Investment

Infinity Recycling aims to create a circular economy for plastics. Its new fund has landed Dutch investment agency Invest-NL as a cornerstone investor, and will invest in companies offering advanced recycling technologies

Carol Sanford wanders through her collection of entrepreneurial heroes, presenting four game-changing archetypes for founders, leaders and impact investors

The launch of the first Sierra Leonean leone synthetic bond, highlights the importance of mobilising international capital into frontier-market currencies, as a tool to reduce the reliance of local borrowers on the dollar

Paul Miller, CEO and managing partner of London-based venture capital firm Bethnal Green Ventures, talks to Impact Investor about his commitment to back ambitious founders using technology to tackle the most pressing societal challenges

Protix, which produces commercially viable insect-based food ingredients, eyes internationally expansion after securing backing from new and existing impact investors in its latest fundraising round

Blue Ocean Fund, managed by Paris-based SWEN Capital Partners, is on track to reach its €120m fundraise target, as more investors turn their attention to science-led investments in startups offering solutions for regenerating our oceans

Manfredi Catella, CEO and chairman of COIMA, Italy’s biggest private real estate manager, tells Impact Investor how he is changing the face of Milan with a “genuine sense of caring”.

Pensioenfonds Detailhandel is investing €100m in the new fund, which will provide loans to Dutch circular projects with potential to create significant impact in the areas of carbon emissions, waste reduction and the replacement of fossil fuels

Verdant Capital’s Edmund Higenbottam has helped raise more than a quarter of a billion dollars for inclusive financial institutions and fintech companies in Africa since 2017. Impact Investor talks to him about about fintech, impact investing and their latest fund

Seeking to make an impact, Abi Mustapha-Maduakor, the new CEO of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, is driving the extraordinary explosion in investment across the continent