Read the stories of the founders that are creating innovative products and services that improve the housing conditions in the Andean Region. 

 

We asked our mentors what their advice would be for entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa. Here’s what we heard the most.

In emerging markets such as Mexico, the prevailing narrative in the retail banking and fintech sectors is that the slew of new debit and credit card services launched in recent years, by both incumbent banks and startup fintechs, offers a route to reduce financial inequality, a noble aim in a country where over 60% of the population don’t have a bank account.

When Shelley Saxena’s mother almost died because of a medical misdiagnosis, he knew he had to do something to make sure that wouldn’t happen to other people. So Shelley launched Sevamob, an AI-enabled healthcare technology platform that brings low-cost primary and diagnostic health services to underserved urban and rural communities that have limited access to healthcare. Sevamob’s AI and telehealth-based model also requires fewer specialists and addresses staffing gaps in underserved areas.

Entender por qué los inversionistas continúan diciéndote que “no” puede ser realmente difícil. Además, seamos honestos, a nadie le gusta ser rechazado, menos aún, sin conocer la razón real.

Poland’s government has made a high-profile effort to help small businesses access capital in the past few years, through a combination of loan instruments, state guarantees and tax credits.

In 2018 Turkey’s economy plummeted into economic crisis after nearly two decades of steady growth. The past year has seen double-digit inflation, a plunging Turkish lira, and a spike in loan defaults and borrowing costs.

In Ukraine, where the government forcibly closed more than 90 failing banks just a few years ago, consumers have been rightly concerned about the security of their savings.

There’s an ever-present risk that’s familiar for anyone who invests in startups solving complicated problems in low-income communities: it’s possible for a business to become part of the problem, rather than solving it.

For anyone driving in Houston, the payday loan storefronts are hard to miss.

The minimum wage in Mexico is 88 pesos (about $4.70) a day. At that salary, savings don’t last very long.

In 2014, Clarence Bethea bought a new laptop. It came with a complicated and expensive warranty that he promptly misplaced. It got him thinking.