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What Is eBay’s Omidyar Doing on Delhi’s MedTech Row?
Pierre Omidyar is best known as the founder of the online auction company e-Bay, which he grew from an “odd little Web site” to one of Web commerce’s biggest and longest-lasting success stories.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Patnis purchase stake in Grameen Capital India
Grameen Capital India (GCI) has announced that Amit Patni and Arihant Patni have acquired a stake in the company from original investor IFMR Trust. The Patni's after exiting their software services exports company to iGate in a $1.2 billion deal have started Nirvana Venture Advisors, a venture capital fund with focus on the internet space in India.
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- Investing, Technology
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Impact Investing’s Next Hurdle: Better Networking
Tess Mateo is a matchmaker. Her job is to interest private investors in projects throughout the world that will improve the quality of life for people and protect the environment. It is not unusual for her to touch down on four continents in the same number of weeks.
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Creating a Sense of Place By Investing Locally: Strategies for rebuilding community wealth in the U.S., globally
As more and more impact industry leaders think about how to invest locally, and as more people become interested in opportunities to do so, the impact sector has to come up with resources to educate people. It also must offer them opportunities to invest, whether through platforms such as Microplace or through Direct Public Offerings (DPOs)
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Symbiotics’ impact bond issuance platform lends 10 million dollars to AccessBank in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s leading microfinance bank, AccessBank, received 10 million dollars through MSME Bonds, Symbiotics’ impact bond issuance platform, on November 20, 2012.
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Accion’s Frontier Investments Group and Saama Capital Invest $4 Million in Mortgage Company
Early-Stage Equity to Help Expand Shubham Housing's Mission to Serve Urban Poor
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Confidence in social impact claims ‘shockingly low’
Demonstrable social impact is often overlooked by social investors, says leading social enterprise academic
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There’s More to Measurement Than … Measuring : An Overview of the 2012 Social Finance Forum
As Arlene Dickinson of Venture Communications put it, when she considers impact in an investment she asks: “Is the entrepreneur really baking in, right from the very beginning, this triple bottom line mentality? Or are they bolting it on afterwards to appear like they are making a difference? ... If it’s bolted on, I’m not interested.” She was one of many experts taking part in the 2012 Social Finance Forum.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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