YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2017
With more than one-third of the world’s population unbanked and more and more people using mobile phones, there is an outstanding opportunity for mobile payment technology to bring the financially omitted into the economic majority. Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate.
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VC Cafe
JUNE 29, 2012
The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). We don’t care about short term revenue.
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.
NZ Entrepreneur
JANUARY 20, 2022
His every move and misstep dissected and castigated by the same media and investors who sang his praises when things were going well, one can only guess at the anguish, shame and embarrassment that led the young entrepreneur into – what appeared to me as an uninformed observer – self imposed exile, in Kenya.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Tags: Business Technology.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.
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