-
Cadana Bags $7.4 Million to Streamline Payroll for Global Hiring Platforms
The round was led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Better Tomorrow Ventures and 500 Startups.
- Categories
- Finance
- Region
- Global
-
At €20,000, Will Volkswagen’s Future EV Be Affordable for Africans?
In Africa and Asia, where purchasing power is low, household spending priorities lie elsewhere, despite the desire to go all-electric.
- Categories
- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Global
-
Press Release: Bayer and Solynta Collaborate to Advance True Potato Seed in Smallholder Markets in Kenya and India
This innovation will allow growers to plant potatoes from true seeds rather than the traditional planting of tubers.
- Categories
- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
-
Press Release: Roots of Impact Raises Impact-Linked Finance to Grow the Pie and Help Others Enter the Market
With this fresh capital injection, Roots of Impact will build the enabling infrastructure to scale Impact-Linked Finance and support other practitioners to enter this promising field.
- Categories
- Finance
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- impact investing, innovation, scale
-
Press Release: World’s Largest Gender-Lens Fund Starts Operating with New Investment Strategy
The new strategy focuses on strengthening the provision of gender-smart and responsible financial services concentrating on underserved women as well as women-owned and women-led businesses in developing markets.
- Categories
- Investing
- Region
- Global
-
Ethiopia and Global Fund Launch New Grants to Accelerate Progress Against HIV, TB and Malaria; Strengthen Health Systems
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) and the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia have launched the implementation of three new grants worth over US$441 million.
- Categories
- Health Care
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- public health
-
Research Reveals Coffee Industry’s Economic Model Is Not Viable for All
New research commissioned by the Global Coffee Platform, IDH and Solidaridad finds that though there is enough value for everyone to make a profit in the coffee supply chain, this profit rarely reaches farmers.
- Categories
- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
-
Loughborough-Led Climate Programme Receives £57 Million Funding Boost
A Loughborough University led climate programme will continue to carry out “transformative” work until 2030 – after receiving a £57m boost from the UK government.
- Categories
- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global