Meet the Winners
Financing Women-Owned Formal Businesses
6 C’s Skillas Exchange : 6C’s is a digital community focused on preparing people to gain the most important and useful skills for any modern job and to ensure workforce sustainability through career preparation. Its Haven Program is designed to enable women to save, trade, and grow their businesses by equipping them with the digital skills to access and use financial services.
Famunera Limited : Famunera is an agri-tech solution enabling women and youth agribusinesses to go digital in order to easily access affordable financing, supply chain management, source traceability and authentic market linkages.
Futa : Futa democratizes access to financial services for businesses in Francophone Africa, especially female-owned MSME by using payroll data to provide their employees with fast and fair access to financing, addressing urgent financial needs efficiently. This approach not only enhances employees’ financial stability and reduces stress but also increases productivity, loyalty, and retention for employers.
HiSofi : HiSofi offers creditors and borrowers automated and personalized credit and collections management tools that promote healthy finances. Its solutions can enable WSMEs to optimize their cash flow and improve their credit position, making them more attractive to financial institutions.
Kitspay Private Limited : Kistpay is a pioneering digital financial platform dedicated to bridging the digital divide by providing unbanked and underbanked populations—particularly women and youth—with smartphone-based financing solutions. By partnering with telecom operators, financial institutions, and others, Kistpay ensures affordability and accessibility of digital services, promoting economic empowerment and sustainable growth in emerging markets.
XchangeBox : XchangeBox is a tech enabled platform providing credit access and wallet savings to rural and corner-store female women in business, with a daily repayment model to boost repayment. It also digitizes SME transactions records as a basis of credit viability and enables them to collect payment for sales via their platform using Accounts and Point of Sales Terminals, with the goal of supporting informal market traders to address the financing gap of over 313 billion USD across Africa.
Warmi : Warmi is a digital ecosystem dedicated to improving the overall well-being of women by building healthy habits through a variety of tools designed to strengthen their financial, mental, physical, and emotional health.
Building Business Capability of Female Entrepreneurs
Finan Co, Ltd : Finan Co, Ltd is a technology start-up focused on empowering small businesses to thrive on digital technologies and create sustainable impact for the society, especially for those who are underserved. It’s SoBanHang product is a one-stop business management app that empowers women entrepreneurs to seamlessly handle their business, increase revenue across all digital channels, and access essential financial services. Its mission is to empower 1 million businesses serving 100 million customers and generating 100 billion USD revenue by 2025.
Halal Money Transfer (HMT) : HMT is Afghanistan’s first online banking and remittance app, aiming to uplift communities and businesses with innovative remittance solutions that bridge Afghan communities with international markets and build on the strong social solidarity exhibited by Afghans. Similarly, HMT serves as an innovative solution to allow micro-loans, donations and investment to reach underprivileged groups in a secure online system. It is also focused on unlocking online transactions to expand business’s ability to sell.
MICROWD : MICROWD is a social fintech dedicated to accelerating community development by supporting women entrepreneurs to connect with social investors. Operating in Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Costa Rica, MICROWD has impacted over 10,000 women, fostering job creation, income growth, and economic activity in vulnerable areas. Beyond capital access, MICROWD offers entrepreneurs the chance to participate in the MICROWDX incubator and join the MICROWD Community to access ongoing networking, business advisory and professional design services.
QuickLegal : QuickLegal is an AI-driven debt collection software, developed by 3 female founders, helping SMEs to increase the recovery rates of unpaid invoices by 40% and decrease collection costs by 30%.
Transforming Mass Market Women's Investment Capabilities
Penny : Women tend to wait until it’s too late to interact with the crucial asset of financial planning and investing. This is Penny is an easy-to-use, straightforward, and interactive platform that teaches women about wise investment while allowing them to visualise, plan, and design their financial lives.
Pilou : Pilou Latin America’s first digital savings and investment platform led by women, for women. Its platform addresses the financial inclusion gap by offering personalized financial education and investment tools, with diversified investment portfolios managed in a transparent and low-cost manner. Pilou combines advanced technology with a supportive community, fostering women’s confidence and knowledge in managing investments.
Rusysve : Rusyve’s “Alba, Oportunidad del Presente” solution is a knowledge platform that facilitates access to educational, insurance and financial opportunities for girls, young people and women in Latin America. It uses affordable advanced technology to provide financial education, investment skills and educational resources on a secure digital platform. With strategic alliances and a focus on cybersecurity, Alba verifies social media accounts to combat human trafficking and smuggling, thus improving the quality of life in our communities. Its mission is to empower girls, women and young people through educational resilience and be a pillar in the knowledge economy.
Greening the CVP for Women
DREX : DREX is a dedicated financing renewable energy platform enabling funding for small to medium-sized renewable energy projects in emerging markets (0.5 to 30 MW or costing less than $50M) by streamlining the asset finance workflow, connecting investors, project developers, and energy consumers. It proposes to identify and reach out to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and aggregate their electricity needs into women-owned solar farms that could cover 100% of their energy requirements.