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inDrive Backs Aurora Ventures to Fund Emerging Market Female Tech Founders
Aurora Ventures is structured to capitalize on a persistent market inefficiency identified over five years of managing the Aurora Tech Award.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Moving Forward in a Post-USAID World: Why Women Must Be at the Center of Financial Inclusion
The demise of USAID has profound implications for the movement toward gender equality in financial inclusion and other development priorities. According to Julia Arnold and Sara Seavey, consultants specializing in women’s financial inclusion, the agency played a central role in funding, researching and coordinating global gender equality work — and without that anchor, these efforts are at risk of fragmentation and regression. They argue that this moment places responsibility on the sector itself to preserve the values, evidence and accountability structures that made progress toward gender-inclusive finance possible.
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- Finance
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Viewpoint: Impact Investing’s New Discipline
Impact investors are not asking for less impact — they are asking for more discipline. Drawing on conversations with investors across Miller Center’s network, Brigit Helms explores why execution, unit economics, additionality, and impact-revenue alignment are becoming central to the next phase of social enterprise finance.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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The Hidden Filters: How to Fix the Biases that Skew Investment Pipelines Away from Women Founders
Over the past decade, gender lens investing has moved from the fringes of impact investing into a more mainstream priority for many investors. But as Michal Januszewski at LeFil Consulting argues, while the overall gender-lens thesis has gained traction, the actual representation of women-led businesses remains stubbornly low within investor portfolios, with women-only founding teams capturing just 2.3% of global VC funding in 2024. He explores the structural and behavioral biases that can exclude women founders in each stage of the investment funnel, and shares practical recommendations on how investors can address them.
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- Investing
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Africa-Focused Seed Investor Chui Ventures Closes 1st Fund at $17.3. Million, Launches New $60 Million Vehicle
Chui Ventures is an investment company that backs exceptional African startups at the early stage of their growth.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: “Lens Investing” Is Just Admiring the Problem
Impact investing doesn’t need another lens; it needs a lever. Stop admiring the system’s flaws and start shifting power to those building something better.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Temasek Foundation and UNICEF Venture Announce Partnership
Catalyzing a new generation of frontier tech femtech solutions improving health and wellbeing for girls and women in Southeast Asia.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Ghana Launches Groundbreaking National Business Agenda to Empower Youth and Women Entrepreneurs
"The initiative, unveiled at a high-level event in Accra, represents a rare collaboration between government agencies, business associations, civil society, and international development partners."
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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