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Zomato Backs Shiprocket, Magicpin and Curefit, Plans To Invest $1 Billion in More Startups in Next Two Years
Indian food delivery firm Zomato, which went public earlier this year, is making a series of investments in startups as it looks for ways to inorganically expand its business in the world’s second-largest internet market.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing, startups
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Press Release: Opportunity International and Oikocredit Announce USD $100 Million Impact Investment Agreement to Advance the Education Sector in Low-income Countries
Opportunity International and Oikocredit announced an innovative, three-year collaboration to increase access to and quality of education in low-income countries through the investment of up to USD $100 million in financial institutions.
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- Global
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- ESG, impact investing
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Report: Fintech Funding in Southeast Asia Triples to Record $3.5 Billion This Year
Financial technology funding in Southeast Asia jumped more than three times in the first nine months of this year compared with full-year 2020, reaching a record $3.5 billion, a report showed.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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World Bank Plans To Replace Cancelled ‘Doing Business’ Report in Two Years
The flagship report on countries' business climate was cancelled after a data-rigging scandal.
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- Environment
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- Global
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- data
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Analysis: Global Energy Targets Don’t Deal With People’s Real Problems in Zimbabwe
Chasing technological efficiency, without addressing ever-increasing energy consumption, is missing the forest for the trees. Rather, energy efficiency must be dealt with along with problems of inequality and inequity.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Grindstone Ventures Launches $6.5 Million VC Fund for South Africa Tech SME Development
Grindstone Ventures has launched a $6.5 million fund dedicated to seed funding predominantly South African innovative technology startups who have completed, or are part of, its Grindstone Accelerator programme.
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- Investing
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Analysis: Zipline Needs Nigeria To Support Its Drone Delivery Medical Service—as Rwanda and Ghana Did
Getting into Nigeria could be big for Zipline’s larger ambitions as a logistics company that can move from just delivering medical products from government to health centers, to one that delivers other types of packages to consumers.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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JSW Aims To Raise $500 Million in Renewable Energy Business via Stake Sale in India
In the recent past, India has seen renewable energy expansion driven by large corporate groups and private equity-backed energy platforms, aiming to tap increasing appetite toward non-carbon fuel resources. Earlier, French oil and gas major Total SE picked up a stake in Adani Green.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- renewable energy, solar
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