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The climate-driven wildfire crisis calls for a comprehensive, cross-sector approach to funding, research, and action. One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought half the continent was…

This year, more than 50 national elections worldwide are expected to have ripple effects on businesses, investors, entrepreneurs, and the global impact community. To help inform the future work of impact investors and others, the…

Analogue, explicitly crafted for Apple Vision Pro, enables design teams to collaborate in real-time immersive settings. It effectively tackles issues like workflow bottlenecks and compatibility problems, allowing teams to work together from any location and…

In 2006, while managing an impact venture capital fund at JPMorgan Chase, Nancy Pfund decided to invest in a clean energy start-up that was developing electric vehicles. Colleagues were sceptical. Would electric cars, they asked,…

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — A new shelter is opening up in Pasco County. It’s specifically for people who were displaced by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, but this shelter is a little different from others. It…

“My guest today is Nancy Pfund, the visionary founder and managing partner of DBL Partners. She invested in Tesla when others ridiculed the idea of electric cars transforming the auto industry. DBL was among the…

How do you store electricity in a way that is large and powerful enough to support the electric grid, as well as reliable, safe, environmentally sustainable, and inexpensive? One way may be to make a…

The new split of Gradable will be 50-50 between ADM and FBN. ADM and Farmers Business Network (FBN) have unveiled the two agricultural companies’ newest partnership: an expansion of Gradable, a platform created by FBN in…

Ideal Switch® delivers efficient, sustainable, and reliable results for high-voltage power control IRVINE, Calif., August 6, 2024 Menlo Microsystems Inc. (Menlo Micro), the company responsible for bringing its Ideal Switch® technology to market, has been…

To help put out wildfires quickly, a startup called Rain is equipping helicopters with software that lets them fly and drop water autonomously. At 4 a.m. one morning when entrepreneur Maxwell Brodie was 11 years…

Airspace is a next-generation freight forwarder specializing in time-critical shipping. The San Diego-based logistics startup moves valuable and complex packages, ranging from organs for transplant to aircraft parts to semiconductors. Coordinating such critical shipments is…

Across sub-Saharan Africa, over 100,000 health facilities lack access to reliable electricity and internet connections. This gap threatens health when clinics can’t keep the lights on or reliably provide patients with oxygen and other life-saving…