ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Affordable housing. American South Capital Partners raised $60 million for affordable housing in the southern US. Blue economy. Katapult Ocean, Alwyn ...

Pike Corp. has been a workhorse of the US energy transition. As utilities deal with growing power demand, aging lines and the rush to connect new solar and battery projects, Pike is one of the ...

Catalytic capital has become a familiar phrase in global impact circles, but for Small Foundation, it represents something foundational. It is the means by which rural African entrepreneurs, often ...

Billions of public dollars flow into climate-related research each year. Yet more than 30,000 patents from US universities and national labs sit untouched—never commercialized, never tested in the ...

The Indian startup offers a marketplace and credit options for farmers in India to acquire new or used tractors, harvesters and other farm machinery. It raised $22.6 million in Series A financing, led ...

The holiday season could be a busy one for contractors and other installers of solar panels, battery storage and heat pumps. Home and business owners are racing a December 31 deadline to complete such ...

Surging electricity demand is exposing the limits of outdated grid infrastructure. Backlogs for legacy equipment such as power transformers are opening the door for next-generation grid technologies ...

PosiGen, a Brookfield Asset Management-backed home solar company focused on lower-income communities, is the latest US solar company to go bust. It joins other one-time high-flyers such as SunPower, ...

Most car dealers in the Philippines are small, family-run businesses. Manila-based OneLot provides tech services to help independent dealerships source used vehicle inventory and do vehicle appraisals ...

Private credit has ballooned to $3 trillion, with impact investors increasingly turning to debt strategies to finance everything from renewable energy projects to small business growth. Yet even as ...

More frequent climate-driven disasters, wildfires, active-shooter incidents and other emergencies are pushing investors to explore new technologies and models for faster and smarter emergency response ...

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