former BlackRock exec Tariq Fancy’s recent takedown of ESG investing with roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank.
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 29 – Money managers at the world’s sovereign wealth and pension funds and university and foundation endowments seek to optimize portfolios to …
Jessica Pothering joins host Monique Aiken to discuss how African entrepreneurs are stepping up with tech solutions to the continent’s challenges.
Host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about regulation crowdfunding’s big week, and we hear from Republic’s Ken Nguyen and Wefunder’s Jonny Price.
Host Monique Aiken, Erika Seth-Davies of The Racial Equity Asset Lab and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank join to talk about the American Rescue Plan and… a bottom-up reconstruction.
Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Common Future, gets personal in conversation with host Monique Aiken in the latest episode in The Reconstruction, …
Host Brian Walsh discusses the big private equity funds looking to make a splash in impact with roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank.
The increased investor attention to racism and the inequality laid bare by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has intersected, at long last, with the …
For us at Illumen Capital, the echoes of history are never far from the work at hand. We know we can only begin …
In what feels like a lifetime ago, way back in 2015, I was working as a consultant to investors interested in sustainability and …
For any investor who has initiated a conversation about a company gender diversity, particularly in the boardroom, does any of this sound familiar? …
The time is now for the impact investing sector to reflect on how it does business, how it frames success, and begin to …
Can community development financial institutions be anti-racist? Don’t answer too quickly. For those familiar with the history of CDFIs, specifically created to align …
Miami Re-Investing in the Small-Business Economy, or RISE, is en route to disburse $18 million in low-interest loans to nearly 1,000 truly small …
The ban on offering snacks and water to people waiting in line to vote that was just passed into law in Georgia really …
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ImpactAlpha, March 24 – Field drones. Harvesting robots. Big Data-driven farm insights. Innovative technological applications in agriculture can have a profound impact on farmers’ …
The recent events at Danone have raised critical questions about the evolution of capitalism. Activist hedge funds, stating a concern for maximizing shareholder …
When Merck’s Ken Frazier last December announced the OneTen initiative, a coalition of 37 CEOs that aims to close the opportunity gap for …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 16 – Women make up eight of nine graduate students on the winning teams at last week’s Turner MIINT competition and Kellogg-Morgan …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 9 – The entrepreneur and investor’s answer to systemic economic exclusion of Black, Indigenous and other people of color: Build an ecosystem …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 2 – The co-founders of South Los Angeles-based electric-vehicle charging repair startup ChargerHelp could be on a poster for the Biden administration’s …
ImpactAlpha, March 26 – Venture capitalists love to invest in disruption. Arlan Hamitlon is disrupting venture capital. She created Backstage Capital in 2015 …
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 12 – At 31, Brian Deese helped plan and execute then-President Obama’s auto industry bailout. As the White House’s top climate official …
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 5 – Seven-time entrepreneur-turned-investor Kim Folsom is seeking to bridge a massive gap: financing for the millions of U.S. businesses that don’t …
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – There was no heat in the building in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where Baird grew up, so he and his sister …
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 19 – The former Hollywood super agent spotted a disconnect. Those green-lighting movies and TV didn’t represent the diverse audiences consuming them. …
Goldman Sachs’ commitment this week of $130 million in credit to Jackson, Miss.-based Hope was the latest, and one of the largest, shows …
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 5 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has a warning for nations prioritizing self-interest in their pandemic responses: “No one in the world can be …
If putting a price on carbon is the key to getting to net-zero, Bill Winters – with an assist from Mark Carney – …
In a star-studded inauguration featuring Lady Gaga and J-Lo, the 22-year old poet stole the spotlight at president Joe Biden’s inauguration. Accolades poured …