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Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Redwashing risk. 🎧 Trump’s big chill on global development finance. 🕵️ Agent of Impact Azzi Agnelli . 🔎 Better, cheaper cleantech.

.@prestocharging raises $15 million to streamline on-the-go #EV charging for @Uber drivers and fleet operators. Presto partners with EV charging operators @evgonetwork and @ChargePointnet to collect real-time data on fast-charging public stations.

#MacroCycle, which breaks down and recycles plastic textile waste into high-quality “virgin-grade” resins, scores $6.5 million of seed funding for energy-efficient waste recycling. #VoltaCircle and @CEVteam led MacroCycle’s seed financing round.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ US funding freeze upends private investment in Africa. ✏️ Climate insurance fund. ✏️ Energy efficient plastics recycling. ✏️ Catalytic capital for food waste reduction.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Responsible AI in the Age of Trump. ✏️ Optimizing energy use in Southeast Asia. ✏️ Impact seafood buy-out fund. ✏️ An allocator’s guide to impact investing in healthcare.

A government purchase of @tiktok_us or capital investments for working families? "We are going to monetize the asset side of the US balance sheet for the American people," Treasury Secretary @realscottBesent declared.

To get closer to the business of fund management itself, some asset managers are buying “GP stakes.” “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” said Torbjorn Caesar of @ActisLLP, an infrastructure impact manager spun out of CDC, now @BritishIntInv.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ What’s at stake in GP stakes. ✏️ Solar for Guatemalan small businesses. ✏️ Curbing food waste. ✏️ Trump’s sovereign wealth fund.

.@Creadev buys @SaviuVentures’ stake in African eyewear company @Lapaireke. Lapeire was founded in 2018 to provide affordable eye care to low- and middle-income Africans with eyeglasses starting at $30 and free vision tests.

New offtake commitments from @Shopify and @Microsoft highlight growing preference for corporations looking to offset their own emissions for higher-quality—and higher-priced—credits in the “carbon dioxide removal,” or CDR, corner of the voluntary market.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Demand for higher-quality ‘carbon dioxide removal’ credits. ✏️ African affordable eyecare stake. ✏️ The near-term fusion future. ✏️ Nature + livelihoods investing in Latam.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Regrouping. 🎧 Responding to Trump. ☎️ Brazil’s impact growth market. 🔎 EVs in India.

Developing: @WhiteHouse rescinds Trump’s problematic federal funding freeze.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Mission-driven funders try to build a bridge – but to where? ✏️ Plastic recycling in Mexico. ✏️ Sustainable transportation in Europe. ✏️ Brazil in the hot seat.

Extractive profits over patients or health care #impinv that prioritizes value-based care & better patient outcomes? @ShahSnehalS on the contrasting approaches to #PrivateEquity in healthcare.

Lots of questions as Trumps pulls out, withdraws and rolls back. “Amid this uncertainty, one tool stands out as uniquely resilient: blended finance,” writes @ConvergenceBF's Nnamdi Igbokwe in a guest post on ImpactAlpha.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Contrasting approaches to private-equity health care investing. ✏️ KKR’s $3 billion climate strategy. ✏️ Data-driven insights for the energy transition. ✏️ Blending finance amid political headwinds.

.@FLII_latam, the Latin American Impact Investing Forum, returns to Mérida, in February and #ImpactAlpha is proud to be a media sponsor! Register now and get 30% off with code IMPACTALPHA30. #impinv #socent #latam

🇧🇷 Join Wright Capital's Fernanda Camargo, @famainvest's Fabio Alperowitch, @feirapreta_'s Adriana Barbosa and @MDICoficial's Giselle Vianna plus #AliançaPeloImpacto for "Unlocking impact alpha in Brazil. #RSVP for our Wed., Jan. 29th event.

Today in #impinv news: ✏️ Equitable AI in the age of Trump. ✏️ Supporting first-time home buyers. ✏️ Embedded climate insurance.