ImpactAlpha, November 29 – The Evercare Health Fund, managed by TPG Rise since the liquidation of the troubled Abraaj Group in 2019, has sold its …
ImpactAlpha, September 28 – Career impact bonds finance vocational training with the kind of income-share agreements offered by an increasing number of universities …
ImpactAlpha, February 4 – TPG Growth is acquiring a controlling stake in the hospital operator via its Evercare Health Fund, the $1 billion …
ImpactAlpha, November 19 – Inefficiency and lack of transparency in the medical supply chain are obstacles to affordable and quality healthcare in India. …
ImpactAlpha, November 4 – There’s growing recognition that an individual’s health isn’t merely influenced by germs or genes. Issues like financial stability and …
ImpactAlpha, August 28 – Five years after closing its first, $300 million healthcare fund, Singapore-based Quadria Capital is looking to raise up to …
An innovative financing mechanism for drugs for neglected diseases is providing a return for impact investors. Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical giant, disclosed …
ImpactAlpha, March 14 – Africa Healthcare Network (AHN) runs a network of low-cost dialysis clinics for kidney patients in Rwanda and Tanzania. It has raised …
ImpactAlpha, March 12 – The Chicago-based startup has developed an app to help people manage their employer health benefits packages. Its Series B funding round …
The Global Health Investment Fund is nearly fully invested after leading a $10 million round of financing for a Menlo Park, Calif., company …
California-based Evolve BioSystems is making a probiotic nutritional supplement for infants to fight child malnutrition. Evolve’s basis for the product, called Evivo, is research …
ImpactAlpha, May 21 – Andy Slavitt, who headed the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services under President Obama, will lead a new health care fund, …
Cancer claims around 700,000 lives in India each year. The figure is expected to climb to 1.2 million by 2035 owing to changing lifestyles …
Bridges Fund Management has taken a majority stake in healthy school-meal provider Innovate Services. Innovate caters healthy meals to 90,000 primary and secondary …
Apollo Hospitals, a private Indian hospital chain, is investing $5 million in a seed fund for health and medical tech startups. The company …
Novoron Bioscience was founded by neuroscientist Travis Stiles to develop therapies for central nervous system disorders like multiple sclerosis. The company has been …
Singapore’s $275 billion state-owned investment fund made an undisclosed equity investment in Clinica SIM, a chain of low-cost health clinics in northeastern Brazil, …
With Dennis Price Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is continuing to track the fallout from the dispute over the Abraaj Group’s finances. Among the developments since …
ERC offers affordable eye care to low-income patients in Northeast India through hospitals in Assam. India faces a shortage of eyecare specialists, making access …
IPETH trains low- and middle-income Mexicans to become physical therapists, while offering inexpensive physical therapy services to the poor. To date IPETH has trained …
Impact Tech Seed funding came from True Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures and others PC: kxan.com States face significant shortages of skilled nurses. Austin-based Diligent is building …
The New York-based company is providing early funding and a network for healthcare entrepreneurs tackling problems from women’s access to care to mental …
San Francisco-based EarnUp provides loan consolidation and repayment support to help Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck manage their debt. It says it has handled $1 billion …
Cityblock, formerly part of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, plans to partner with community health organizations to deliver primary care, behavioral health and social services …
Mpigi, Uganda — Maria Nantubwe cuts through layers of banana leaves. She splits the fleshy material, and beats two-foot long pieces with an improvised bat. …
Tracking absences can help companies understand and support employees who repeatedly miss work. U.K.-based e-days provides software that can log sick days and also …
The $13 million Aim Healthy Fund provides a new source of financing for the state’s community health organizations, including those focused on behavioral …
Investors have a growing appetite for “alternative proteins” as a healthier, more environmentally sustainable food source. The California-based Beyond Meat, known for its plant …
Impact investing is limited in Nepal. The International Finance Corporation, the World Bank and the Dolma Impact Fund, which is active in Nepal’s …
The UBS Optimus Foundation is backing a $3.5 million development impact bond for Rajasthan, India, that aims to reduce the state’s maternal and …
By 2025, 11% of India’s population will be over the age of 60, up from 7.5% today. ElderAid Wellness provides at-home care for India’s …
Minister Rob Wilson launching the Life Chances Fund | PC: Government Outcomes Lab The fund was launched in July to back small-ticket pay-for-success projects …
Reston, Va.-based Avizia develops telemedicine “carts” that enable doctors to conduct video consultations with their patients. The company partners with 35 U.S. health …
ADAP, an early-stage impact investor, heard pitches and conducted due diligence on eight startups over the course of the SOCAP conference. Andy Lower …
Blindness afflicts nearly 40 million people worldwide, with more than half of the cases caused by cataracts. The condition can be corrected through …
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha Original How 17 of the best-dressed people at SOCAP would invest $1 million for impact. Who are the …
Mega-storms like Harvey and Maria capture the headlines. But the real killer weather comes from another quarter: Deadly heat waves. According to the U.S. …
Faced with soaring birth rates, Ghada Wali, the Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity, recently announced a program called “Itnein Kifaya,” or “Two is …
Sustainable Development Goal №3, good health and well-being, say hello to SDG №7, access to energy. A new study suggests that installing rooftop …
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Hurricanes add urgency to climate resiliency investing. We’re only beginning to tally the devastation from hurricanes Harvey, …
Earlier this week we tuned you into the Rockefeller Foundation’s quest for 10 “SDG-finance unicorns,” that each can mobilize at least $1 billion …
A joint venture between Tech for Good and Matav Association will incubate ventures working to improve at-home senior care. Israel’s over-65 population is projected …
The International Committee of the Red Cross has created what it’s calling the first humanitarian impact bond, a $27.3 million private placement to …
Convergence and the International Finance Corp. have announce plans to build a blended finance platform for the 2030 health and education goals. The …
Well-Being The Bethesda, Md., company raised $16 million PC: BrainScope The Bethesda, Md., company raised $16 million in equity financing from Nancy Pfund DBL …
