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Oze Secures New Funding to Expand Lending Management Solution Across Africa
The undisclosed round will support the company’s efforts to scale its Lending Management System (LMS), a solution designed to help financial institutions provide unsecured digital loans to small businesses.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- corporations, digital finance, fintech, lending, microfinance, MSMEs, scale
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Navigating the Crisis in Global Development: Job Boards, Career and Entrepreneurship Guidance and Other Resources
Drastic cuts at USAID and other key funders have sparked turmoil in the global development and social impact sectors. But they have also generated a large and growing response from individuals and organizations, who are working hard to ramp up their own funding and other programs, help newly unemployed workers find new jobs and careers, and provide other forms of support to those affected by the crisis. NextBillion has created this page to aggregate as many of these resources and opportunities as possible. We will continue to update it regularly with new links as the response to this crisis progresses.
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- Energy, Environment, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Vidyut Secures $2.5 Million Funding from Flourish Ventures
Vidyut separates batteries from EV ownership and then offers them on a pay-per-kilometre subscription basis.
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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South Africa Hits Google With R500-Million Demand for News Media
The Competition commission has Google, X, Meta Platforms and other tech and social media companies in its sights.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Startup Funding Crisis Deepens as Mastercard Foundation Exits Top VC Firm
Mastercard Foundation pulls out of its $100 million commitment to African venture capital firm 54 Collective.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Apple Shareholders Reject Ban on Diversity Programs
The proposal, by a conservative think tank, was rejected Tuesday. The final vote tally wasn't disclosed.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Netflix to Invest $1 Billion in Mexico Over Next 4 Years
Sheinbaum said the investments in the film industry should produce many jobs beyond immediate production needs, such as hospitality for actors and crew members, fashion designers and also spur tourism.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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Seeking Partnership Closer to Home: How South-South Cooperation Empowers Businesses in Developing Markets
While all businesses worldwide face challenges, businesses in the Global South must navigate additional complexities ranging from economic volatility to infrastructure constraints. As Martin Burt at Fundación Paraguaya argues, this creates a need for greater South-South cooperation — i.e., the exchange of technologies, knowledge and other resources between entities in the developing world. He explains the benefits of this practice, exploring how it can enable businesses and entrepreneurs in the Global South to work together to foster innovation and build resilient economic systems tailored to their unique circumstances.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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