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Google.org Grants $2.5 Million to Helium Health for AI-Powered Maternal Care
Nigerian health tech startup, Helium Health, has received a $2.5 million (N3.4 billion) grant from Google.org to deploy clinical AI models into primary maternal healthcare.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AFC and Green Climate Fund to Launch US$690 Million Africa Sovereign Climate Facility to Accelerate Climate-Resilient Development
Through an integrated, country-led approach, the ASCF will support interventions across critical sectors, including clean energy, health and well-being, food and water security, and climate-resilient infrastructure and the built environment.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: The New Nonprofit Visibility Gap
AI is narrowing the pathways available to donors for finding nonprofits worthy of support. Nonprofits and the social sector must act to ensure that donors can make fully informed decisions.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Investable.africa Launches Platform to Connect African Startups With Investors
The platform allows founders to build a profile covering their problem, solution, traction, team and current round, with every profile checked by the Investable.Africa team before going live.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Madica Secures $6 Million from Flourish Ventures to Extend African Pre-Seed Investment Pilot
Madica is an Africa-focused pre-seed investment programme affiliated with Flourish Ventures. It aims to empower underrepresented and underfunded mission-driven founders on the continent by providing funding and democratising access to company-building support.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Profits and Investment Appear to Be Aligning More Closely as the International Taxation Landscape Evolves
Tax competition can attract profits and investment and boost innovation, but the overall gains are often offset by diminished government budgets and negative short-term spillovers if the tax cuts are financed through debt.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Global
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ADB Accelerates Nature Finance at COP17 with New Bond, Incubator, and Tracking Report
The initiatives, announced at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Yerevan, seek to expand private investment in protecting ecosystems that support billions of lives.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Cascador and Sterling Bank Announce $200 Million SME Credit Backstop Fund
Sterling Bank is an innovation-led financial institution guided by a belief in impact capitalism, deploying capital to deliver commercial returns while improving lives and expanding opportunity.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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