The investment brings total assets under management to around $95m, which will be used to support SMEs in developing countries working in the fields of renewable energy and sustainable agriculture.
The funding will enable the company to scale and commercialise its cloud-linked device, which allows medical professionals to remotely monitor key patient indicators such as heart rate, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation.
The Swiss impact asset manager made its first climate infrastructure investment in Latin America and also provided funding to one of Southeast Asia’s leading fruit processing and export companies.
Climate ventures need a wider ecosystem of support if they are to succeed, with less focus on the unicorns and more focus on the wider forest, argues Ben Honan, investment lead at Climate KIC.
iGravity appoints co-head of investments | De Klerk becomes supervisory board member at ILX Management | Unity Trust appoints new COO | KGAL boosts sustainable infrastructure with latest hire.
Nature finance is gaining momentum, but the complexity of the sector often leaves nature underpriced, undervalued and underfinanced, a new report has said.
There is no one-size-fits-all template for blended finance structures but research from the Dutch NAB identifies some overarching traits to aid understanding of a complex topic.
An impact approach to public spending may be the answer to mounting social and environmental problems for cash-strapped governments, the impact investing pioneer says in an updated edition of his book on impact investing.
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