This Week in Impact

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Impact investing hits $1.76 trillion –  even as many of the people who built the field are heading for the exits; Ahead of its IPO, a look at the fine print of Anthropic’s public benefit corporation designation; And in this week's Deal Spotlight, Maycomb Capital closes a $100 million fund that only gets...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: Singapore’s biggest banks pledged to quit coal in 2019. So why are they still financing coal plants? At Norrsken Impact Week in Barcelona, AI dominated the conversation, but trust remained the big question. And in New York, a $50,000 loan by a revolving loan fund could save a million-dollar family hom...

Mapping the capital providers betting that the next wave of AI returns will come from making the technology more trustworthy; how the US Development Finance Corp. has shifted its priorities during the second Trump administration; and, two impact finance firms joined forces to give emerging fund managers the back office muscle they need to land bigger investors. Story links: “ ⁠Investing in AI 2.0:...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Family Office Ceniarth finds that their impact-first portfolio is not making money… but that's been their plan all along; a new Latin American investor rewards founders with better terms when they deliver more impact; And finally a climate justice fund raises $71 million to back clean energy projects the...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: From Galveston to Kansas City, overlooked cities are getting organized and making themselves investment ready; investing in the economic determinants of a healthy democracy; And a deal spotlight on Blue Earth Capital, which is unsticking impact capital. Story links: “ ⁠ Power of place drives impact in a nati...

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,...

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; an...

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 th...

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 ,...

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

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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, ⁠...

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 storie...

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...

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 w...

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...

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...

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 capital players; how the war with Iran is a boon for renewable energy and the private equity that invests in it; and the strange bedfellows backing a company building floating data centers in the ocean. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click h...

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 . " ⁠Ou...