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Aavishkaar Capital and KfW Launch $250 Million ESG Fund
The ESG First Fund will invest in mid-cap businesses in Africa and Asia, helping them meet ESG goals for access to European markets.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, governance, impact investing
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HDFC Capital Announces Initial Close at $1.88 Billion for Its Affordable Housing Fund
HDFC Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HDFC Ltd and acting as an investment manager, has successfully achieved the initial close of its third fund focused on affordable housing.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- housing, impact investing
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Investment Platform, Threedots, Raises USD $4 Million Led by Kalaari Capital
With the composition of millennials and GenZ increasing in the active investors' community, tech platforms in the vertical are attracting capital investments from varied group of investors.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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IFC and We-Fi Help Tackle Gender Financing Gap Through IFC ScaleX
To help tackle the financing gap that women entrepreneurs still face, particularly in emerging markets, IFC and the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) launched today a new call for applications for IFC ScaleX.
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- Global
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India’s LEAD School Becomes Unicorn With Fresh $100 Million in Funding
LEAD School, a nine-year-old startup, is addressing this disconnect by leveraging an infrastructure that already has a wide reach in the nation: schools.
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: 60 Decibels Raises $8.8 Million in Series A Financing
60 Decibels raises $8.8 million to enable listening at scale for global stakeholder engagement and impact measurement.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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- ESG, impact investing, scale
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Report: Corporate Reporting Evolving Fast but ESG Gaps Exist
It is important that the approach to communicating a company’s ESG performance should evolve quickly to earn the trust of stakeholders, the report said.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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ESG Investing Is Not Sustainable Investing
ESG metrics are important, but you cannot passively rely on them to create a positive end result portfolio.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing
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