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Chaka Secures $1.5 Million Pre-Seed Round to Power Digital Investments and Wealth Management Opportunities across Africa
Chaka is a technology solutions company on a mission to enable every business and person in Africa to access borderless digital investment and wealth management opportunities.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Getting In the Game: How Wealthy Individuals and Families Can Bring Impact-First Investing Off the Sidelines
The vast majority of impact investments target market-rate returns, which leaves impact-focused enterprises with lower prospects for competitive returns struggling to attract capital. But as Mariah Collins of The Bridgespan Group explains, there's a group of influential and deep-pocketed investors who are ideally placed to change this dynamic: wealthy individuals and families. She shares findings from a recent report that aims to shed light on this largely untapped opportunity, and discusses why the shift to impact-first investing has never been more important — or easier — to make.
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- Investing
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Press Release: Atlas Renewable Energy and Unipar Sign a Solar Energy Power Purchase Agreement in Brazil
Atlas Renewable Energy's Lar do Sol-Casablanca II project will provide solar energy to Unipar's factories in Brazil
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- Energy
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- Latin America
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Light Microfinance Secures $10 Million Funding From European Investors
Ahmedabad based Light Microfinance has secured $10 million in its Series-A funding from leading European Impact Investors Incofin.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Research that Embraces the Messiness of Real Life: How an Innovative, Tech-Enabled Survey Method is Revealing the True Feelings of the Bottom Billion
Of any population in the world, the poor are the least likely to feel free to speak their minds, which makes it difficult to use surveys to understand and meet their unique needs. Daryl Collins, and Carolina de Miranda and Laura Morínigo of Fundación Capital, explore how tech-enabled research methods can provide a solution to this dilemma. They share how a unique, WhatsApp-based survey approach has helped Fundación Capital understand the nuanced meaning behind the responses of women who participated in a gender norms-focused messaging campaign in Paraguay.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Light Microfinance Secures $10 Million from Three European Impact Investors
The investment will support multiple technology interventions like an AI-driven analytics platform and mobile applications.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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The Bita Drinking Water Megaproject in Angola Registers $500 Million in Financing
Financed by The World Bank and the French Development Agency, this project will benefit 7.5 million people in Luanda and its surroundings.
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- WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- healthcare, social impact, sustainability, WASH, water
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Analysis: COVID-19 Socioeconomic Impact Worsens For Refugees in Uganda
The post-COVID-19 recovery for refugees will be fragile, amidst a projected return to growth for Uganda in 2021.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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