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Alyve Health Bags USD $5.5 Million in Series A Round
With the raised capital, the Mumbai-based health-tech startup aims to grow initiatives across key areas.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Transparent Sustainability: A Free Tool Aims to Empower Retail Investors to Align Their Investments with Their Convictions
The growing demand for sustainable investments has brought a greater degree of scrutiny to the industry, as it attempts to address rising concerns about greenwashing. But as Shaan Madhavji and Anna Helena Chaim at Impaakt point out, many investors still have a lack of knowledge about the true impacts of their investments. They explain how Impaakt's free “How Sustainable to Me?” tool provides retail investors with transparent impact data that allows them to align their investments with their values.
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- Environment, Investing
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Investment Africa Data Centres Gets Over $100 Million Funding From RMB
The partners in the deal say the financing agreement demonstrates the strong financial position of Africa Data Centres and its commitment to investing in the digital transformation of South Africa.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, digital inclusion
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AG Insights Platform Gro Intelligence Is Closing Down
Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is calling it quits after failing to secure enough capital to stay afloat following a turbulent few months, AgFunderNews understands.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, failure, smallholder farmers
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Analysis: U.S. Tech Giants Are Building Dozens of Data Centers in Chile. Locals Are Fighting Back
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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- data, digital inclusion, water
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Raxio Opens a Data Centre in Mozambique and Plans to Launch More Facilities on the Continent
Raxio Group has announced the opening of its first facility in Mozambique as part of its $290 million investment strategy on the continent.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, infrastructure
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India’s Top Telco Ventures Outside Home to Take on Africa
Reliance Jio became a top telecoms player in India, with more than 40% of the market share, within 8 years of launching there.
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- Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More Data is Not the Answer: Why We Need to Reset Our Expectations for Impact Measurement and Management
Impact measurement and management (IMM) is gaining momentum. As Julia Mensink at Acumen explains, while the sector was once underfunded and under-emphasized, it is now taken much more seriously — not only by impact investors, but also by mainstream banks, pension funds and corporations. But she argues that this progress has brought with it some challenges, including investors' growing demand for rigorous impact data, regardless of the challenges this data collection and reporting may present to entrepreneurs. She proposes some ways investors can work with social enterprises to shift IMM from a burden to a means to greater impact.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise