ImpactAlpha Podcasts

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: As President Trump calls climate change a “con job” at the UN, investors and philanthropies are raising money and building projects anyway; development banks abroad and Asia's asset owners are stepping up on climate finance –  is it enough; And this week's deal spotlight shines on Celsius Companies,...

Jim Sorenson, the entrepreneur, investor and founder of the Sorenson Impact Foundation and the broader Sorenson Impact Group joins David Bank. They discuss Jim's new book , The Impact Capitalist, "propelling" ones values rather than just living them, the bipartisan case for an ownership economy, and two of the ventures he's helped stand up in Utah. Disclosure: Sorenson Impact Fou...

Amit Bouri joins David Bank. The co-founder and, for a few more months, the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network is stepping down after 17 years. Amit has a unique perspective on the field of impact investing, since he’s done so much to build it. The GIIN is due to release a new sizing analysis at its investor forum in Amsterdam.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: Ahead of New York Climate Week, why investors are getting down to business , even as AI sucks up the oxygen (and the capital) in the room; why African pension funds — sitting on $600 billion in assets — are starting to dip into private equity and private debt to fund small businesses back home; and, w...

Robert Munson, CEO of SOCAP Global, the company behind SOCAP, joins David Bank. The annual impact investing conference this fall leaves its longtime San Francisco home to convene in Chicago. They discuss this year’s emphasis on getting out of the conference center in Willis Tower and into Chicago’s neighborhoods, as well as the anxieties swirling around politics, funding and AI, and the excitement...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Restructuring and layoffs hit Pro Mujer, as gender lens and development funders pull back; how faith-based investors , from Catholic sisters to family offices, are quietly building some of the most values-driven capital in private markets; and, spotlighting a floating modular nuclear reactor company that jus...

Doug Lee, founder and CEO of D3Jubilee Partners, a Seoul-based impact venture firm, joins Dennis Price. D3 is co-hosting Asia Impact Nights in Kobe, Japan alongside the Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation. For this 10th anniversary convening, D3 has moved from Korea for the first time, to Japan, under the theme of Asia's "triple transition" — demographics, climate and,...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: “ Revenue-based financing helps create wealth with anti-dilution protection for founders, not investors ,” by Roodgally Senatus “ How revenue-based finance can help close the racial wealth gap , by Carrie Endries “ Investing in Resilience: Why America's overlooked businesses matter more than ever ,” by K...

Aaron Rudberg, managing partner at S2G Investments joins David Bank. The Chicago-based firm co-founded by Walmart heir Lukas Walton, recently closed its $1 billion Solutions Fund. David speaks with Aaron about the opportunity – and the impact – in financing  growth-stage companies too big for venture capitalists and too small for infrastructure investors, and his views on the dangers of groupthink...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: “ Patient capital to establish trust, efficacy and potential for scale in youth mental health startups ,” by Hopelab’s Nathaan Demers " After a commercial failure, AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for maritime decarbonization ," by Jessica Pothering

Stacey Faella, executive director of the Woodcock Foundation in New York, joins David Bank for an update on Woodcock's decade-long journey toward near-100% mission alignment of its $90 million endowment. They talk about "investing in democracy" through the ownership economy, and the case for foundations to fire their investment advisors. Woodcock is a founding member of Impact LP, im...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: “ As Norges Bank warns of potential losses, can impact investments provide a hedge? ” by Amy Cortese " Investors find opportunities in South Africa's rush to renewables ,” by Marilyn Waite “ Murdoch heir seeks to set All Aboard climate coalition up for long term impact ,” by Amy Cortese To tr...

Manufactured housing assets and mobile home communities, along with single-room occupancy motels, and multifamily properties, are key sources of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing. On this episode, Proactive Realty Group’s Canaan Williams ( ImpactAlpha Edge ) tells how he has acquired and renovated nearly two dozen distressed, condemned or nearly abandoned assets and rehabilitated them, includ...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: “ Power for AI, mostly renewable, tops the shopping list for big asset managers ,” by Amy Cortese, with reporting from Erik Stein “ Of agents and agency: An investor’s guide to choice and control across the AI stack, ” by Paul Fehlinger " WovenEarth raises $155 million fund-of-funds for early-stage clea...

Todd Khozein of SecondMuse, an impact ecosystem builder and investor that designs and deploys innovative financing for resilient, inclusive and sustainable economies, joins David Bank.  Todd’s family fled Iran in 1979 with other Baha'i families, who were persecuted after  the Islamic Revolution. In a recent post on ImpactAlpha, he applied Second Muse’s system-thinking to the provocative topic...

 Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How Temasek, the $400 billion state-owned investment fund out of Singapore, positions itself as a generational investor; a look at three impact investing “beach reads,” out this week, that tackle the future of capitalism and the common good; and sustainable farm and timberland manager Alder Point lands $4 m...

Eliza Foo, who leads impact investing at Temasek, the Singapore-based global investment company whose asset base recently crossed $400 billion, joins David Bank. They speak about Temasek’s mission, Singapore’s impact ecosystem, and what’s next in emerging markets impact investing. And she shares her advice for asset allocators still skeptical about impact.

Roy Swan, director of mission investments at the Ford Foundation and author of " Positive Sum: How Zero Sum Thinking Broke Capitalism, How We Can Fix It," joins David Bank. They speak about shareholder primacy, "patriotic capitalism", and how AI finally making externalities - positive negatives - visible and actionable. Get a copy of the book today . Disclosure: The Ford Founda...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: A look at the cool tech investors seeking sustainable solutions to help billions beat the heat; why impact LPs are buying and selling stakes in the secondaries market; and, debriefing this week’s call, which asked whether faith-aligned investors can become known for what they are for, not just what they’re a...

The Refugee Investment Network co-founders John Kluge and Christine Mahoney join David Bank to discuss their new book Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone .  At a time when more than 120 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced — the highest level in recorded history –  the book makes the case for supportive policy and welcoming environment th...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability; how closing the gender gap could ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce; and the California pension fund behind Inox Clean Energy’s ambitious rollup of solar manufacturing and generating assets. To try...

Host  Brian Walsh  takes up  ImpactAlpha’s  top stories with editor  David Bank .  Up this week:  Four Agents of Impact offer thoughts on the promise of the American experiment and the role for impact investing in it, ahead of the country’s 250th birthday; a look at Next 50’s strategy for financing GPs and companies that are valuing aging; and how Gaussion is speeding battery charging and boosting...

Rey Ramsey, CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and author of the new book The Tyranny of False Choices: A Guide to Authentic Decision-Making joins David Bank. They spoke about "venture grants," transparency as a prerequisite for action, and how Ramsey has kept Nathan Cummings committed to racial, economic and environmental justice even as some institutions scrub their websites and tri...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is being written in Zambia, where attempts are being made to redirect its mineral wealth toward local small and growing businesses; what SpaceX and other IPOs mean for Impact LPs and the field of impact investing; and this week’s deal spotlight shines a light o...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese . Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense; a look at public and private approaches to sharing the AI wealth; and, Realize Capital Partners’ fund-of-funds secures $277 million for Canada’s impact fund managers. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠...