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dLocal Launches The 2025 Emerging Markets Payments Handbook: The Blueprint to Lead Across the Global South
dLocal’s 2025 Emerging Markets Payments Handbook is the essential guide to the future of payments, combining data-driven insights with local expertise.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Inside the Fall of Okra: How Africa’s Most Promising Open Banking Startup Shut Down at Its Peak
Back in 2020, Okra had all the makings of a breakout African tech story: visionary founders, Silicon Valley backing, explosive revenue growth, and a product that was powering the future of finance on the continent.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Drives AI to Boost Agriculture, Enrich Cultural Data in India
Google unveiled its new Agricultural Monitoring & Event Detection API, offering field‑level crop insights updated fortnightly, and launched the Amplify Initiative to build hyperlocal datasets across Indic languages.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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MCFA Signs Agreement With Bidhaa Sasa in Kenya to Scale up Access to Electric Cooking
With the EUR 2.3 million in MCFA funding, Bidhaa Sasa will scale up sales of electric pressure cookers targeting up to 100,000 primarily female customers in rural areas of Western and Central Kenya.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Open Source Software Trap: Our Fatal Business Model Flaw
"... as I watch our sector implode under the weight of USAID’s near-total elimination, I realize we’ve built a movement that’s structurally impossible to sustain."
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- Technology
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- Global
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Press Release: BlueGreen Water Technologies Partners with Winrock International to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms Across the Globe
The partnership will leverage Winrock's deep experience in agricultural systems and nature-based solutions to optimize watershed management strategies.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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- Global
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- human rights, partnerships, scale, water
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Rwanda Launches Innovate4DigiJobs to Boost Youth Opportunities in the Digital Sector
This program is focused on empowering young people in Rwanda with actionable digital skills and facilitating access to meaningful job prospects in the country’s rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cape Town’s Open Access Energy Raises $1.8 Million to Scale AI-Driven Electricity Trading
Cape Town-based startup Open Access Energy (OAE) has secured $1.8 million (R32.3 million) in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform for electricity trading.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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