Washington-based impact investor deploys non-dilutive funding to early-stage fintech and agtech ventures facing persistent early-stage funding gaps.

Graham Mitchell (Business Coach, Author and Founder of Grow), writes from Sandton, South Africa

Four years after spinning out of Ethos PE, the Johannesburg-based firm signals a rare vote of confidence from local pension funds.

The collapse of Kenya's largest clean-cooking company is blamed on a government refusal to authorise carbon credit sales. A court ruling in Nairobi shows that a competition inquiry into its main supply contract was running alongside that dispute.