Traditionally, the transaction costs of serving farmers have been too high to permit commercial models. However, a new wave of technology-driven ventures...
Perspectives
May 14, 2020May 19, 2020
Early Stage Funding in Africa — A Pulse Check (Webinar)
By Arjuna Costa and Ameya Upadhyay Entrepreneurs everywhere are dealing with much uncertainty right now, especially in Africa, where capital markets are...
May 13, 2020May 19, 2020
New Indicators Are Giving Us a Sense of Where We Are Headed…For Now
By Tilman Ehrbeck At the macro level, the uncertainty under the current pandemic is great, and predictions are difficult. Physicians are still...
May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Why We Invested: Qoala
As much of our lives are digitizing, this is rapidly changing. Take Indonesia as an example. The country has the largest and...
April 22, 2020April 22, 2020
As We Approach the End of the Beginning: What Is the Economic Outlook?
By Tilman Ehrbeck, originally published on Medium Informed by the expertise of epidemiologists, a consensus view of the most likely global economic...
April 19, 2020April 19, 2020
How Fintech Lenders Can Cope with the Impact of the Pandemic — Lessons from Flourish’s Portfolio Leaders
By Smita Aggarwal and Arjuna Costa While the policy interventions being proposed at the national and multilateral levels could partially cushion the shock, these...