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LeapFrog Investments: $1.15 Billion Fourth Fund Closed
The funding includes $808 million of primary fund commitments and up to $210 million of pre-allocated co-investment to accelerate high-impact healthcare and financial services companies in global growth markets.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Subsidy and Synergy: How Philanthropy Can Complement Impact Investing More Effectively
The original goal of impact investing was to build out the funding spectrum between philanthropy and commercial investment. But according to Asad Mahmood at SIMA and Nanno Kleiterp, the arrival of private equity firms — promising scale and market-rate financial returns — has pulled all the sector's energy toward the commercial end of the spectrum. They explore the key role philanthropic subsidy has played in the development of emerging markets business, clarify some misconceptions about its role in impact investing, and propose some ways philanthropists and impact investors can better align their efforts.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Acumen Announces $300 Million Agricultural Adaptation Commitment
A five-year commitment will help close agrifood adaptation finance gap, reach forty million smallholder farmers, feed one billion people by 2030.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Global
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Navigating the Financing Paradox for WSMEs: Workable Solutions for Increasing Financial Inclusion Among Women-Owned or -Led Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
In Africa, an estimated $42 billion financing gap exists for small and medium-sized enterprises owned or led by women (WSMEs). According to Nathalie Gogue-Ebo, Crystal Mugimba, Millie Maina and Shiemaa Ahmed at Open Capital, this gap has persisted despite the fact that women own the majority of the continent’s SMEs, and that globally, they default on their loans at a rate 53% lower than men. They explore the main roadblocks facing African WSMEs, and share some solutions that can ensure that these women entrepreneurs have access to the capital they need to thrive.
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IsDB Joins Efforts With WHO and Development Partners to Promote Health Impact Investment
The US$ 10 million grant from IsDB will specifically support the technical assistance that WHO provides to countries around the world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Global
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Analysis: Systems Change Isn’t One Thing. Financing Should Reflect That
From experimentation to redesign to optimization, the interconnected processes by which systems are changed require distinct forms of funding.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Nuveen Raises €157 Million for Impact Credit Strategy
The global credit strategy, which aims to address real world issues such as affordable housing, community development and climate has the backing of Gjensidige Pensjonsforsikring, and TIAA.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Problem with ‘Forced Entrepreneurship’: How Universities — and Venture Capitalists — are Failing Climate Tech Innovators
Universities are increasingly positioning themselves as hubs of business innovation, and as Emre Eren Korkmaz at the University of Oxford explains, their support has become an important driver of climate tech innovation. But he argues that universities’ "one size fits all" approach to supporting these innovators is fundamentally flawed, prioritizing the pathway to entrepreneurship — and the demands of venture capitalists — rather than empowering true innovation. He explores the problem and highlights some alternative approaches.
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- Education, Environment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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