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CapShift – An Impact Investment Platform Has Secured $5 Million in Funding
CapShift announces series a raise of $5 million to scale its charitable impact investing platform.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Nigerian Mobility Startup Moove Raises $63.2 Million Series A to Democratise Vehicle Ownership
Moove is democratising vehicle ownership in Africa by providing revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: India Needs More Social Enterprises, but These Five Challenges Are Holding Us Back
Though they are growing gradually, social enterprises are at the crossroads due to the several challenges that they are grappling with.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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Babban Gona, Nigeria’s Social Enterprise Firm Gets $5 Million IFAD Loan
The loan will help Babban Gona support 377,000 small-scale rice and maize producers in Nigeria with a comprehensive package of training, quality inputs, and marketing services.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Launches New Programs to Bolster African Innovation, Female Entrepreneurship
Google has announced the launch and opening of applications of a new US$3 million Black Founders Fund (BFF) Africa programme, and a Google.org-backed US$3 million grant to the Tony Elumelu Foundation to support female entrepreneurs on the continent.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: The COVID-19 Response Has Shown What We Are Capable Of When We Work Together
When India entered into lockdown early in 2020, lives and livelihoods were thrown into disarray. Among those hardest hit were informal waste pickers. Unable to continue working, most lost their income overnight.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Analysis: 6 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Are Saving Lives During India’s COVID-19 Crisis
With India bearing witness to the second wave of COVID-19 and one of the most serious health crises of all times, the situation on the ground is grim.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: A Social Enterprise Must Help a Billion People, Say Aavishkaar Group Founders
The Faces of Vibrant Bharat, Vineet and Swati Rai have been offering knowledge and capital for ventures that are solving problems for low-income households in India.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific