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Koolboks Closes $2.5 Million Seed Round to Scale Solar Refrigeration Across Africa
Koolboks, the sustainable cooling company providing accessible cold storage solutions to businesses across Africa, has closed a $2.5M Seed funding round.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- energy access, scale, solar
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IFC Invests Another $35 Million Into Brazil’s Odata
International Finance Corporation (IFC) has invested a further $35 million into Brazilian data center firm OData.
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- Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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- accelerators, data, impact investing, scale
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Creating New Pathways in Retail to Support Persons with Disabilities in India
In many countries, the retail, hospitality and services sector is a great source of employment for people with disabilities. Yet in India, which has one of the largest retail sectors globally, current working conditions within this industry are often unwelcoming for disabled people. B.S. Nagesh at Trust for Retailers and Retail Associates of India (TRRAIN), Celia Sanchez-Valladares Barahona at Ashoka Nordics, and Kristina Humphreys explore how TRRAIN is working to create employment opportunities for people with disabilities in India’s retail sector at an industry-wide scale.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Indian Fintech Tartan Secures Funding to Scale Payroll Management Solution
The proceeds from the round will be used to scale its operations while expanding its engineering team.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- business development, fintech, scale
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Accomplishing the Impossible: Lessons on Scaling From BRAC Founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Countless books and articles have addressed the challenges of going to scale in the development sector — yet a systematic approach to scaling remains out of reach. However, as Scott MacMillan at BRAC USA explains, BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was arguably more successful than anyone at scaling effective poverty programs. He shares insights from his new book on Abed's life and work, which sheds light on how BRAC has created and scaled programs to an extent that no other nonprofit or social enterprise has managed to achieve.
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- Education, Finance, Health Care
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Report: Private Equity Investment In Proptech Firms Rise To $741 Million In 2021 in India
Proptech Firms That Are Providing Solution in Sales and Marketing, and Construction Management Got 69 percent of the Total Funds.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- blockchain, impact investing, scale, startups
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Pushing the Water Boundaries: How Social Impact Incentives Can Make WASH Enterprises More Innovative, Impactful and Catalytic
The water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector is ripe for change, as it is far from being on track to achieve universal access to safe drinking water (SDG 6). According to Shabana Abbas at Aqua for All, and Bjoern Struewer and Patrizia Baffioni at Roots of Impact, impact entrepreneurs can drive the sector forward, but their funders will need to move away from the usual grant models to explore more innovative and sustainable financing approaches. They discuss one such model – Social Impact Incentives – and how it's being applied successfully to support WASH enterprises.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance, WASH
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Zvolv to Invest $3 Million to Scale up Middle East & North Africa Operations
The investment will help the Pune-based startup, to strengthen its business operations as well as build on its partner ecosystem.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- impact investing, scale, startups
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