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Viewpoint: Philanthropy Is Underestimating AI. Here’s How to Catch Up
If you are operating a philanthropy and you think your only engagement with AI needs to be in your internal practices or in “AI for XYZ” (eg., better farming), I ask you to consider doing more.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: Supercharging Network Intelligence
How network organizations can use AI to better understand and support their members in real time.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Global
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Drip Capital Surpasses $9 Billion in Trade Transactions as SMBs Navigate Shifting Global Supply Chains
SMBs continue to face a substantial working capital gap, with traditional banks pulling back on small business lending and alternative lenders increasingly unable to meet the scale or speed that global trade requires.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Global
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Spill Games Raises $3.1 Million to Build a Systems-Led Global Mobile Gaming Company From India
Spill Games, a Bengaluru mobile gaming startup, raised USD 3.1 million Seed funding led by Centre Court Capital and PeerCapital to scale its systems driven casual games portfolio.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Dodai Closes $13 Million Series A to Scale E-Mobility in Ethiopia
Over the next 12 months, the company aims to reach 3,000 battery swapping users supported by 30 battery swapping stations across Addis Ababa.
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- Global
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Press Release: Turn.io Launches the Chat for Health Accelerator 2026, Scaling AI and Voice for Primary Healthcare
The programme is designed for organisations already delivering sustainable primary healthcare at scale across Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Africa’s Firms are Not Growing—New Data Reveal a Jobs Challenge
Across 48 Sub-Saharan African economies, a firm that has operated for nearly three decades employs barely twice the workers it had at birth. The gap relative to high-income economies is large, structural, and costly.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regional Leaders Launch Blended Finance Initiative to Expand Surgical Care Across Latin America and the Caribbean
An estimated 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care, with disproportionate impact in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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