🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
M-Kopa is thrilled to be named on CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 for the second consecutive year.
This milestone comes as we're celebrating reaching 10 million customers and 10 million smartphones sold across our 5 African markets, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
By building products and services around the realities of how Africa's Every Day Earners spend and earn, M-KOPA helps millions access affordable assets, credit and digital financial services that enable them to earn, grow and build their futures.
The impact on our customers is tangible:
• 38% accessed their first formal loan through M-KOPA, rising to 43% among women
• 67% accessed health insurance for the first time through M-KOPA
• 70% of customers use their M-KOPA product to generate income
• 86% say M-KOPA has improved their quality of life
Today, we're onboarding more than 10,000 new customers every day, processing between 1.5–2 million payments daily, and have unlocked more than $2 billion in credit.
Being recognised among CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies is a testament yhat a model built around the needs of Africa’s Every Day Earners can scale across markets.
#MKOPA #CNBCWorldTopFintech #FinancialInclusion #Fintech #Africa
They said we should be sharing process stories so;
In the last one year I have applied to and passed different assesment stages of Global companies like Buffer, Canonical, some YC companies in London (and environs) and a few companies in San Francisco.
I even made it to a final stage of a company whose founder was so sure I was in US, because of the timezones on my CV. He was so shocked to discover I was in Lagos Nigeria.
As my friend will say, it feels good to scale through the interview processes of monumental companies like this.
Btw, you should really sign up on Wellfound if you are job-searching. That platform is a goldmine.
You should also stop by YC career page if you are in Tech (and you are not in Nigeria).
Most companies don't sponsor visas.
I often have different types of podcasts playing in the background when I'm working and for the last hour, this podcast has come on where a woman is discussing some of the most painful details of her marriage and divorce. She's crying and being held by the host.
I have a lot of sympathy for her but I can't shake the feeling that as a culture we're slowly replacing solid community, or even looking for therapy, with the catharsis of publicly naming and shaming the people who have hurt us and seeking public sympathy. I'm really curious about if the people who go on these podcasts actually find any healing from it. I also understand the usefulness of people sharing their experiences so others don't feel alone but I often wonder if there's a thin line between 'speaking your truth' and vindictively wanting to hurt the person who hurt you.
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Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele says the Federal Government will introduce a system to track poverty levels and household incomes to measure whether its economic reforms are actually improving Nigerians' lives.