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Yes, Your Pitch Deck is That Important: Here’s How to Get Investors’ Attention and Raise Your First $100K
Entrepreneurs often have a lot of misconceptions around fundraising when they start their business. And according to Mehak Malik, Investment Associate at Beyond Capital Fund, these misunderstandings can undermine one key element of their success: the all-important pitch deck. She discusses the questions entrepreneurs need to ask themselves before drafting a pitch deck, based on a recent series of entrepreneur workshops from Beyond Capital and ANDE.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Viewpoint: Responsible Investing: PE impact investors should target SMEs in Southeast Asia
There is a concentration of investments in a few sectors such as financial services and energy. Agriculture and micro-SMEs are two areas with high potential in the region.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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PayPal-Backed Money Lender Tala Raises $110M to Enter India
Tala looks at a customer’s texts and calls logs, merchant transactions, overall app usage and other behavioral data through its Android app to build their credit profile.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Surviving the ‘Valley of Death’: A New Funding Database Aims to Help Agtech Companies Avoid Early-Stage Failure
Population growth and climate change are bringing extraordinary challenges to the agriculture sector in emerging markets. But though small- and medium-sized enterprises are essential to addressing these issues, they remain underfunded – particularly in the period before they become profitable (often referred to as the ‘‘Valley of Death’’). Aarno Keijzer at NpM explores these challenges, and presents a free database that NpM has compiled, highlighting funds that can help early-stage agriculture companies bridge this financial gap.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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KKR Tops $1 Billion Fundraising Goal for Global Impact Fund
TPG’s $2 billion Rise Fund is the largest impact investing pool, though the firm is targeting at least $3 billion for the second version.
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- Investing
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Fintech Decacorn Nubank Raises $400M Led by TCV
Nubank announced a few weeks ago that it will start to expand its offerings to Mexico and Argentina. Over the past year, the company has expanded its product offerings to include personal loans and cash withdrawal options as part of its digital savings accounts.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Press Release: Upaya Social Ventures Funds Its Latest Investments from A Recoverable Grant Pool
Upaya raised $2 million to expand its job-creating investments, including an innovative $1 million Pool of Recoverable Grants that was used to fund its latest two investments in agribusiness enterprises.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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Funding Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Overcoming Obstacles to Fund a New Breed of Entrepreneurs
A new breed of social innovators is exploring innovative business models and unconventional approaches in India. But since their models are not traditional or proven, most funders are unwilling to bet on them. Anshu Bhartia, CEO of UnLtd India, has a few suggestions for how these entrepreneurs can compete in a funding market that is "traditional, restrictive and governed by rules that serve the conformists." As the leader of an incubator working with Indian entrepreneurs confronting pressing social issues, Bhartia shares her vision of the road ahead.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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