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What Exactly Is An Angel, and Where Do They Invest?

The Seraf Compass

For a variety of reasons, the mainstream business press is writing more about angel investing than ever. Over the last couple decades, angel investing has become a more serious form of finance. To help address some of that curiosity, I’ve asked Christopher to set the record straight and share his perspective.

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British International Investment backs India’s Aye Finance in $37M funding

TechCrunch

Aye Finance, an Indian startup that offers its digital lending platform to small firms, has raised $37.18 million in a fresh funding round led by British International Investment, as it looks to continue to help micro enterprises grow their businesses and employees expand their incomes.

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Regenerative Finance (ReFi)

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. And that is why Regenerative Finance (aka ReFI) is so interesting to me.

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Revolution Growth Invests in Carbon Robotics

Revolution

Where They’re Headed: This latest round of financing brings Carbon Robotics’ total funding to-date to $72 million. Revolution Growth Invests in Carbon Robotics was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. states and three Canadian provinces.

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

Dream It

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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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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3 tips to create your company’s foreign and domestic investment strategies

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The world is a big place, and companies wishing to invest have many domestic and foreign options. based companies invested in Germany in some way in 2021, almost matching the pre-pandemic total. Excluding sources of investments may alter the way a startup builds and shapes its culture. For example, 1,806 U.S.-based

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