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Entrepreneur Helps Brings Clean Water

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Uganda has more than 10 million people without safe water to drink. The idea for the business came to Ku when she was a nineteen-year-old volunteer at a clinic in Uganda. Ku started her non-profit with $15,000 grant from Harvard and a donated piece of land in Kumi, Uganda where she built a ceramic factory to make water filters.

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Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition

SiliconHills

BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate mobile payments, won the IBM Global Entrepreneur pitch competition Wednesday at the IBM campus on Burnett.

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MyDawa: Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI

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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. In order to go forward with its expansion goals, MyDawa recently finished the acquisition of Guardian Health, a well-known healthcare provider in Uganda.

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