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M-KOPA (Kenya) - Pay-as-you-go solar that became a $1B fintech

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Five million customers. A factory in Nairobi making seven and a half thousand smartphones a day. The largest connected consumer-financing platform in sub-Saharan Africa. All of it built on top of an idea, hatched fifteen years earlier, that you could finance a solar panel for a rural Kenyan household, forty shillings at a time, by bolting a SIM card into it.

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