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Press Release: QED Investors Closes Nearly $1 Billion in New Funds
These funds will allow QED to continue to invest in disruptive fintech companies in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe, Latin America, India and Southeast Asia and Africa.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- fintech, remittances, scale
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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
- Region
- 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
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- 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
- Region
- 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
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, corporations, ESG, NGOs
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Analysis: ESG Data Can Keep Businesses Accountable, but Only if It Can Be Trusted
ESG data will be vital in painting a picture of how and where industries are succeeding – or failing – in the battle to reach net zero.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- data, ESG, greenwashing
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Tyme Raises $77.8 Million to Fuel Global Expansion
Tyme, a global digital bank and the parent of South Africa's TymeBank has secured $77.8 million from Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital.
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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