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The Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund, founded late 2019 and managed by Triple Jump, announced today it has made its first investments totalling $10mn in three off-grid solar providers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tip me is a platform for sending small tips directly to garment workers. It’s choosing to crowdfund its drive to reach more brands and ‘tipsters’ and increase its influence on the industry.

“We’re a place to look for early first ideas.” Ian de Cruz tells us how P4G has found a niche between development finance institutions (DFIs) and private capital.

On the sidelines before the pandemic, digital due diligence is playing an increasingly important role when it comes to investment decisions by impact funds.

Millions of financial support have been mobilised for off-grid energy companies in need due to the Covid pandemic. But how do fund managers ensure it’s disbursed fast and effectively to those most in need?

Retail investors who want to invest in microfinance in emerging and developing countries can now do so through the Actam Impact Financial Inclusion Fund.

Jennifer Pryce, CEO and President of US non-for-profit Calvert Impact Capital wants to take the company’s model global. For Europe, it’s looking at a new product that would appeal to institutional investors.

Ed Lees, Co-Head Environmental Strategies BNPP AM, forms half of one of the most successful partnerships in impact investing. He explains how investing in ‘green companies’ and shorting ‘brown companies’ can force change.

Roland Siller, the new CEO of DEG, the German Development Finance Institution, wants to build a new subsidiary to further strengthen DEG’s advisory services and help companies in their energy transition.

SilverStreet Capital, an investor in African agriculture, sees opportunities where others shy away from the high risks. “We are targeting the parts of the value chain that need fixing,” says founder Gary Vaughan-Smith.