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The Week in impact investing: Setting the agenda

TGIF, Agents of Impact!  🗣 Changing reality. Set your own agenda, or someone else will set it for you. The statement by Melinda …

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🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with senior editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: niche strategies of debt funds on this month’s Liist of impact funds actively raising capital, and how Africa’s funding drought has claimed several once-high flying startups. We also hear from this week’s Agent of Impact, Sam Polk, whose company Everytable is providing healthy fast food and uplifting communities. 

The Week’s Agent of Impact

Sam Polk, Everytable: Bringing healthy fare to food deserts via franchises. Before Sam Polk discovered a passion for creating access to healthy food in “food deserts,” he was a Wall Street trader addicted to making money. A $3.6 million bonus during his final full year, which made him angry because “it wasn’t big enough,” was the moment he realized his life was all wrong. In a 2014 New York Times op-ed, he wrote that at the time, “I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.”

The Week’s Deal Spotlight

Copia’s struggles show the need for patient growth capital for emerging market startups. A wave of casualties among Kenyan logistics startups has been attributed, in large part, to a severe funding crunch. The real issue may be the type of capital they raised (or didn’t) during the venture capital boom years of 2021 and 2022. “You can build an e-commerce business for rural clients, but in order to build that, you need scale. It's a matter of time and sufficient patient capital," Nico Blaauw of Netherlands-based impact investor Goodwell Investments told ImpactAlpha this week. The problem, he says, is there is too little patient capital.

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💼 See and share more than a dozen new impact jobs posted this week on ImpactAlpha’s Career Hub and view hundreds of more jobs in impact investing and sustainable finance. Have a job listing to post? Submit it here.

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