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Faith Nyambura Mwea 2

  • Umati
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  • With a loan of EUR 23,000 Umati can continue providing EUR 300 to 150 entrepreneurs that can use the money as working capital.

    €23,000
    Amount
    8.50%
    Interest
    6 months
    Maturity
    6 months
    Repayments
    EUR
    Currency
    Amount€23,000
    Interest8.50%
    Maturity6 months
    Repayments6 months
    CurrencyEUR
      100%
      Fully funded in 51 minutes on 28 January 2019.

      Summary

      Faith Nyambura Mwea, a proprietor running and operating Shammah Limited, is a business owner who is looking into the future. She has been selling mobile phones and accessories in the mid to lower market segment.

      As the country gets more connected, Faith and her cohort grabbed on the opportunity to import the common used phones and accessories to sell to the common man. A very large market that will continue to grow as technology costs come down.

      All the members of this portfolio also have online e-commerce sales channels which diversifies the local risks of the physical markets they operate their brick and mortar stores in. In fact, 70% of sales are made online. The most popular goods are home living goods, mobile phones and accessories and consumer electronics.

      Faith and her colleagues in this group of 150 business owners are seeking a working capital loan of about EUR 300 each. To ensure transparency, Umati capital secures the product right from the supply side to when it is released to the borrower in Nairobi. In this way, the borrower sells and pays back and re-orders; growing with every trade cycle.

      From the data, a typical trade cycle, from import to sale takes about 90 days.

      Despite completely doing everything legitimately, paying taxes and driving the bottom of the pyramid economy, and ironically, Faith's portfolio of borrowers have high credit scores but would never qualify for trade finance facilities at traditional banks which would require complex collateral processes.

      By using technology, Umati Capital is able to aggregate and distribute trade finance to Faith in a commercially sustainable way.

      Company nameFaith Nyambura Mwea 2
      CEOFaith Mwea
      Founded2016-01-01
      LocationNAIROBI
      SectorWholesale / Retail
      Turnover€471,304.87
      Employees2

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      • With this investment 5 jobs are created
      • With this investment 75 lives are improved

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