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Odyssey Energy Solutions Raises $74 Million to Accelerate Distributed Renewable Energy Financing in Emerging Markets
The funding will scale Odyssey's platform in regions including Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
- Region
- Global
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Africa Ecosystem Catalysts Facility Expands into Nigeria with USD 450K in First Investments
Backing Trade Lenda and AirSmat, Nigerian startups advancing financial inclusion and climate-smart agriculture through fit-for-purpose capital.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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VC Firm Ventures Platform Closes Pan-African Fund II at $84 Million
The firm targets companies that bridge infrastructural gaps and promote prosperity by eliminating access barriers and reducing delivery costs across the continent by identifying companies that address non-consumption through market-creating innovations.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Finance Corporation Launches Infrastructure Climate-Resilient Fund Nigeria to Mobilise Domestic Institutional Capital
Registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a closed-end fund, ICRF Nigeria is designed to channel capital from pension fund administrators (PFAs), insurers, asset managers and other Nigerian institutional investors towards a diversified portfolio of commercially viable high-impact infrastructure opportunities.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Mobilizing Electric Two-Wheeler Finance in Indonesia
". . . with the phaseout of vehicle purchase subsidies, financing will become an increasingly important driver of market growth to meet the country’s electrification targets of 13 million E2Ws and 2 million electric four-wheelers by 2030."
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: How One VC Burns Through Hundreds of Millions of Tokens a Day to Find the Next Unicorn
For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets. But as AI advances at breakneck speed, many now believe they need a much deeper understanding of the technology itself — or risk missing breakthroughs that can create entirely new categories overnight.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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TLG Capital Fund Reaches $120 Million Second Close
In the year since the fund’s $75 million first close in April 2025, AGIF II has already invested in nine SMEs across seven countries and seven sectors, with debt facilities ranging from $5 million to $15 million to each company.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Holocene Closes Southern Africa’s First Dedicated Climate-Tech Fund
Holocene targets promising, local founders at the earliest stages, but who lack capital and hands-on operational support to get them to scale, especially in a nascent sector such as climate-tech.
- Categories
- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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