Investment

OEDC’s report on gender equality in blended finance, Impact Investing Institute’s guide for charitable endowments, and Equal Measure’s latest 2030 SDG Gender Index

Plus Impact Deal’s accelerator programme, Robeco’s global climate survey, ImpactAssets50 database, and Catella’s energy-positive residential fund

Dutch cooperative lender Rabobank and venture capital fund Future Food Fund have invested in Clear, a health-tech company which has developed a self-help app for type 2 diabetes patients

Lack of access to funding is preventing blue economy startups to grow, and hindering the development of ground-breaking technologies which are crucial for preserving marine biodiversity, and for mitigating the effects of climate change

Launched in 2017, the Village Enterprise Development Impact Bond has helped 95,000 East Africans out of poverty during the pandemic, supporting more than 14,000 first-time entrepreneurs in Kenya and Uganda

SECO’s Liliana de Sá Kirchknopf explains how Switzerland is mobilising more private capital for developing countries aligned with the SDGs, and announces the first call for proposals under a new impact finance initiative

Organisations representing impact investors, including the the European Venture Philanthropy Association and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, are pooling resources to uncover a reliable picture of Europe’s impact investment sector

UK’s publicly-owned impact investor CDC Group has reinforced its commitment to broaden access to live-saving drugs across Africa with the acquisition of Moroccan pharmaceutical firm by portfolio company KELIX bio

InvestEU funding programme has been given a guarantee of €19.65 billion by the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the European Investment Fund, to support investment projects across Europe

Darren Agombar, CEO of Connected Asset Management, tells us how he is bridging the gap between UK pensions capital and impact investment opportunities, and his plans for European expansion