Impact invest­ments, which aim to pro­mote a social good or pre­vent a social ill, have sig­nif­i­cant­ly out­per­formed tra­di­tion­al bets dur­ing the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. And their returns are entic­ing hes­i­tant investors […]

The out­come of an exten­sive pilot test in about 2,900 select­ed EDEKA and Net­to Marken-Dis­­­count stores has proven suc­cess­ful with a 50% reduc­tion in avo­ca­do food waste, along with a […]

DBL Part­ners host­ed and mod­er­at­ed a con­ver­sa­tion with high-impact CEOs work­ing on a wide array of issues from health and nutri­tion to envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty. Pan­elists explored their respons­es to the […]

Farm­ers Busi­ness Net­work Inc. says it raised $250 mil­lion in financ­ing to expand its agri­cul­ture tech­nol­o­gy plat­form. The financ­ing round was led by funds man­aged by Black­Rock Inc., with par­tic­i­pa­tion from investors […]

Cof­fee is big busi­ness. It has a retail mar­ket val­ue of around $83 bil­lion. In 2018 and 2019, 165.35 mil­lion 60 kilo­gram bags of cof­fee were con­sumed world­wide. Fin­land tops the world for the highest […]

Is your cli­matetech start­up in the midst of fundrais­ing or con­sid­er­ing rais­ing cap­i­tal in the com­ing months? Are you won­der­ing how COVID-19 is affect­ing the ear­­ly-stage invest­ment land­scape? If so, […]