This Week in Impact
This Week in Impact
Impact Alpha
Insurance risk after the LA fires + de-extinction tech gets a raise
23 minutes Posted Jan 17, 2025 at 11:18 am.
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the devastating LA wildfires are putting a spotlight on wildfire prevention tech and what the disaster means for California's fragile insurance market; examples of outcomes-based financing driving systemic change in education; and Colossal Biosciences’ $200 million raise to revive the wooly mammoth among other lost species.

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⁠In the age of fire, tech solutions can help but not heal⁠⁠LA wildfires push California’s insurance market to the brink⁠⁠How outcomes-based financing can drive systemic change in education⁠⁠Wild and woolly: Colossal Biosciences raises $200 million to revive the mammoth and other lost species⁠