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These Agritech Startups Will Take Southeast Asia’s Emerging Market to the Next Level
Despite the minimum media attention, these startups are building innovation to help their respective countries and its agriculture sector tackle challenges and make progress.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Y Combinator-Backed Trella Brings Transparency to Egypt’s Trucking and Shipping Industry
Like other logistics management services, Trella is trying to consolidate a fragmented industry around its app that provides price transparency and increases efficiency by giving carriers and shippers better price transparency and a way to see how cargo is moving around the country.
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- Technology
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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KKR Tops $1 Billion Fundraising Goal for Global Impact Fund
TPG’s $2 billion Rise Fund is the largest impact investing pool, though the firm is targeting at least $3 billion for the second version.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Kenyan Startup Ilara Health Raises $735k Seed Funding Round
Kenyan startup Ilara Health, which is bringing affordable diagnostics services to doctors, has raised a US$735,000 seed funding round to grow its offering in the East African country and ultimately beyond.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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National Bank of Pakistan Partners With WorldRemit for Digital Money Transfers
The Pakistani diaspora living in over 50 countries, including the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, can now send money to NBP cash pickup locations using their smartphone.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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UNDP and Samsung Unveil Global Goals Partnership
Samsung Galaxy phones will carry the Global Goals app that defines each of the 17 goals showing users how they can take small actions towards achieving the SDGs.
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- Technology
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- global development, SDGs
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Grameen Bank Chairman Mozammel Haque Dies
He was appointed chairman of the bank in 2011, and served it until his last day.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Think Big: Behind a Push to Unlock Billions in New “Catalytic” Capital for Global Development
The Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) 2018 Impact Investor Survey shows a diverse and growing market. But the survey also finds a “particularly” wide gap in “appropriate capital across the risk/return spectrum.” Of the $288 billion in impact investment assets today, only 5 percent are allocated below market.
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- Investing
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