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India’s Snabbit Closes $56 Million Round as Investor Interest in On-Demand Home Services Heats Up
Snabbit’s fundraise comes as investor interest in India’s on-demand home services sector heats up.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- employment, gig economy, startups
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BTG Pactual TIG Raises Over $1.2 Billion for Reforestation and Restoration Strategy
The firm’s Latin American billion reforestation and restoration strategy, which includes nature protection organization Conservation International as Impact Advisor, focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Efishery Founder Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
An Indonesian court has sentenced eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison over a fraud scandal that exposed inflated financial reporting and shook Southeast Asia’s startup investment market.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- agtech, regulations, startups, venture capital
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Spill Games Raises $3.1 Million to Build a Systems-Led Global Mobile Gaming Company From India
Spill Games, a Bengaluru mobile gaming startup, raised USD 3.1 million Seed funding led by Centre Court Capital and PeerCapital to scale its systems driven casual games portfolio.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Ant International, IFC, GCash Pioneer First-Of-Its-Kind Sustainability Impact Scorecard to Expand MSME Access to Sustainable Financing
The Scorecard provides Filipino MSMEs with trusted, clear, and accessible pathways to measure sustainability performance, strengthen credibility, and unlock opportunities aligned with global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Africa’s Firms are Not Growing—New Data Reveal a Jobs Challenge
Across 48 Sub-Saharan African economies, a firm that has operated for nearly three decades employs barely twice the workers it had at birth. The gap relative to high-income economies is large, structural, and costly.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regional Leaders Launch Blended Finance Initiative to Expand Surgical Care Across Latin America and the Caribbean
An estimated 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care, with disproportionate impact in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Bayer Foundation and UNCDF Announce Inaugural Investments of the Food Systems Innovation Finance Facility in Agri-Businesses Omia and SokoFresh
As concessional resources contract, the need to mobilize additional capital into high-impact sectors such as food systems has become increasingly urgent.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Global
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