Canada-based LemFi was founded in 2021 to give the growing population of African immigrants quick and affordable ways to send money back home. Traditional remittance channels like banks charge ...

ImpactAlpha, February 12 – Jamaica’s energy utility Jamaica Public Service Co. has been working in recent years to improve the reliability of the island country’s power supply. IDB Invest will support ...

At a breakfast meeting in Singapore a few years ago, Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber were speaking to asset owners and entrepreneurs about centering women as changemakers who drive solutions. “We ...

ImpactAlpha, May 31 – The Global Impact Investing Network’s Amit Bouri dropped the figure in an interview with Business Insider: $228 billion. The new figure, which tallies actual responses to the ...

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Tado raises €43 million for energy-efficient thermostats. Europe’s energy crisis, ignited by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has led to skyrocketing home energy costs. Many consumers have seen their ...

Impact deals that came across our desk this week: Disability-lens investing. Mindset Care, a maker of AI-enabled tools to streamline access to Social Security Disability Insurance, raised $13 million.

ImpactAlpha, March 25 — The Laerdal family and its Norwegian operating companies, Laerdal Medical and Laerdal Global Health, want to help save one million lives across the globe each year by 2030, ...

Governance is the new big thing for tech investors, since the FTX fraud and investigations by the SEC have brought it out on the agenda. To the contrary, human rights have not been paid much attention ...

Jackson Heights is an majority BIPOC community where over 150 languages are spoken, a microcosm of global communities that are currently bearing the brunt of climate change. In 2020, the city of New ...

Strategic lenses give impact investors an edge on the future. Investment lens are proliferating beyond gender and climate, to refugees and migrants, forced labor and modern-day slavery, oceans and the ...

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 22 – A few days before the FTX crypto exchange, with an $8 billion liquidity hole it could not fill, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, my friend sent a picture of a Manhattan ...