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Case Studies

Type of Investment:
All
Convertible loan
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Simple Agreement for Future Equity
Sectors:
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Agriculture and Livelihoods
Aquaculture
Business services
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Communications
Connectivity
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Domestic Resource Mobilisation
Education
Energy
Financial Services
Gender
Health and Family Planning
Health and Nutrition
Health
Livelihoods
Mental Health
Multiple Sectors
Poverty and Social Protection
Recycling
Refugee Employment
Remittances
Social infrastructure
Social protection
State Capacity and Environment
Transport
Water
Isizwe
Isizwe is an internet service provider that offers online access to low-income communities in South Africa at a rate 20 times cheaper than the current standard.
Buildher
Buildher is a social enterprise helping disadvantaged young women secure skilled employment in the traditionally male-dominated construction sector.
MTV Staying Alive Foundation
The innovation is a partnership model between local, emerging creative companies and an established, capable and evidence-backed production house, here MTV SAF, to build local talent for creation of gender-transformative “edutainment” mass media content aimed at changing attitudes, behaviours and norms towards gender issues, especially VAWG.
Viamo
Viamo is a social enterprise that improves access to information, education and vital services by making it accessible for governments, multilateral agencies, and civil society organisations to communicate with disconnected stakeholders through innovative mobile technology in local languages.
PATH
PATH is a non-profit organisation working to develop and scale solutions to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges.
HealthConnect for COVID
HealthConnect for COVID is a suite of mobile tools to allow users to access timely and accurate information from and seek advice based on their personal circumstances and symptoms, while producing a large volume of data which can be utilised to inform government decision making in response to the pandemic.
BRAC
A $1.05 million grant to fund BRAC Sierra Leone's and BRAC Uganda’s efforts to fight COVID-19. 
Kamatan
Kamatan is an agricultural-technology startup leveraging supplychain technology to ensure better pricing for farmers and to reduce wastage.
JPAL
J-PAL South Asia’s Innovations in Data and Experiments for Action (IDEA) Initiative addresses the opportunity gap that exists with poor administrative data utilisation for policy decision making.
GiveDirectly
A charity doing unrestricted cash transfers via a mobile money payments platform to some of the world’s poorest people.
Breakthrough
An Indian non-profit that addresses gender inequality and violence against women in India. Their innovation Taaron ki Toli (TKT) is a gender equality curriculum delivered to students between the ages of 11 and 14 which has been shown to drive positive changes in adolescents gender attitudes and behaviours.
Chrysalis
An early childhood education organisation reaching low-income children in India, to help the company expand its operations, particularly to the Affordable Private Schools segment, improve and make its curriculum product more affordable, and better enable ease of access.
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