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Amy Cortese

New York

Senior Editor at ImpactAlpha

journalist, senior editor at @impactalpha, author of Locavesting, Brooklynite

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  • 1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    Titans of finance convened for a collective pep talk at the Milken Global Conference, telling each other that maybe the economic damage won’t be that bad after all, and that, anyway, there are deals to be done. “Stay calm and carry on,” KKR founder George Roberts told some of the 5,000 attendees of the star-studded gathering in Beverly Hills. Under the theme, “Toward a Flourishing Future,” speakers scratched for silver linings, hidden opportunities and even higher purpose.

  • 1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    ImpactAlpha Editor Amy Cortese Ara Partners, an investment firm focused on industrial decarbonization, has raised $800 million in an oversubscribed round for its first infrastructure fund. The fund, which sought to raise $500 million, will take majority stakes in mid-sized industrial assets in North America and Europe.

  • 2 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania community about 70 miles from Pittsburgh, George Cook worked for the family business, a community bank that has been in the family for six generations. Cook worked in branches and did “every job imaginable,” he says.

  • 3 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    ImpactAlpha Editor Amy Cortese Private equity giant Apollo Global teamed up with Bullrock Energy Ventures, a Vermont-based renewable energy developer and financier, to develop community solar across New England. An initial $100 million will support 500 megawatts of solar projects in Bullrock’s pipeline.

  • 3 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

    Japanese conglomerate TDK Corporation launched its third corporate venture fund with a $150 million commitment. TDK Ventures’ Fund 3 will invest in seed to Series B rounds of “deep tech”  companies advancing digital transformation and the energy transition, the two main mega trends that form the fund’s thesis. That includes next-generation materials, recycling and reuse, climate tech, e-mobility and emerging economy decarbonization. TDK Ventures, which is based in San Jose, Calif.

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