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Press Release: Ennovent’s Impact Investment Holding invests in Anant Learning
Members of the Ennovent Circle, the Ennovent Impact Investment Holding and Upaya Social Ventures, closed a seed investment round in Delhi-based Anant Learning & Development.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Village Capital Announces Latest Impact Investments
Village Capital, a leading venture firm investing in social enterprises, recently announced its latest investments. Operating with a unique model that starts with a cohort of startups in a particular industry, most recently healthcare IT, that actually relies on the startups to choose the companies Village Capital invests in.
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- Investing
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MasterCard moves on remittances in Nigeria and Zimbabwe
MasterCard announced partnerships to make international remittance services available to millions of consumers in both Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Secrets to Closing a $100m Venture Capital Funding Deal
London-based online money transfer business WorldRemit has closed a funding round worth $100m, backed by Technology Crossover Ventures and prior investor Accel Partners.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Will These 5 Models of Crowdfunding Replace Angel and VC Investors?
Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy.
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A $710 Million Crowdfinanced Company: An Alternative to Venture Capital
Last week the UC Berkeley case study on Sanovas Inc., the San Rafael California Life Science accelerator was presented at the JP Morgan Chase OneMed conference to a packed audience of over 120 investors. I presented the case study, which is the first in a series to be released by UC Berkeley looking at innovative firms and models in crowdfunding.
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- Investing
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Press Release: New Initiative Announced to Enable Diaspora Investment in India’s Development
President Barack Obama announced today in New Delhi a new partnership among the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Calvert Foundation and several private financial institutions in India to develop an Indian Diaspora Investment Initiative.
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- Investing
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Announcing NextBillion’s Latest E-book (and the first from NextBillion Financial Innovation): A compilation of posts and videos from our Impact Investing Insights series
In the spring of 2014, NextBillion Financial Innovation videotaped interviews with 11 top investors, academics and advocates working in impact investing. We published the Q&As in a series called Impact Investing Insights. We have compiled the posts and videos into this e-book, which covers a broad cross-section of the topics and trends that drive the sector today.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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