Pezesha and MPESA showcase at the Kauffman Africa Fellows VC Summit 2023

Pezesha Africa Limited
2 min readSep 12, 2023

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The Pezesha team showcasing their SME solution at the Kauffman Fellows Africa Summit 2023

Pezesha was honored to be one of the African Fintech startups that showcased our innovative solutions for SMEs at the Kauffman Africa Fellows VC Summit 2023 in Nairobi. The 3-day summit, hosted by Africa’s tech giant MPESA, which also showcased its SME solutions, brought together over 300 investors from over 35 countries and Kauffman Fellows from leading VC firms in Africa. The summit aimed to foster connections and collaborations between investors and local and global entrepreneurs in a bid to shed light on Africa’s market dynamics.

Networking dinner and keynotes session at the Kauffman Africa Fellows VC Summit

We were honored to share our vision of empowering small businesses with affordable working capital by leveraging alternative data to offer credit to small businesses in the ‘missing middle’. Our showcase attracted the attention and interest of many top VCs and global entrepreneurs in the room and paved the way for one-on-one discussions where we shared our insights and experiences on the market dynamics and opportunities in Africa, and how we are addressing the $328 billion financing gap for SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa.

Kauffman Fellows CEO, Jeff Harbach, during a meeting held late 2022 with Sakaja Arthur Johnson, the Governor of Nairobi, to discuss plans for the ongoing Kauffman Fellows Africa Summit 2023.

We are proud to be recognized as the leading African Fintech providing workable solutions to the SME ecosystem in Africa and grateful to Kauffman Fellows and MPESA Africa for this amazing opportunity to showcase our SME solution and network with potential partners and investors.

To learn more about Kauffman Fellows, please visit their website at https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/

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Pezesha Africa Limited

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