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WaterEquity Raises Over $150 Million at Final Close of Global Access Fund
WaterEquity, the first asset manager exclusively focused on water and sanitation, announced the final close of its third impact investment fund, the Global Access Fund.
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- Global
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- impact investing
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Supporting Financial Health Startups: Four Lessons for Impact Investors, Foundations and Governments
Over the past few years, Village Capital has run Finance Forward, a global coalition to support early-stage entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions around financial health. Village Capital CEO Allie Burns shares highlights from a new report that analyzed data from the 1,000+ companies that applied to the program around the world. The report paints a picture of the global state of financial health startups, and offers lessons for impact investors, foundations and government leaders who hope to grow the ecosystem for financial health innovation.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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War in Ukraine Reveals Flaws in Sustainable Investing
The public mood keeps changing, and what counted as the right thing to do before Russia invaded has suddenly switched.
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- Investing
- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, governance, impact investing
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Leverage Edu Raises $22 Million Funding, Plans to Expand in India and Overseas
Global study-abroad platform Leverage Edu said on Monday it has raised $22 million as a part of a fresh round of financing that saw participation from a consortium of funds, family offices and individual angels.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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The Rise of Ethical Investing in Africa
While ethical investing was once perceived as a fringe investment strategy, it has steadily been gaining traction in recent years.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, governance, impact investing
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$50 Million Fund to Build 15-20 Startups, Says Angel Investing Platform
Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), an angel investment platform, announced the launch of its new fund with a corpus of $50 million.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google’s Underwater Internet Cable to Connect Togo to Europe
Equiano, Google’s subsea internet cable in Africa, will make its first landing in Togo this month. Google announced this on Friday (18 March 2022).
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Using Blended Finance to Navigate the Pandemic: How an Innovative Funding Vehicle is Helping SMEs Survive COVID-19 and Advance the SDGs
Emerging economies' progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is behind schedule, and COVID-19 has set their efforts back even further. Margi Goelz at Georgetown University and Bridget Bradley at Tetra Tech discuss the value of blended finance in closing these countries' estimated $2.5 trillion annual SDG funding gap. They explore how an innovative blended finance facility has helped a Kenya-based energy company navigate the pandemic and contribute to the SDGs, and how this approach can support other small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Investing
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