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Private equity energy power players + Choice and control across the AI stack

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: “ ⁠Power for AI, mostly renewable, tops the shopping list for big asset managers⁠ ,” by Amy Cortese, with reporting from Erik Stein “ ⁠Of agents and agency: An investor’s guide to choice and control across the AI stack,⁠ ” by Paul Fehlinger " ⁠WovenEarth raises $155 million fund-of-funds for early-stage…

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Where Temasek is looking for growth opportunities + Three impact summer reads

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How Temasek, the $400 billion state-owned investment fund out of Singapore, positions itself as a generational investor; a look at three impact investing “beach reads,” out this week, that tackle the future of capitalism and the common good; and sustainable farm and timberland manager Alder Point lands $4…

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India as a hotbed of cool tech + Secondaries, impact-style

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: A look at the cool tech investors seeking sustainable solutions to help billions beat the heat; why impact LPs are buying and selling stakes in the secondaries market; and, debriefing this week’s call, which asked whether faith-aligned investors can become known for what they are for, not just what they’re…

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Generation Investment Management on AI’s inconvenient truths + Closing the LatAm gender gap

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability; how closing the gender gap could ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce; and the California pension fund behind Inox Clean Energy’s ambitious rollup of solar manufacturing and generating assets. To try…

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Founding principles for impact investors on the USA’s 250th birthday

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Four Agents of Impact offer thoughts on the promise of the American experiment and the role for impact investing in it, ahead of the country’s 250th birthday; a look at Next 50’s strategy for financing GPs and companies that are valuing aging; and how Gaussion is speeding battery charging and boosting…

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Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering . Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is being written in Zambia, where attempts are being made to redirect its mineral wealth toward local small and growing businesses; what SpaceX and other IPOs mean for Impact LPs and the field of impact investing; and this week’s deal spotlight shines a light…

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The private equity buzz at SuperReturn in Berlin + Sharing AI power along with wealth

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese . Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense; a look at public and private approaches to sharing the AI wealth; and, Realize Capital Partners’ fund-of-funds secures $277 million for Canada’s impact fund managers. To try ImpactAlpha Edge,…

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Battery storage makes Europe’s cheap renewable power more valuable + The growth opportunity behind S2G’s $1 billion raise

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe; a look at Lukas Walton-backed S2G investments following its $1 billion; and, the reasons that the world cup is a sportswashing bonanza. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This week's stories: “…

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Taking stock of Alterra’s impact on emerging market climate finance + Going down-market to uplift women

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?; how Fervo Energy pulled off the biggest clean energy IPO in Wall Street history; and, Working Capital Fund secures $31 million for its third supply chain resilience fund. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠ .…

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Two impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillions

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese . Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking to address Big Tech’s AI data center buildout; who wins when access to private equity is opened up to American retirees; and, how 2x is spurring a global race to the top in gender-lens investing. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This…

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