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Report: Mobilizing Electric Two-Wheeler Finance in Indonesia
". . . with the phaseout of vehicle purchase subsidies, financing will become an increasingly important driver of market growth to meet the country’s electrification targets of 13 million E2Ws and 2 million electric four-wheelers by 2030."
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
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- South Asia
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The Missing Asset Class: How Aggregated MSMEs Could Unlock the Next Wave of Impact Investing Deal Flow
Despite years of emphasizing the need to reach underserved businesses, the impact investing sector is increasingly focusing on lower-risk opportunities. According to Adanna Chukwuma at CARE, mature companies have drawn the largest increases in impact assets over the past six years, while funding to seed-stage enterprises has contracted — despite multiple financial instruments designed to serve the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in this segment. As she explains, this trend excludes a vast band of businesses with real revenue, real demand and real growth potential: aggregated MSMEs, i.e., individual enterprises that have joined together to contract and borrow as one. She explores the investment opportunity in these MSMEs, and calls for the creation of a new asset class around them, explaining how this could unlock the flow of impact capital to enterprises that remain systemically overlooked.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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Geospatial Startup NeoGeo Raises $20 Million from Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital in India
"By optimising spatial planning, NeoGeo drives climate mitigation through measurable resource efficiency and carbon abatement, while simultaneously enabling climate-resilient development and adaptation through proactive hazard and vulnerability mapping."
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Scaling up Green Transition in Southern Africa: Climate Fund Managers Reaches First Close of SA-H2 Fund at ZAR 3 Billion
SA-H2 is a blended finance private equity fund focused on the green hydrogen value chain and energy transition in Southern Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Acumen Closes $58 Million Impact Fund, the First to Drive Climate Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers
The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) seeks to build an ecosystem of agribusinesses that improve farmers’ livelihoods and build their resilience to climate change.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian E-Bike Rental Startup Yulu Raises $93 Million to Help Fund Expansion
Electric mobility firms including Yulu have benefited from fast growth in India's quick commerce and e-commerce sectors, as delivery workers increasingly shift to battery-powered vehicles that cost less to run and reduce exposure to fuel price swings.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Mini-grids May Not Be the Answer: Why Shifts in Technology and Funding Have Changed the Energy Access Outlook in Africa
There is intense pressure to reach universal energy access by 2030, which requires a further 666 million people to be electrified, most of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. And according to Stewart Hicks at Bamboo Capital Partners, mini-grids are often viewed as a key part of the solution, leading to growing calls for more private sector investment in this technology. But he argues that this focus on mini-grids may be distracting from faster, more cost-effective approaches. He explains why mini-grids — despite being a good solution in some areas — have several under-reported constraints, and explores some emerging alternative electrification models that may present a more realistic path toward greater energy access in Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Africa50 Secures $50 Million to Boost Early-Stage Investment for Climate-Resilient Projects
Africa50 is a specialist investor in African infrastructure – developing, de-risking and delivering projects to unlock economic growth across the continent.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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