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Arc Ride Secures $10 Million in Funding to Expand Electric Motorcycle Battery-Swapping Network Across Kenya
The company’s Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) model enables riders to swap a depleted battery for a fully charged one in minutes, reducing fuel costs and addressing the range anxiety often associated with electric vehicle adoption.
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- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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All On Invests US$1.5 Million In Hinckley E-Waste Recycling to Advance Battery Circularity In Nigeria
This milestone investment will enable Hinckley to establish state-of-the-art Lithium-ion Battery Recycling and Reuse as well as Used Lead Acid Battery Recycling facilities, the first of their kind in Nigeria.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, recycling, waste
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Jacqueline Novogratz and Acumen Raise $300 Million For Off-Grid Solar In Africa
Backers include Green Climate Fund, IFC, Shinhan Bank, Nordic Development Fund and Soros Economic Development Fund.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Katapult and OCTAVE Capital launch $75 Million Asian Ocean Fund
The fund aims to help close the SDG 14 funding gap in Asia by investing into early-stage and growth companies in sectors such as maritime decarbonisation and sustainable aquaculture.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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KawiSafi Announces $90 Million in Approved Capital to Accelerate Climate Solutions Across Africa
With backing from the African Development Bank, the Green Climate Fund, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and the Quadrature Climate Foundation, Acumen’s second KawiSafi fund marks the next chapter for the climate-resilient growth platform developed by Acumen.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aligning Capital with Justice: How Innovative Finance Can Enable the Final Stretch Toward Energy Access in Africa
The world has made unprecedented progress toward universal energy access, and today over 90% of the global population has electricity. But as Roeland Menger at Nithio explains, the remaining 10% live in rural and low-income communities — primarily in Africa — that typical business and funding models can't reach. He argues that the exclusion of these markets is not only ineffective but unjust, and highlights several innovative investment approaches that are expanding decentralized energy to the last mile.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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Analysis: We Tested AI Impact Assessments. Here’s What We Learned.
Can generative AI speed up and strengthen impact-performance assessment of venture investments?
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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T. Rowe Price Launches Blue Bond Emerging Markets Strategy to Help Catalyze Finance for a Sustainable Blue Economy
"The strategy is aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals 6 and 14, which target clean water and healthy marine habitats, and is classified under Article 9 of the European Union's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)."
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- WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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