This Week in Impact
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Optimism and action at Climate Week NYC + An employee-owned holdco (opens the original)
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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, a Philadelphia-area holding company buying up clean energy contractors to turn their workers into owners. Sto
Investors roll up their sleeves for Climate Week NYC + ‘Batteries as a service’ as an alternative to diesel (opens the original)
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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; and, with batteries as a service , how gas stations in Nigeria and South Africa are becoming an unli
Restructuring and layoffs at Pro Mujer + Common Good fund of funds from Ascension and Anthos (opens the original)
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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 that just landed $50 million seed round.
Three takes on revenue-based financing + A deep-tech bet on cleaner and cheaper cement (opens the original)
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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 ,” by Kim Folsom " S2G Investments seeks alpha in impact – without the label ," by David Bank " Wavema
Patient capital to support youth mental health + AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for maritime decarbonization (opens the original)
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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
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