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This week, Acumen launched its new Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative: Powering Livelihoods Using Solar (PEII+). PEII+ is a 5-year, $25 million dollar initiative that will invest early-stage capital in companies that provide renewable energy-powered appliances–from mills and irrigation pumps to electric motorbikes and refrigerators–to microentrepreneurs and smallholder farmers in India and East and West Africa. The goal is to leverage these technologies to boost incomes...

We need more pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar, not less, to bring modern energy to the poorest communities within the next decade. But when companies grow PAYGo loan portfolios too quickly, without establishing cultures of managing risk and internal controls to protect consumers, they can harm the people who need credit the most.  The Problem Seven hundred and eighty-nine million people do not have access to modern...

A través de un modelo pedagógico innovador Coschool brinda herramientas y contenidos para que los y las educadoras transformen su práctica pedagógica. La compañía se une al portafolio de inversiones de Acumen en Latinoamérica, siendo su segunda inversión en educación en la región. Acumen, liderando la primera ronda de inversión junto con Fundación Bancolombia y Rockwood Advisors, anuncia su más reciente inversión en Coschool, una...