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Analysis: Combatting India’s Learning Crisis Through Innovations in Financing: ‘How’ We Fund Is as Important as ‘What’ We Fund
Over the last few years OBF has created a paradigm shift for the way that capital is deployed to solve for intractable development challenges such as learning poverty.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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ZestMoney Set to Lay Off Around 100 Employees After Acquisition Deal With PhonePe Falls Through
According to reports, the fintech company will trim its workforce by around 20% as part of its business continuity and survival plan.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Bitget Launches $100 Million Web3 Fund to Support Next-Generation Crypto Projects in Asia
The fund will focus on investing in Web3-friendly venture capital and outstanding Web3 projects, with the goal of supporting the development of the next generation of crypto projects.
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- Asia Pacific
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Dozer Raises $3 Million In Seed Funding
The new funding will contribute to the scaling of product and engineering teams.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- data, infrastructure, scale
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PepsiCo Launches Crop Intelligence Model for India in Collaboration with Cropin
PepsiCo India, through its brand “Lay’s”, announced a crop & plot-level predictive intelligence model to help farmers maximize potato yields.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Avanti Finance Secures $24 Million Equity Funding From Rabo Partnerships, IDH Farmfit Fund
The funds will provide support for the company to provide affordable and localised credit products for smallholder farmers in India.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Filipino Fintech Advance Secures $16 Million in a Pre-series A Funding
With the funding announcement, Advance also announced that it has expanded into Vietnam by acquiring BravoHr.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- employment, fintech, innovation
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Press Release: Asia-Focused Digital Mental Health Company ThoughtFull Raises US $4 Million in Pre-Series a Round, Led by Temasek-Owned Sheares Healthcare Group
This marks Sheares' first investment in mental healthcare across the region to close the gaps in the existing mental healthcare ecosystem.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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