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Enough Equity Financing: Why the Future of Impact Fintechs Depends on Private Debt
Many high-profile impact-focused fintech firms have been successful in raising Series A and B equity rounds, and many believe that form of capital can serve both growth and scale goals. But it can’t, says John Beckham, Chief Investment Officer at MicroVest Capital Management. Instead, he advocates more debt financing for fintechs that have proven their models. He explores why investors should embrace private debt as a key opportunity to turn a nascent marketplace for impact fintechs into a thriving one.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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- fintech, impact investing
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Someone wrote a fake letter pretending to be BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and some reporters got duped
A BlackRock spokesman pointed to the company's official Twitter account: "Don't be fooled by imitations...Larry's real CEO letter coming soon," the firm tweeted on Wednesday.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Move beyond mere trade-offs in impact investing
We’ve seen a remarkable increase in the diversity of impact investors, each with different impact goals and investment strategies. But we’ve also seen an increasingly polarized debate about whether impact investing requires a trade-off between financial return and social impact.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Viewpoint: Investors Need More and Better Data on Sustainability
Measurable results are central to advance sustainable finance – the kind that rewards companies being environmentally or socially responsible.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Here’s Why TPG Turned Down Vaping Startup Juul
“We had an opportunity to invest early on,” TPG Co-CEO and Founding Partner Jim Coulter told Fortune Tuesday following a Reuters Breakingviews event. Namely, the firm looked into Juul at the start of 2018 but decided against making an infusion over concerns about the morality of such a call.
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How Data-driven Strategies Can Improve Impact Investing Outcomes
The Rockefeller Foundation has been designing ways to harness data effectively in order to improve the effectiveness of impact investing. “Data really helps you understand the nature of the problem, and thinking about data ahead of time helps you structure your experiments and your interventions,” said Zia Khan, vice president of initiatives and strategy at the foundation
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- Investing, Technology
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- data, impact investing
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Hewlett Foundation’s Leader Makes a Case Against Impact Investing
In public speeches and essays, and in an email interview with the Chronicle, Kramer has steadfastly maintained that impact investing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially for the biggest foundations, he argues, impact investing could do more harm than good.
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Climate Change Spurs McKnight to Go Big on Impact Investing
"One out of every three dollars has mission alignment," says Elizabeth McGeveran, who has led McKnight’s impact-investing program since 2014. No other foundation of McKnight’s size can say that.
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- Environment, Investing
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