Round 1 of Greenovation: Path to Greening of MSMEs
23 mobile app startups battled it out at the Round 1 of the DTI-GIZ competition, Greenovation. This round focused on the business models of the startups as Beam and Go’s Director of Marketing, Albert Go (among others), mentored them. Greenovation consists of three rounds of systematic steps needed to build the mobile APPs. Round 1: Business Model wherein ten teams were selected, Round 2: Prototyping and Market fitness on September 12 wherein five teams will be selected and Round 3: APP Coding and Programming on October 3 for the selection of the final winner. Raket.ph’s Lyle Jover, a judge....
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Pezesha, a Kenyan fintech focused on providing bridging finance to small and medium-sized enterprises, recently raised $11 million in pre-Series A debt-equity funding round. The Women’s World Banking Capital Partners II led the round in which the Cardano blockchain builder Input Output Global also participated.
Pezesha Solving Working Capital Problems for MSMEs
A Kenya-based fintech, Pezesha, announced recently that it raised $11 million from its pre-Series A debt-equity funding round. According to a Techcrunch report, this series was led by Women’s World Banking....
From among 34 contenders, a Filipino startup – OneWatt grabbed the top spot for this year’s GreenOvation held last October 3, 2015. Philippines is a tropical country. The consumption of electricity that exceeds the budget of most Filipino households due to heat causes monthly bills to continuously increase. OneWatt has found a way to solve this issue that everyone thought hopeless. The said Filipino Startup created an energy storage system called “energon” that’s brilliant enough to help each household be able to manage electrical fluctuations. Energon then works to determine the perfect....
If you are planning to bet on the next round of the NFL playoffs, bitcoin will be the best way to move funds in and out of a sportsbook. NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round. The NFL season has come to a close and the wildcard round of the playoffs behind us. In the first round of the playoffs all of the favorites won. Will the trend continue into the divisional round? Ten out of the last eleven years had one home team losing in the divisional round of the playoffs. Will having one week off be the edge that some teams need to get the win? Let’s have a look at the games and the lines as well as....
Data monetization solution Swash successfully raised $ 7 million in a round of oversubscribed from major investors before its public sale later this month. Swash Has $ 7 Million Funding Round The Swash funding round, which surpassed $ 7 million just two weeks ago, was led by KuCoin, Outlier Ventures, and Streamr and included a […]
From Asia to Europe, major central banks all around the world are expected to announce their own digital currencies soon. This is vindication that stablecoins like EURST are on the right path forward, and they can serve to show how national economies should reinvent themselves following the current crisis. Why Everyone Wants a CBDC Now There is a lot of discussions in economic forums and reports in the financial press these days about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and how they can help with building a new post-Covid economy. Many countries in various regions are said to be....