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…
