All Episodes

Break-even results for Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio

The power of place in Galveston + Blue Earth unsticks impact capital

Optimism and action at Climate Week NYC + An employee-owned holdco

Investors roll up their sleeves for Climate Week NYC + ‘Batteries as a service’ as an alternative to diesel

Restructuring and layoffs at Pro Mujer + Common Good fund of funds from Ascension and Anthos

Three takes on revenue-based financing + A deep-tech bet on cleaner and cheaper cement

Patient capital to support youth mental health + AIM Horizon goes all in on impact for maritime decarbonization

Move over bonds. Are impact investments the new hedge? + Investors tap into South Africa's green transition

Private equity energy power players + Choice and control across the AI stack

Where Temasek is looking for growth opportunities + Three impact summer reads

India as a hotbed of cool tech + Secondaries, impact-style

Generation Investment Management on AI’s inconvenient truths + Closing the LatAm gender gap

Founding principles for impact investors on the USA’s 250th birthday

Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs

The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth 

Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise

Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women

Two impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillions

Building African ecosystems for impact investing + LPs bridging the "second-wave" capital gap

Los Angeles lowers the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing + Big DAF platforms on notice

Fear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investment

The latest in Africa's carbon markets + The vibe at Mission Investors Exchange

Local capital for local fund managers and enterprises in Africa + Will the real ownership economy please stand up?

Shareholders fight for the right to proxy vote + Responsible look to assert human agency over the future of AI

The unfortunate growth market of investing in refugees + building portfolios that value aging

Anthropic’s showdown with the Pentagon + How much value should private equity buyout funds share with workers

States of the union take the lead + Mast Reforestation's new biomass burial carbon credit strategy

Shaping the AI algorithm + innovative finance for local infrastructure projects

How Africa’s mining industry is leveraging demand for critical minerals + Next steps for place based investing

Patient capital drives India's affordable home lending market + Nippon's foray into system-level investing

Going 'beyond the check' to help GPs survive the fundraising drought + US retail investors are backing emerging markets solar

The real returns of impact first managers + permanent capital for affordable housing

Novel strategies in an impact fundraising drought, staking workers to a share in the AI economy

Latin American impact investors start to map a way forward + Working capital for emerging managers

Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity

Sierra Club Foundation's system-level strategy + 1803 Fund backs ownership opportunities in Portland

Transforming oil revenues into renewable energy investments in New Mexico + cities and solar providers respond to a rollback of federal support

Unlocking Indian solar power with catalytic capital + pensions eye responsible defense investments

Alternatives to Trump's 50 year mortgage + $54 billion in DFI climate financing goes missing

The state of climate blended finance + Private credit jitters put impact investors on edge

Allocators, investors and entrepreneurs gather at SOCAP + A dual lens for AI diligence and impact

A resurgence of impact-first investing + How impact lawyers are working to simplify transactions

Trimtab goes all in on impact first + An affordable 'community of opportunity' in East Harlem

Big plans for the US International Development Finance Corp. + Debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa

Building shared prosperity with entrepreneurship through acquisition + GreenieRE's surety bonds for climate tech

A vibe check at NY Climate Week, and how impact is driving alpha -- with or without the label

Arguing for the freedom to give, speak and invest. Plus, looking ahead to Climate Week NYC

Mobilizing Millions for Climate Tech and Sustainable Fashion

Courts uphold GGRF freeze + the largest employee ownership deal yet

Roots of Impact introduces Simple Agreements for Future Impact + Impact opportunities in Peru

Wealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it away

How to fix blended finance + Tsao family office expands impact strategy to Africa

Capturing the market for carbon capture + Who gets jobs in impact?

How $3 billion in GGRF funds escaped legal limbo + why biochar is having a moment

The urgent need for climate adaptation, plus a growing role for community development financial institutions in Indian country

Doing more with fewer development dollars, plus a tribute to Andrew Kassoy

Catalytic climate capital in the Amazonian bio-economy

Lessons from Apollo and Mastercard Foundation + The Reconstruction Won't Be Televised

Mobilzing private capital for green lending + European investors still see materiality as material

Dennis Price steps into new role as CEO of ImpactAlpha

Risk misperceptions in climate and emerging markets

Advice for the Gates Foundation spend-down + The state of blended finance

Remedies for Impact’s original sins + Carbon removal's moment in the... dirt

The buzz at Milken + Which impact archetype are you?

Pages from the playbook for shared prosperity + a report card for pay-as-you-go solar

Climate tech is weathering political turbulence.

A call to action in response to US political risk

A tarrifying week for investors + what's next for global AID

Insurance incentives for wildfire prevention + smarter subsidies for agribusiness

Proxy battles for universal owners & new models for employee ownership

Bipartisan support for CDFIs under Trump, and Canada's first Employee Ownership Trusts

A new era for climate leadership (in Canada, at least)

Local institutional capital for small and medium sized businesses in Africa

Seeing East African agri-food tech in action, plus the EU walks back sustainability disclosure

Navigating the new era for emerging markets, climate and small business investing

Building wealth through community investment trusts

DFC faces Trump funding freeze fallout

Mission driven funders react to feds funding freeze + responsible AI strategies.

Trump's torrent of executive orders + OZ's get another look

Insurance risk after the LA fires + de-extinction tech gets a raise

Glimmers of hope for impact fundraising

Looking ahead to 2025

Policy-enhanced impact investing + community ownership models

How much is enough in employee ownership?

Agents of Impact articulate new narratives for a post-election reality

The search is on for global climate leadership + hospitals investing in social determinants of health

Impact investors take stock after the US election

The vibe at this year's SOCAP + family offices lean towards climate

1.5 trillion dollars of impact capital, from commercial to catalytic

Strategies for housing affordability and ownership

Another petrostate COP + new innovative financial models in emerging markets and the US

Reimagining home insurance in the face of climate disasters + funding emerging managers

Takeaways from Climate Week NYC

Commercial capital is crowding into blended funds + the ownership economy arrives

A near climate-free debate + sustainable fashion week

Policy planks for the ownership economy + African capital for African infrastructure

Let the water (investment) flow, climate finance updates, and family office ImpInv in LatAm

Impact at the DNC, pro-ESG states outperform, and a solar boost in India

Facing the new legal landscape for impact, how to measure & manage impact, and HBO takes on ESG

VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns