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Analysis: How Kibera’s Water Woes Vanished Into Thin Air
An aerial piping system brings residents clean, affordable water in Kenya.
- Categories
- Health Care, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- innovation, public health, SDGs, water
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HR Startup WorkPay Secures $5 Million Series A Funding to Scale Across Africa
The HR startup provides a comprehensive cloud-based solution for managing human resources and payroll, targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Africa.
- Categories
- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- business development, innovation, MSMEs, scale, startups
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Zepto Raises $340 Million in Funding
Zepto specalizes in ultra-fast delivery with a promise to get orders to customers within 10 minutes.
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Mexico-Based Unicorn Stori Raises $212 Million to Promote Financial Inclusion
Stori launched its first credit card in 2020, aimed at consumers overlooked by traditional lenders.
- Categories
- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: 24 Health Supply Chain Innovators Emerge as Market Leaders Across Africa
The report finds, amid difficult macro- economic realities and dwindling investment in African technology ecosystems, a select number of African health innovators are emerging as leaders.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DFC Announces $30 Million Technical Assistance Facility During Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Ministerial Meeting
The new investment represents a strategic response to the need for more support in project development in the region.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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AWS and iTNT Hub Collaborate to Nurture Generative AI Innovation Among Startups in Tamil Nadu
The generative AI startup hub program aims to support startups and innovators at all stages of maturity.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: $1.7 Million Funding Boost for Innovators Advancing Clean Energy Agriculture Technology
Efficiency for Access has awarded $1.7m of funding to innovators to help develop clean energy agricultural technologies and appliances in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
- Categories
- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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