Year: 2018

When it comes to impact investing, Sunil Munjal, chairman of Hero Enterprise, is the newsmaker of 2017. In April, Munjal wrote a cheque of ₹100 crore to Aavishkaar, an early-stage, social venture capital firm. The investment, dubbed the biggest such by an Indian HNI, was part of Aavishkaar’s ₹2,000-crore Aavishkaar Bharat Fund to bankroll startups […]

WE Online, Jakarta – DBS Foundation memberikan dukungan terhadap kegiatan Sankalp Southeast Asia Summit 2015 sebagai bagian dari upaya untuk memantapkan hubungan jangka panjang dalam rangka mengembangkan ekosistem untuk wirausaha sosial (social enterprise/SE) di kawasan Asia Tenggara. Head of DBS Foundation Patsian Low menjelaskan pihaknya memiliki fokus dalam membangun masa depan yang baik untuk Asia […]

Over 1,000 entrepreneurs have met in Nairobi for the 5th edition of the SANKALP Africa Summit. This year’s theme is ‘Open Alliance for a Sustainable and Inclusive Africa 2030’, which revolves around the Sustainable Development Goals and how various partners can work together to achieve these goals with the private sector. On the first day […]

The government and private sector have been urged to consider investing in the creative art economy. This came out during the fifth Sankalp Africa Summit 2018 held in Nairobi. Creative investment includes investing in arts, artistes, musicians, and graffiti people among other talents which the youth possess. This kind of investment is wanting because it […]

This week, the East Africa Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) with Intellecap Advisory Services released the Fintrek – which explores fintech opportunities in East Africa, new frontiers in fintech (defined as firms using technology to deliver financial products/services or capabilities to customers or others firms) and fintech investments in East Africa. Asia Pacific and Africa have […]

The East African Region saw a 65 percent growth in a number of deals in fintech between 2010 and 2015, before a 33 percent decline in growth in 2016 and 2017. In spite of this, total deal value increased by 300 percent to US$ 202.1 million recorded in 2017 attributable to an increase in increase […]

Moka Lantum the co-founder of MicroClinic Technologies and brains behind the iSikCure app, shows how a change of direction can open bigger opportunities for entrepreneurs Dr Moka Lantum the co-founder of MicroClinic Technologies, a Nairobi-based company commercialising ZiDi, Africa’s first enterprise health management solution for BoP (bottom of the pyramid) clinics/hospitals has created a hardware-software […]

According to Agostine Ndungu of Sankalp Forum, the summit will aim at connecting entrepreneurs with investors, corporates and policy makers to facilitate their growth strategies for the region Sankalp Africa is set to hold its African 5th edition summit at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies in Nairobi on March 1 and 2 this year. […]

Feb 05 2018 The SANKALP Africa Summit is set to engage over 1,000 different stakeholders from across the impact investing ecosystem, to deliberate on strategies for building partnerships and collaborations to drive the sustainability and inclusion agenda in Africa. This will be the 5th Edition of the Summit and will be hosted in Nairobi. This […]