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 ...

Dennis Price 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

ImpactAlpha, October 14 – Mundo Verde, a Brazilian natural products retailer, has acquired its e-commerce equivalent Natue for an undisclosed sum, buying out German venture capital firm Project A’s ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...