MESH Competitors

TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that hardworking people can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than five decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives. Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. TechnoServe employs more than 1,500 people, the vast majority of them host-country nationals working in the field. Our staff combine business expertise with local knowledge, relationships, and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs, and wealth for their families and communities. In 2024, TechnoServe's work helped transform the lives of 3.1 million people in throughout Africa, Latin America, Puerto Rico, and Asia by targeting improvements in farms, businesses, and industries. Learn more about our impact at www.technoserve.org/impact

Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty. The company generated over USD 1 billion in Gross Merchandise Value in 2022 and has over eight million customers.

We’re the leading payment services company with local know-how in building payments and business tools for Africa. Since 2009 we’ve empowered tens of thousands of African businesses and entrepreneurs to collect money online and in person via mobiles, cards, and bank transfers. We back it up with popular digital tools for ticketing, reservations, reporting, inventory, merchant credit, APIs, and more. We make it simple and safe for customers to book and pay at a point-of-sale, or via the Pesapal App. Along with our credit card, bank, and telecoms partners we now process up to 12 million transactions a month. Pesapal is regulated by the Central Banks of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. We share a commitment to product innovation that solves Africa’s payment challenges. We’re on track to connect a million African entrepreneurs and customers to electronic payments, e-commerce, and the global financial system by 2030.