Investing in Impact
Interviews with impact investors, fund managers and venture capital leaders about their investment journeys and strategies.
- Host
- Grant Trahant
- Published by
- Causeartist
- Topic
- Impact Investing & Finance
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Impact-First
- Themes
- Catalytic Capital
- Made for
- Founder / Entrepreneur, Investor
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30 Apr 2026 · 32 min
Government and Private Sector Perspectives on Investing in Research and Innovation
What if the biggest barrier to innovation is not funding, but the story we tell about what is worth funding? In the final episode of Investing in Impact, recorded at the IDIA Summit in Nairobi, host Moses Waweru is joined by Nivi Sharma and Nashiru Salifu to explore what it really means to build innovations that last. As global capital shifts and old development models give way, locally grounded innovators are still being asked to prove their worth repeatedly, often within systems that were never designed around their realities. The conversation unpacks the gap between research, funding, and r
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23 Apr 2026 · 29 min
Navigating Inclusion and Opportunity in Global Kickback
What does inclusion look like when global support systems start to pull back?In Episode 4 of Investing in Impact, recorded at the IDIA Summit in Nairobi, host Kippy Joseph, Senior Fellow at Results for Development, leads a conversation with Royford Mutegi, Co-Founder of Vermi-Farm, Katie Alesbury, Senior Strategic Initiatives Lead at Value for Women, and Snider Mugese, Director of Operations & Finance at Villgro Africa.The discussion explores the realities of building and sustaining inclusive innovation in challenging times, and where opportunities still exist for entrepreneurs and ecosystem p
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16 Apr 2026 · 29 min
Future Horizons - Imagining a More Robust Ecosystem
What would it take to build a truly self-determined, resilient health ecosystem in Africa?In Episode 3 of Investing in Impact, recorded at the IDIA Summit in Nairobi, host Moses Waweru sits down with Prof Mirkuzie Woldie, Senior Health Policy and Systems Advisor at the Ministry of Health Ethiopia, Gina Lagomarsino, CEO of Results for Development, and Thomas Davin, Global Innovation Director at UNICEF to explore what the future of health systems could look like.This conversation looks beyond immediate challenges to a deeper shift: how African health systems can move from fragmented, externally