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M-KOPA Labs

Offering innovative financial and digital products that help people unlock their potential.

M-KOPA Labs

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

Project description

Unlocking financial progress

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

2016
Established in
3,000 +
Number of employees
6 M+
Customers
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

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M-KOPA Sales lady describing product to man

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

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