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FarmDrive - EWB Canada - 0 views

  • FarmDrive - EWB Canada
  • FarmDrive uses data analytics to connect smallholder farmers with financial institutions and credit, enabling crops and farmers to flourish. And all through a mobile phone.
  • FarmDrive uses data analytics and mobile technology to create financial profiles for farmers through a credit scoring model. When the financial institutions can view comprehensive profiles of a farmer’s economic performance, they are more likely to approve loans.By unlocking access to credit, FarmDrive enables smallholder farmers to access: Loans to purchase vital tools and assets. Insurance to bolster to protect against the natural seasonal vulnerabilities of farm work. Comprehensive financial profiles of their farming operations: a useful resource in scaling to service multiple partners or larger supply chains.
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      As a result, farmers can: Grow their businesses. Provide additional business opportunities for local communities. Promote local employment. Create more food, health and education.
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FarmDrive LTD | F6S - 0 views

  • FarmDrive understands smallholder farmers uniquely through dynamic datasets and translates this to financial institutions. More than 50 million smallholder farmers in Africa are struggling to make a living due to lack of capital to improve their farming activities.
  • FarmDrive has developed a platform that gathers data on smallholder farmers both from the ‘ground’ and ‘data from the sky’. FarmDrive uses sophisticated algorithms to turn that data into comprehensive credit profiles of “unbanked and underbanked” smallholders who have little access to credit.
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      this solution is a catalyst to reduce the operational costs while increasing operational efficiencies. The platform allows them to do so by using modern technology, and an immense amount of data captured by the solution interfaces.
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FarmDrive - 0 views

  • FarmDrive uses mobile phones, alternative data, and machine learning to close the critical data gap that prevents financial institutions from lending to creditworthy smallholder farmers.
  • $450 Billion Financing Gap Agriculture employs 65% of Africa’s population and makes up 32% of its GDP. However, less than 1% of bank lending in Africa goes to agriculture. In absence of accurate and cost-effective methods for assessing small-scale agricultural lending risk, financial institutions choose not to lend to smallholder farmers, thereby contributing to the $450 billion global agriculture financing gap.
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      Not only will this solution unlock millions of dollars of previously risk-averse capital for smallholder farmers, it will improve the livelihoods of entire communities as the GDPR is maiinly based on agriculture these similar technologies help push it over the limit.
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FarmDrive: Connecting farmers to financing | Mercy Corps - 0 views

  • FarmDrive generates real-time credit reports for small farmers, allowing them to access loans from financial institutions and agricultural input providers via mobile phone. 
  • FarmDrive collects expense and revenue data from farmers via SMS and combines it with satellite imaging, remote sensing technology and alternative data points (e.g., soil analysis, weather forecasts) to create detailed yield estimates and assess credit risk.
  • FarmDrive overlaps our focus areas of agriculture and financial inclusion, empowering the world’s most vulnerable farmers with the digital financial services they need to strengthen and improve their livelihoods. 
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      FarmDrive collects expense and revenue data from farmers and combines it with satellite imaging, remote sensing technology and alternative data points to create detailed yield estimates and assess credit risk.
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  • We’ve connected FarmDrive to various partners and expertise to help them scale, as its usage increases in other developing markets in sub-Saharan Africa. 
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FarmDrive Helps Unbanked Farmers in Kenya | The Borgen Project - 0 views

  • By accruing farmer data, FarmDrive eliminates some of the risk for banks. FarmDrive has partnered with African financial firms who accept their alternative credit scores and determine appropriate loans for smallholder farmers. Lending institutions thus consider both the self-reported financial history of farmers as well as exogenous variables that will affect their crop yields.
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      FarmDrive collects data from farmers via and combines it with satellite imaging, alternative data points to create detailed yield estimates and assess credit risk.
  • FarmDrive depends on aid organizations, like USAID, and private firms that operate in the agricultural industry. FarmDrive is expanding its data collection through new partnerships with Planet, a satellite company, and The Impact Lab, a data analytics group, to potentially incorporate climate information gathered via satellite imagery into its algorithm.
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Kenyan agri-tech startup FarmDrive secures latest funding round - 0 views

  • Founded by Peris Bosire and Rita Kimani, FarmDrive delivers productive digital loans and lay away savings products to smallholder farmers in Kenya, helping them grow their incomes and resilience.
  • Having previously raised funding from the likes of Safaricom and EWB Canada, FarmDrive has now secured further investment. EWB Canada is again involved in the round, which also includes AK Impact Investors, 1 to 4 Foundation, ADAP Seed Fund 2, The Lakes Charitable Foundation and Sunu Capital.
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      The follow-on investment will allow FarmDrive to scale to US$13 million of loan, with minimal losses and exceptional returns
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About Hello Paisa international money transfer service - 0 views

  • hellopaisa international money transfer service allows you to send cash to countries across the world, in a manner that is fast, affordable, safe and easy to use. With hellopaisa, you can send cash instantly from South Africa and the United Kingdom to your loved ones back home.
  • When you’re living in a different country for work,the last thing you need to deal with is a complicated bank account.Introducing HelloPaisa: the fastest, easiest way to send cash to your loved ones.All you need is your phone!
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      this technology gives the community the ability to avoid legal issues by dealing with money safely as well as secured transactions with a reduced cost up to 5%.
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About - 1 views

  • We are thrilled to be pioneering commission free trading in Egypt. We believe that saving through investing is the right and sensible thing to do.
  • an app that is designed for everyone, green and expert investors alike. Our technology innovation allowed us to remove the barriers that anyone could face when opening or funding their brokerage accounts, helping us open up the market for a whole new wave of investors.
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      this app main mission is to help the Egyptian lives easier by enabling investments opportunities easier and accessible to eveyrone.
  • we don't stop there. Through access to the right tools, our app is built to empower you to invest smartly.
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AgroCenta-Empowering-smallholder-farmers-through-finance-information-and-market-access.pdf - 0 views

  • In 2016, AgroCenta set out to address these challenges. In a country where agriculture is the primary economic occupation of many — employing 52 per cent of Ghana’s labour force — the AgriT ech start-up launched AgroTrade, an online platform that connects smallholder farmers in the staple food value chain to a wider online market.
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      agrocenta made it possible for many farmers to get the possibility to engage the community with technology and actually gain more and save to make better products
  • AgroCenta had registered 46,100 smallholder farmers on the AgroTrade platform across four regions and 640 communities. Since launching AgroPay in January 2019, 2,750 smallholder farmers in two regions of Ghana are now active on the platform.
  • AgroCenta has hosted and provided over 500 farmer engagement sessions and trainings since launch. Skilled professionals deliver these sessions in farming communities and methodologies are continuously updated to reflect state-of-theart farming practices.
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  • AgroCenta received a grant from the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund in November 2018 to further develop and scale its financial solution, AgroPay.
  • AgroCenta eliminates inefficiencies in the value chain and ensures farmers are remunerated fairly.
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    AgroCenta has been fighting over two main causes: Lack of access to structured markets, which leaves the poor and illeterate at the mercy of predatory brokers or middlemen who buy at exploitative prices, and lack of access to finance, which means they may never move beyond smallholder farming to middle-level or even commercial farming
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TPAY | Helios Investment Partners | Helios Investment Partners - 0 views

  • Helios completed the acquisition of a 76% stake in TPAY, a fast growing direct carrier billing provider in the Middle East and North Africa from A15, a leading tech investment fund based in Egypt. With offices in Cairo and the UAE, TPAY currently operates across 16 countries with almost half of its total transaction volume coming from African markets such as Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
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      here we notice that TPAY is ruling over the MEA region
  • TPAY provides a much-needed mobile payment solution in markets with low banking penetration and high mobile adoption.
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      we can clearly understand that it is providing a huge solution for those in need of a banking system and cannot access it.
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Our Story - Safaricom - 0 views

  • In the year 2000, we began the Safaricom journey with a view to Transform Lives. Safaricom is one of a small group of about 400 companies across Africa whose annual revenues are more than $1 billion. Many of these companies are pan-African in their operations and are active in increasingly diverse sectors.
  • M-PESA is restoring dignity to thousands of refugees. Through a partnership with the World Food Programme, we are leveraging M-PESA to help more refugees access food, through a product known as Chakula Chap Chap. M-PESA has enabled us to digitize food delivery for over 100,000 households. It has removed the opportunity for corruption by eliminating middle-men, and reduced the cost of distributing relief aid, creating employment and business opportunities for people in refugee camps. This initiative has shown us that our business can help bridge critical gaps for our society.
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      this shows how much M-Pesa is trying to help the much refugees in Kenya by providing the upmost necessities
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SmartelMoney | About Us - 2 views

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    There are 5 reasons why this company is being used: Low cost lowest rates in the country, cheaper than internet banking and even cheaper than mobile money. they have kept fees as low as possible - they are the most affordable option on the market. Easy To use you get to use the platform that you are most comfortable with, app, USSD codes, or internet, no need to cram codes that run forever if it doesn't work for you. It's Convinient YOU CAN DO IT ANYTIME ANYWHERE Use My Wallet anytime anywhere for anything, money transfers, bills, airtime, groceries, fuel. See, easy! It's safe When you use my Wallet Services, you are not bound to any carrier, you can even use it without any carrier, bring your ID or passport. Secure Uses accredited national banking security and standards to protect your money whether you are transacting or not.
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