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Press Release: Symbiotics and VisionFund Strengthen Partnership With the Issuance of USD 10 Million Bond to Support Livelihoods of Marginalized Women in More Than 25 Countries
The bond will enable VisionFund’s microfinance institutions to provide much-needed loans to underserved communities.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Startups Need Patient Capital: Could the African Diaspora Help Provide it?
African startup funding amounts to a tiny fraction of global venture capital (VC), and these investments are often concentrated on sectors like fintech and e-commerce. As a result, as Kristin H. Wilson at Innovate Africa Fund argues, African founders often lack the capital and incentive to tackle the continent’s biggest development challenges. She proposes a new approach to funding innovative African-made solutions to these issues — one that leverages the capital and entrepreneurial expertise of the African diaspora.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Press Release: The Pandemic Fund Announces Third Round of Funding, Marking Another Milestone in Pandemic Preparedness
Interested countries, Regional Entities, and Implementing Entities will be able to submit proposals through an online portal starting in March 2025.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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- COVID-19, public health, scale
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2024: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 5
As we bid farewell to an eventful year, it's time for NextBillion’s annual tradition: our “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest. Each December since 2012, we've selected 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. Check out the articles in this year's contest (if you haven't already), and vote for your favorites: You can vote up to once per hour between Dec. 18 and 11:59 pm EST on Jan. 5.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Microsoft Launches AI Initiative to Empower African Startups
More than 2,400 AI startups in Africa are transforming industries and creating new job opportunities at a rapid pace.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Seedstars Africa VC Fund Achieves 1st Close at $42 Million
Seedstars Africa Ventures I is addressing gaps in early-stage financing across Africa through investments of up to US$2 million in seed and Series A rounds.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- scale, startups, venture capital
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Ventures Platform Climatetech White Paper Calls for Climate-Resilient Business Models in the African Tech Sector
Proposes a Simplified Framework to Guide the African VC and Startup Ecosystem in Addressing Climate Challenges.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Subsidy and Synergy: How Philanthropy Can Complement Impact Investing More Effectively
The original goal of impact investing was to build out the funding spectrum between philanthropy and commercial investment. But according to Asad Mahmood at SIMA and Nanno Kleiterp, the arrival of private equity firms — promising scale and market-rate financial returns — has pulled all the sector's energy toward the commercial end of the spectrum. They explore the key role philanthropic subsidy has played in the development of emerging markets business, clarify some misconceptions about its role in impact investing, and propose some ways philanthropists and impact investors can better align their efforts.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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