Entrepreneurship

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Ownership Economy | Roodgally Senatus

Through small business acquisitions, New Majority aims to create ownership access for underrepresented entrepreneurs

Impact Investing | Lucy Ngige

Kenya’s Co-op Bank gets $25 million EU-guaranteed loan to support female entrepreneurs

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Ownership Economy | Roodgally Senatus

Everytable raises $25 million to open new locations for food entrepreneurs of color

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Inclusive Economy | Roodgally Senatus

BlueOrchard secures $100 million to back underserved small enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dorcia Whitebrake, an Everytable franchisee candidate. Photo by Everytable.

Ownership Economy | Roodgally Senatus

With inclusive loans and business support, franchise ownership offers a path to wealth for entrepreneurs of color

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Creative Economy | Roodgally Senatus

Overheard at Upstart Co-Lab: Cultural institutions are learning how to invest for an inclusive creative economy.

(top, left to right) Amy King, Julien Gervreau, Kristen Carroll (bottom, left to right) Angela Williams, Simon Mainwaring, Janie Hoffman

Impact Tech | Dennis Price

On the minds of impact CEOs: Opportunity, scale and succession

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: COVID recovery funding

Return on Inclusion | Roodgally Senatus

Community Preservation Corp. invests $5 million in SHIFT Catalyst Fund to back diverse developers

Nature's Garden for Victory and Peace in Tuskegee, AL, a member of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance

Inclusive Economy | Amy Cortese

Common Future launches first racial equity accelerator

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Financial Inclusion | Roodgally Senatus

Warburg Pincus takes control of Indian micro-enterprise lender Vistaar Finance

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Place-Based Investing | Roodgally Senatus

New Mexico taps fixed-income strategy for small business lending

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Amazon Catalytic Capital to invest $150 million in underserved founders

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Good Jobs | Roodgally Senatus

HCAP Partners raises $353 million to take its good jobs strategy nationwide

McKeever “Mac” Conwell | Photo by Kaitlin Newman.

Inclusive Economy | Roodgally Senatus

Emerging fund managers form pooled investment vehicle to raise capital for overlooked founders

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Smallholder Agriculture | Roodgally Senatus

Sahyadri Farms raises nearly $40 million to digitalize India’s smallholder farmers

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Seeding Impact | Jessica Pothering

Teranga Capital: Taking risks to build an impact ecosystem in West Africa

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Return on Inclusion | Roodgally Senatus

Five Black tech founders join Northwestern Mutual’s accelerator

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Climate and Clean Tech | Roodgally Senatus

India’s M Auto raises $20 million for electric mobility-as-a-service in Africa

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

IFC invests $30 million with Partners for Growth to deploy private credit in emerging markets

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Impact Investing | Amy Cortese

Overheard at Total Impact: Diversify decision-making and shift power to communities

Impact Investing | Dennis Price

Call No. 42: Business financing beyond venture capital to fuel the boom in entrepreneurship (video)

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racial-equity | Roodgally Senatus

Greenwood acquires The Gathering Spot to build a community for minority professionals

Return on Inclusion | Dennis Price

In volatile market, alternatives to venture capital keep financing flowing to diverse founders

Inclusive Economy | Amy Cortese

Common Future and Uncharted merge to expand entrepreneurship and wealth-building in underserved communities

Something Better Foods founder GW Chew

Inclusive Economy | Bill Stoddart

Flexible and equitable financial tools for a more inclusive economy

Steve Case and J.D. Vance in 2017 | Photo credit: Revolution

Entrepreneurship | Dennis Price

J.D. Vance, the impact fund manager his partners would rather forget

Entrepreneurship | Dennis Price

Startups raise ‘community rounds,’ turning customers and fans into investors

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Catalytic Capital | Roodgally Senatus

Black Vision Fund creates a pipeline of loan capital for Black-owned small businesses

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

99minutos raises $82 million for electric delivery for online vendors in Latin America

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Emerging and Growth Markets | Jessica Pothering

Ibtikar’s second fund for Palestinian tech reaches $15 million first close

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

KKR invests $45 million in GrowSari to digitalize ‘sari-saris’ in the Philippines

Inventa co-founders, from left, Fernando Carrasco, Marcos Salama and Laura Camargo | Inventa.

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Inventa scores $20 million to connect small Brazilian retailers with global suppliers

Dealflow | Jessica Pothering

Elevar backs Fairplay’s revenue-based financing for online businesses in Mexico

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Novo snags $90 million to provide banking services for U.S. small businesses

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Latin America | Jessica Pothering

Tul raises $181 million to digitalize independent hardware stores in Latin America

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Entrepreneurship | Amy Cortese

New Voices secures $97 million for its second fund for women of color entrepreneurs

Women Rising | Roodgally Senatus

Alitheia IDF secures $100 million for an African gender-lens fund

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Aceli Africa raises $27 million to boost lending to agribusinesses in East Africa

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Investing in Health | Roodgally Senatus

Medical Credit Fund raises $36.7 million to finance health clinics in Africa. second digital finance fund

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Flutterwave backs Côte d’Ivoire digital payments processor CinetPay

Climate and Clean Tech | Amy Cortese

Third Derivative launches carbon removal partnership and new cohort

Signals | Jessica Pothering

Can the recovery catalyze a business revival on the Navajo Nation?

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Media Development Investment Fund backs Pluralis to invest in independent media in Europe

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Nigerian B2B marketplace Sabi raises $6 million to support Africa’s informal businesses