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M-KOPA is a UK-headquartered emerging market fintech that provides affordable smartphone and e-motorbike financing and smartphone embedded digital financial services. With operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda, the company has extended over $2 billion in credit to more than 7 million customers. Using an innovative financing model based on daily repayments, M-KOPA provides affordable smartphones embedded with financial services that fit with the cash flow of millions of Every Day Earners who earn their income daily. By leveraging rich payments data and proprietary AI-driven analytics, M-KOPA builds a credit record for each customer, which forms the foundation for a long-term financial relationship for digital loans, affordable data subscriptions, and insurance. The company employs over 3,000 staff and 30,000 sales agents across its African markets. M-KOPA has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies for the past 4 years, twcice recognised as one of the world's top fintechs by CNBC for its impact and growth in financial inclusion, and named twice by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies globally.

We are Cowrywise. One of Nigeria’s leading fintech companies - an investment company and wealth manager to a thriving generation of young Nigerians. From the very beginning, we’ve put building and protecting wealth at the heart of everything we do. Equipping you with the tools you need to build wealth at your own pace, in ways that won’t take the “style” from your lifestyle. - We are licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission - Backed by venture capital firms and investors including Quona Capital, Y Combinator, Venture Souq, SHL Capital, and Kairos 50 Ventures - Voted one of the Top 10 Startups in Nigeria in 2022 - Ranked among the best apps made in Nigeria in 2022 - And the first Nigerian company to be accepted into the Catalyst Fund program, backed by JP Morgan and UKAID We are on a mission to make investing as simple as sending a tweet and to redistribute access to wealth so that every single Nigerian regardless of tribe, religion, or socio-economic class has a fighting chance and a shot at a future where wealth is not only for the 1%. A future where we see the ‘WE’ in wealth. Through the power of finance and technology, we are helping our customers build wealth one dime at a time, and moving them beyond the potential they see today, to the untapped financial possibilities they deserve tomorrow.

Kiva (www.kiva.org) expands financial access to help underserved communities thrive. An international non-profit, we serve the financially excluded, especially underbanked women, refugees and communities impacted by forced displacement, climate-vulnerable people and systemically marginalized communities in the United States. By connecting people through crowdfunded loans, Kiva puts the power of financial inclusion in all our hands. Since 2005, the Kiva community has raised over $2 billion in loans, reaching over 5 million people in 84 countries. Kiva’s team is made up of 100+ employees and 450+ volunteers across the world, with offices in San Francisco, Nairobi, Bangkok, and Bogotá.