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Oorja Closes US $1.5 Million Pre-Series A To Scale Its Farming-as-a-Service Model
Oorja owns, operates and maintains decentralised solar infrastructure at the farm level and sells affordable irrigation and milling services to groups of smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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India’s Rapido Becomes a Unicorn With Fresh $120 Million Funding
Rapido’s growing prominence in India’s mobility sector has emerged as a formidable challenger to the long-standing duopoly of Uber and Ola.
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- Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- gig economy, startups
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Report: India Retains Eighth Position in Global Agriculture Exports in 2023: WTO
Among top ten farm exporters, only Brazil, EU, Thailand increased exports in 2023, per WTO’s Trade Statistics 2023 report.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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How a Sugar Industry Stamp of Approval Hid Coerced Hysterectomies
Much of what consumers buy is marked “sustainable,” “humane” or “green.” In the sugar cane fields of India, that papered over the worst abuses.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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AWS and iTNT Hub Collaborate to Nurture Generative AI Innovation Among Startups in Tamil Nadu
The generative AI startup hub program aims to support startups and innovators at all stages of maturity.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Google Backs Indian Open Source Uber Rival
Google has become one of the latest investors in Moving Tech, the parent firm of Indian open source ridesharing app Namma Yatri.
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- Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- e-commerce, innovation, startups
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Huawei Just Built a $1.4 Billion Chip Center as It Faces U.S. Sanctions
The Shanghai-based research and development center will have almost 30,000 employees.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- employment, research
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China Property Crash Is Battering a Niche Pocket of ESG Finance
China’s property downturn is weighing on yet another corner of financial markets: ESG-labeled securitized debt.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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