What does it take to turn promising small businesses into engines of opportunity for communities? For funders, investors and philanthropists, the answer lies in how we help entrepreneurs not just ...

UK-based Octopus Energy Group operates multiple business lines, all focused on the renewable energy transition. Kraken is its AI-based services platform for utility companies including National Grid ...

Investing in SMEs in frontier markets is one of the most important ways to drive sustainable economic growth. Yet it remains among the most challenging approaches for Development Finance Institutions, ...

That’s essentially the climate investing strategy of the Sierra Club Foundation, an approximately $200 million endowment that provides operating income for the Sierra Club and sees itself as a ...

North Sky sees a growing opportunity to provide liquidity in the impact investment market. The Minnesota-based firm launched its first secondaries fund in 2013. A dozen years and three funds later, ...

The American economic landscape is defined by stark contrasts. Record corporate profits coexist with an accelerating affordability crisis. Technological advancements are boosting productivity but also ...

Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha LP/GP, where we take you inside the real business of impact investing and the dynamic relationships between owners, managers and intermediaries of impact capital.

New Mexico’s solar resources, geothermal features and nuclear know-how attract many climate tech startups, and the venture capitalists who back them If that’s not enough, there’s also the state’s $67 ...

The Plankton-Gratitude Yield Co. has raised $10.75 million in equity and, with leverage and tax credits, aims to buy 35 to 40 projects worth around $40 million. New York-based Plankton, a developer of ...

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.

Brazil’s environment minister had a ready metaphor when the question of phasing out fossil fuels came up. “When we have a terrain that is quite grim, it is good that we have a map,” Marina Silva told ...

India-based climatetech startup Varaha launched in 2022 to train smallholder farmers in sustainable agroforestry, biochar production, water management and regenerative agriculture practices like drip ...