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TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣Node by node. Impact investing’s rallying cry for many years has been, “from the margins to the mainstream.” But …
🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Unpacking Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South; how Fervo Energy pulled off Wall Street’s biggest clean energy IPO; and Working Capital’s $31 million raise for worker power and resiliency in global supply chains.
Opposites attract at Katapult Future Fest 2026. An invitation to meaningful and necessary change is not an invitation to ease, elegance or glamor. Organizers of last week’s Katapult Future Fest in Amsterdam invited hundreds of Agents of Impact to "Enter the Metamorphosis," where the "structures of the old world dissolve and the blueprint of a new regenerative society” emerges. The three-day convening made visible and palpable the tensions and contradictions that come with any transformation. Between community and industry. Inclusion and exclusion. Conceptual and tangible. Humans and machines. People and planet. Also: LPs and GPs. Fair Capital Partners' Jasper Snoek, in a discussion about common causes of tension between LPs and GPs, called for a recognition of complementary skills, experience and knowledge. "We need one another dearly."
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We often talk about impact investing as a strategy. What increasingly excites me is the larger question: What does it actually take to …
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