Cultural capital in France. Separately, the best of French creativity was on display at Bpifrance’s recent conference, reports Upstart Co-Lab’s Laura Callanan in her latest dispatch from creative ...

Featured: Incentivizing Impact From funds to managers to enterprises, some investors are aligning incentives for impact. Nearly all of the actual impact in impact investments comes from the ground up.

The UK and Kenya-based consumer finance company M-KOPA is nearing a close on roughly $160 million in Series F equity financing, led by its longtime investor, Sumitomo Corporation, ImpactAlpha has ...

How is investing in climate projects in emerging markets in the 2020s like buying distressed corporate debt in the 1990s? Craig Cogut, a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, which rose to ...

The 4,000 global employees of Kito Crosby, a Texas-headquartered manufacturer and distributor of shackles, chains, hooks and other industrial lifting and safety products, will receive checks worth up ...

Great technological breakthroughs, like AI today or the Internet a few decades ago, hold great promise of augmenting human experience. But left unchecked, they can upend industries and risk deepening ...

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Most of the climate solutions needed to slow carbon change already exist. Getting customers to adopt them is another matter, especially now that government incentives for clean technologies have been ...

Broadband internet is a lifeline for rural communities, enabling remote work, telehealth, and educational opportunities that were once impossible. Private equity funding has been flooding into ...

Sometimes it seemed like everyone was becoming a “holdco” in 2025. As private equity firms, sometimes reluctantly, held on to their portfolio companies for longer periods, many started to look more ...

The 2020s have been called the “decade of delivery” — when promises to clean our air, phase down fossil fuels, and speed the transition to renewable energy must finally become measurable results. As ...

The Oslo-based company builds subsea water desalination plants powered by natural ocean pressure. The company says it can yield fresh water with half the energy required for conventional desalination.