ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha is transforming the world of business media by focusing on social and environmental value, similar to how impact investing is changing the finance sector. Strong journalism and engaging media play a crucial role in the development of new financial markets, including venture capital, hedge funds, and investments in emerging markets. As the impact marketplace expands, there is a greater need for specialized journalists who can cover this area, share important stories, shape the discussions, spotlight influential leaders, and highlight emerging trends.

National, Trade/B2B

English

Online/Digital

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#577612

United States

#209985

Finance/Investing

#1918

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Catalytic climate capital in the Amazonian bio-economy

1 day ago | impactalpha.com | Brian Walsh |Jessica Pothering |Isaac Silk

ImpactAlpha Editor Jessica Pothering ImpactAlpha Editor Isaac Silk
Nuveen reups debt financing with energy services firm Budderfly

5 days ago | 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.
Octopus Energy Generation raises $60 million for clean energy in Africa

5 days ago | 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.
Lessons from Apollo and Mastercard Foundation

1 week ago | impactalpha.com | Isaac Silk |Brian Walsh

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank.
Austin Mwape: Getting Zambia’s central bank behind growth capital for small businesses (video)

1 week ago | 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.
Understanding fundraising in impact investing

1 week ago | 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?
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.
African investors warm to regional funds of funds

1 week ago | 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.
Winich Farms tops up its financing to offer produce-collateralized loans

1 week ago | 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.
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.