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The Goldman Banker Who Built a Different Kind of Cap Table
Deborah Jackson left Wall Street to fund the founders it kept overlooking. A decade later, Plum Alley has put $100M-plus into CRISPR, wastewater sensors and autonomous freight - and turned its members into the people writing the checks.
Microwd Inversiones
Microwd is a Madrid-based social fintech that lets ordinary people invest from as little as 50 euros into microloans for women entrepreneurs across Latin America. It pairs field agents on the ground in Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru and Costa Rica with an online platform where investors fund roughly $1,000, one-year loans at interest rates it says run well below the local microfinance market. The pitch is unusual for the space: not charity, but a for-profit business that claims both financial returns for investors and measurable social impact for borrowers.