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Press Release: IFC Partners with SteinCares to Improve Access to Specialty Healthcare in Latin America
The investment will enable SteinCares to expand its geographical footprint.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Press Release: World Bank Approves $100 Million to Support the Integration of Social Protection Services, Economic Inclusion and Resilience in the Dominican Republic
The loan will focus on youth and households headed by females.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Global Gender Finance Initiative Mobilized $16.3 Billion In Two Years
The United Nations predicted in 2022 that “without investment, gender equality will take nearly 300 years.”
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- Investing
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- Global
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Press Release: Odyssey Raises $15 Million Series A to Accelerate Emerging Market Energy Transition
Odyssey, a business-in-a-box software platform for distributed energy in emerging markets, announced the closing of its Series A funding round.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Physis Capital Reaches First Close of $7 Million for $50 Million Fund in India
The fund is looking to build a portfolio of 15-20 startups with an average ticket size of $2.5 million.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- startups
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E3 Capital and Lion’s Head Climate Fund Hits First Close at $48 Million to Back African Startups
E3 Low Carbon Economy Fund for Africa joins the growing list of funds backing startups in Africa’s climate tech sector.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Asian Development Bank Investing $25 Million in Private Equity Fund to Grow Middle-Market Companies in Southeast Asia
The multilateral lender signed a $25 million equity investment in the private equity fund managed by Singapore-headquartered investment firm Exacta.
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- Education, Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Analysis: Activist Investors and NGOs Leaving Regulators in Their Wake in the U.K.
The two claims reflect a wider trend of activist litigations brought by NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and investors in the United Kingdom and overseas in bids to move the dial closer toward the target of net zero, even when governments and regulators appear to lack the same resolve.” (That may be a longer blurb than usual, but I think it’s warranted in this case
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, corporations, ESG, NGOs