If they can decaf­feinate cof­fee, why not decar­bonize it, too? Berke­­ley-based Bell­wether Cof­fee pro­posed to do just that by build­ing a ful­ly elec­tric micro-roast­er. The prod­uct replaces con­ven­tion­al gas-burn­ing machines […]

South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Edison’s ground­break­ing DER pro­cure­ment breaks a record for bat­tery-based vir­tu­al pow­er plants serv­ing real-world grid needs. The com­pe­ti­tion for the title of “world’s largest vir­tu­al pow­er plant” has […]

First sto­ry in new series exam­ines how one CIO sourced his VC invest­ments that just hap­pened to be ESG. Envi­ron­men­tal, social and gov­er­nance (ESG) invest­ing is not always an easy […]

Andela, the com­pa­ny that con­nects Africa’s top soft­ware devel­op­ers with tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies from the U.S. and around the world, has raised $100 mil­lion in a new round of fund­ing. The […]

his woman is one of my own per­son­al icons. Long before impact invest­ing was cool, there was Nan­cy Pfund. As a founder of DBL Part­ners, Pfund blazed a trail by bat­ter­ing down […]