Simon Duchatelet جوان🍭 Nicolas Colin Mariana Mazzucato Completely agree! On data innovation, really like this initiative by The GovLab allowing public intrapreneurs within cities around the world to develop their data innovation ideas: incubator.opendatapolicylab.org

Hot off the press: GIF’s 2021 impact report – read more about our impact so far & the inspiring innovations in our portfolio as we reflect on a significant year. globalinnovation.fund/Impact-Report-…

"In just 25% of deals do DFIs accept concessions in order to “crowd in” commercial investors. That is, rather than being catalytic, DFIs have mostly been catalyzed by risk capital from aid agencies or foundations." impactalpha.com/risk-averse-de…

Paga Group is a teenager today! What started out as a simple idea to make it simple to pay & get paid is now 3 business lines: - Consumer Payments - Paga Group Ltd - Embedded Finance - Paga PaaS Paga.dev - Seller/Merchant - @doroki_ng Thanks to our amazing team 🎉🎉🎉

"I'd like to invest more into startups in Africa, but it's tricky to find quality deal flow. Any suggestion?" 🤔 Yep, here are 1,000+ startups in Africa you can start with. 👉thebigdeal.gumroad.com

Great deep-dive and lessons to learn. "The ultimate cost: almost 10 times the price of the system" should be remembered bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Innovation is at the core of what we do. This #WCID we celebrate the 57 #innovations in our portfolio who work to improve the livelihoods of millions of the world’s poorest people. Check out the impact they are having here▶️ bit.ly/gif-ir-2021

The new #DigitalUtilities report from @zach_whitewater, written in partnership with @WSUPUK, looks at the impact of #digitilisation for water utility services in #LMICs: gsma.com/mobilefordevel… Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

🇪🇬Are you Egyptian startup in the #climate resilience sector? 2 good news for you: 💥Apply for a $10K prize at our Climate Resilience Challenge (15th June in Cairo) ➡️bfa.works/cr-challenge 💥Become a Catalyst Fund company ($200K investment) ➡️bfa.works/apply-cf

We are delighted to announce the first confirmed Industry experts for the sixth edition of Afrobytes at Mouvement des Entreprises de France. More to come. Stay tuned. Register now on Afrobytes.com for a great gathering in Paris on June 14! #agritech #blueeconomy #FoodCrisis #africantech

.Simon Duchatelet on the importance of investing in climate resilience for smallholder farmers given how susceptible agriculture is to shocks that can hinder scale such as declining/more sporadic rainfall, higher temperatures & crop diseases #Afrobytes2022

Our CEO Alix Zwane urges funders and investors to set aside funding to measure impact as a means to unlocking the power of innovation to accelerate gender equality and social impact #AVPN2022

Valuation / Capital Raise = Impact is the crudest way to look at value of capital… & it looks ugly for VC ATM

Fascinating explanation as to what factors catalyzed fintech innovation for the past 10-15 years (spoiler: financial crisis, regulation, tech). Shared by Alex. @Cvllr, Maxime Bayen, Aaron Fu, Céline DUROS you might be interested ramp.com/blog/how-the-d…

Bravo Nigeria!!! 👏🏾 👏🏾 Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari signs the Nigeria Start-up Act into law techcrunch.com/2022/10/19/nig…

Just five of our early #investments have generated $1.68 billion in net #social value. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-0NAKN… #impact #innovation #change

Our latest #impact report is available NOW. Find out how we drive #innovation to improve the lives of people in the developing world: drive.google.com/file/d/1-0NAKN… #impact #development