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October 30, 202621 min

Impact investing's changing of the guard + How long-term is Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust?

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Impact investing hits $1.76 trillion – even as many of the people who built the field are heading for the exits; Ahead of its IPO, a look at the fine print of Anthropic’s public benefit corporation designation; And in this week's Deal Spotlight, Maycomb Capital closes a $100 million fund that only gets paid back when social programs deliver results. Story links: “ A changing of the guard as the impact investing market matures ,” by Amy Cortese. " Chin up: Impact investing assets under management grow to $1.8 trillion ," by Jessica Pothering, Dennis Price and Zuleyma Bebell. “ IPO filing commits Anthropic PBC to the long-term benefit of humanity – for now ,” by Purpose Foundation’s Christoph Bietz. “ Maycomb Capital raises $100 million for second outcomes-based financing fund ,” by Jessica Pothering

October 23, 202621 min

Coal loopholes in Singaporean banking + AI risks and opportunity at Norrsken Impact Week

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: Singapore’s biggest banks pledged to quit coal in 2019. So why are they still financing coal plants? At Norrsken Impact Week in Barcelona, AI dominated the conversation, but trust remained the big question. And in New York, a $50,000 loan by a revolving loan fund could save a million-dollar family home from falling into speculators’ hands. Story links: “ Investing in AI 2.0: Mapping new investment opportunities across the trustworthy AI stack ,” by Paul Fehlinger. “ US Development Finance Corp. moves toward critical minerals and away from… development ,” by Jessica Pothering. " Mission Driven Finance and Known Holdings team up to provide infrastructure for impact fund managers ," by David Bank.

October 16, 202622 min

Mapping investments in ‘trustworthy AI’ + New priorities at the US DFC

Mapping the capital providers betting that the next wave of AI returns will come from making the technology more trustworthy; how the US Development Finance Corp. has shifted its priorities during the second Trump administration; and, two impact finance firms joined forces to give emerging fund managers the back office muscle they need to land bigger investors. Story links: “ Investing in AI 2.0: Mapping new investment opportunities across the trustworthy AI stack ,” by Paul Fehlinger. “ US Development Finance Corp. moves toward critical minerals and away from… development ,” by Jessica Pothering. " Mission Driven Finance and Known Holdings team up to provide infrastructure for impact fund managers ," by David Bank.

October 9, 202618 min

Break-even results for Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Family Office Ceniarth finds that their impact-first portfolio is not making money… but that's been their plan all along; a new Latin American investor rewards founders with better terms when they deliver more impact; And finally a climate justice fund raises $71 million to back clean energy projects the banks won't touch. Story links: “ Ceniarth’s impact-first portfolio is not making money. That’s the point ,” by Diane Isenberg and Greg Neichin " To upgrade food systems in Latin America, Capibara adds impact incentives for founders, and for itself ," by Jessica Pothering “ Afterglow Climate Justice Fund raises $71 million to finance community-owned green projects ,” by Amy Cortese

October 5, 202622 min

Adding impact investments to the toolkits of grantmakers supporting healthy aging

Xenia Viragh, head of impact investments at The SCAN Foundation, joins David Bani. The $280 million California-based foundation is adding mission-related investments to their grantmaking around policy and advocacy for older adults. SCAN will be at this month’s Grantmakers in Aging conference in Denver to help other foundations think about adding investments to their philanthropic toolkits. David spoke with Xenia about SCAN’s roughly $13 million carve-out for impact funds and direct deals targeting the affordability, quality and delivery of elder care. See all of ImpactAlpha's Valuing Aging coverage .

October 2, 202622 min

The power of place in Galveston + Blue Earth unsticks impact capital

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: From Galveston to Kansas City, overlooked cities are getting organized and making themselves investment ready; investing in the economic determinants of a healthy democracy; And a deal spotlight on Blue Earth Capital, which is unsticking impact capital. Story links: “ Power of place drives impact in a national movement of overlooked cities like Galveston ,” by Dennis Price “ Investing in shared prosperity, broad ownership and other economic determinants of a healthy democracy, ” by David Bank “ Blue Earth Capital on ‘unsticking’ impact capital and the rise of an impact secondaries market (Q&A) ,” by Danielle Rossingh

September 25, 202623 min

Optimism and action at Climate Week NYC + An employee-owned holdco

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: As President Trump calls climate change a “con job” at the UN, investors and philanthropies are raising money and building projects anyway; development banks abroad and Asia's asset owners are stepping up on climate finance – is it enough; And this week's deal spotlight shines on Celsius Companies, a Philadelphia-area holding company buying up clean energy contractors to turn their workers into owners. Story links: “ Hoax this! Climate Week NYC showcases real solutions to real (really!) climate change ,” by Amy Cortese “ Development finance institutions rally private climate capital as US threatens multilateral banks ,” by Jessica Pothering “ As US retreats, Asia's investors take the lead on climate financing ,” by Dennis Price “ Holding company for clean energy contractors in Philadelphia aims to turn workers into owners ,” by Roodgally Senatus

September 23, 202621 min

Utah investor Jim Sorenson writes a primer for impact capitalists

Jim Sorenson, the entrepreneur, investor and founder of the Sorenson Impact Foundation and the broader Sorenson Impact Group joins David Bank. They discuss Jim's new book , The Impact Capitalist, "propelling" ones values rather than just living them, the bipartisan case for an ownership economy, and two of the ventures he's helped stand up in Utah. Disclosure: Sorenson Impact Foundation is an investor in ImpactAlpha.

September 21, 202634 min

Amit Bouri on leaving the GIIN, chasing scale "with integrity," and impact investing's next act

Amit Bouri joins David Bank. The co-founder and, for a few more months, the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network is stepping down after 17 years. Amit has a unique perspective on the field of impact investing, since he’s done so much to build it. The GIIN is due to release a new sizing analysis at its investor forum in Amsterdam.

September 18, 202622 min

Investors roll up their sleeves for Climate Week NYC + ‘Batteries as a service’ as an alternative to diesel

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: Ahead of New York Climate Week, why investors are getting down to business , even as AI sucks up the oxygen (and the capital) in the room; why African pension funds — sitting on $600 billion in assets — are starting to dip into private equity and private debt to fund small businesses back home; and, with batteries as a service , how gas stations in Nigeria and South Africa are becoming an unlikely source of power for small businesses.