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Plastic Upcycling Startup Kubik Closes $3.34 Million Seed to Scale Production in Ethiopia
The amount of plastic waste produced globally is on track to triple to over 1,000 million tons by 2060.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- circular economy, housing, scale, startups, waste
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Press Release: DFC Announces Support for Energy and Health Projects in India
U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced two projects expanding its sustained commitment to investing in India’s private sector and deepening the economic ties between the two countries.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Accelerating Social Unicorns: How an Impact Accelerator is Supporting the Innovators Who are Tackling the World’s Biggest Problems
The holy grail in venture capital is to invest in a “unicorn” — a startup that achieves a valuation of over $1 billion. But as Leslie Labruto at 100x Impact Accelerator explains, this approach overlooks the businesses and organizations that are tackling pressing societal issues at scale. She argues that it’s time to shift the focus to "social unicorns" that aim to make a massive positive social impact, and explores three keys to these enterprises' success.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Paygo Solar Startup Yellow Raises $14 Million to Scale in Africa
Following the new funding, Yellow plans to deepen its reach in its current markets Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, and Madagascar.
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Finfra Raises $1 Million to Scale Embedded Finance in Indonesia
Finfra plans to accelerate product development and grow its engineering, data, and finance teams in an effort to boost revenue.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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GenZero and BCG Join Forces on Climate Impact Measurement Framework
As decarbonisation becomes a prominent part of many investment portfolios, the current lack of a standardised method for quantifying its impact has prompted these two global leaders to collaborate on a solution.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: Digibee Receives $60 Million Series B Funding to Continue Focusing on Growth and Expansion in the US and on Further Success in Latin America
This partnership announcement with Digibee reinforces the commitment of our Growth Equity business in Latin America.
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- Technology
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Press Release: Ceibo Raises $30 million to Scale Advanced Copper Extraction Technology in Chile
Ceibo has developed a novel leaching process and solution that economically increases the production of copper.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Latin America
- Tags
- mining, renewable energy, scale
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