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MyDawa: Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI

ReadWriteStart

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. MyDawa has been steadily working toward expanding its business beyond the borders of Kenya, and this acquisition represents a significant step in that direction.

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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

Maha : In 2014, we visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya as part of a Gates Foundation/United Nations led initiative to build schools & clinics for the community. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners. TSM: From where you started, have you had to adjust your strategy over the years?

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. Two is to reach up to 20,000 new households, including expanding into one, maybe two new markets outside Kenya.

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Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

VC Cafe

as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Apax Partners became one of the most successful private equity firms in the world, and Cohen became a billionaire. He was born in 1946 to a working class immigrant family in London and attended a State school.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 13: Liz Powers and Rocio Perez-Ochoa

Steve Blank

Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , which finances and distributes household goods that can improve families’ quality of life in rural Kenya. Ignoring those negatives around you and figuring out who are the most strategic partners to be able to scale that impact. . … Rocio Perez-Ochoa. We went for it.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Dr. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4) I never want renters to find themselves in my situation – scared, displaced and worried about my finances. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. 4) Used to Reconnect. Thanks to Eric Narcisco, Effective Coverage ! #18)