Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, and Goodwell Investments Lead USD12m Series A for EM-Focused Energy Startup SparkMeter

Clean Energy Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (co-founded by Bill Gates), and Goodwell Investments, in partnership with Alitheia Capital and Total Energy Ventures, led a USD12m Series A for SparkMeter, a Washington, D.C.- and Kenya-based provider of energy grid management services, equipment, and software solutions across Africa, Asia, and… Read More

2020 Global Limited Partners Survey

The 16th annual edition of EMPEA’s Global Limited Partners Survey features the views of 109 limited partners (LPs) on the current conditions and outlook for private capital in emerging markets (EM). This study aims to shed light on how LP investment plans are evolving and what factors are affecting LP… Read More

Potential Trends Brought by COVID-19

We write this article at a point where it is close to impossible to make any predictions about the real extent of the COVID-19 crisis and its actual impacts on the global economy. A few questions start to consistently pop up in the webinars, live events, and crisis committees’ discussion… Read More

COVID-19: Deliberations of a Private Fund LP

In this article, I summarize how CDC Group plc, (CDC), the UK’s development finance institution (DFI), is responding to the impact of COVID-19 on its private funds investment program (Portfolio) given the commercial and strategic challenges faced by the managers (GPs) of many of its investee private credit and equity… Read More



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