Paris-based venture capital firm Daphni wants to turn breakthroughs from Europe’s scientific researchers into viable commercial companies. “In a world where technology is increasingly commoditized and ...

The term “monitoring” undersells what this function should be in modern advisory practice. Rather than serving as just a compliance exercise or back-office task, effective monitoring can offer a ...

Suzuki Motor Corp. launched a dedicated $40 million impact fund 18 months ago for startups in India, the Japanese automaker’s biggest market. While most corporate venture funds focus on investment ...

Los Angeles-based Oro raised $3 million to help companies provide homeownership and housing benefits to employees. Venture firm Slauson & Co. led the round, with participation from insurance giant ...

In South Africa, a solar microgrid serves a 101-unit residential complex in Sandton, an upscale suburb north of Johannesburg. In Brazil, more than two dozen community solar projects lower the cost of ...

The climate crisis is an all hands on deck problem, and all the hands need to be aware of what the others are doing. The following Climate Finance Trackers are designed to help climate funders and ...

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.

In the early years of impact investing, trailblazers demonstrated pathways to invest while embracing risk and financing markets ignored by traditional capital. Yet, fifteen years after the field’s ...

UK-based Ada Ventures has been investing since 2018 in early-stage European tech startups focused on underserved communities. After nearly 40 investments, more than two-thirds of which are startups ...

The first close of an innovative private-credit strategy for small and mid-sized businesses in Africa included many of the usual suspects: European quasi-public development finance institutions and ...

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 ...