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Acumen Blog
The Challenge: Food Loss Due to Lack of Cold Storage Efficiency for Access estimates that up to 30% of post-harvest food losses could be saved through cold storage solutions. Many micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria and across most of sub-Saharan Africa that...
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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...
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Acumen has invested in Clinify Health, a digital health company that works with independent physician practices that care for populations in underserved communities. Clinify provides technology tools and services to these practices to help them succeed in alternative payment arrangements. THE CHALLENGE: GAPS IN MEDICAL...
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Over the Halloween weekend, the art and technology worlds converged in a cutting-edge experiment to benefit social change initiatives through an NFT Auction. Four NFTs were developed by the artistic collective known as Wicked Craniums, each representing one of four gods of the elements: Air,...
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Lindsay Stradley, David Auerbach, and Ani Vallabhaneni understand what it means to innovate at the edges while keeping an eye to wholesale systems change. They understand that some systems are so complex, colossal, and dysfunctional that moral innovation is required.