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The Alchemist owner Palatine closes its largest ever impact investment fund at $132M
UK-focused private equity firm Palatine, which owns bar and restaurant chain The Alchemist, has closed one of the largest ever impact investment funds at a total of $1.3M.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Entrepreneurship and Millennials Are Thriving in Emerging Markets
Plenty of ink has been spilled on the root causes behind this troubling phenomenon, from high student debt to the rising costs of healthcare. Yet there is one part of the world where entrepreneurship is alive and well: emerging markets.
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- Uncategorized
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Blockchain company ConsenSys launches $50m venture capital arm to tackle global challenges
ConsenSys is the brainchild of its founder, Joseph Lubin, who also was a co-founder of Ethereum, a blockchain technology. ConsenSys develops applications and tools based on Ethereum and is a founding member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
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- Technology
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OPINION: African Tech Startups Need Changes In Venture Capital To Embolden Them
Silicon Valley remains the global hub for the tech revolution. But it is finding friendly competition in tech hubs across the African continent.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Identifying the most promising ventures, the Village Capital way
Rather than getting entrepreneurs to make a pitch before it for funding and then going through an elaborate due diligence process, Village Capital finds these entrepreneurs and trains them before investing in their ventures. It runs an accelerator programme for 10-12 entrepreneurs and uses a peer-selection method to decide the ventures it will invest seed capital in.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Advisory board on impact investing to drive SDGs
More than 550 people from 43 countries met in Chicago to discuss how to deploy sufficient private capital to fund the Sustainable Development Goals over the next 13 years. It was a ringing response to recent cries for nationalistic policies regarding the insufficiency of planetary resources.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Unitus fund’s latest StartHealth winners spotlight rise of medical tech innovation in India
Unitus Seed Fund, one of India's best-known impact venture funds that backs early-stage startups innovating for the masses, has named two winners of its StartHealth startup contest, which show medical tech innovation is taking off in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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TLcom Capital hits $40m first close for sub-Saharan Africa tech fund
The $100m-targeting TIDE Africa fund will look to provide African entrepreneurs with capital to develop tech-driven solutions to the continent’s biggest problems.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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