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impactalpha.com | Brian Walsh |Jessica Pothering |Isaac Silk
ImpactAlpha Editor Jessica Pothering ImpactAlpha Editor Isaac Silk
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impactalpha.com | Jessica Pothering
Connecticut-based Budderfly partners with commercial property owners and managers to make energy upgrades, install usage monitors and survey energy consumption. Its focus is helping businesses cut ambient energy waste, which is a major contributor to real estate’s hefty greenhouse gas emissions. “With any existing facility in the country – office buildings, restaurants, fitness centers, retail shops – there’s generally a 30% waste factor,” founder Al Subbloie told ImpactAlpha.
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impactalpha.com | Lucy Ngige
The investment arm of UK-based clean energy developer Octopus Energy Group, is partnering with South Africa-based Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Managers to invest in clean energy projects on the continent. Octopus is looking to raise $250 million for rooftop solar, battery storage, electric vehicle charging infrastructure and grid upgrades.
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impactalpha.com | Isaac Silk |Brian Walsh
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank.
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impactalpha.com | Lucy Ngige
Austin Mwape learned the ins and outs of banking as the deputy governor of the Bank of Zambia and chair of both Absa Bank and Stanbic Bank in the country. Now with the Zambia National Advisory Board for Impact Investment, Mwape is working with his former colleagues at the central bank to unlock financing for small businesses while building a more supportive lending ecosystem.
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impactalpha.com | Lucas Turner-Owens |Eric Horvath |Isaac Silk
For the finale of season two, DeLia Impact Advisors’ Alicia DeLia joins Lucas and Eric to talk about the intricacies of fundraising within impact investing, the importance of investor relations in raising both grants and impact-first investments, and why she’s passionate about getting capital to into the hands of communities. Says DeLea: “A lot of my work morphed from the traditional ‘How do you ask for money?
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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.
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impactalpha.com | Lucy Ngige
Years-long efforts to get local funders in Africa to step up with financing for small businesses and economic development are starting to bear fruit. In Ghana, the Ci-Gaba Fund-of-Funds is nearing a first close to drive capital to small and mid-sized businesses in West Africa. “Fundraising has been good,” said Hamidiya Ismail of Savannah Impact Advisory, which manages the Ci-Gaba Fund of Funds, expressing a sentiment not often heard from fund managers in today’s market.
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impactalpha.com | Lucy Ngige
Lagos-based Winich Farmshas built a digital marketplace connecting over 180,000 smallholder farmers, logistics partners and agricultural produce buyers like small and mid-sized factories. The startup raised an undisclosed amount of funding from the Egyptian venture capital firm DisrupTech Ventures.
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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.