Cultural capital in France. Separately, the best of French creativity was on display at Bpifrance’s recent conference, reports Upstart Co-Lab’s Laura Callanan in her latest dispatch from creative ...

Welcome to this week’s ImpactAlpha LP/GP, where we take you inside the real business of impact investing and the dynamic relationships between owners, managers and intermediaries of impact capital.

In the small coastal town of Crisfield, Maryland, a $36 million flood mitigation project has been in limbo since April 2025, when the Trump Administration abruptly terminated its FEMA funding and ...

Across Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and beyond, the diaspora of Venezuelan entrepreneurs over the last decades have helped build investment networks to improve conditions for farmers, urban residents ...

Young people in North Africa and elsewhere in the Arab world are having a tough time finding good economic opportunities. High youth unemployment, which was cited as a major contributor to the Arab ...

Copper is a key ingredient to the clean energy transition, and no country produces more of it than Chile, which provides nearly one-quarter of the global supply. To make copper production greener, ...

When we started A to Z we laid out our core values as a team, now memorialized in the about us section of our website. Front and center you will find “transparent.” While we endeavor to lead with ...

UK-based Octopus Energy Group operates multiple business lines, all focused on the renewable energy transition. Kraken is its AI-based services platform for utility companies including National Grid ...

Kevin Starr recently articulated something many in the impact investing field have been quietly wrestling with for years. Writing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, he declared: “There Is No ...

Good intentions are not enough. A lively discussion erupted during the holiday break over the troublesome reality: If impact investing is so good, why are things still so messed up? More to the point, ...

Arya had a unique pairing of services for India’s smallholder grain farmers when it launched in 2013: post-harvest logistics and crop storage to curb food spoilage, plus working capital loans to tide ...

As a fiduciary advisor, I am responsible for every recommendation I make to a client, even when that recommendation is informed by software I did not build and cannot fully explain. That reality is ...