Innovative businesses as drivers of change

Southeast Asia is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies – and to large communities that are underserved in terms of healthcare, banking or digital services. For Integra Partners, a Singapore-based venture capital fund, this is an o

The Indian tech entrepreneur has founded a health start-up that makes it easy to screen children for growth deficiencies. One of the biggest challenges was gaining the trust of those in charge, as she explains in a short interview.

In post-war Syria, start-ups have learned to work around power outages, low bandwidth and fuel shortages rather than wait for normality to return. That makes them not just businesses but part of the country’s reconstruction.