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Press Release: Airtel Africa Launches Its Long-term Sustainability Strategy, Building on Its Corporate Purpose To Transform Lives
Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, today launched a comprehensive sustainability strategy which sets out its detailed plans to improve the lives of millions of people across Africa.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Havells, Godrej Family Offices, Samara Capital, Form Healthcare Platform Marengo in India
Samara Capital, Havells Family Investment Office, and Godrej Family Investment Office have come together to set up Marengo Asia Healthcare, a platform that will run multispecialty hospital chains.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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TLcom and 4DX Drive $13.1 Million Seed Round To Scale Autochek’s Platform Across Africa
African automotive company Autochek has secured a $13.1 million seed round almost a year after raising $3.4 million pre-seed in November 2020.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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DeHaat Raises $115 Million in the Largest Agritech Round in India
DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India, has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding round for an agritech startup in India.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- startups
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Ventures Platform, Hustle Fund Back Nigerian Fintech Brass in $1.7 Million Round
Aside from full-stack financial needs, including credit, small and medium businesses require other essential resources to understand their financial operations. Brass is a Nigerian fintech tackling these challenges by providing banking services to small and medium businesses.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: How Africa Can Ride the Growing Wave of Climate Tech Investment
Investing in climate tech will be critical to countering these risks and to building adaptive and resilient economies.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Tetra Tech Wins $25 Million Usaid Water and Sanitation Contract
Through the USAID Tanzania Water and Sanitation Activity, Tetra Tech’s team of industry leading water and sanitation experts will provide engineering and technical advisory services to strengthen Tanzania’s capacity to manage water resources.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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