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South African Edtech Company, iXperience, Secures $2.5 Million in Series A Funding
South African edTech startup, iXperience (iX), has secured $2.5 million in Series A funding to enlarge its team, grow its innovative tech platform, unveil programs across various markets, and build its global strategic partnerships division.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- edtech, impact investing, startups
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Cameroon’s Maviance to Digitise Payments Across Central Africa With $3 Million Funding
Per recent reports, the $3 million investment was solely from MFS Africa, an African fintech company that connects mobile money systems to banks and other financial institutions.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC International Finance Invests in COMASA to Improve Resilience of the Agricultural Sector in Nicaragua
IFC has partnered with Comercializadora de Mani, SA (COMASA), to help preserve the competitiveness of the Central American country and protect thousands of jobs within the industry.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Actis Plans to Double Africa Energy Investments to $2 Billion
Actis LLP, a London-based private equity firm focused on emerging markets, plans to finalize deals on six African power projects in 2021.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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21st Century Investing: Why Today’s Global Challenges Call for a System-Level Approach to Impact
From climate change and embedded social inequities to global pandemics, the scope and scale of the risks facing our world have increased. But according to William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg at The Investment Integration Project, these overlapping crises are serving as wake-up calls to many investors, leading them to take a more holistic approach to today's complex challenges. They describe this growing class of “system-level investors,” and how they're going beyond both conventional and sustainable investing to address global problems on a deep, systemic level.
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- Investing
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- corporations, ESG, impact investing
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Congo: REDD+ to Reduce CO2 Emissions and Preserve Forests
Congo has just signed an agreement with the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global VC Firm Learn Capital Leads USD $16.5 Million Round in Bengaluru-Based Edtech Teachmint
The year-old company competes with startups like Teacherr, ODA Class, eduZilla, SkoolApp, and Classplus among others.
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- Education
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- edtech, impact investing, startups
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Analysis: Future Returns: Why TPG’s Rise Fund Invests in Financial Inclusion
One of the key themes for private-equity firm TPG’s impact-investing vehicle, the Rise Fund, is financial inclusion—which the firm bets is best addressed through technology.
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