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Investment Platform, Threedots, Raises USD $4 Million Led by Kalaari Capital
With the composition of millennials and GenZ increasing in the active investors' community, tech platforms in the vertical are attracting capital investments from varied group of investors.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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IFC and We-Fi Help Tackle Gender Financing Gap Through IFC ScaleX
To help tackle the financing gap that women entrepreneurs still face, particularly in emerging markets, IFC and the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) launched today a new call for applications for IFC ScaleX.
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- Global
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India’s LEAD School Becomes Unicorn With Fresh $100 Million in Funding
LEAD School, a nine-year-old startup, is addressing this disconnect by leveraging an infrastructure that already has a wide reach in the nation: schools.
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: 60 Decibels Raises $8.8 Million in Series A Financing
60 Decibels raises $8.8 million to enable listening at scale for global stakeholder engagement and impact measurement.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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- ESG, impact investing, scale
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Report: Corporate Reporting Evolving Fast but ESG Gaps Exist
It is important that the approach to communicating a company’s ESG performance should evolve quickly to earn the trust of stakeholders, the report said.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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ESG Investing Is Not Sustainable Investing
ESG metrics are important, but you cannot passively rely on them to create a positive end result portfolio.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2021
At the end of each year, NextBillion selects our 12 most-read articles from the previous 12 months, and invites readers to vote for the pieces that impacted them the most. We've counted the votes, and we’re happy to announce our three most influential articles of 2021. We’d like to congratulate the winners and all the contestants in this contest – along with everyone who read and wrote for NextBillion last year. We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous 2022.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- data, energy access, ESG, impact measurement
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African Development Bank Group Approves €10,5 Million To Boost Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa
The board of directors of the African Development Bank Group have approved an equity investment pool of €10,5 million to drive technological innovation across sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, startups
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