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Oct 11, 2024 · The Week’s Podcast. 🎧 This Week in Impact.Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank.Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on putting an ownership lens on housing affordability; how and why to restore trust in voluntary carbon markets; and Amazon and Google opt for the nuclear option in their drive to supply their power-hungry ...
What we know about KKR’s $1 billion Global Impact Fund
ImpactAlpha, April 30 – KKR, the latest private-equity giant to move into impact investing, has launched fundraising for what it expects to be a $1 billion Global Impact Fund, led by KKR veterans Ken Mehlman and Robert Antablin. The fund managers expect to make 12-15 investments in sustainable business development, next-generation energy, agriculture and food and other sectors aligned with ...
Bain Capital raises $800 million for second Double Impact fund
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 23 – Bain Capital is doubling down on impact. The Boston-based private equity firm raised $800 million for its second Double Impact fund, more than double the amount of its first impact fund (see, “What we know about Bain Capital’s $390 million Double Impact Fund”).International investors committed 25% of the fund, …
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An investor’s journey: How CDC Group is innovating with catalytic ...
Sep 30, 2019 · This has allowed us to innovate investment opportunities where pioneering impact calls for more flexibility around risk, an approach increasingly recognized in the impact investing field as a ‘catalytic capital’ approach. MedAccess, for example, is a start-up subsidiary of CDC established as a Catalyst Strategy in 2017.
Assessing impact and risk when deploying catalytic capital
Jul 20, 2022 · The framework below illustrates how we think about impact for Catalyst capital. We assess the contribution of our intervention; routes to impact (scaling up businesses or catalysing markets); and the ultimate impact that we want to achieve (inclusion and/or climate action and environmental sustainability). Figure 1: Impact Framework for Catalyst.
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US Climate Finance Tracker. The Climate Finance Tracker - U.S. shows flows of private funding to US-based companies and non-profits whose descriptions mention terms realting to climate mitigation or climate adapation. The funding data span private investments (provided by Crunchbase) and philanthropic grants (provided by Candid).
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Uncovering the Latest Impact Investing News and Trends
David co-founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal (and before that, the San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers), breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance.