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Your smartphone may replace your credit cards “Who would think you could go to East Africa to learn about the innovations in mobile payments?“ said Higgins in a recent interview. He is founder of Kopo Kopo, a company based in Seattle, Wash., and Nairobi, Kenya, that creates technology for merchants in Kenya to accept payments from customers’ phones. |
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“The wallet is dead.” That’s according to Dylan Higgins, founder of payment-enabling
startup Kopo Kopo. That means George Costanza is now sitting flat on his tush.
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Pivot 25 and the Silicon Savannah Finalists Kopo Kopo and M-Payer in Kenya and Bikoto in Rwanda have each created new models for improving access to financial products in resource-poor settings. |
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The buzz at Pivot25, a conference for mobile-phone software developers and investors held this
June, is all about the future of money. Ben Lyon, the 24-year-old business-development VP of
Kopo Kopo, wants $250,000 to produce his app for shops to process payments
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Kopo Kopo in the MIT Technology Review Some apps are extensions of the M-Pesa mobile payment system. PesaPal , for instance, helps consumers keep track of payments; KopoKopo lets businesses accept mobile payments. |
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Online commentary: A look at techtowns in Detroit and Nairobi I visited iHub as a guest of Ben Lyon and Dylan Higgins, co-founders of Kopo Kopo, a start-up designed to adapt businesses to the mobile money revolution. |
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Kopo Kopo selected as one of twenty-five companies to present at Pivot 25 Pivot25 is an mlab initiative to bring focus on the Mobile developer and entrepreneur community in East Africa recently announced the 25 finalists that will feature in tis Pivot25 competition to be held on June 14 - June 15, 2011. Kopo Kopo, Inc was selected as one of the 5 finalists in the 'Application in Mobile Payments and Commerce' category. |
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Kopo Kopo featured in May 4, 2011 USAID-MicroLinks Microfinance Note |
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Kopo Kopo Wins 1st place in IT / Web Track of 2011 Berkeley BPlan Competition Mobile phones are more accessible in emerging markets than clean water or electricity. With mobile money services like M-Pesa in Kenya becoming more prominent by the day, it's now possible to extend robust financial services to the poor via simple text messages. To do so, however, institutions that serve the poor need an affordable way to integrate with mobile money systems. Our mission is to make that integration as simple and accessible as possible. |
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The Kenyan Mobile Money Ecosystem Kenya is by far the most exciting, innovative mobile money market on earth. Below is an overview... |
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Kopo Kopo CEO, Dylan Higgins, featured as PYMNTS Innovator What's in a name? Kopo Kopo pulled inspiration for their name from two African languages to create one common focus, create wealth rather than alleviate poverty.This week's PYMNTS.com Innovator is Dylan Higgins, Co-Founder and CEO at Kopo Kopo. Dylan is working to integrate mobile money systems into small and medium-sized businesses and has made it his mission to spread mobile money in Africa. |
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NextBillion picks up Kopo Kopo Kopo Kopo recently completed a pilot with Splash Mobile Money and Hope Micro to bring mobile financial services to Sierra Leone. |
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Microfinance Africa Interview with Kopo Kopo Kopo Kopo recently announced the launch of Mobile Microfinance in Sierra Leone in partnership with Hope Micro and Splash Mobile Money, utilizing its mobile money aggregation platform. The platform enables Microfinance institutions to integrate multiple mobile money systems. |