Amy Cortese

New York

Senior Editor at ImpactAlpha

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

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Articles

S2G invests in Mealogic to provide ‘food as medicine’

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

As the interconnections between food and health become more clear, entrepreneurs and investors see an opportunity to treat disease and promote better health through better nutrition. The latest: Washington, DC-based Mealogic, which provides nutritionally tailored meals, such as low-sodium, anti-inflammatory or plant-based, on a white label basis to healthcare providers, clinics and other customers. The company raised $16 million in a deal led by S2G Investment.
Private equity firms are managing companies for the longer term, by necessity

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese |Roodgally Senatus

Private equity firms are sitting on some $1 trillion in aging deals that they now must manage for the longer term. PE firms collectively own some 30,000 portfolio companies, worth an estimated $3 trillion. Nearly a third of those companies have been held for more than five years, years longer than was once typical. “These are staggering numbers,” says Josh Smigel of consulting firm PwC.
Ownership, collinearity and KPIs: Apollo’s Impact strategy turns five

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

When Apollo Global launched its impact strategy five years ago, it brought in impact investing industry veteran Lisa Hall to help shape the PE giant’s approach to impact. “There is an expectation, more and more, that impact approaches will infiltrate the firm,” Hall told ImpactAlpha at the time. Private equity giant Apollo Global invites agents of impact insideApollo’s latest impact report opens with a tribute to Hall, who passed away earlier this year.
Generation acquires a stake in IFS to decarbonize heavy industry

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

London-based IFS makes industrial automation software that helps manufacturers, construction firms and other asset-heavy organizations operate more efficiently and reduce their emissions.
Call No. 71: Green lenders are all dressed up and ready to roll

2 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

The deals pencil. The pipeline is vetted. The projects are shovel-ready. Community lenders and green banks that had been set to deploy $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction funds are combing through their extensive pipelines of projects in community solar, building decarbonization and truck, school bus electrification and other green solutions. They have identified a pipeline of deals representing billions of dollars that can be moved forward even without the infusion of federal funding.
Turning the stranded pipeline of green loans into investable deal flow for private capital

2 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

It’s not a question of whether to go forward. It’s how. Before its account at Citibank was frozen in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration, Climate United had closed four loans, totaling $47 million, that are expected to mobilize an additional $1.6 billion in private financing for green upgrades and improvements.
For climate fund managers with dry powder, there’s rarely been a better time to invest

3 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

Climate tech tailwinds have turned to headwinds. Clean energy incentives are on the chopping block. Fundraising is a slog across the board. The worst of times? More like the best of times for climate investors with capital on hand. That’s the sentiment of some veteran climate tech investors who have been through a cycle or two.
Global Climate Finance Forum seeks to mobilize capital for locally-led solutions in the Global South

3 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

Call it the Montego Bay manifesto. In late April, a group of impact investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs gathered in Jamaica to map strategies for channeling private capital from the Global North to climate solutions in the Global South. In their sights: the COP30 global climate talks coming up in November in Belém, Brazil.
Jean Rogers, Pegasus Capital Advisors: Material girl

4 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

“When I founded SASB, the words sustainability and materiality were not uttered in the same breath,” says Rogers, who is now helping lead climate investments in emerging markets at Pegasus. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, now part of the International Sustainability Standards Board, created standards for sustainable investing that quantified the inherent risks of climate change in dozens of industries, streamlining the process of measuring and managing such risks.
Montauk Climate spinout Clear Current raises $4 million to manage data in ‘the electron economy’

1 month ago | impactalpha.com | Amy Cortese

As vice president of sales at Bloom Energy, the fuel cell startup that went public in 2018, John Rueuter encountered energy teams at corporations and utilities that wanted to transition to clean energy or implement efficiency measures. They just lacked the data to make the financial case. Projects would take from six to 24 months to get approved.