ImpactAlpha Podcasts

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, ⁠...

Lucy Mortimer of Archipelago Ventures joins David Bank. Archipelago is a UK-based early-stage climate fund investing in materials innovations that enable a truly circular economy. They speak about Lucy about why materials are a sleeper cell in the climate crisis and how Archipelago is innovating in the fund raising process itself, with “collective diligence” - in which Archipelago’s prospective pa...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe; a look at Lukas Walton-backed S2G investments following its $1 billion; and, the reasons that the world cup is a sportswashing bonanza. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This week's stories:...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?; how Fervo Energy pulled off the biggest clean energy IPO in Wall Street history; and, Working Capital Fund secures $31 million for its third supply chain resilience fund. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Thi...

Ty Thomas of Primary Housing joins David Bank to discuss NOAH - naturally occurring affordable housing. As an emerging manager, Thomas is looking to preserve and improve  the kind of aging, unrestricted market-rate apartments that house teachers, firefighters, and other essential workers. Primary Housing, has been an active and early user of ImpactAlpha Edge, ImpactAlpha’s premium databases and ot...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese . Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking to address Big Tech’s AI data center buildout; who wins when access to private equity is opened up to American retirees; and, how 2x is spurring a global race to the top in gender-lens investing. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This wee...

Impact investing may have originated in the West. Its future is being shaped in the East.  From Singapore to South Korea, Japan to Hong Kong, investors in a mosaic of Asia-Pacific markets are leaning into Asia’s distinctive edge in the global impact investment ecosystem: patient capital, intergenerational stewardship and disciplined innovation. The driver: a rising, intergenerational “now generati...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Lucy Ngige and Amy Cortese . Up this week: The first edition of ImpactAlpha Africa explores new ways capital is being mobilized for impact on the continent; a spotlight on two African funds investing in human capital and creating high productivity jobs; and, how some LPs are stepping up to help emerging managers cross the chasm to their next...

Eric Ries, who inspired many a founder with his book The Lean Startup and went on to found the Long-Term Stock Exchange, joins Amy Cortese on this Agents of Impact podcast. Ries has wrapped up what he’s learned in a new book “Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great.” Many of the so-called best practices in corporate governance, he says, actually destroy value, a...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How Los Angeles is working to lower the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing; the Southern Poverty Law Center controversy, and who really controls the funds in Donor Advised Funds; and, a closer look at a $140 million deal to build a sustainable aviation fuel plant in Egypt. This week's...

Chris Larson of Alder Point Capital Management, a fund manager focused on working farms and forestlands, joins David Bank. Now a GP, or general partner, Larson used to sit on the other side of the table as an LP, or limited partner, at a single-family office. We discussed the rising value of sustainable real assets for climate mitigation and adaptation, and what it’s like to be a fund - raiser aft...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Navigating the fear and frenzy at Milken’s annual gathering of global institutional capital; how the ongoing war in Iran is increasing the demand for renewable energy infrastructure, to the benefit of private equity giants; and, strange bedfellows invest in a company using ocean waves to generate renewable f...

Carrie Endries joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the place-based local investment ecosystem in Boston. “We have many clients who have more abundant wealth than they need,” Endries says on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “That means that they can set aside a portion of their portfolio that might have a return that is below market, if they choose." Such clients are among a growi...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors Jessican Pothering and David Bank . Up this week: The latest in Africa’s carbon markets, from nature-based solutions to clean cooking; which wealthy athletes are getting into the impact investing game; and debriefing this week’s Mission Investors Exchange conference. To try ImpactAlpha Edge for yourself, ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠ . Story links:...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: What’s significant about Uganda’s national pension fund’s effort to stand up a locally focused fund of funds; unraveling the controversy surrounding KKR’s lucrative employee ownership exit from CoolIT; and, unpacking the failure of the impact advisory firm Align Impact. To try ImpactAlpha Edge yourself, ⁠cli...

Dawn Lippert of Elemental Impact joins David Bank. The nonprofit accelerator and investor has for over 15 years been identifying climate solutions grounded in community benefits. Among the topics covered: the gap in financing first-of-a-kind commercial projects, AI and energy infrastructure, and a new role for the environmental movement now that renewable energy is rolling out at scale.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: " Dear Shareholders: Your votes and your voice are needed more than ever ," by As You Sow's Andrew Behar “ Impact investors seek to assert human agency over the future of AI ,” by David Bank and Dennis Price “ Collaboration Fund sparks a conversation around M&A in impact investing field-bui...

Smitha Das of World Education Services, or WES, joins David Bank for this episode. WES has amassed its balance sheet not from a wealthy individual or a major corporation, but from the operations of its own nonprofit social enterprise -- and is now on a path to investing 100% of its $300 million in assets in full alignment with its social mission.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How the economic impacts of war in Iran are rippling through energy, fertilizer and food systems; a look at ImpactAlpha Edge ; and, a public reckoning with an aquaculture investment gone wrong. Relevant links: “ With imported gas in short supply, Indian households green their kitchens ,” by Shefali Anand " ⁠...

Russell Sprole of Virta Ventures joins David Bank to talk about why Virta expanded its equity-light, software-focused climate-tech investment strategy to include hardware, AI and blended capital stacks. Virta Ventures has been an active and early user of ImpactAlpha Edge, ImpactAlpha’s premium platform of data and tools for fund managers and other Agents of Impact. For more on the firm check out o...

David Bank is joind by Carol Galante of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and The Housing Lab. Carol is a proud “houser,” as affordable housing practitioners like to call themselves. David speaks with Carol to identify some of the policy and finance levers that can make housing more affordable in California and beyond.