Our Story
All businesses should be empowered with simple tools to give them the means to succeed.
We believe in making it simpler for businesses to operate. That’s been our goal since 2012, when we partnered with Safaricom to bring Lipa Na M-Pesa Buy Goods service to small and medium businesses throughout Kenya.
While we remain true to helping thousands of businesses to accept digital payments, our efforts have not stopped there. We have gone a step further to understand the challenges that might hinder an entrepreneur who runs a boutique, restaurant or book store from growing. We get these insights by listening to our customers and in turn, use the feedback to build better products for any business to prosper.
Our motivation lies in building technology that is truly simple to use. From making it easier for a business to accept payments, access credit without putting obstacles, helping them to market to their customers through SMS or easily pay their suppliers, we have taken time to design our product to make it simple for any business to run, grow and prosper.
Our Investors
Khosla Impact is a venture capital fund, founded by Vinod Khosla, that invests in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. The Fund invests in for-profit, private enterprises serving the 3 billion people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets.
Bamboo Finance is a commercial investment firm managing 250M USD representing a unique portfolio of direct investments around the world with offices in Bogota, Singapore, San Francisco, Luxembourg and Geneva. Bamboo specializes in the financing of entrepreneurship globally. We use a market-oriented approach to deliver social value environmental value and financial returns to investors.
Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides patient seed capital and support to innovative financial inclusion start-ups, fostering perimentation and promoting business models that improve financial access for people living in poverty worldwide.
Javelin Venture Partners is a San Francisco-based firm, with investments throughout the world. Javelin VP invests in early-stage tech companies with focus on cloud, big data, enterprise software, SaaS, e-commerce, mobile, health/wellness and digital media.