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Creating Sustainable Last-Mile Distribution for Beneficial Products: Two Network Archetypes (and How They Can Scale Up)
Last-mile distributors (LMDs) are critical to getting beneficial goods to underserved populations in hard-to-reach areas. Lucie Klarsfeld McGrath of Hystra and the Global Distributors Collective shares the results of a detailed analysis of these crucial distributors, which fall into two archetypes: local livelihood LMDs and dedicated salesforce LMDs. She explains the characteristics of each group and discusses what they bring to manufacturers, service providers, funders and other organizations looking to work at the last mile.
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- distribution, scale, SDGs
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Amartha Bags US $50 Million Debt Financing to Provide Working Capital to Female Entrepreneurs in Rural Indonesia
Amartha, an Indonesian P2P lending platform focused on women micro-entrepreneurs, announced today it has secured a US$50 million debt financing from US-based Lendable.
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Investment for Women-Led Businesses is Missing Ingredient in African Entrepreneurship
Women make up 58% of African’s self-employed population, yet there are still significant imbalances between opportunities to scale, access to funding and training between men and women-led businesses on the continent.
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Christensen Institute, MIT Legatum Center Launch Bootcamp for African Innovators
The Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank based in Boston and Silicon Valley in the United States, has announced a collaboration with the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship aimed at empowering early-stage entrepreneurs in seven African countries to create new economic growth engines. The new collaboration, called Market-creating Innovation (MCI) Bootcamp, aims to bridge the gap between emerging market entrepreneurs and market-creating innovation opportunities.
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These Investors Want to Back ‘Ridiculously Early’ Female-Led African Startups
In 2019, female-led companies received less than 5 percent of the global venture capital. Bringing it to Africa, only 10 percent of the West African startups that cumulatively raised $1 million had at least one female co-founder in the past decade.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Mobile App to Reduce Food Waste Among Winners of $10 Million Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge
Today, data.org announced the eight global winners of the $10 million Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge, which aims to address major societal challenges through computer and data science. Among the winners is a project by BASE (Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy) and Empa that aims to give smallholder farmers in India access to sustainable cooling facilities through a mobile app to reduce food waste.
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- smallholder farmers, waste
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Gpay Raises Series a From KB Financial to Expand Its E-Wallet Platform in Vietnam
The fresh funds will be used to expand Gpay's team and customer base and also upgrade its tech solutions
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Y Combinator-Backed Drip Capital Crosses $1 Billion Milestone in Trade Financing for Small Businesses
Credit and Finance for MSMEs: Drip has recorded a 50 per cent quarter-on-quarter growth in the last three quarters, according to Co-founder and CEO Pushkar Mukewar.
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- Asia Pacific
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- business development, data, MSMEs, startups
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