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HealthKois Launches USD $300 Million Healthcare-Focused Fund
"As the successor fund to HealthQuad, HealthKois is set to invest between USD 7 million and USD 25 million per company over the next four years."
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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GROWiT Raises $3 Million in Series A round led by GVFL
GROWiT tools are intended to support farming practices by helping improve productivity and reduce input costs.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Indian Medical Imaging AI Company Qure.ai Unveils AI Co-Pilot for Community Health Workers in India
"Primary health systems in developing nations are overburdened with high patient volume and care demand while lacking or not having enough resources."
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Quadria Capital Closes Oversubscribed US$1 Billion Fund III to Advance Healthcare Transformation Across Asia
"Fund III will build a diversified portfolio of approximately 10 market-leading companies, taking both significant minority and majority stakes, and further scaling impact through targeted co-investments from Limited Partners (LPs)."
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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India-Based Climate Tech Startup Alt Carbon Raises $12 Million to Trap Carbon in Rocks and Soil
"Founded in 2023 by brothers Shrey and Sparsh Agarwal, Alt Carbon has set a goal to remove 5 million metric tons of CO2 by 2030, with a focus on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) in South Asia . . ."
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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New Report by NIUA and RMI Identifies Key Decarbonization Strategies for India with Potential to Cut 8 Gt of Emissions by 2050
"This report identifies five high-impact decarbonization strategies that, if widely implemented, can cumulatively eliminate up to 8 gigatons (Gt) of operational and embodied carbon emissions by 2050 — nearly three times India's current annual emissions."
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Coal India to Build $3 Billion Clean Energy Projects to Power Green Ammonia Facilities
"The initiative is part of the company’s strategy to offset emissions and support India’s national goal of reaching net zero by 2070."
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- Energy
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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The Indian Company Forcing Uber to Change Its Business Model
Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
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- Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- fintech, gig economy, startups
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