Living on Little: Navigating financial scarcity in modern Kenya
Living on very little money doesn’t just mean that you worry about how to feed your family and pay...
A creative approach to startup financing: Graviti combines grant, debt and equity investment, linked to impact outcomes
It took Catalyst Fund portfolio company Graviti only two months to raise a debt round that will finance 600+...
How fintech startups should pursue B2B partnerships
For many fintech startups, particularly those in the insurtech space where high levels of trust are essential, business-to-business (B2B)...
Post-COVID prognosis for gig workers in China: slow and steady improvement
While most economies in the world are still stumbling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reported...
Press Release: Announcing the $4.3M Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator in Ghana to improve the financial resilience of informal MSEs
ACCRA, Ghana, 19th October, 2020 – Catalyst Fund, managed by BFA Global, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and...
Catalyst Fund is expanding inclusive-tech acceleration to new sectors
Building on our proven approach to accelerating inclusive fintech startups and innovation ecosystems in emerging markets, Catalyst Fund is...
Inclusive fintech startups are pioneering products for the digital generation
The digital generation (aka netizens, digital natives, generation Z, millennials) is a rapidly-growing customer segment that has exacting user...
Women and youth may be weathering COVID better than others, but the most vulnerable are getting left behind
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to ransack economies across developed and emerging markets, expectations are that low-income people –...
Making waves: Cynthia Wandia embodies the best of female fintech entrepreneurship
Cynthia Wandia is the CEO and co-founder of Kwara, an accounting and business management SaaS for SACCOs in Kenya....
Venture-building helps South Africa’s MobiLife bring insurance to underserved families
Fewer than 12% of South Africans have life insurance, amounting to an insurance gap of over R30 trillion. Low...