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Press Release: MzN Launches AI “Digital Teammate” to Accelerate Fundraising for Small NGOs
This marks the first in a suite of specialist AI-powered agents built to tackle the most pressing challenges faced by NGOs.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Global
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Agentic AI Platform Raises $3.5 Million USD in a Pre-seed Funding Round to Drive US Expansion to Drive US and Latin American Expansion
As a remote-first company, Oraion is seeking strategic talent in the US and worldwide to accelerate their vision.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Google Drives AI to Boost Agriculture, Enrich Cultural Data in India
Google unveiled its new Agricultural Monitoring & Event Detection API, offering field‑level crop insights updated fortnightly, and launched the Amplify Initiative to build hyperlocal datasets across Indic languages.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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MzN Unveils AI “Digital Teammate” to Supercharge Small NGO Fundraising
At its core, the agent is a virtual teammate—able to identify donor opportunities, match funding prospects to organisational strengths, and build tailored fundraising strategies.
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- Finance
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South African Startup Secures $1.8 Million to Transform Energy Market with AI
The round will accelerate product development and customer growth as the company scales to meet rising demand for flexible, decentralised energy infrastructure.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’
As global health funding contracts, traditional brick-and-mortar healthcare delivery models are becoming financially and operationally unsustainable, in Africa and across low- and middle-income countries. Joanne Peter at Jhpiego and Rob Beyer at Villgro Africa argue that this raises the need for innovative new pathways toward universal health coverage. They propose one such approach, developed through their work at the HealthTech Hub Africa: "Access-as-a-Service," a model that combines in-person care options with first-line healthcare provided through digital channels.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Being a Changemaker in an Era of Accelerating Change: A Q&A with Ashoka Founder and Social Entrepreneurship Pioneer Bill Drayton
NextBillion last interviewed Bill Drayton — the founder of Ashoka and a seminal figure in the social entrepreneurship movement — on the sidelines of SOCAP almost 10 years. Since that time, the sector (and the world around us) have experienced massive change, but one thing has remained consistent: Drayton’s focus on empowering changemakers around the world to transform their innovative ideas into lasting impact. Earlier this year, he was given the Skoll Foundation’s Global Treasure Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship: In this Q&A, he shares his thoughts on the sector as it enters a new era full of emerging challenges — and exciting opportunities.
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- Social Enterprise
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Singapore VC Granite Asia Leads $60 Million Funding Round for AI ‘Data Foundry’ Centific to Fuel Global Expansion
Granite Asia was one of two foreign VCs, alongside Taiwan’s AppWorks, selected to take part in a new Malaysian initiative to invest in local startups and encourage global companies to redomicile in the Southeast Asian country.
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- Investing
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- South Asia