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Press Release: Angaza Raises $13.5 Million in Series B Financing
Fintech innovator receives funding as it crosses milestone of impacting 12 million lives globally.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Should We Measure Impact? We Asked Our Investees.
Ceniarth describes itself as an "impact-first investor," but as senior impact manager Julia Mensink points out, even with its commitment and resources, it has found that there is no simple solution to measuring impact well. She explores what Ceniarth learned by asking all its investees how they measure impact, and shares key insights which may be useful to other investors looking to deepen their impact measurement practices.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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MFIs in India: Need Social Impact Monitoring
The pandemic has necessitated the need to re-look at the tenets of MFI lending
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- Education, Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Disconnects Between Minigrid Policy Stakeholders Keep Sector’s Bankability at Bay
Minigrids have yet to scale on a trajectory reflective of their massive potential.
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- Energy, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Apeel Gets More Cash To Fight Poverty and Food Insecurity in Emerging Markets With Its Food-Preserving Tech
In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Press Release: WorldRemit Sees Remittances To Zimbabwe Double in Six Months and Introduces New Retail Partnership With Ok Zimbabwe
Earlier this year, the World Bank forecasted that in the wake of the Covid-19 economic crisis, remittance flows to Sub Saharan Africa would fall by 23.1%. However today, WorldRemit, the global online money transfer service has reported that the demand for their remittance services to Zimbabwe continues to grow at an accelerated rate and has doubled in the last six months for the company.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Startups and Venture Capital vs. COVID-19: How an INR 1 Billion Grant Program Is Boosting India’s Pandemic Response
India is home to many innovative startups that are leveraging technology to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. To support them, a group of prominent venture capital funds and founders recently launched ACT Grants, an INR 1 billion effort to fund scale-ready solutions to COVID-related challenges. NextBillion spoke with Mekin Maheshwari, founder of Udhyam Learning Foundation – a key partner in the initiative – about how it is helping India’s startups ramp up their battle against the virus.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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The Quest for Financial Inclusion in Sri Lanka
Financial Inclusion is essential for continuous and sustainable economic development, according to the IFC (International Finance Corporation). This is no exception for Sri Lanka despite showing strong numbers in bank penetration.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- financial inclusion, MSMEs
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