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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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- 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
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Why One Private Equity Firm Is Betting Big On Impact Investing In Renewable Energy
The concept of impact investing is hardly new and one that is refreshingly simple. It is simply about funneling investment dollars into companies established with the intention of generating a quantifiable, visible and broadly beneficial social impact alongside a financial return.
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Chinese investors warming up to impact investing, but regulations slowing progress
Chinese investors are showing increasing interest in start-ups with innovations that tackle energy consumption, social and climate change issues, but the main force behind such so-called impact investing remains foreign firms and supranational agencies, according to fund managers.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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‘The Dumbest Waste of Time Ever’: How the Development Sector is Failing MSMEs
Low-income business owners often keep poor records and don't always keep close tabs on their profits versus expenses – a side effect of by-necessity entrepreneurship. Global development organizations naturally want to help - yet too many programs offer skills development as one-off training. According to business development consultant Donna Rosa, helping entrepreneurs create business plans only to abandon them to fend for themselves is "the dumbest waste of time ever." She explains why in this thought-provoking post.
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- Agriculture, Investing