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Impact investor Capria announces first close of $100m fund at $40m
Founded in 2015, Capria Ventures operates as a global impact investment firm. It manages venture capital funds and provides seed and early stage capital to start-up fund managers, investing in healthcare, education, financial technology, mobile and consumer, retail and e-commerce, and agriculture sectors.
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US pension fund TIAA buys stake in social impact investor Aavishkaar-Intellecap
Pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) has invested around $32 million (Rs 230 crore) for about 20% stake in social impact investor Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG, impact investing
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Gender Discrimination Drives Income Inequality: How Impact Investors Can Respond
Investors have increasingly begun to realize that income inequality is one of the most urgent socioeconomic challenges of our time. But while the problem has many causes, few stand out as significantly as gender discrimination. In light of a new report on how investors can respond to income inequality, William Burckart, Michael Musuraca and Steve Lydenberg explore the high cost of gender discrimination – and share some of the ways investors are addressing the issue.
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Press Release: Report Shows INGOs in Impact Investing Continue to Emerge as Key Players
“This is a time of ongoing innovation as INGOs utilize their unique capabilities to better sustain social benefits. It is exciting as they collaborate with investors, social enterprises, and new local partners to attract funding to meet pressing needs,” said Tom Dente, President and CEO of Humentum, the membership association of international relief and development organizations.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, NGOs
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Data That Does the Work: What Acumen Has Learned About Enterprise Feedback Loops
When it comes to the litany of obstacles keeping enterprises from growing, capital – or lack of it – tends to get the most attention. But access to data from customers, operations and staff may be a close second. The key to addressing data deserts is helping companies build a data-informed culture from the start, writes Chris Bullard, who leads post-investment and value creation strategy for Acumen. Bullard draws lessons from the impact investor’s Lean Data initiative.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Press release: Sistema.bio attracts funding from Hivos-Triodos Fund
Hivos-Triodos Fund joins a group world-class impact and venture capital investors that support Sistema.bio’s mission to bring technology, training and financing to the smallholder farmers around the world.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing
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Social Innovation Needs Data, This Free Platform Provides It
New social innovations are exciting, but there’s also great value in scaling existing solutions that show promise. There’s just one problem with this approach, says Sweta Govani: The information about these innovations is incomplete, complicated and fragmented, making it hard to determine which ones deserve support. She discusses a new solution called Global Innovation Exchange, a free, data-driven technology platform that gives funders, social entrepreneurs and others easy access to high-quality, up-to-date information about existing global development innovations.
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Viewpoint: My problem with ‘emerging markets’
The terms "emerging markets," "developing nations" and the antiquated "Third World" have always rubbed me the wrong way and not just because I grew up in Mumbai, live in Singapore and do business across Southeast Asia. These terms bother me because they prevent people from seeing how dramatically the world has changed, especially over the last decade.
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