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Why international DFIs are looking to African startups to scale impact investing efforts

TechCrunch

Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. In addition to backing VC funds in the region, the organization aims to make more direct equity investments in startups, adding to the four African companies it invested in last year.

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NJEDA to Extend Submission Deadline for the New Jersey Green Fund RFEI

American Entrepreneurship

Through the RFEI, the NJEDA seeks proposals for NJGF support that provide a high-level overview of potential sites, projects, or assets and financing needs. WHAT: The planned NJGF will make clean energy investments to help facilitate an equitable energy transition in the State.

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NJEDA to Host Clean Energy Loan Program Information Session for Small Businesses

American Entrepreneurship

Program offers loans to finance clean energy projects or the creation or expansion of clean energy businesses TRENTON, N.J. NJ CELs will offer loans of $500,000 to $20 million with a term of one to 25 years, with the NJEDA financing up to 50 percent of the total loan amount ($250,000 to $10 million).

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NJEDA Board Approves Program to Expand Access to Capital for Emerging Developers

American Entrepreneurship

These predevelopment costs are necessary for the developer to incur before they can seek short-term construction financing. The Emerging Developer Fund aligns with DCA’s mission of strengthening communities through the talent, vision, and energy of all stakeholders, including small-scale developers,” said Jacquelyn A.

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Achieving net zero: Facts vs Fiction?

Impact Hub

Renewable energy investment, reduced consumption, and sustainable practices are vital for true progress. It fuels innovation, economic growth, employment, and public health. Fact: Revolutionising Transformation Net zero requires a transformative shift in industries, agriculture, and finance.

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NJEDA Names Inaugural New Jersey Innovation Fellows Cohort

American Entrepreneurship

In future NJIF cohorts, the NJEDA will look forward to that might additionally include infant and maternal health care and clean energy. About the NJEDA The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) serves as the State’s principal agency for driving economic growth.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S. Fables of the reconstruction.