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Ethiopia’s Tech Startups Are Ready to Run the World, but the Internet Keeps Getting Blocked
As a heavily regulated market with low internet penetration, young techies in the Horn of Africa nation, he says, already suffer from the negative perception that they couldn’t be where Africa’s next high-tech workforce is nurtured.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uber Is Pivoting to Fintech, Something Asian Startups Have Been Doing for Years
The fintech pivot has been important part of the playbook for Asian ride-hailing companies for years. India’s Ola made fintech a priority in 2015 after spinning out its payment service, Ola Money, into a standalone app, according to Tech Crunch. Indonesia’s Go-Jek started its Go-Pay service in 2016, while Malaysia’s Grab made a major push into fintech two years ago.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Dragons Scale Naturally; Social Enterprises Don’t: Here Are Four Tips That Make It Faster and Easier for Every Entrepreneur
If you’re a social entrepreneur, here's some bad news for you: You weren’t born to scale. According to Rob Shelton at the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, in reviewing 100 enterprises from the past 10 years, the Center found that less than 10% were able to scale successfully. But he also offers some good news: In spite of the odds, you can learn to scale successfully – if you're willing to shift management gears, learn some new things and push beyond your existing model. Shelton shares a straightforward process that can make scaling possible for every entrepreneur.
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- Entrepreneurship
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IAN Fund Leads a $2.7 Million Round in Chakr Innovation
Founded in 2016, the startup leverages cutting-edge technology to capture emissions from diesel generators and convert the pollution-causing particles into a base pigment for black inks and paints.
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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Fintech and Cleantech… an Odd Couple or a Perfect Marriage?
Startups focused on non-emitting-generation resources were once lauded as the next big cash cow, but the sector’s hype quickly got away from reality.
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- Energy, Environment, Finance, Technology
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LevelTen Energy Raises $20.5 Million to Simplify Renewable Energy Sales
CEO Bryce Smith says that the fresh capital will be used to expand LevelTen’s product suite in North America and Europe, open its platform to new channel providers, and grow the company’s workforce.
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- Energy
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You Can Now Invest in a ‘Racial Justice’ Index Fund
The new “Racial Justice” criteria joins more than a dozen other causes promoted by OpenInvest’s indexing technology—which allows investors to prioritize values including gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and ethical supply chains and also combat issues like fossil fuels, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, among others.
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- Investing
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The Power to Produce: How Indian Energy Entrepreneurs are Approaching the Next Big Frontier
The Indian government says 99.99% of houses in India, a staggering 214 million of them, are now on the electrical grid. Even with errors and omissions, it’s an incredible number. So if nearly all dwellings in India are now grid-enabled, is this the end of energy access challenges in the country? Not exactly, writes Ananth Aravamudan at the social enterprise incubator Villgro, since the existing grid does not provide satisfactory service. He shares several mini case studies of innovative startups building energy solutions that create both value and social impact.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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