Virta Ventures goes ‘equity-light’ to raise $9 million for early-stage climate tech
A depth of operating experience and angel investing experience helped Virta’s Russell Sprole raise his first fund in a tough market for climate …
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Newlab's New Climate Futures event at Brooklyn Navy Yard
The New York model for how cities can build robust climate tech innovation ecosystems
New York was a climate innovation desert when SecondMuse first started working with the New York City Economic Development Corp. in 2017. Real …
This week in impact is New York Climate Week
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week, some of the take-aways from the week, including: …
Scaling climate adaptation
When Jay Koh two years ago raised $186 million for a venture fund dedicated to climate adaptation and resilience, it was one of …
Acumen's Amrita Bhandari
Carbon markets fall short as a climate solution, but go far in financing sustainable development
The voluntary market for carbon credits has been haunted by low quality projects and greenwashing. Prices for the credits, which enable companies to …
Female founders power climate entrepreneurship in Latin America
Biodegradable plastics made from invasive sargassum. Seaweed-based biofibers to decarbonize global fashion. Water-insulated panels and nature-based construction materials. Women-led companies from Mexico to …
Identifying climate solutions can unlock finance for low-carbon growth
“We can halve emissions by 2030.” That’s what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded two years ago. The Exponential Roadmap had arrived …
Third Sphere's Shaun Abrahamson
Needed: Climate tech exits to keep the ‘circular capital economy’ spinning
All over New York City, climate tech startups are pitching solutions and fund managers are courting LPs. But for all the excitement around …
City First’s Oswaldo Acosta on the leading role of CDFIs in the green transition
All CDFIs are green banks now. Community Development Financial Institutions, or CDFIs, have long been local heroes, providing financial services to historically underserved …
ImpactAlpha’s David Bank speaks with Mosun Layode of African Philanthropy Forum and Cilia Holmes Indahl of EQT Foundation at the MIT Solve Challenge Finals at Climate Week NYC | Photo: Cesar Chavez
Talk of the town: Live updates from Climate Week NYC
ImpactAlpha is on the ground at Climate Week NYC. Here’s what’s happening and what caught our eye.
Photo credit: Aerones, a Blume Equity portfolio company
These six women-led funds are capitalizing the commercialization of climate tech
There was no old boys network to break into in the growth stage of climate tech investing when the women at Blume Equity …
How climate change is making your groceries more expensive
A few months ago, I was in a meeting with a representative from the National Confectioners Association to discuss the removal of lead …
Cheat Sheet: Finding the alpha at Climate Week NYC
Once a side event to the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York, Climate Week NYC, kicking off on Sunday, has now …
Photo: Visions of the Future, Dumbo Arts Festival, 2014, Brooklyn, NY. By Anjali Deshmukh and made possible by Ernest Verrett with support from Dumbo Arts Festival. Photo by Chasi Annexy.
Taking Climate Week out of conference rooms and into the street
Jackson Heights is an majority BIPOC community where over 150 languages are spoken, a microcosm of global communities that are currently bearing the …
Elemental's Dawn Lippert
With a fresh $100 million and rebrand, Elemental Impact aims to accelerate climate tech deployments
Elemental Impact — the Honolulu-based nonprofit formerly known as Elemental Excelerator — has received a $100 million slug of funds from the Coalition …