-
Indian Fintech Helps Millenials With Managing Credit Scores, Acquires $6 Million in Capital
Slice, a Fintech company that provides various card-based products to young people in India to help manage their credit scores, has secured $6 million in capital via a round led by Japanese venture capital firm, Gunosy.
- Categories
- Finance, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- credit scoring, fintech
-
Mobile money is booming in Africa as countries shun cash amid the pandemic
As movement restrictions to curb Covid-19 prevent customers from accessing cash, mobile banking is filling the gap
- Categories
- Coronavirus, Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Africa’s COVID-19 Moment: How Youth Startups Are Addressing the Pandemic – And What They Need to Reach the Next Level
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to a young and increasingly entrepreneurial population. As Ahunna Eziakonwa at UNDP and Eleni Gabre-Madhin at blueMoon explain, many youth-led African startups are repurposing their businesses or launching new operations to address COVID-19. They profile some of these young innovators, and lay out four ways the global development community can support them.
- Categories
- Coronavirus, Investing
-
Africa’s Student Housing Crisis: An Overlooked Need Offers a Major Opportunity for Impact Investors
As COVID-19 spreads across Africa, universities are shutting their doors in unprecedented numbers. But for many African students, home is not an ideal learning environment. According to Abayomi Onasanya at Student Accomod8, that's one reason impact investors should focus on a long-overlooked goal: student housing. He explores how campus housing can make higher education more accessible to millions of young Africans.
- Tags
- housing, impact investing, youth
-
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa Attracted $3.9 Billion VC Deals in 6 Years
Fintechs, information technology firms, and other companies in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa attracted a total of 613 Venture Capital (VC) deals valued at $3.9 billion, between 2014 and 2019.
- Categories
- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- fintech, venture capital
-
Viewpoint: How 2020 Will Turn Us Into Better Impact Investors
One of the most reassuring things we’ve seen lately amidst the pandemic and the rallying for racial justice has been the way communities and industries have come together to give back and make an impact on those around them. But what will giving back and affecting change—both with our hearts and our wallets—look like once we emerge out of this?
- Categories
- Coronavirus, Investing
-
Cash Is King: An Overlooked Way for Foundations to Multiply the Impact of their Investments
The top 1,000 U.S. foundations alone have over $31 billion in cash deposits – and according to Catherine Berman at CNote, that money could be used to amplify their impact. She argues that foundations could drive massive change – and advance their missions – by moving these funds out of traditional accounts and into community development financial institutions and credit unions.
- Tags
- fintech, impact investing
-
For Billions Without Clean Water, ‘Wash Your Hands’ Is Complicated
Conservation News spoke with the director of Conservation International’s WASH in Watersheds program, Colleen Sorto, about how when it comes to water and human health, where your water comes from can be just as important as how you use it.
- Categories
- Coronavirus, Education, Environment, Health Care, Investing, WASH
- Tags
- infrastructure