“Local government still works. They’re solution-oriented. They’re bipartisan,” says Utah’s Ben McAdams on the first episode of Capital Gains, a biweekly podcast from myself, Matt Posner of Court ...

Fund news. Climate advisory firm Pollination rolled out an early-stage fund for climate and nature-focused startups. It’s targeting $150 million and will focus its investments in Australia… Raven ...

Commercialization SiTration’s seed round was led by UK-based climate tech investor 2150, with participation from Azolla Ventures, MIT-affiliated E14 Fund, BPH Ventures and other investors. “The need ...

Keep reading, “Muni investors see through mispriced risks to find alpha and impact,” by Dennis Price on ImpactAlpha. 👋 This Week’s Call: How to spot overlooked impact and risk in municipal bonds.

Jessica Pothering ImpactAlpha, August 15 – TeamApt is tackling financial access by enabling anyone with a mobile phone and point-of-sales machine to become a local bank branch. The Lagos-based fintech ...

The Week’s Dealflow Deal spotlight: Mergers and acquisitions. Evidence from the Great Financial Crisis shows that investors that made significant acquisitions have outperformed those that didn’t.

Dealflow: Food Waste Bogotá-based RobinFood raises $32 million to expand food access and cut waste. The Colombian startup operates physical and virtual restaurants that make and deliver affordable ...

Growth opportunity. Full economic participation for Black communities is a $1.5 trillion opportunity over the next decade, McKinsey estimates. MasterCard aims to boost capital availability for ...

Impact Voices: Catalytic Capital How innovative financing structures can help close California’s housing gap. The way housing is financed and constructed in the United States has changed little in ...

Dealflow: Follow the Money African Development Bank issues a record $3 billion social bond to combat COVID-19. The three-year Fight Covid-19 bond, one of the largest-ever U.S.-dollar-denominated ...

BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America. Timberland Investment Group, part of Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, closed its inaugural Latin America ...

Racial equity investing isn’t about ticking a diversity box. It’s about understanding and investing to tackle social inequities in the U.S. – from education to healthcare, transportation and housing, ...