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Understanding the investment opportunity in French-speaking Africa: a geography where investors’ profitability objectives overlap with their desire to have a positive social and environmental impact With the pressing need for investment aligning profit and impact, French-speaking Africa appears as the perfect textbook case for impact investing.

Victoire Cruanes-Lubrano Mar 20, 2024 7 min listening
'To make a substantial impact, the key is to identify the economic levers that are aligned with impact' As the sector increasingly relies on technological tools, Sebastien Boyer advocates for an agriculture where technological developments serve the sector's transition.

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Feb 14, 2024 6 min listening
Why Europe needs to define impact investing to change the world Private investments need to be massively reoriented to finance the twin environmental and social transitions.

Servane Metzger-Corrigou Dec 04, 2023 4 min listening
'The entrepreneurial spirit is critical to positively transforming the world' Ring has been partnering with EDHEC to launch Generations, an impact seed fund which mission is to reveal the potential of entrepreneurs building a better future.

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Oct 23, 2023 5 min listening
'Deviants are entrepreneurs who are marginalized because they challenge the status quo, or 'business as usual.' Standard Deviation helps a new generation of impact-entrepreneurs move from fringe to mainstream, and supports business leaders...

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Sep 24, 2023 5 min listening
‘In 5 to 10 years, businesses will question the quality of their carbon footprint reduction efforts, rather than just the quantity. ’ He founded Ecotree with the idea to help companies translate their environmental commitments into their business operations...

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Jul 20, 2024 5 min listening
‘We are actively challenging biases associated with the digital realm. The narrative that coding is exclusively a masculine domain emerged predominantly in the 1980s.’ She founded Ada Tech School with one very clear mission: transform the education path to avoid the waste of seeing people stuck in jobs that do not fulfill them.

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Jun 26, 2023 5 min listening
‘Digital technology is necessary to accelerate the ecological and social transitions.' Telecoop stands out as an ecological and social cooperative telecom operator by helping consumers to reduce the ecological footprint...

Marie-Capucine Lemétais May 22, 2023 5 min listening
‘It is possible to invent an investment in the capital of cooperatives’ Since its foundation, Emmaus has had one objective: fight against all forms of exclusion and inequality in our society...

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Apr 13, 2023 5 min listening
‘Tomorrow, it is up to Europe to decide what a sustainable product is for us, otherwise we will not win this battle’ While it seems to be everywhere in the media and gets everyone to agree, circular economy still represents only 7% of the global economy. Where does the problem come from?

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Mar 09, 2023 5 min listening
Mission-driven companies: is it so easy to run business and impact? A mission-based company/BCorp, advisory board, and alignment of interests in an impact-by-design company seem simple on paper.

Colette Alcaraz Mar 02, 2023 4 min listening
‘Out of 3 billions clothes manufactured each year, only 3% are Made In France’ Le Slip Français is 11 years old. Created by Guillaume Gibault, on the basis of a bet between friends.

Colette Alcaraz Feb 20, 2023 4 min listening
The top 5 carbon reduction solutions for 2023 If you are looking for a new post on ChatGPT or the future of crypto, you might be disappointed.

Colette Alcaraz Jan 23, 2023 4 min listening
'The low-carbon construction is accelerated by the current economic and regulatory context' Let’s start 2023 with a conversation alongside Sylvain Bogeat, co-founder at Vestack, one of our portfolio companies that joined in 2022.

Colette Alcaraz Jan 17, 2023 4 min listening
How do you manage the puzzle of salary increases (with inflation as a bonus)? Frozen budgets, talent war and inflation: the recipe could become slightly explosive in 2023 when determining salary increases.

Colette Alcaraz Jan 09, 2023 4 min listening
“Come as we are”: when diversity and inclusion are no longer invited to the party You’re wrong if you’ve never seen Anthony Babkine on a stage. Behind the communication talents, Anthony has a mission...

Colette Alcaraz Dec 19, 2022 4 min listening
Regenerative Agriculture, a Lever Towards Net Positive We invited Alice Legrix from AXA Climate to talk about regenerative agriculture, its social and environmental impacts.

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Nov 15, 2022 6 min listening
Welcome Konexio and Solinum, the 2 nonprofits eager to make inclusion a top priority These two flagship associations of the Tech for Good, potential future nonprofit unicorns will benefit from a three-year funding.

Colette Alcaraz Dec 01, 2022 2 min listening
"The energy transition is the largest opportunity that has ever existed" Since 2018, the fund T2 Energy Transition, under the lead of its Climate Director, Pierre Abadie, has been heavily involved in the decarbonization of our economy.

Colette Alcaraz Oct 05, 2022 3 min listening
'Companies need to rethink their model for the future' For our newsletter BOTH, Nils Pedersen agreed to give us some insights on how the SDGs can be used by companies.

Colette Alcaraz Aug 29, 2022 4 min listening
How can we accelerate the transition to a culture of mixity? (Part 1) As far as diversity and inclusion is concerned, Europe has been quite late compared to the US but things start moving.

Marie-Capucine Lemétais Jul 07, 2022 5 min listening
“We need to revolutionize executive education to enable our leaders to contribute to the challenges of the 21st century” Interview of Hélène Le Teno, Operations Director at Jean-Noël Thorel Foundation

Colette Alcaraz Jun 20, 2022 3 min listening
Being an impact mover, what does it take? The increasing occurrence of climate issues and the growth of social inequalities are the symptoms of a more global issue.

Colette Alcaraz Jun 13, 2022 7 min listening
Impact opportunities in no code: how to find business models with impact? On average, 41% of no code’s new users are “citizen developers”, that is to say non-experts in the coding field, according to Gartner.

Xuan Luong Jun 01, 2022 6 min listening
‘Sobriety is crucial if we want to keep 7 billion people living together on earth’ Interview of Coline Debayle, co-founder of Time for the Planet

Colette Alcaraz May 20, 2022 3 min listening
“Reinventing the accessibility architecture of the future” Interview of Thibault Duchemin, founder & CEO @ Ava

Colette Alcaraz Apr 19, 2022 4 min listening
Impact & CSR labels: should we go for it or not? 4 questions to Marie-Gabrielle Sorin, Impact Operating Partner @Ring Capital & Founder @WeEngage, to navigate in the jungle of labels

Colette Alcaraz Apr 14, 2022 3 min listening
The Momentum for Health Accessibility — French Perspective Most of French people have a good opinion on the quality of healthcare services provided in their country.

Géraldine Fillet Apr 08, 2022 6 min listening
“Inclusion is not just the diversity of appearances, it is also the diversity of perspectives.” Interview of Maxime Ruszniewski, founder & CEO @Remixt

Colette Alcaraz Mar 07, 2022 3 min listening
“We want to raise nonprofit unicorns” Our philanthropic fund Ring Foundation, which is less well known to the public, is worth an article.

Colette Alcaraz Feb 02, 2022 4 min listening
“The main difficulty for Tech for Good organizations is to scale” Interview of Paul Duan, founder of the NGO Bayes Impact, pioneer of the Tech for Good Movement

Colette Alcaraz Jan 24, 2022 5 min listening

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