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ImpactAlpha Podcasts
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All of ImpactAlpha's podcasts in one place. Listen in and get investment news and commentary for a sustainable edge.
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Mapping investments in ‘trustworthy AI’ + New priorities at the US DFC
Mapping the capital providers betting that the next wave of AI returns will come from making the technology more trustworthy; how the US Development Finance Corp. has shifted its priorities during the second Trump administration; and, two impact finance firms joined forces to give emerging fund...
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Break-even results for Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Family Office Ceniarth finds that their impact-first portfolio is not making money… but that's been their plan all along; a new Latin American investor rewards founders with better terms when they deliver…
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Adding impact investments to the toolkits of grantmakers supporting healthy aging
Xenia Viragh, head of impact investments at The SCAN Foundation, joins David Bani. The $280 million California-based foundation is adding mission-related investments to their grantmaking around policy and advocacy for older adults. SCAN will be at this month’s Grantmakers in Aging conference in...
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The power of place in Galveston + Blue Earth unsticks impact capital
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: From Galveston to Kansas City, overlooked cities are getting organized and making themselves investment ready; investing in the economic determinants of a healthy democracy; And a deal spotlight on Blue…
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Optimism and action at Climate Week NYC + An employee-owned holdco
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...
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Utah investor Jim Sorenson writes a primer for impact capitalists
Jim Sorenson, the entrepreneur, investor and founder of the Sorenson Impact Foundation and the broader Sorenson Impact Group joins David Bank. They discuss Jim's new book, The Impact Capitalist, "propelling" ones values rather than just living them, the bipartisan case for an ownership economy…
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Amit Bouri on leaving the GIIN, chasing scale "with integrity," and impact investing's next act
Amit Bouri joins David Bank. The co-founder and, for a few more months, the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network is stepping down after 17 years. Amit has a unique perspective on the field of impact investing, since he’s done so much to build it. The GIIN is due to release a new sizing...
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Investors roll up their sleeves for Climate Week NYC + ‘Batteries as a service’ as an alternative to diesel
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…
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Robert Munson on SOCAP's leap from the Bay Area to Chicago
Robert Munson, CEO of SOCAP Global, the company behind SOCAP, joins David Bank. The annual impact investing conference this fall leaves its longtime San Francisco home to convene in Chicago. They discuss this year’s emphasis on getting out of the conference center in Willis Tower and into…
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Restructuring and layoffs at Pro Mujer + Common Good fund of funds from Ascension and Anthos
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...
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As Asia Impact Nights turns 10, Doug Lee reflects on the East Asian impact-investing playbook
Doug Lee, founder and CEO of D3Jubilee Partners, a Seoul-based impact venture firm, joins Dennis Price. D3 is co-hosting Asia Impact Nights in Kobe, Japan alongside the Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation. For this 10th anniversary convening, D3 has moved from Korea for the first...
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Three takes on revenue-based financing + A deep-tech bet on cleaner and cheaper cement
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…
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S2G Investments seeks alpha in impact – without the label
Aaron Rudberg, managing partner at S2G Investments joins David Bank. The Chicago-based firm co-founded by Walmart heir Lukas Walton, recently closed its $1 billion Solutions Fund. David speaks with Aaron about the opportunity – and the impact – in financing growth-stage companies too big for...
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Patient capital to support youth mental health + AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for maritime decarbonization
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...
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Woodcock Foundation’s Stacey Faella on becoming a mission-aligned and impact-first LP
Stacey Faella, executive director of the Woodcock Foundation in New York, joins David Bank for an update on Woodcock's decade-long journey toward near-100% mission alignment of its $90 million endowment. They talk about "investing in democracy" through the ownership economy, and the case for...
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Move over bonds. Are impact investments the new hedge? + Investors tap into South Africa's green transition
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...
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Preserving naturally occuring affordable housing with Dr. Canaan Van Williams
Manufactured housing assets and mobile home communities, along with single-room occupancy motels, and multifamily properties, are key sources of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing. On this episode, Proactive Realty Group’s Canaan Williams (ImpactAlpha Edge) tells how he has acquired and...
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Private equity energy power players + Choice and control across the AI stack
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...
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An ecosystem builder looks homeward toward the reconstruction of Iran
Todd Khozein of SecondMuse, an impact ecosystem builder and investor that designs and deploys innovative financing for resilient, inclusive and sustainable economies, joins David Bank. Todd’s family fled Iran in 1979 with other Baha'i families, who were persecuted after the Islamic Revolution. In…
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Where Temasek is looking for growth opportunities + Three impact summer reads
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…
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Temasek leans into emerging markets, climate adaptation and ‘sustainable living’
Eliza Foo, who leads impact investing at Temasek, the Singapore-based global investment company whose asset base recently crossed $400 billion, joins David Bank. They speak about Temasek’s mission, Singapore’s impact ecosystem, and what’s next in emerging markets impact investing. And she shares...
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Roy Swan makes the case for 'positive-sum' capitalism
Roy Swan, director of mission investments at the Ford Foundation and author of "Positive Sum: How Zero Sum Thinking Broke Capitalism, How We Can Fix It," joins David Bank. They speak about shareholder primacy, "patriotic capitalism", and how AI finally making externalities - positive negatives -...
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India as a hotbed of cool tech + Secondaries, impact-style
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...
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The economic case for investing in refugee entrepreneurs
The Refugee Investment Network co-founders John Kluge and Christine Mahoney join David Bank to discuss their new book Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone. At a time when more than 120 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced — the highest...
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Generation Investment Management on AI’s inconvenient truths + Closing the LatAm gender gap
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…
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Founding principles for impact investors on the USA’s 250th birthday
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…
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Rey Ramsey on moving from false choices to authentic leadership on AI and impact investing
Rey Ramsey, CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and author of the new book The Tyranny of False Choices: A Guide to Authentic Decision-Making joins David Bank. They spoke about "venture grants," transparency as a prerequisite for action, and how Ramsey has kept Nathan Cummings committed to...
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Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is being written in Zambia, where attempts are being made to redirect its mineral wealth toward local small and growing businesses; what SpaceX and other IPOs...
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The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense; a look at public and private approaches to sharing the AI wealth; and, Realize Capital...
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Archipelago Ventures brings a collective approach to backing circular materials
Lucy Mortimer of Archipelago Ventures joins David Bank. Archipelago is a UK-based early-stage climate fund investing in materials innovations that enable a truly circular economy. They speak about Lucy about why materials are a sleeper cell in the climate crisis and how Archipelago is innovating…
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Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe; a look at Lukas Walton-backed S2G investments following its $1 billion; and, the reasons that the world...
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Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?; how Fervo Energy pulled off the biggest clean energy IPO in Wall Street history; and, Working Capital Fund secures $31...
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A $1,300 Harlem apartment led this fund manager to the $20 billion NOAH opportunity (podcast)
Ty Thomas of Primary Housing joins David Bank to discuss NOAH - naturally occurring affordable housing. As an emerging manager, Thomas is looking to preserve and improve the kind of aging, unrestricted market-rate apartments that house teachers, firefighters, and other essential workers. Primary...
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Two impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillions
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking to address Big Tech’s AI data center buildout; who wins when access to private equity is opened up to American retirees; and, how 2x is spurring a...
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Asia’s Moment: The ‘now generation’ shaping the future of impact investing (podcast)
Impact investing may have originated in the West. Its future is being shaped in the East. From Singapore to South Korea, Japan to Hong Kong, investors in a mosaic of Asia-Pacific markets are leaning into Asia’s distinctive edge in the global impact investment ecosystem: patient capital,...
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Building African ecosystems for impact investing + LPs bridging the "second-wave" capital gap
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Lucy Ngige and Amy Cortese. Up this week: The first edition of ImpactAlpha Africa explores new ways capital is being mobilized for impact on the continent; a spotlight on two African funds investing in human capital and creating high...
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From lean startups to spiritual holding companies: The education of Eric Ries
Eric Ries, who inspired many a founder with his book The Lean Startup and went on to found the Long-Term Stock Exchange, joins Amy Cortese on this Agents of Impact podcast. Ries has wrapped up what he’s learned in a new book “Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay...
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Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing + Big DAF platforms on notice
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How Los Angeles is working to lower the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing; the Southern Poverty Law Center controversy, and who really controls the funds in Donor Advised Funds; and, a...
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Chris Larson on switching sides from LP to GP to operate sustainable real assets
Chris Larson of Alder Point Capital Management, a fund manager focused on working farms and forestlands, joins David Bank. Now a GP, or general partner, Larson used to sit on the other side of the table as an LP, or limited partner, at a single-family office. We discussed the rising value of...
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Fear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investment
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Navigating the fear and frenzy at Milken’s annual gathering of global institutional capital; how the ongoing war in Iran is increasing the demand for renewable energy infrastructure, to the benefit of…
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How a financial advisor in Boston helps her clients drive local impact
Carrie Endries joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the place-based local investment ecosystem in Boston. “We have many clients who have more abundant wealth than they need,” Endries says on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “That means that they can set aside a portion of their...
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The latest in Africa's carbon markets + The vibe at Mission Investors Exchange
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors Jessican Pothering and David Bank. Up this week: The latest in Africa’s carbon markets, from nature-based solutions to clean cooking; which wealthy athletes are getting into the impact investing game; and debriefing this week’s...
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Local capital for local fund managers and enterprises in Africa + Will the real ownership economy please stand up?
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What’s significant about Uganda’s national pension fund’s effort to stand up a locally focused fund of funds; unraveling the controversy surrounding KKR’s lucrative employee ownership exit from CoolIT; and,...
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Pulling climate tech to commercial scale with the energy demand from data centers
Dawn Lippert of Elemental Impact joins David Bank. The nonprofit accelerator and investor has for over 15 years been identifying climate solutions grounded in community benefits. Among the topics covered: the gap in financing first-of-a-kind commercial projects, AI and energy infrastructure, and…
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Shareholders fight for the right to proxy vote + Responsible look to assert human agency over the future of AI
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: "Dear Shareholders: Your votes and your voice are needed more than ever," by As You Sow's Andrew Behar “Impact investors seek to assert human agency over the future of AI,” by David Bank and Dennis Price...
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World Education Services aligns its balance sheet with immigrants’ success
Smitha Das of World Education Services, or WES, joins David Bank for this episode. WES has amassed its balance sheet not from a wealthy individual or a major corporation, but from the operations of its own nonprofit social enterprise -- and is now on a path to investing 100% of its $300 million…
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Introducing ImpactAlpha Edge + Investors reflect on aquaculture fraud
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the economic impacts of war in Iran are rippling through energy, fertilizer and food systems; a look at ImpactAlpha Edge; and, a public reckoning with an aquaculture investment gone wrong. Relevant…
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Why Virta Ventures is looking for equity-light and asset-heavy climate tech investments
Russell Sprole of Virta Ventures joins David Bank to talk about why Virta expanded its equity-light, software-focused climate-tech investment strategy to include hardware, AI and blended capital stacks. Virta Ventures has been an active and early user of ImpactAlpha Edge, ImpactAlpha’s premium...
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Pulling policy and financial levers for housing affordability with Carol Galante
David Bank is joind by Carol Galante of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and The Housing Lab. Carol is a proud “houser,” as affordable housing practitioners like to call themselves. David speaks with Carol to identify some of the policy and finance levers that can make...
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Buying back the block with Lyneir Richardson
Lyneir Richardson of Chicago Trend joins David Bank for this Agents of Impact podcast. Trend acquires and improves shopping centers in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The twist: Investment structures that enable local residents to become co-owners on the same terms as institutional...
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