Roodgally Senatus

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.

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Roodgally Senatus

More than 30,000 wildfires have burned through nearly 1.3 million acres in the US since the start of this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Forest fires are becoming more severe and harder to contain. In Southern California, gusting winds fueled the flames that burned Los Angeles neighborhoods for 24 straight days earlier this year.

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Roodgally Senatus

San Francisco-based Ellipsis Health has built an AI voice agent designed to support patients with complex physical, behavioral and social needs, who tend to rack up the majority of healthcare costs. The agent, called Sage, was built using data from millions of live clinical patient calls over several years. Ellipsis says Sage’s vocal biomarker technology can help it adjust its tone and care approach to a patient’s emotional and mental state.

2 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Roodgally Senatus

Food and beverage manufacturers are looking to streamline their packaging and distribution to reduce freight miles, manual labor, and emissions. Industrial automation startup Sojo offers robotic packaging systems for customer sites, avoiding the need to ship products to third-party co-packers. Sojo also operates its own national network of sorting facilities. The Pennsylvania-based company’s blockchain-based track-and-trace geolocation software provides real-time supply chain insights.

2 weeks ago | impactalpha.com | Roodgally Senatus

A dozen private foundations in the greater Philadelphia area are working together to turn their endowments – not just their grants budget – toward local investment opportunities in small-business finance, inclusive homeownership strategies, affordable housing development and other community-led ventures and initiatives.