Avanti Finance, a technology-led non-banking finance company, has raised $26 million in a Series A debt and equity funding round led by social impact investor Oikocredit, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Nomura. Technopreneur-cum-philanthropist Pratul Shroff and existing investor NRJN Trust also participated in the round.
Mumbai, Apr 8 (PTI) Bengaluru-based microcredit-focused Avanti Finance has raised USD 26 million (Rs 195 crore) in debt and equity from a funding round led by Oikocredit, Nomura and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 1975, a young programmer named Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to form a company called "Micro-soft" with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The company went on to ignite a personal computing craze and achieve overwhelming success with its technological innovations.
By Harry de Quetteville and Olivia Rutgard He is famous for his sensible office garb and digitally-amassed fortune, rather than rugged overalls and a weathered hand on the plough. But the pioneer spirit, it turns out, burns bright in Bill Gates.
NEW DELHI: Families in India have shown great traction in their philanthropic actions over the last year as they deployed both short-term relief funding as well as longer term grants to non-profits in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and the momentum is likely to continue this year as well, says a report.
What do President Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey have in common? They're all really, really rich. But do you know their actual net worths? See Who Made the List: The Richest Celebrity From Every State Test your knowledge of these big names and more.
Source: ThinkStock - The University of Washington and Microsoft have developed an mHealth platform that can collect vital signs using the camera on a laptop or smartphone.
SAN DIEGO, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DreamStart Labs, an award-winning provider of digital banking technology for emerging markets, announced it has been named a recipient of the Women Saving for Resilience Innovation Fund.
The COVAX Facility has now delivered life-saving vaccines to over 100 economies since making its first international delivery to Ghana on 24 February 2021So far, more than 38 million doses of vaccines from manufacturers AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Serum Institute of India (SII) have now been delivered, including 61 economies eligible
New funding: At a moment when vaccines are on everyone's mind, a Seattle-based biotech company that has an unusual approach to vaccine production has raised $100 million in a Series B round. The startup creates computer-designed, virus-like particles that are used in vaccines to trigger immune responses.
Diagnostics testing company LumiraDx has agreed to merge with healthcare-focused investment firm CA Healthcare Acquisition (CAHC), raising $115m in its initial public offering (IPO). The combination reflects a value of $5bn for Lumira's existing equity, before giving effect to the transaction. All current LumiraDx shareholders will retain their existing holdings in the combined company.
WASHINGTON (Zenger News) - An Israeli startup with a unique solution for combating malaria is one of three finalists for the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. The five-year global competition aims to demonstrate how humans can use powerful artificial intelligence technologies, such as IBM’s Watson question-answering system, to tackle the world’s most pressing issues.
SEATTLE - The University of Washington School of Medicine is looking to enroll up to 40 volunteers in a clinical trial for a new, second-generation coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by U.S.-based biotechnology company Gritstone. The first stage of the study will measure safety and immune response at different dose levels in a two-part regimen, researchers said.
Islamabad : Investment in family planning is strategic and has far-reaching implications to achieve a sustainable population growth rate in Pakistan. Cohesive actions are required at the federal and provincial levels to improve family planning programs. This was stated by Dr. Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination in his keynote remarks at a consultative meeting held online.
Hult Prize Impact Summits are hosted in 100 locations around the world, and this year Syracuse is one of only three regional hosts in North America. Winners of the regional campus entrepreneurial competitions go on to compete in the global competition hosted by the United Nations, with that winner receiving a $1 million seed capital grant.
Beijing replaced New York City as home to highest number of dollar billionaires, according to a new list by the prestigious Forbes magazine. Bouncing back from the slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, China added 33 new billionaire, while NYC added 7 billionaires.
U ğur Şahin is a scientist at heart: the cofounder and CEO of BioNTech would rather be in the lab than almost anywhere else. On the day he married his wife, fellow BioNTech cofounder Özlem Türeci, the two went back to work after the nuptials. (Türeci is BioNTech's chief medical officer.)
Former Owensboro mayor Dave Adkisson recently released a book geared toward Chamber of Commerce leaders, and he thought it would have a narrow audience. Instead, the book - which shares a number of stories from Adkisson's time in Owensboro - has performed better than expected. Adkisson released "Horseshoes vs.
HONG KONG - Covig-19, an anti-SARS-CoV-2 hyperimmune immunoglobulin (h-Ig) therapy that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. developed alongside the Covig-19 Plasma Alliance, has failed to meet its endpoints in a global phase III trial. The multi-center Inpatient Treatment with Anti-Coronavirus Immunoglobulin trial was sponsored and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust is the fourth largest shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway. The foundation needs to vote in favor of a shareholder proposal to Berkshire Hathaway regarding climate change reporting. Bill also needs to encourage his friend Warren Buffett to do the same.