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, Tsao Family Office expands the LP pool for impact strategies in Africa,” by Jessica Pothering
• "These DIY investors are notching impact and exits with venture studios to build startups from scratch," by Lucy Ngige.