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With Diverse Tools, OPIC Guides Impact Investing for U.S. Government
Root Capital CEO Willy Foote interviews OPIC’s President and CEO, Elizabeth Littlefield, on impact investing and OPIC’s evolving role in development.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Impact Investment Fund launches: a new $100 million socially-conscious Aussie start-up fund
The constrained Australian venture capital industry is about to receive a $100 million infusion earmarked for companies that promise to do good for society or the environment.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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Twitter Top 10: 6-7-2015
Have you read "the biggest story in the history of capitalism"? Do you have any ideas about how to change corporate behavior forever? Can you name "the new venture capital"? We ?have to admit, we had to answer "no" to all these questions. That is, until we visited the Twittersphere this week in search of our Top 10 list.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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An Angel Network That Invests Only In Ethiopian Ventures
RENEW Strategies, an impact investment advisory firm that manages a network of wealthy families with an interest in African development, is part of the Impact Angel Network, which currently invests entirely in Ethiopian ventures.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Root Capital Announces New $15 Million Lending Facility to Finance African Agricultural Enterprises
The company will finance agricultural enterprises throughout sub-Saharan Africa to enhance local food security and stimulate inclusive economic growth in the region.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Investing in Health, Investing in Africa
Africa faces two key challenges to achieve its full potential. The remarkable economic progress of the last 15 years must be sustained. And, this progress must be broadened to include the many millions of people who have yet to benefit from the continent’s rising prosperity.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, vaccines
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Rajasthan-based Karma Healthcare raises investment from Ennovent Impact Investment Holding
Ennovent Impact Investment Holding on Monday said it has invested an undisclosed in Rajasthan-based healthcare provider Karma Healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Profit From a Cause
Making and selling portable toilets? Investors wrinkled their noses when Rajeev Kher, Managing Director of Pune-based Saraplast Pvt Ltd, first sought funds from them in 1999. Sixteen years later, the toilets have been such a success that he is spoilt for choice as he looks for a third round of funding. "My company has been profitable for a long time," he says. "But I will never forget that when I started off, it was Aavishkar which came forward to support me."
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- South Asia