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Getting real about racial-equity investing - ImpactAlpha
Dennis Price Racial equity investing isn’t about ticking a diversity box. It’s about understanding and investing to tackle social inequities in the U.S. – from education to healthcare, transportation ...
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The Brief: Playing mispriced muni risks, small business resilience in Africa, rooftop solar in India, crunch time at COP28, India’s climate investors - ImpactAlpha
Keep reading, “Muni investors see through mispriced risks to find alpha and impact,” by Dennis Price on ImpactAlpha. 👋 This Week’s Call: How to spot overlooked impact and risk in municipal bonds.
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The Week’s Dealflow: June 14, 2024 - ImpactAlpha
Fund news. Climate advisory firm Pollination rolled out an early-stage fund for climate and nature-focused startups. It’s targeting $150 million and will focus its investments in Australia… Raven ...
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The Brief: Matthew Weatherley-White walks the talk, Africa’s $3 billion COVID bond, DBL’s fourth fund, air taxis, SOCAP’s Cari Hanson - ImpactAlpha
Dealflow: Follow the Money African Development Bank issues a record $3 billion social bond to combat COVID-19. The three-year Fight Covid-19 bond, one of the largest-ever U.S.-dollar-denominated ...
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The Week in Impact Investing: Volatility - ImpactAlpha
The Week’s Dealflow Deal spotlight: Mergers and acquisitions. Evidence from the Great Financial Crisis shows that investors that made significant acquisitions have outperformed those that didn’t.
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Nigeria’s TeamApt scores backing from QED for digital banking in rural Africa
Jessica Pothering ImpactAlpha, August 15 – TeamApt is tackling financial access by enabling anyone with a mobile phone and point-of-sales machine to become a local bank branch. The Lagos-based fintech ...
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Capitol Gains: Ben McAdams on local solutions to national dysfunction - ImpactAlpha
“Local government still works. They’re solution-oriented. They’re bipartisan,” says Utah’s Ben McAdams on the first episode of Capital Gains, a biweekly podcast from myself, Matt Posner of Court ...
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FutureFuel.io raises $11.2 million to help employees tackle student debt
BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America. Timberland Investment Group, part of Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, closed its inaugural Latin America ...
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The Brief: Housing solutions in Los Angeles, food access in Latin America, EV components, microfinance index, tracking policy reforms - ImpactAlpha
Dealflow: Food Waste Bogotá-based RobinFood raises $32 million to expand food access and cut waste. The Colombian startup operates physical and virtual restaurants that make and deliver affordable ...
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Mastercard commits $500 million over five years to reduce racial wealth and opportunity gaps - ImpactAlpha
Growth opportunity. Full economic participation for Black communities is a $1.5 trillion opportunity over the next decade, McKinsey estimates. MasterCard aims to boost capital availability for ...
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The Week in impact investing: Trillions - ImpactAlpha
Dealflow: Adaptation Finance Pula lands $20 million to offer livestock insurance to smallholder farmers. Insurance tech startup Pula launched in 2015 to provide crop insurance to small scale farmers, ...
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MIT-spinoff SiTration snags $11.8 million to recover critical metals from mining waste streams - ImpactAlpha
Commercialization SiTration’s seed round was led by UK-based climate tech investor 2150, with participation from Azolla Ventures, MIT-affiliated E14 Fund, BPH Ventures and other investors. “The need ...