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Startups and Venture Capital vs. COVID-19: How an INR 1 Billion Grant Program Is Boosting India’s Pandemic Response
India is home to many innovative startups that are leveraging technology to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. To support them, a group of prominent venture capital funds and founders recently launched ACT Grants, an INR 1 billion effort to fund scale-ready solutions to COVID-related challenges. NextBillion spoke with Mekin Maheshwari, founder of Udhyam Learning Foundation – a key partner in the initiative – about how it is helping India’s startups ramp up their battle against the virus.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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Ilara Health Secures $1.1 Million Grant To Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in Kenya
Ilara Health, the healthtech company which provides point of care diagnostic testing to small primary care clinics in Kenya, has received a $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Viewpoint: Covid-19: Europeans Can Learn From Developing Countries
When looking at successful strategies, it is the experiences of other developed nations – like Germany and New Zealand – that are predominantly cited by journalists and politicians. There is an apparent unwillingness to learn from developing countries – a blind spot that fails to recognise that “their” local knowledge can be just as relevant to “our” developed world problems.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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COVID-19 and Higher Education: How Universities Are Leading the Recovery in Emerging Economies
Universities in emerging economies have shown they have a key role to play in the response to the coronavirus crisis, through both cutting-edge research and development (R&D) and pioneering approaches to teaching and studying.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Health Care
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Analysis: How Polio Eradication in Africa Can Inform the Global COVID-19 Response
The global health community recently celebrated the eradication of wild poliovirus from the African continent.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pandemic Makes Tackling Global Woes More Critical Than Ever – Bill Gates
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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Bill Gates: These Are the 2 Questions I Use To Tackle Every Big Problem From Microsoft To COVID-19
If you want to tackle problems the same way as Bill Gates, you need to start with two simple questions: “Who has dealt with this problem well? And what can we learn from them?”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- philanthropy, SDGs
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