Generative AI’s expanding role for Kenyan small businesses beyond ChatGPT
On a recent visit to Kenya, my colleague Anne and I explored Nairobi’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, meeting artisans in Mathare,...
Can agile fintech startups be the answer to food insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis?
Originally published on NextBillion COVID-19 lockdowns have threatened small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and vulnerable families around the world. SMEs in...
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....
World Refugee Day 2020: #EveryActionCounts
This World Refugee Day, we take a moment to reflect on our work focused around making finance work for...
How to go to market: 3 templates for fintech startups during product launch
Featuring how to go to market templates by Jane del Ser Existing networks of mobile agents can be a...
Short-term fixes are not enough if SMEs are to survive COVID-19
As the economic effects of the lockdowns worldwide begin to solidify, businesses large and small are collapsing. While large...
Innovation in Finance: Sokowatch and Turaco improve financial resilience for East Africa’s underserved
Catalyst Fund welcomes new cohort of inclusive fintech startups creating solutions to improve the financial health of underserved communities...
The buck stops with women
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, April 30, 2020 How Kenyan mothers are keeping food on the table through...
If the coronavirus doesn’t kill you…
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, April 21, 2020 Kenyans’ reflections on security in the time of Covid-19...
From the Valley of Death to a $14 Million Series A: Sokowatch, Quona and the Role of Philanthropic Capital
Catalyst Fund welcomes new cohort of inclusive fintech startups creating solutions to improve the financial health of underserved communities...