PLUS: Covid-19 updates you may have missed; ANDE invests $1.2m in women-led businesses; Africa’s Novastar Ventures raises $108m; Acumen backs Peruvian edtech platform, and more.
Poor farmers face fluctuating income year-round, but remote data-gathering tools don't usually pick up these seasonal changes. Lean Data specialist 60 Decibels may have a solution.
Lockdown has one upside: it's easier than ever to rub shoulders with social entrepreneurs and impact investors from around the world – without even leaving your desk. Here are 10 to add to your schedule.
Acumen is building a global community of social innovators – and now, it's opening up its 700-strong fellowship to UK-based changemakers. Know someone brave enough to reimagine the world? Nominate or apply by 31 May.
PLUS: Covid-19 announcements you may have missed; ADB Ventures tech fund raises first $50m; EU invests €1m in Oneplanetcrowd platform; grants for UK energy innovators; and more from the world of investing for good.
Three big questions remain if impact investing is to fulfil its potential. In the final of a three-part series, the University of Heidelberg’s Gorgi Krlev asks: why do we still know so little about impact investing markets?
At a debate in London this week, impact investors debated if a compromise has to be made between social and financial returns. Some home truths might have been hard for the optimists to hear.
Acumen launches in the US, the southwest of England proves to be a hotspot for Social Investment Tax Relief and actress Eva Longoria becomes an impact investment ambassador.
