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 unlikely source of power for small businesses.

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.

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
• "⁠Wavemaker Partners is writing early, small checks for ‘difficult’ deep tech⁠," by Jessica Pothering

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

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week:

• “⁠As Norges Bank warns of potential losses, can impact investments provide a hedge?⁠” by Amy Cortese
• "⁠Investors find opportunities in South Africa's rush to renewables⁠,” by Marilyn Waite
• “⁠Murdoch heir seeks to set All Aboard climate coalition up for long term impact⁠,” by Amy Cortese

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:

• “⁠Power for AI, mostly renewable, tops the shopping list for big asset managers⁠,” by Amy Cortese, with reporting from Erik Stein
• “⁠Of agents and agency: An investor’s guide to choice and control across the AI stack,⁠” by Paul Fehlinger

• "⁠WovenEarth raises $155 million fund-of-funds for early-stage cleantech⁠," by Roodgally Senatus

 Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How Temasek, the $400 billion state-owned investment fund out of Singapore, positions itself as a generational investor; a look at three impact investing “beach reads,” out this week, that tackle the future of capitalism and the common good; and sustainable farm and timberland manager Alder Point lands $4 million from the Rockefeller Foundation to ramp up land acquisitions in rural communities.

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Story links:

• “⁠Ford Foundation’s Roy Swan makes the case for 'positive-sum' capitalism⁠,” by David Bank and Isaac Silk

• “⁠With $400 billion in assets, Temasek leans into emerging markets, climate adaptation and ‘sustainable living’⁠,” by David Bank

• "⁠Alder Point secures $4 million from Rockefeller Foundation to build climate-resilient forests and farmlands⁠," by Roodgally Senatus.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A look at the cool tech investors seeking sustainable solutions to help billions beat the heat; why impact LPs are buying and selling stakes in the secondaries market; and, debriefing this week’s call, which asked whether faith-aligned investors can become known for what they are for, not just what they’re against

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This week's stories:

• “⁠Cool tech fund looks to India for sustainable solutions to beat the heat⁠,” by Jessica Pothering
• “⁠Liquidity for sellers, discounts for buyers in budding impact secondaries market⁠,” by Amy Cortese
• “⁠Helping faith-aligned investors direct their assets toward ‘human flourishing⁠,’” by Erik Stein. Watch the ⁠full video replay⁠.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability; how closing the gender gap could ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce; and the California pension fund behind Inox Clean Energy’s ambitious rollup of solar manufacturing and generating assets.

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This week's stories:

•  “⁠Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability⁠,” by Amy Cortese
• “⁠Amid trillion-dollar IPOs, impact investors seek pathways to steer technology towards shared prosperity⁠,” by Antony Bugg-Levine
• “⁠Human agency is the next frontier for impact investing⁠,” by Florian Kemmerich and Randall Zindler
• “⁠Closing the gender gap to ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce⁠,” by Erik Stein
• "⁠CalPERS-backed Inox Clean Energy gets funding from Indian family office to ramp up renewables development⁠," by Jessica Pothering

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Four Agents of Impact offer thoughts on the promise of the American experiment and the role for impact investing in it, ahead of the country’s 250th birthday; a look at Next 50’s strategy for financing GPs and companies that are valuing aging; and how Gaussion is speeding battery charging and boosting performance.

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This week’s stories:

• “⁠Following in the footsteps of America’s founding financier⁠,” by Antony Bugg-Levine
• “⁠Investing in the American Dream as a long-term play to strengthen democracy⁠,” by Napoleon Wallace
• “⁠The accounting reform that could strengthen American capitalism⁠,” by Stacey Faella
• “⁠Life, liberty and a share of the upside⁠,” by Santhosh Ramdoss
• “⁠Next50 is cutting checks to GPs seeking alpha in aging across energy, housing and infrastructure⁠,” by Roodgally Senatus and David Bank
• “⁠Gaussion lands $28 million to speed battery charging and boost performance⁠,” by Lucy Ngige