Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Kenya’s M-Kopa sets sights on unicorn club with $250M funding round

Kenya’s M-Kopa sets sights on unicorn club with $250M funding round

PICTURE this: a world where affordable solar panels and smartphones become accessible to those who need them most, even in the most remote corners of Africa. It's not a far-fetched dream any more, thanks to M-Kopa's latest funding round that would allow it to acquire up to 100,000 new customers a month and expand its product portfolio across the continent. Its target markets include South Africa, which has been plagued by pesky power cuts even as it runs pilot projects to finance electric motorbikes to the capital on the growing demand for e-mobility on the continent. The Nairobi-based company recently…
Read More