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Bengaluru-based start-up wins Tata Social Enterprise Challenge
Pentavalent Bio Sciences Private Limited, a city-based start-up took to the winning stand at the 5th edition of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2016-17 held on Saturday (January 14) at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C). An initiative of the Tata Group and IIMC, the event recognized India's most promising early-stage social enterprises that would bring about long-term solutions to India's social needs.
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Wearable brain scanner among healthcare innovations
A low-cost, brain-scanning device for detecting neurological emergencies swiftly, a biochip integrated with smart phone for DNA-based test malaria test, a point-of-care microscope that detects infection using artificial intelligence (AI) are some of the top 20 ventures selected in the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge (TSEC) 2016-2017.
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Measuring Impact With Meaning: 50 Funds That Are Best For The World
Some players in the market, in seeking a simple solution, have settled on measuring impact through a few metrics. But the oversimplification of how to do so creates a risk that impact investing becomes meaningless to the mainstream capital markets. One solution is highlighted in BLab's recently released inaugural Best for the World Funds list, which includes 50 fund managers who are doing impact management with meaning.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Impact Investing Buzz: GIIN and Toniic Mix with Growth Reports
The knock on impact investing – both within and outside of the industry – is the lack of long-term data and platforms to observe deals in a more transparent way. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Toniic, arguably the industry’s most influential trade groups, both released studies designed to turn around some of those perceptions. The reports were unveiled at the GIIN Investor Forum 2016 on Wednesday in Amsterdam.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, NextBillion Originals
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Orange announces the winners of the sixth edition of the Orange Social Venture Prize for Africa and the Middle East
Orange has announced the winners of the 2016 Orange Social Venture Prize for Africa and the Middle East during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town, South Africa, last night. The prize, which aims to encourage start-ups in Africa to launch innovative projects that promote development, has been extended this year to the Middle East. A new award, the Special Prize for Cultural Content, has also been introduced.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Register Now for the Global Impact Investing Network Investor Forum 2016
Next month in Amsterdam more than 500 of the best thinkers and biggest investment movers are expected to convene for two days of intense learning, dialogue and interaction during the Global Impact Investing Network's Investor Forum. NextBillion is serving as a media partner for the event and our readers can save 10 percent using a special discount code.
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Metlife Foundation And Verb Announce Launch of “Inclusion Plus” Competition to Accelerate Financial Inclusion Across India
MetLife Foundation and Verb announced the launch of the global innovation competition “Inclusion Plus” in India, today.
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Leveraging Technology for Good: An Interview With June Sugiyama, Director of the Vodafone Americas Foundation
With its parent corporation ranked as one of the top telecom companies in the world, Vodafone Americas Foundation's focus is a natural fit: "We support projects that use technology for social impact," says June Sugiyama, the foundation's director. In this Q&A, recorded at the SOCAP16 conference, she discusses the foundation's multifaceted work.
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