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SC Ventures and Yabx invest $10 Million in Furaha to Expand Access to Purpose-Driven Financing in Africa

Jan 24, 2025over 1 year ago

Contract Type

partnership

Puneinformation technology & services

Description

SC Ventures and Yabx Technologies have partnered to invest $10 million in Furaha, a purpose-driven lending platform aiming to make finance accessible across sub-Saharan Africa. Furaha combines SC Ventures’ global expertise and risk management capability with Yabx’s future-ready tech and alternate lending platform, offering purpose-driven loans centred around education, gender, and other responsible lending pillars for African markets. The partnership formalizes their joint investment in Furaha, which has its first offering in the education financing space.

Company Information

Company

Tech Mahindra

Location

Karve Road

Pune, Maharashtra, India

About

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences. We #Rise together to create sustainable businesses that can bring about lasting change in our communities – to create an equal world, to be future ready, and to create value. We are a USD 6.5 billion company with 148,000+ professionals across 90 countries, helping 1250 global customers including Fortune 500 companies. We are focused on leveraging next-generation technologies including 5G, blockchain, metaverse, quantum computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and more, to enable end-to-end digital transformation for global customers.

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