So much of the impact investing conversation is concentrated in the private markets. The same is true for gender-lens investing. Being removed from ...

Climate entrepreneurs and investors have moved on from you-know-who.  Across New York City’s Climate Week, initiatives were rolled out, funds were raised and ...

Geopolitical shocks “have accentuated the importance of continuing and accelerating the renewable energy revolution,” Generation Investment Management’s Al Gore says in the firm's latest Sustainabilit...

At Impact Week in Singapore earlier this month, the mood in Asia was full steam ahead on climate financing.

It’s tough times for development financing and nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and elsewhere. That’s especially so for field-building initiatives focused on gender ...

The catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet came just as AVPN, one of Asia’s largest social investment and philanthropy networks, was convening in ...

Venture capitalists are shoveling money into deep tech, including robotics, industrial tech, defense tech and, of course, AI. Wavemaker Partners arrived on the ...

Aaron Rudberg, managing partner at S2G Investments joins David Bank. The Chicago-based firm recently closed its $1 billion Solutions Fund.

Nordic capital providers are increasingly focused on energy security and resilience in Nordic countries.

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Beyond Venture Capital  Revenue-based financing creates wealth with anti-dilution protection for founders, not investors. Founders ...

As America approaches its 250th birthday, I’ve found myself feeling more patriotic than ever. These days, that can be a little awkward to ...

Top-down, bottom-up, public-private. Zambia, a country known for big mining, is turning its attention to small business as a pathway to inclusive growth. And it's hitting it from all angles.

Dozens of foundations nervously await potential windfall, and much needed liquidity, from SpaceX and Anthropic IPOs.

If the darkest hour is just before dawn, publishers of local online news sites are looking forward to sunrise. This month, the Minnesota ...

Family business leaders in Asia are using impact investment strategies to future-proof their businesses and the communities they serve.

Venture capital firms are placing increasingly large bets on pre-revenue startups. Infrastructure and private equity buyout funds are looking to take control of ...

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, has scheduled 104 matches over 39 days across 16 venues in Mexico, the US, and Canada.

The places that need climate capital the most have long gotten the least. The outcome of global efforts to mitigate the worst effects ...

Producing the next Fervo requires understanding the journey behind its successful IPO and the crucial role played by a range of investors committed to financing transformational energy services.

Todd Khozein imagines a new economic future for his native Iran after nearly half a century of tyranny and sanctions

SustainVC is looking to raise $30 million to deploy capital in early-stage local tech companies, especially in the broader Pennsylvania region.

The emergence of long duration batteries that can store power generated from wind and solar for hours and even days is making renewable energy an increasingly viable firm power option.

Bryan Stevenson delivered the closing keynote of this week’s national conference of Mission Investors Exchange.

A new generation of athletes are anchoring funds and backing companies that serve communities often overlooked by mainstream investors.

Public investment is a powerful way to make progress on a range of seemingly intractable social challenges. The government’s role as an investor, not just a spender, is an old American tradition overd...

At the end of 2024, Align Impact raised $1.5 million in financing; by the middle of last year, one of the earliest purpose-built impact advisory firms was almost out of money.

Dawn Lippert joins the podcast to discuss how Elemental Impact is scaling climate tech to meet energy demands

Greg Krupa was larger than life. Anyone who knew him felt the energy he brought into every room, positive, radiant, impossible to miss. ...

Smitha Das of WES joins the podcast to talk about the nonprofit's path to aligning 100% of its assets toward its social mission.

Two companies, two countries, two carbon deals. Two very different outcomes.  Burn Manufacturing, a Nairobi-based maker of “clean cooking technologies,” last month landed ...

In a guest post on ImpactAlpha, Ceniarth managing directors Diane Isenberg and Greg Neichin share the family office's impact-first dealmaking

Lukas Walton says that is crucial that the environmental movement should be building alongside industry for a renewable and clean economy.

“While government is still a really critical and necessary part of this and philanthropy is also a very necessary part of it,” says Amir Kirkwood of Justice Climate Fund, “we've got to figure out how ...

(Editor’s note: Back in 2024, Bandung, Indonesia-based eFishery was heralded as the first aquaculture unicorn, with a $1.4 billion valuation and investors that ...

What’s a Latin American impact fund manager to do? High interest rates make local capital hard to come by. Many US investors are ...

Was KKR’s $4.75 billion sale of CoolIT Systems, announced last week, good for workers? That depends on who you ask. Many employees of ...

Bangladesh was weeks into a new government when the US and Israel attacked Iran. The war has challenged the South Asian country’s new ...

A looming food crisis driven by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sparked new interest in bio-based fertilizers made without petroleum inputs shipped from halfway around the world.

California, long known as one of the most difficult places to build housing, is now among the easiest ones to build “accessory dwelling ...

While the conflict with Iran has choked off the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, it has opened the tap from European pension funds and other investors looking to capitalize on increased urgen...