Newsletters

ACT Notes.

ACT Notes is the platform's quarterly newsletter. Every issue brings together programme updates from across the platform, portfolio news, longer reflections from the team on what we are learning, the data we are watching, and a short reading list of pieces we found ourselves coming back to. Subscribe once and get the next issue in your inbox; the full archive of past issues sits below.

Past issues

ACT Notes — Q1 FY24–25

A first-quarter wrap of capital deployed, founders backed and partnerships forged across Education, Environment, Health and Women. Includes programme updates from the ACT Fellowship and Pact For Gender Parity, portfolio news from the most recent additions, and the field stories we found ourselves coming back to most often.

ACT Notes — Q2 FY24

Stories from the field across all four focus areas, with detailed updates from a few portfolio founders moving particularly fast this quarter. We also walk through what we have been learning inside the Implementers Network and surface a short reading list from across the team for anyone working on similar problems.

ACT Notes — Q3 FY24–25

Programme updates from across the platform, a round-up of portfolio news, and a longer reflection on the state of public-system tech in Indian healthcare. We also share excerpts from the conversations we have been having with state governments and CSR partners.

ACT Notes — Q4 FY23–24

A wrap of the year — capital, connections and collectives in numbers, plus the stories behind those numbers. The closing edition of FY23–24 covers WISER, the Green Startup Pledge, the Fellowship's second cohort and the founders we added to the portfolio.

ACT Notes — Q3 FY23–24

Highlights from the third quarter of FY23–24 — including new portfolio additions across Education and Environment, an update on Implementers Network deployments and what we have been learning from co-investments with state governments.

ACT Notes — Q2 FY23–24

A quarter dominated by climate work — the Green Startup Pledge community growing, new investments across decarbonisation and water security, and the launch of the WISER report on women in India's startup ecosystem. We also cover the operating updates that did not make it to LinkedIn.

ACT Notes — Q1 FY23–24

Programme updates and ecosystem stories from the first quarter of FY23–24, including new portfolio additions, an update on the ACT Fellowship's first-cohort placements and a wrap of the partnerships we kicked off with state governments and CSR teams.

ACT Notes — Q4 FY22–23

Closing out FY22–23 — a look back at what we built, where we missed and what we are setting up for the next year. The edition reflects on capital deployed across the four focus areas and shares the programme priorities we are taking into the new financial year.

ACT Notes — Q3 FY22–23

A quarter centred on Pact For Gender Parity and the Green Startup Pledge — covering new funder commitments, founder signatories joining the climate pledge, fresh portfolio updates and a short essay on what we have been learning about collective action.

ACT Notes — Q2 FY22–23

Healthcare innovations from across the portfolio — including updates on tele-medicine, diagnostics and oxygen logistics — alongside ecosystem stories from partners. We also walk through the early thinking behind the Implementers Network.

ACT Notes — Q1 FY22–23

The opening edition of FY22–23 — launching our second cycle of programmes and partnerships, with new portfolio additions across Education, fresh CSR collaborations and a first look at what we wanted to build through the rest of the year.