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VR News Round-up
We’re happy to say it’s been a busy month of September here at VR. While we haven’t had much time to write- others are writing about us! Over at the Discovery Channel, they cheekily suggest we should get involved in the US healthcare debate (thanks, but no thanks), while the author at the Scientific American [...]
VillageReach Announces Landmark Investment!
As the Social Capital Market Conference (SoCap) begins today in San Francisco, VillageReach is very excited to announce that Oasis Fund, a European investment fund, has committed a $1.375 million investment in VidaGas, the propane energy company owned by VillageReach and the Mozambique Foundation for Community Development (FDC). SoCap is full of social entrepreneurs, investors [...]
The Innovation Pile-Up: Key Players
So who is paying attention to medical distribution systems and more specifically to the innovation pile-up we highlighted in the last post?
There are 4 main categories of players: Governments, NGOs, multi-lateral organizations (WHO, UNICEF) and public-private alliances. While there are many, many important and interesting stakeholders in the field, the most interesting evolution over the last decade has [...]
VillageReach and the Innovation Pile-up
Welcome to the VillageReach blog! This blog follows VillageReach’s progress as well as interesting ideas, projects and events at the intersection of health with social enterprise, technology & logistics.
We ’re launching with our thoughts on the “Innovation Pile-up.” Chris Elias, the Executive Director of PATH, coined this phrase to describe the coming challenge [...]
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