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African Development Fund Mobilises a Historic $11 Billion, Marking a New Era of African Ownership and Investment-Led Development
For the first time in the Fund’s history, 23 African countries have made unprecedented contributions to their own concessional financing window.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively
For impact-focused organizations, consortiums are rarely the easy path to scale. They tend to be slower, more complex and harder to manage than working with a single partner. But according to Emma Colenbrander at Spring Impact, consortiums can also produce solutions that are broader in perspective, stronger in legitimacy and more resilient in practice. She explores these benefits and shares five lessons for maximizing the impact of this sort of collaborative effort.
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- Social Enterprise
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Analysis: South Asian SMEs Face Digital Turning Point as AI Adoption Accelerates
While artificial intelligence (AI) has already begun reshaping large corporations in the region, most SMEs remain trapped in traditional, low-efficiency business models that limit scalability and financial resilience.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Five35 Ventures Secures Anchor Investment from Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund
The MEDA-backed anchor capital is expected to bolster Five35’s capacity to deepen its reach across East, West and Southern Africa, support more female entrepreneurs, and bridge critical financing gaps between pre-seed and scale stages.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Clean Cooling Collaborative Receives $30 Million Gift to Expand Access to Efficient, Climate-Friendly Cooling
By making cooling solutions more sustainable — and expanding access to them — we can protect people and the planet.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Press Release: TechnoServe, Bid Lab, and Argidius Launch Initiative to Boost Startups That Support Smallholder Farmers in Central America and Colombia
The VerdeXcelerate program will strengthen startups that are developing innovative tools to tackle the productivity, sustainability, and market access challenges faced by thousands of small and medium-scale farmers in six countries across the region.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Moniepoint MFB Launches All-in-One Moniebook Platform to Empower MSMEs in Nigeria
The tool enables business owners to manage inventory, track sales, process payments, monitor staff roles, manage customer relationships, and generate real-time reports from one system.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech, microfinance, MSMEs, scale
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Just Climate Raises $375 Million for Natural Climate Solutions Strategy
Founded in 2021 by Generation Investment Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm chaired by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Just Climate aims to deliver impact by focusing on scaling solutions for the highest-emitting, most off-track sectors of the economy, investing in climate solutions that can radically reduce or remove emissions, while generating attractive risk-adjusted financial returns.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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