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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Fixes To Equity Crowdfunding Laws
In the more than two years since the passage of Title II of the JOBS Act, equity crowdfunding with accredited investors has rapidly grown, allowing startups to easily seek funding online with little added costs or hassles.
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Accion Names Tahira Dosani and Vikas Raj Managing Directors of Accion Venture Lab
Accion announced today that Tahira Dosani and Vikas Raj have been named the new Managing Directors of Accion Venture Lab, Accion's impact investment initiative. Accion Venture Lab provides patient seed capital and support to innovative financial inclusion start-ups, fostering experimentation and promoting business models that improve the efficiency, reach, and scope of financial services for people living in poverty worldwide.
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Village Capital and The Kresge Foundation Collaborate to Support Entrepreneurs Improving Health Outcomes
With the support of local ecosystem partners, Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, the organizations will operate a venture development program this fall with workshops in Nashville, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
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PEG completes $7.5 million round to expand activities in West Africa
PEG, an off-grid solar company in Ghana, announced that it has closed a $7.5 million Series A round. The funding will be used to expand operations in Ghana, build out the management team, and to enter Ivory Coast. PEG has over 10,000 customers and operates 29 service centers in 7 regions of Ghana.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How One Investment Fund Is Tackling America’s ‘Glaring Inequality’ Problem
Acumen, a New York-based nonprofit global venture fund, today announced it has begun investing in US startups aimed at serving underprivileged Americans.
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Hikma Pharmaceuticals Launches $30M Digital Health Venture Fund in Amman
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics startups.Founded in August 2015, the Amman-based Hikma Ventures operates as the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
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NexThought Monday: Don’t Brag That You’re More Selective than Harvard and Other Lessons in Startup Acceleration
Investors, foundations and governments all want to use their funding dollars most efficiently, but it takes time and sustained effort to gather useful data. Village Capital recently released a new report with Social Enterprise @ Goizueta that begins to shed light on an answer. Part of the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI), the study is the most ambitious effort to date to track what’s working in accelerators.
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This Isn’t China: The “Amazon of India” Will Be Amazon and “Uber of India” Will Be Uber
I was at a conference the other day, speaking on a panel with VCs and angels, when we were asked a question: With the softening of valuations and the famous Flipkart markdown, is there still a large internet opportunity in India?
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