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by Kristen Bellstrom When mom and dad’s job advice won’t cut it Millennial-focused career site The Muse, which counts model and entrepreneur Tyra Banks among its investors, launched a career coaching service on Thursday. Called Coach…

Africa’s readiness to embrace development and growth was the motivation behind DBL Partners’ first investment outside the US, managing director Nancy Pfund has told AltAssets. To read the full article, visit AltAssets.

By Andy Colthorpe: Investment in solar is helping to build “some of the iconic firms of the 21st Century”, according to a ‘social impact’ investor who was one of the early backers of Tesla and was…

By Vrinda Manglik:  Last week was a huge week for private and public investment in the off-grid clean energy sector. The off-grid sector continues to grow, offering affordable, reliable energy services to unelectrified and under-electrified populations…

By Yuliya Chernova: DBL Partners, an early backer of SolarCity Corp., has led a $25 million investment in Off Grid Electric, a company operating a similar solar-leasing business in Africa. Arusha, Tanzania-based Off Grid installs…

BY:  CHRISTIAN ROSELUND OGE’s C round is the largest venture capital funding round for distributed energy in Africa to date. The company is currently deploying 10,000 home solar systems per month in Tanzania using a…

By Kathie Zipp: Off Grid Electric has completed the largest venture capital funding for distributed energy in Africa, raising $25 million in a Series C investment round led by DBL Partners. Off Grid Electric, based in…

The popular SolarCity leasing model moves into the African continent. October 22, 2015 By Jennifer Runyon Chief Editor DBL Partners, the same venture capital fund that supported SolarCity for many years, has led the largest…

President Obama is committed to reducing carbon pollution and ensuring that people everywhere can tap into clean sources of energy to power their homes and businesses.  That is why, today, the Administration is announcing new…

October 22, 2015 — by Katherine Tweed|Greentech Media: The company plans an expansion into Rwanda and seeks to reach 1 million homes in Tanzania by 2017. Off-Grid Electric closed a Series C investment worth $25 million…

DBL Partners has been selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2015 (IA 50), a free, publically available online resource for impact investors and their advisors. The IA 50, now in its fifth year, is the first…

At State Department forum, she says universities must play key role in developing solutions to global problem October 20, 2015 | Editor’s Pick Popular WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking at a State Department forum on Tuesday,…