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Press Release: Impact Tech Venture OpenSC Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding
The venture, co-founded by WWF-Australia and BCG Digital Ventures, will use the funds to further develop its technology platform for driving sustainable and ethical supply chains.
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- Investing, Technology
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Rich Families Pour Wealth Into $31 Trillion ESG Opportunity
Demographic shifts are encouraging a surge of activity designed around investments to combat climate change, address inequality or simply to encourage companies to operate in a more sustainable fashion.
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- Investing
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Arohan in Talks With Sovereign Wealth Funds, PEs to Raise $200M
Arohan plans to complete the fundraise in the next few months, and is in discussions with sovereign wealth funds.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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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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- Investing
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