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IFC Invests $50 Million in New LeapFrog Fund to Bolster Health, Financial Services Businesses in Africa
The latest fund will focus on growing businesses in healthcare and financial services by helping companies adopt digital solutions and offer new products that can reach underserved segments of the population.
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- Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bamboo Charts Next Stage of Impact-Led Growth with Its First CEO
David joins Bamboo at a crucial time as the firm looks to broaden and deepen its positive and sustainable impact in emerging and frontier markets.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: British International Investment Partners with Access Bank to Extend US $60 Million Trade Finance Facility Across Africa
Loan facility will help to ensure availability of key commodities across import-dependent economies and aims to stimulate African trade volumes by US$90 million as well as contribute to SDGs 8 and 9.
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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CAF to Allocate USD$5 Million to Finance Innovative Startups
The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean approved an investment of USD$5 million in NXTP Ventures Fund III to foster the development of technology startups in the region.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
- Tags
- impact investing, innovation, MSMEs, scale, startups
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South African Venture Fund Secha Capital Raises $16 Million from Blue-Chip Investors
Secha invests in companies across sectors in southern Africa that are making the tech-enabled transition into the green economy.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: IIX and NYIF Forge Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Impact Investing Education
This alliance is poised to reshape the future of the financial sector, particularly in emerging markets, while simultaneously advancing global education in impact investing.
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- Global
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Press Release: Kiva Announces Global Commitments for Women and Refugees at Clinton Global Initiative 2023 Meeting
Kiva’s initiatives will improve the lives of over half a million women and refugees and expand critical partner network for greater financial inclusion.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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The Overlapping Impacts of Off-Grid Solar: Four Ways Innovative Funding Can Enable the Sector to Advance Global Climate and Poverty Goals
How can the off-grid solar sector achieve its energy access and climate-related goals? Laura Fortes and Drew Corbyn at GOGLA argue that there’s one clear answer to that question: more and better finance. They discuss four ways innovative funding models can enable the sector to rapidly and radically accelerate progress toward universal energy access and other development goals.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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