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Impact Tech Venture OpenSC Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding
OpenSC, an impact venture developed in partnership by the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) and BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV), the global corporate venture, investment, and incubation arm of Boston Consulting Group, today announced that OpenSC has raised $4 million in seed funding from strategic impact investors.
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- Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- supply chains
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Viewpoint: How Making Smart Financial Decisions Can Have a Positive Impact on Climate Change
Skeptics question the effect of ESG investment on financial performance, but we emphasize that climate change and other ESG-related risks materialize only over the long term.
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- Environment, Investing
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Protecting Women Will Make You Money
Big investors are starting to use a new metric to assess financial risk: rates of gender-based violence.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: 4 Key Questions to Help Investors Avoid Greenwashing
We believe investors should consider four key questions to cut through the sustainable investing confusion and avoid greenwashing.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, greenwashing, impact investing
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‘Frontier Finance’ Is Scaling up to Achieve United Nations Goals
New report on impact investment shows that big opportunities exist to make money and achieve global development targets.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Venture Financing For The Bottom 99.98% Of The Pyramid… And When You Don’t Know Where You Rank
This top-down view of the venture capitalist (VC) works for about 20/100,000 entrepreneurs. But even these 20 could keep control of the venture and of the wealth created by delaying VC – and by letting the VCs come to them, as Jan Koum of WhatsApp did.
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Storytelling as a Strategy: What Entrepreneurs Can Gain from Crafting a Compelling Narrative
As Steven Spielberg once said, cinema’s power of persuasion is shown by getting “everybody to clap at the same time.” Likewise, successful entrepreneurs must also tell stories with persuasion and purpose, says Ami Dalal at FINCA Ventures. She explores how effective storytelling can help an enterprise build its brand and attract investors, customers and talent, and shares two essential approaches to help early-stage companies craft compelling narratives.
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- Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, WASH
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Europe Leads Institutional Investors’ Embrace of ESG
Craig Phillips, head of CoreData Research International, said in a statement that while institutional investors increasingly incorporate ESG considerations in their investment processes, "many are at the first level of adoption" and may be restricted by a reliance on in-house capabilities and resources.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, impact investing
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