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FINCA’s Journey from Non-Profit to For-Profit
For a company to make money, it helps if its employees have a money-making mindset. But that’s not what Roman Hingorani found when he joined FINCA International as its CFO in 2015.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Accounting For Impact Alongside Market Returns
The KL Felicitas Foundation, founded by impact investing pioneers Charly and Lisa Kleissner, has opened the books on its investments to show that a strategy aimed at doing good can live up to its social and environmental objectives as well as deliver returns.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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PayPal Joins Indonesian Venture Firm to Develop Fintech Startups
PayPal Holdings Inc. is teaming up with Indonesian venture-capital firm Alpha JWC Ventures to back emerging financial technologies that can be developed for Southeast Asia.
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- Asia Pacific
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PRESS RELEASE: Good Returns & Inverdale Capital Management Launch Innovative Guarantee Program For Impact Investors
Good Returns, the Dallas-based hybrid social enterprise whose unique philanthropic model for businesses helps create sustainable social impact, and Inverdale Capital Management, an asset management firm focused on alternative investments, have expanded their existing partnership by announcing the launch of their Guarantee-Investment-Values Strategies (GIVS).
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- Investing
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India’s Impact Investment leaders launch Social Finance India in New Delhi
Social Finance Global Network (SFGN) and The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) today announced the launch of Social Finance India (SF-IND) and first three of its Directors- Rajiv Lall, Ashish Dhawan, and, Vikram Gandhi. Rajiv Lall will Chair the initiative. SF- IND will be a new Section 8 non-profit intermediary which will galvanize the Indian impact investment space. Social Finance India’s first two products- India Impact Fund of Funds (IIFF) and India Education Outcomes Fund (IEOF) will launch in 2018. SF-IND also launched its website, www.socialfinance.org.in
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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IIM Amedabad’s CIIE launches $25 million Bharat Inclusion Initiative
IIM-Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) has launched the Bharat Inclusion Initiative, with a commitment of $25 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. The initiative will focus on incubating and backing startups that work in areas such as financial inclusion, livelihood, education and health.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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TPG ventures into African market with purchase of $47.5m stake in telco Cellulant
Private equity group TPG has announced its first venture into the African market as its Rise Fund acquired a stake in telco firm Cellulant. TPG will buy a $47.5m stake in the digital payments provider, which reaches around 40 million people over 11 African countries.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Your Customers Aren’t Data Points: How Social Enterprises Can Avoid Three Impact Investor Red Flags
Villgro President PR Ganapathy has met with hundreds of early-stage social entrepreneurs – and he's noticed that they keep making the same mistakes when seeking impact investing. As part of NextBillion's “Survival Guide for Raising Capital” series, Ganapathy shares three essential tips to help entrepreneurs avoid some common red flags when pitching impact investors.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise