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EO London’s Pajani Singah: Saving the rainforest by investing private capital

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The recognition was given for AIV’s innovative approach using finance to tackle deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Recent years have seen promising work in the sustainable investment space, but greenwashing remains all too common. Pajani has set out to demonstrate that investing sustainably doesn’t have to mean sacrificing profit.

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New Study by MPOWER Financing Shows the Value of Investing in Immigrants

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Ninety-three percent of MPOWER female borrowers reported that they had no alternate means of financing their degree, versus 79 percent of MPOWER male borrowers. About MPOWER Financing MPOWER Financing, headquartered in Washington, D.C., MPOWER Financing works with more than 350 top universities and colleges across the U.S.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

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Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? About 10 percent of our time.

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Metaverse payment platform Tilia gets new strategic investment from J.P. Morgan

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The company, which has built a payment platform intended for gaming platforms, virtual world publishers, mobile application developers and NFT providers, said Tuesday it has secured another strategic investment from its returning backer, J.P Morgan Payments, and new investor Dunamu , a Seoul-based operator of crypto exchange Upbit.

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Salesforce leads $15M investment in Asian HR tech platform Darwinbox

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Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia.

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Google’s third bet from its Africa Investment Fund is in logistics company Lori Systems

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This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.