One of impact measurement’s most persistent problems is comparability. Thousands of organizations track social, environmental and economic outcomes using different frameworks and different languages.

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The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation launched the Daraja Impact Fund in 2023 with 10 million Swiss Franc ($12.5 million) to provide flexible, impact-linked financing to Tanzania’s small ...

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The UK and Kenya-based consumer finance company M-KOPA is nearing a close on roughly $160 million in Series F equity financing, led by its longtime investor, Sumitomo Corporation, ImpactAlpha has ...

New Mexico’s solar resources, geothermal features and nuclear know-how attract many climate tech startups, and the venture capitalists who back them If that’s not enough, there’s also the state’s $67 ...

The Fibers Fund, a Washington, DC-based fund that supports small natural fiber and textile producers, has been selected for a program-related investment of up to $500,000 from the Nathan Cummings ...

Despite a challenging fundraising environment – Leapfrog’s Andy Kuper called it “one of the most challenging fundraising cycles for private equity this century” – impact fund managers see reason for ...

Hanging from a scale mounted on a steel beam in a cavernous industrial space in west Berkeley, Calif., is a large plastic bag filled with a ton of carbon. The colorless, odorless gas, extracted from ...

When it comes to early-stage ventures understanding their impact, we hear the same thing over and over: “It’s too early to measure impact, isn’t it?” The logic goes something like this: If it’s ...