As a companion to a recent report, C3 teamed up with All for Impact and AVPA for a webinar about the need for, and experience with, catalytic capital for SMEs in Africa. The conversation includes […]
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What does it take to make SME finance work across emerging markets, and in Africa in particular? In a guest article for Next Billion, researchers from Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) and Triple Jump discuss what
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Catalytic capital is “the means by which rural African entrepreneurs, often operating in fragmented markets and overlooked by conventional investors, can become more resilient,” writes Small Foundation’s Karina Wong, in ImpactAlpha. “Many constraints in rural
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2025 has presented a new set of challenges (and opportunities) for investors, fund managers and organizations focused on impact. We asked some of C3’s newest partners to offer their insight on how impact investors should
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In a new blog for Mission Investors Exchange (MIE), C3’s Urmi Sengupta takes a look at how and why philanthropic investors use catalytic capital to drive progress on key impact objectives. “While many kinds of
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In response to the economic and health crises of the pandemic, Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) launched the Oakland Restorative Loan Fund, which deployed catalytic capital to small business owners at 0% interest and with no fees.
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Impact Alpha hosted a dynamic market conversation on how catalytic capital fuels Native investing and entrepreneurship, including insights from First Peoples Worldwide, a C3 grantee, and the MacArthur Foundation, a C3 strategic partner. The discussion
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“Indigenous business owners have been largely shut out from mainstream sources of debt and equity, a consequence of systemic extraction and financial trauma,” reports Jessica Pothering, senior editor with ImpactAlpha, diving into the value of
In a commentary for Pioneers Post, Bjoern Struewer (Roots of Impact) and Jed Emerson (Alvarium Tiedemann) discuss their recent research report, What’s in it for the entrepreneur? An entrepreneurial perspective of catalytic capital and blended
