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Press Release: SAJIDA Foundation partners with bKash to increase access to financial services for women using digital technology
SAJIDA Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) providing microfinance services to poor and low income people in Bangladesh, and bKash Limited, a leading Mobile Financial Service (MFS) provider in the world, launched a new MFS-based microfinance initiative.
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Teen entrepreneur aims for a social change
Akshat Mittal, the teenage social entrepreneur, who had developed www.odd-even.com last year, is again ready with a new venture. This time he is determined to bring a social change in the country with a website - www.changemyindia.org.
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A passage of hope on India’s hospital train
For 25 years, the Lifeline Express has been travelling through India to bring health services to millions of Indians who are in need of surgery, treatment and diagnostics but have no access to medical care. The hospital train is their only hope for a cure.
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In 7 years, cash will no longer be king for most Indians
In the next seven years, cashless or digital transactions will overtake cash transactions in India — the world’s fastest-growing internet economy — which hopes to add over 300 million internet users by 2020.
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This Indian Tech Disruptor Is Changing India’s Health Insurance Claims System
If you suffer the misfortune of being an inpatient in the Indian medical system, you may find your time spent trying to file health insurance claims ends up being longer than your time as a patient, because it’s all being filed by hand. One company set out to be the first to solve this, finding an unusual new problem ahead.
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IFMR Investment Managers raises $15 million debt fund targeting microfinance firms
Chennai-based IFMR Investment Managers, a wholly owned subsidiary of IFMR Capital, is raising a Rs 100 crore (around $ 15 million) debt fund to invest in the microfinance businesses.
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10 new VC investors who are upbeat on Indian start-ups
The venture capital gold rush to India that began with Tiger Global Management’s purchase of a slice of Flipkart in 2010 ebbed five years later, ending in cash crunch, valuation cuts and many shutdowns in India’s start-up landscape.
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Forus Health’s 3nethra Neo to screen premature babies for eye condition
Lightweight, easily portable, handheld, rugged and highly cost effective is how one would describe the 3nethra Neo, a Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) imaging platform, developed by Bengaluru based Forus Health. 3nethra Neo screens prematurely born babies who could potentially have retinopathy of prematurity, a condition wherein abnormal blood vessels grow in the retina, the layer in the eye that enables us to see.
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