Complete Farmer, an end-to-end digital, agricultural marketplace that connects African farmers and global industries to competitive markets, resources, data, and each other on a single platform, raises $10.4 million in a Pre-Series A funding round of equity and debt. The equity portion of the round was co-led by the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) and […]
Haul247, an end-to-end logistics tech platform connecting businesses to haulage and warehousing assets, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. Alitheia Capital led the funding round via its uMunthu Fund.
AIF is a $100 million private equity fund that invests growth capital in SMEs in Western and Southern Africa using a gender lens to identify opportunities that increase returns to and improve outcomes for women.
(Overseas Development Assistance) can (and must) be repurposed and redesigned to achieve ‘more bang for every buck’.
It should be extended, repurposed, and redesigned to accelerate the attainment of desired developmental goals.
Impact Investing seeped into the conscience of the investing ecosystem over a decade ago and refers to the varying degrees that investments can deliver positive social,
developmental, economic and financial returns all at once.
Women are often judged based on what they have done, and men by what they say they will do.
This has deep implications for women – particularly women with leadership ambitions
Critically, in working towards a Green New Deal for Africa, impact investment must be centered as a vehicle to drive funds into essential and sustainable businesses
led by entrepreneurs
Every June 7th, the African Union (AU) marks the African Border Day: a day set aside to celebrate and highlight the work of the African Union Border Programme (AUBP).
