“Anything of significant long-term value has to be difficult,” Wavemaker Partners' co-founder Paul Santos tells @impactalpha.com. “It’s not that you’re looking for the difficulty. But the difficulty is a sign that you could be well rewarded if you solve it.” impactalpha.com/wavemaker-pa...

Wavemaker Partners is writing small checks for ‘difficult’ deep tech

Venture capitalists are shoveling money into deep tech, including robotics, industrial tech, defense tech and, of course, AI. Wavemaker Partners arrived on the ...

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They may sound like impact investing themes but don’t call S2G Investments, now with $2.8 billion under management, an impact investor. “We sit at a different point on the spectrum," says S2G’s Aaron Rudberg on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. impactalpha.com/s2g-investme...

S2G Investments seeks alpha in impact – without the label (podcast)

Aaron Rudberg, managing partner at S2G Investments joins David Bank. The Chicago-based firm recently closed its $1 billion Solutions Fund.

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Known for stable social democracies, high living standards, and as Europe’s summer “coolcation” destination, the Nordics are emerging as Europe’s leading startup factory. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden & Finland have built a well-developed sustainable investing network. impactalpha.com/128417-2/

Energy and security challenges create opportunities for Nordic sustainable investors

Nordic capital providers are increasingly focused on energy security and resilience in Nordic countries.

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Three takes on revenue-based financing from Carrie Endries of Reynders McVeigh, Founders First Capital Partners' Kim Folsom and @impactalpha.com's Roodgally Senatus. impactalpha.com/the-brief-th...

The Brief: Three takes on revenue-based financing

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Beyond Venture Capital  Revenue-based financing creates wealth with anti-dilution protection for founders, not investors. Founders ...

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🇺🇸 Contributing editor Antony Bugg-Levine says he's feeling more patriotic than ever. As America celebrates 250, Bugg-Levine argues that America’s promise has always been renewed by people who expand opportunities where markets fall short. impactalpha.com/following-in...

Following in the footsteps of America’s founding financier

As America approaches its 250th birthday, I’ve found myself feeling more patriotic than ever. These days, that can be a little awkward to ...

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“When the small business sector grows, that production circulates within the ecosystem and the multiplier effect is much higher,” says Austin Mwape. How Zambia's leaders are creating strategies to support economic opportunity and ownership through small enterprises. impactalpha.com/zambia-cente...

Zambia centers small businesses in its bid for a more inclusive economy

Top-down, bottom-up, public-private. Zambia, a country known for big mining, is turning its attention to small business as a pathway to inclusive growth. And it's hitting it from all angles.

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LP/GP: DBL Partners and Capricorn Investment Group introduced many foundations to venture investing and advanced the case that impact can drive outsized value creation. The foundations set to benefit from SpaceX and @anthropic.com IPOs. impactalpha.com/spacex-anthr...

SpaceX, Anthropic IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs

Dozens of foundations nervously await potential windfall, and much needed liquidity, from SpaceX and Anthropic IPOs.

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Philanthropic collaborative @pressforwardmn.bsky.social highlights local news publishers seeking impact financing for 'civic infrastructure.' The new urgency behind the development of more diversified and resilient financing for online news sites. impactalpha.com/local-news-p...

Local news publishers seek impact financing for ‘civic infrastructure’

If the darkest hour is just before dawn, publishers of local online news sites are looking forward to sunrise. This month, the Minnesota ...

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“We believe family businesses will ultimately play a central role in the capital stack behind impact in Asia, given their multi-generational perspective, tolerance for complexity, and deep roots in the real economy,” said Hareesh Nair of Tsao Pao Chee Group. impactalpha.com/asias-family...

Asia’s family businesses drive impact in their operations as well as their investments

Family business leaders in Asia are using impact investment strategies to future-proof their businesses and the communities they serve.

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Europe is racing to deploy utility-scale battery energy storage systems, or BESS. "Battery energy storage is taking off around the world, thanks to falling battery costs and surging demand for power," writes Danielle Rossingh. impactalpha.com/battery-make...

#S2GInvestments, founded by Walmart heir Lukas Walton with $100 million in 2014, now has $2.8 billion in assets under management. S2G – the moniker stands for “seed to growth” – typically take minority stakes of roughly $25 million to $100 million. impactalpha.com/g-is-for-gro...

G is for growth after $1 billion raise for Lukas Walton-backed S2G Investments

Venture capital firms are placing increasingly large bets on pre-revenue startups. Infrastructure and private equity buyout funds are looking to take control of ...

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FIFA "has chosen to promote the world’s biggest polluter and support its efforts to keep the world hooked on oil. It’s time for FIFA to drop @saudiaramcocompany.bsky.social," says Frank Huisingh of @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social. More on the $400 million deal. impactalpha.com/world-cup-20...

World Cup 2026: A ‘sportswashing’ bonanza, brought to you by Saudi Aramco

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, has scheduled 104 matches over 39 days across 16 venues in Mexico, the US, and Canada.

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☎️ .@rwjf.org's Kimberlee Cornett, @calendow.bsky.social's Aifuwa Ehigiator, @sfgov.sf.gov's 's Cynthia Wong and the #Vistria_Group's Sherry Wang will share advice and encouragement for landing your first #impinv job, Monday, June 15th. 3aear.share.hsforms.com/2CGcXS7-RQqu...

More than 1,000 people from more than two dozen countries convened in Lima, Peru at Pro Mujer’s GLI Forum LatAm to forge partnerships and reassert the primacy of their project: building just, inclusive and regenerative local economies, with women at the center. impactalpha.com/building-a-w...

“One of our top line goals is to mobilize capital, and we’ve done really well,” Altérra’s Majid Al Suwaidi told ImpactAlpha at the @milkeninstitute.org conference last month. Unpacking Altérra’s performance reveals a more complicated picture. impactalpha.com/is-alterras-...

Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?

The places that need climate capital the most have long gotten the least. The outcome of global efforts to mitigate the worst effects ...

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The biggest clean energy public offering in Wall Street history raised hopes for other clean tech companies and their investors. “A spectacular IPO is like a Michelin three-star meal,” writes contributing editor Antony Bugg-Levine. #FervoEnergy impactalpha.com/fervos-recip...

Fervo’s IPO recipe includes a dash of federal funding and a scoop of catalytic capital

Producing the next Fervo requires understanding the journey behind its successful IPO and the crucial role played by a range of investors committed to financing transformational energy services.

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“Imagine a corporation that invested billions training its workforce, then as a matter of policy refused to let them work, and shot the ones who complained. That isn’t a thought experiment. It’s the country of my birth,” writes Todd Khozein of SecondMuse. impactalpha.com/the-relation...

The relational imperative and the rebuilding of Iran

Todd Khozein imagines a new economic future for his native Iran after nearly half a century of tyranny and sanctions

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As CEO of New Island Capital there was “a line out the door of funds, and direct deal sponsors, pitching things,” says Chris Larson. Now at Alder Point Capital Management, he is pitching prospective LPs on the firm’s thesis of investing in sustainable real assets. impactalpha.com/alder-points...

If you’re the founder of an early stage company with a strong impact story, Tom Balderston and his team of impact venture capitalists want to meet you. The SustainVC team will be among those at Philadelphia's Total Impact Summit hosted by @impactphl.bsky.social. impactalpha.com/philadelphia...

Philadelphia’s SustainVC sticks with early stage founders in its third impact fund

SustainVC is looking to raise $30 million to deploy capital in early-stage local tech companies, especially in the broader Pennsylvania region.

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SOCAP & @impactalpha.com are offering a bundle that gives you access to the impact community at a special price. Secure your ticket to #SOCAP26, Oct. 12-14 in Chicago, & get a one-year subscription to ImpactAlpha at a significant bundle discount, a $700 savings! socapglobal.swoogo.com/SOCAP26/begin

Renewable energy sources are supplying about half of the electricity needed for the new data centers powering the #AI revolution. Why not 100%? impactalpha.com/despite-head...

Renewable energy gains steam despite headwinds as energy demand surges

The emergence of long duration batteries that can store power generated from wind and solar for hours and even days is making renewable energy an increasingly viable firm power option.

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“We are in the midst of a massive narrative struggle,” @eji.org's Bryan Stevenson said to close out this week’s @missioninvestors.bsky.social conference with a masterclass in powerful storytelling. #MissionInvest2026 impactalpha.com/agents-of-im...

Agents of Impact share new narratives and continued resolve at Mission Investors Exchange

Bryan Stevenson delivered the closing keynote of this week’s national conference of Mission Investors Exchange.

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The Detroit Pistons' Tobias Harris, @serenwilliams.bsky.social, World Cup champ Raphael Varane. Athletes have become so active as limited partners they can fill up almost an entire fund. impactalpha.com/wealthy-athl...

Wealthy athletes are getting into the impact investing game

A new generation of athletes are anchoring funds and backing companies that serve communities often overlooked by mainstream investors.

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Public investment is a powerful way to make progress on a range of seemingly intractable social challenges. The government’s role as an investor, not just a spender, is an old American tradition overdue for revival, writes Antony Bugg-Levine. impactalpha.com/five-ways-go...

Five ways government can invest with the private sector to benefit communities

Public investment is a powerful way to make progress on a range of seemingly intractable social challenges. The government’s role as an investor, not just a spender, is an old American tradition overd...

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Denver-based advisory firm Align Impact will shut down as of April 30. “It’s incredibly disappointing to have joined a firm like Align and to have discovered that the underlying business was not sustainable,” says Align’s Matthew Weatherley-White. impactalpha.com/after-12-yea...

After 12 years, advisory firm Align Impact to shut down at the end of the month

At the end of 2024, Align Impact raised $1.5 million in financing; by the middle of last year, one of the earliest purpose-built impact advisory firms was almost out of money.

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🎧 “This massive build out in AI infrastructure is creating huge demand for clean energy technologies and clean materials in ways that we haven’t seen before,” says Dawn Lippert of Elemental Impact. Listen to a new episode of the "Agents of Impact" podcast. impactalpha.com/pulling-clim...

Pulling climate tech to commercial scale with the energy demand from data centers (podcast)

Dawn Lippert joins the podcast to discuss how Elemental Impact is scaling climate tech to meet energy demands

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🎧 Why shareholders are fighting for the right to vote their proxies; how impact investors are seeking to assert human agency over the future of AI; and can nonprofit mergers help scale the impact of impact investing field-builders? Listen to "This Week in Impact." impactalpha.com/proxy-voters...

Greg Krupa served as a fundraising advisor to a range of social enterprises and impact funds across Latin America. Friends and family are remembering him after his unexpected death in Quito, Ecuador. impactalpha.com/remembering-...

Remembering Greg Krupa, 1987-2026

Greg Krupa was larger than life. Anyone who knew him felt the energy he brought into every room, positive, radiant, impossible to miss. ...

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World Education Services amassed a balance sheet in excess of $300 million. Now WES is investing those assets in a diverse portfolio of investments intended to help immigrants contribute their skills and contribute as they move about the world. impactalpha.com/defying-a-ba...

Defying a backlash, World Education Services aligns its $300 million in assets with immigrants’ success (podcast)

Smitha Das of WES joins the podcast to talk about the nonprofit's path to aligning 100% of its assets toward its social mission.

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Equity investments in clean cooking, particularly for solutions targeted at rural, low-income families in emerging markets, are at a low point. Grant funding is flat. The tale of two companies that tried cracking the code. impactalpha.com/why-has-it-b...

Why has it been so hard to crack the code on clean cooking solutions?

Two companies, two countries, two carbon deals. Two very different outcomes.  Burn Manufacturing, a Nairobi-based maker of “clean cooking technologies,” last month landed ...

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