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Podcast: This Week in Impact
Episode: How to fix blended finance + Tsao family office expands impact strategy to Africa
Description: Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Can open deal data and standardized reporting might help fix blended finance? How the Singapore-based Tsao family office deploys its capital towards impact (10:00). And, goodbye accelerators, hello venture studios – how emerging market investors are helping startups survive the valley of death in reaching impact at scale (15:07).Story links:“Can AI collapse transaction costs and make high-impact investments viable at scale?” by Human Planet’s Florian Kemmerich.“Fix for blended finance: Open deal data and standardized reporting,” by Erik Stein“From Singapore...