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Social Business Incubator Villgro Completes First Round of Fundraising
Social business incubator Villgro has completed the first round of fundraising for its impact fund Menterra Venture Advisors that it has launched for making early-stage investments in healthcare, energy, agriculture, education and skilling startup companies.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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First Medical Technology Incubator Created in India
India is a country known for its rich culture and amazing food, but for a country of more than 1.2 billion individuals, medical technologies are largely neglected. That is what makes InnAccel such a unique startup. It’s the first and currently only medical technology incubator in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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MasterCard Takes Fintech Incubator Global
MasterCard has launched Start Path Global, a globally available partnership programme for retail and fintech start-ups.
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- Technology
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- fintech, incubators
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NexThought Monday – Eying the Prizes: Can innovation challenges tackle the problem of energy access?
Over the past few years, innovation prizes have become common with development partners seeking to sponsor innovations that are likely to yield solutions to common development challenges. The opportunities to take part in these innovation prizes are numerous, but are they actually effective when it comes to getting the products into the hands of the people who need them?
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- Energy
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The Missing Link in Africa’s Tech Eco-System: From idea to biz plans, we need more pre-incubation – and this is how
There are now more 100 tech hubs across Africa. While we have been successful in creating spaces for innovators, the next task ahead of us as an ecosystem is to develop services that help young innovators to better define the problem they want to solve and develop a truly convincing value proposition that can scale.
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- Technology
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Kennedy School to Create New ‘Social Enterprise Incubator’
As it revisits major aspects of its curriculum in conjunction with its capital campaign, the Kennedy School of Government is in the early stages of creating a new “social enterprise incubator,” according to HKS spokesperson Doug Gavel.
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- Social Enterprise
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- incubators
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Catalyzing the Power of Africa’s Youth: Recommendations for Youth Entrepreneurship Promotion 2.0
Young and without credit history or experience, many East African entrepreneurs find themselves at the “Bottom of the Enterprise Pyramid” facing tough challenges. While networking, peer-learning and exposure, especially to investors, are perceived as important success factors, these are biased towards more mature entrepreneurs. Intellecap has developed a series of strategies for building a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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- Education
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- incubators, research
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Are Impact Accelerators/Incubators Targeting Emerging Markets Any Good?
Seems every time you turn around, there’s a new impact incubator or accelerator aimed at social enterprises in developing countries. But that doesn’t mean they’re any good.
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- Impact Assessment
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