Investing in possibilities in Africa

Eferio Change Com Intro Africa

Africa’s innovation revolution

Intro Africa explores investing in possibilities in Africa. Over the next 5 years Africa will see 137 million new connections on the mobile phone network and all these are going to be on smartphones and all these are going to be consumers of digital solutions. In Africa, mobile phones are everything, 60% of all mobile phone users are doing it from a smartphone and that’s the largest driver of internet access within the continent. 

In Africa, people are well-versed in using mobile phones to access financial products and it’s through IT and technology that businesses can reach the masses.

Finnacess team out with customers in Nairobi. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media. investing in possibilities in Africa
Finnacess team out with customers in Nairobi. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media

To grow a community you need to have access to credit, to banking services, anything that is around financial inclusion is part of our scope of investment.

Endre Skolt
Founder & Owner 
Change Com

Bringing mobile solutions into existing community structures such as savings groups or SACCO’s, digitises this social capital and gives rural communities access to affordable financial and insurance services, with technology being the bridge to affordability and scalability.

Investing in possibility in Africa. DD Finance training savings group in Kenya, Photo: Thought Leader Global Media for ChangeCom
DD Finance training savings group in Kenya, Photo: Thought Leader Global Media

Eferio Communications’ solution architect, Chris Daniels believes the time and opportunity are ripe for new possibilities of services we have not even begun to think about with highly specialised operators that can bring services and solutions that matter.

Navigating these opportunities and challenges is Change Com, an Oslo-based investment and advisory company,creating change through investing in the startup ecosystem. 

Investing in the 3 key areas of mobile internet, digital financial services and renewable energy, Change Com is lifting and empowering startups to set up profitable businesses.

We decided to go into renewable energy because we believe that that is a big demand especially in the rural areas of East Africa.

Endre Skolt
Founder & Owner 
Change Com

The demand for renewable energy in Africa is huge and off- grid solution providers such as Change Com investee, Spark Possibilities, can reach rural communities where the grid can’t, providing lighting and solar solutions which can give people income generating activities.

Barclay Paul Okari Co Founder FinAccess
Barclay Paul Okari Co Founder FinAccess. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media

Communities need access to credit and banking services in order to grow. Financial inclusion features strongly in Change com’s scope through their investment in digital financial services providers FinAccess and DDFinance. 

Our solution aims at digitising the social capital. Using the mobile phone platform in existing communities, we’re able to really cut the cost and make insurance affordable.

Grace Wambui
Project Manager
DDFinance
Spark Possibilities team out with a customer and Agent in rural Kenya.
Photo: Thought Leader Global Media

How ChangeCom’s investing in possibilities in Africa.

Mobile technology provides the affordable financial and insurance services that these companies offer, delivered through the convenience of a phone, to the previously excluded communities who could otherwise not access or afford these services.

Chris Daniels, Eferio Communications in a workshop. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media
Chris Daniels, Eferio Communications in a workshop. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media

Chris Daniels from Eferio Communications, Change Com’s mobile internet investee, predicts that The IT space is going to impact significantly how industry is organised, how trade is conducted, it represents the next billion of connections that is going to emerge out of Africa, as the building blocks for the 4IR, the emerging economy that Africa is rising into. Investing in possibilities in Africa.

Energy for the future. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media. investing in possibilities in Africa
Energy for the future. Photo: Thought Leader Global Media

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