Arya had a unique pairing of services for India’s smallholder grain farmers when it launched in 2013: post-harvest logistics and crop storage to curb food spoilage, plus working capital loans to tide ...

Greetings, Agents of Impact! If you missed any of our look-aheads to 2026, you can find them all here. As the operating environment shifted and long-held assumptions were tested, ImpactAlpha offered a ...

Greetings, Agents of Impact! If you missed any of our look-aheads to 2026, you can find them all here. Even as markets recalibrated and policy signals shifted, asset allocators and managers continued ...

As an impact or emerging fund manager, let’s say you have hard-won LP commitments, in writing. And let’s say you have a sweet deal or two ready to close. When should you call that capital from your ...

India-based climatetech startup Varaha launched in 2022 to train smallholder farmers in sustainable agroforestry, biochar production, water management and regenerative agriculture practices like drip ...

São Paulo-based Vox Capital is taking a second run at financing Brazil’s regenerative agriculture transition. Announced at Converge Capital’s Climate Implementation Summit in São Paulo, the fund will ...

Roughly 80% of garment workers are women, many in unsafe or low-wage conditions. “The industry runs on women,” Steph Stephenson of the Cordes Foundation says on the latest Agents of Impact Podcast.

The cleantech carnage is piling up, with canceled projects, solar bankruptcies and corporate write-downs amid gale-force policy headwinds. But survivors among clean-energy developers and energy ...

Imagine an institutional investor evaluating potential funds for investment. After extensive due diligence, they shortlist three funds that offer comparable risk-adjusted financial returns, along with ...

The entrepreneurs who provide badly needed quality child care services face ongoing barriers to financing, licensing and property ownership. “The lack of affordable, accessible, quality child care is ...

The restoration of Portland’s once-bustling Black community of Albina is moving from vision to action. The 1803 Fund, seeded two years ago with $400 million from Nike billionaires Phil and Penny ...

The Oslo-based company builds subsea water desalination plants powered by natural ocean pressure. The company says it can yield fresh water with half the energy required for conventional desalination.