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UK Announces Extension of the Ayrton Fund and Transforming Energy Access Platform
The Ayrton Fund builds on innovative UK-international partnerships in more than 100 countries, which have already improved the lives of 46 million people across Africa, Asia and the Indo-Pacific, mobilised £3 billion in investment, and enabled more than a quarter of a million green jobs in the UK and abroad.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Global
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Holocene Closes Southern Africa’s First Dedicated Climate-Tech Fund
Holocene targets promising, local founders at the earliest stages, but who lack capital and hands-on operational support to get them to scale, especially in a nascent sector such as climate-tech.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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What a Decade of TRANSFORM Teaches Us About Partnerships
The playbook’s central message is that meeting today’s social and environmental challenges requires radical collaboration at speed and scale.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Press Release: 3IF Ventures Reaches USD $12 Million First Close to Scale Africa’s Inclusive Insurance Market
Africa’s insurance protection gap is one of the most underserved opportunities but also one of the most significant barriers to economic resilience on the continent.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Targets Nigeria’s $236 Billion Credit Gap as its $500 Billion MoMo Business Pushes into Lending
MTN Group is moving to turn its African mobile-money empire into something much bigger than a payments business, as the telecoms giant prepares to separate its fintech operations in Nigeria and Uganda, bring in strategic investors, and push into lending across some of the continent’s most underbanked markets.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Courageous Capital: How Africa Built its Own Tech Ecosystem
Africa’s tech sector has been thriving for almost three decades, during which its entrepreneurs have quietly built a self-sustaining ecosystem. And as Marsha Wulff at LoftyInc Capital explains, instead of government and charitable institutions taking the lead, it has been Africa’s own innovators who have developed its tech infrastructure and driven its commercial success. She explores how African entrepreneurs and investors have built a vibrant and resilient tech ecosystem that addresses the continent's unique needs — and taps its massive growth potential.
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- Investing, Technology
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After Securing $260 Million in 2025, Madagascar Billionaire Lands Another €170 Million for Telecom Growth
Madagascar billionaire Hassanein Hiridjee has secured another major vote of confidence from international financiers after AXIAN Telecom landed a €170 million ($196 million) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), extending a funding streak that has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars into the fast-growing African telecom operator.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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First Circle Lands US $4.87 Million from Cathay United to Expand Philippine SME Loans
New financing gives First Circle fresh capacity to meet rising demand for working capital, business loans, and solar finance.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- business development, lending, MSMEs
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