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M-KOPA Labs

Strategic pillar: Scale partnership
Customer group: Transporter
Region: Africa
Partner since: 2017
Joint partners FCDO
FCDO funding type: TIME
Technology: Electric vehicle financing

About

M-KOPA offers innovative financial and digital products that help people unlock their potential. M-KOPA was supported by Shell Foundation from inception to establish a business model and share insights into consumer and market behaviours to help the wider sector.

Project Focus

Shell Foundation supported M-KOPA Labs from 2017 to 2020, developing larger power devices and a range of low-energy appliances, and then supported M-KOPA Mobility from 2022–2024 in launching its initial R&D and pilot work into electric mobility.

Scale Partnerships Transporters East Africa

How do you really know what your customer wants? M-KOPA Lab’s journey in launching a pay-as-you-go fridge

It’s possible to “design things right” and yet not “design the right things”. In a short report, M-KOPA Labs shares…

12th November 2019

Read more about our work with M-KOPA Labs

For 25 years, Shell Foundation has partnered to scale clean energy solutions that boost incomes and cut emissions

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