Davinia Cogan tells Sanjoy Sanyal that crowdfunding is a serious option for clean energy business

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Crowdfunding is a serious option for funding clean energy businesses

The market took a bit of a hit last year but is still in a very respectable shape

Davinia Cogan, who has literally written the book on crowdfunding for clean energy access talks about the different types of crowdfunding and how the markets have reacted to covid.

In Davinia’s words her interest in crowdfunding was piqued because it was so frustrating to see companies not get funded. But she worries that some of the problems with the other types of impact investing may make its way into crowdfunding too.

This is the first part of our podcast. In the second part, we take a deeper dive into how crowdfunding can work for African entrepreneurs.

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