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Asia Healthcare to Raise up to $350 Million From New and Existing Investors
The capital raised will be used by Asia healthcare Holdings to acquire new single-specialty healthcare businesses in India.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- impact investing
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Press Release: DFC Announces Lauren Cochran as Vice President of Equity and Investment Funds
Ms. Cochran will provide executive leadership to DFC's equity portfolio, building DFC’s strategy to commit private capital into both direct equity and fund investments in emerging market economies globally.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- ESG, impact investing
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Asian Development Bank and BlueOrchard Sign a $50 Million Risk-Sharing Agreement to Bolster Microfinance
ADB's flagship fund, BlueOrchard Microfinance Fund, will invest in selected microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks.
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- Global
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Commerce Platform ShopUp Raises $75 Million in Largest Funding Round in the South Asian Market
ShopUp, a startup that is digitizing neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, has raised $75 million in a new financing round that is also the largest in the South Asian market.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Cotopaxi Secures $45 Million From Bain’s Impact-Oriented Fund
Smith said Cotopaxi will continue to expand the brand as it strives toward its goal of “building the next great outdoor brand, focused on people.”
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Filling the Water Access Funding Gap: Three Lessons to Maximize the Impact of Innovative Finance
More than two billion people still live without access to safe drinking water, but global funding to meet their water needs is severely lacking. As Lauren Cuscuna of Safe Water Network explains, innovative financing mechanisms can help fill the gap – but blended finance transactions in the water sector are lower than in other industries. She shares three key lessons Safe Water Network has learned while implementing innovative financing approaches to meet the long-term needs of the local water enterprises it works with in Ghana and India.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Technology, WASH
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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and Others Invest $200 Million in African Fintech Wave at $1.7 Billion Valuation
Wave, a U.S. and Senegal-based mobile money provider has received the largest Series A in Africa by a long shot, and is geared toward taking on telecom-led mobile money.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Innovative Financing for the Sustainable Development Goals
The Executive Secretary at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific shares why more needs to be done to harness the potential of innovative financing for the SDGs.
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- Global
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