M-KOPA Chief Executive Officer Jesse Moore with Safaricom Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore (left) NAIROBI, KENYA: Solar energy provider M-Kopa is set to procure additional 500,000 ...

The largest off-grid solar operator in sub-Saharan Africa, it offers clean power to consumers in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania for a daily fee. It connected its 500,000th home this spring ...

M-Kopa retails in solar-powered home lighting solutions, phones, radios, and other related products. The debts were written off from projected revenue for the years between 2017 and 2020 ...

Indeed, it was finance, not solar, that attracted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to M-KOPA, one of the hottest off-grid solar startups. The foundation turned down a chance to invest in 2011, when ...

Now, M-KOPA, the pay-as-you-go asset financing platform serving 5 million underbanked Africans, is racing toward a major milestone: surpassing an annual revenue rate of $400 million by year-end.