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🎧 Entrepreneur and author @ericries is wrestling with a question that many of the startups his book helped inspire have come to face: how to keep companies from losing their souls once money, scale and power arrive. hubs.li/Q04h5XtL0

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Building ecosystems for impact investing. ✏️ Setting up an impact vehicle in six steps. ✏️ Secha Capital's operator-investor model. ✏️ Climate investing opportunities in Zimbabwe and Senegal.

Today in LP/GP news: 🎯 LPs bridging the ‘second-wave’ capital. 🎯 Second and third funds from diverse-led GPs. 🎯 Scaling up deep tech in Europe. 🎯 Blending finance for renewable energy in India. hubs.li/Q04hhlq60

Up now at the #ImpactAlpha Career Hub: @NuveenInv has an opening for a clean energy infrastructure investment associate in London. hubs.li/Q04h8FlR0

.@calvertimpcap has raised $40 million for a sidecar facility to provide senior debt in employee-led buyouts financed by @ApisHeritage which earlier this year sailed through the $250 million target it had set for its second employee ownership fund. hubs.li/Q04h608q0

Today in #impinv news: 🎧 The education of Eric Ries. ✏️ Mixing battery tech for scale. ✏️ Sustainable M&A in India. ✏️ Calvert Impact’s ownership strategy. hubs.li/Q04h5zsM0

“Every allocation you make is a signal. Every mandate carries values. And every time-horizon reveals what, and who, truly matters,” said Kafi Lindsay at @ImpactPHL's Total Impact Summit. hubs.li/Q04g-Bmf0

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Reclaiming the narrative of American capitalism ✏️ Financing student loan alternatives ✏️ Carbon Equity's infrastructure fund of funds hubs.li/Q04gYP8q0

🔎 #WaterConnect, which invests in water and sanitation infrastructure in emerging markets, is working with Norway-based desalination tech company #Flocean to scope out a plant to deliver freshwater to Malé and Hulhumalé in the Indian Ocean. hubs.li/Q04gQzc50

💼 See and share more than a dozen new impact jobs posted this week on the #ImpactAlpha Career Hub and view hundreds of more jobs in impact investing and sustainable finance. hubs.li/Q04gQBJt0

🎧How Los Angeles is working to lower the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing; the Southern Poverty Law Center controversy, and who really controls the funds in donor-advised funds; and, how sustainable is sustainable aviation fuel?

Today in #impinv news: ✏️Circular flow. 📸 Spotted at Total Impact Summit. 🎧 Alderpoint Capital’s Chris Larson and Mizuho’s Megumi Muto. 🔎 Undersea desalination in the Maldives. hubs.li/Q04gMGVK0

.@sahelcapital, an investor focused on Africa’s food and agriculture sector, seeks a credit risk intern in Lagos. hubs.li/Q04gwr9S0

Brazil's banking system is concentrated in the hands of a few large institutions. Brazilian fintech #Franq raised $12.4 million to loosen that grip. hubs.li/Q04gz5_q0

Jewish Investors Network presses @PayPal to provide payments in Palestine. On May 19, PayPal shareholders will vote on a resolution that urges the company’s board to do that. hubs.li/Q04gy_bK0

#Hint, an AI-powered home management startup co-founded by @MarthaStewart, raised $10 million in seed funding from Slow Ventures, @EnergyImpact_and others. hubs.li/Q04gyV-n0

Up now at the #ImpactAlpha Career Hub: @BIDInvest is looking for a principal officer of international business in Miami. hubs.li/Q04gyglr0

Bjoern Struewer and @ThatTash of impact advisory firm #RootsofImpact argue that the impact-first debate obscures what really matters: the impact. hubs.li/Q04gy_cC0

In Los Angeles, a novel mechanism that is expected to finance the construction of more than 1,500 units of new housing may suggest a way for the rest of the state, and the country, to get more housing built more quickly and cheaply. hubs.li/Q04gzx300