Duncan E. Onyango

First Access, Inc. provides mobile application that offers risk scoring services. It builds customized, dynamic credit scoring and loan decisioning models for financial institutions to use in real-time from any mobile device to underwrite loans at the point of sale. The company was founded by Nicole van Der Tuin, Rohit Acharya and Duncan Goldie-Scot in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Devergy East Africa Ltd. provides energy to low-income people in rural villages. It provides access through micro-grid technology to electricity via the national power grid. The company was founded by Gianluca Cescon, Fabio De Pascale and Daniel Ponz in 2010 and is headquartered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund operates as a multi-donor funded financing vehicle that awards repayable grants to private sector companies to support innovative business ideas. Its offers private sector entrepreneurs in Africa to innovate and find profitable ways of improving access to markets and the way markets function for the poor, particularly in rural areas. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

SolarNow BV provides solar energy and financing solutions. Through its subsidiary, it offers solar solutions to household, small business, farming, and corporate markets. The company was founded by Willem Nolens in 2010 and is headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.