Mara

Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio founded in 2020 by Ben Peterson, Jan van De Willebois & Mikul Shah with the goal of launching three to four startups annually that are dedicated to improving the travel and tourism industry.

Our Mission: We offer financial services to business and communities that reduce friction between buyers and sellers. Our Vision: To be a commerce catalyst for businesses and communities across Africa.

Chumz.io is a savings platform that is revolutionising the savings culture in Africa. Through behavioural psychology techniques, the Chumz App can ease saving and investment experiences for its users. Goal-based investing, social nudges and default bias are some ways users can kick start and nurture their savings habits.

AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets and the rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC.

Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.

ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.

Paylend is a FinTech startup focused on providing access to finance and digitizing MSMEs in Kenya.

Asante Financial Services Group is a company that focuses on facilitating financial independence for businesses and individuals. Their products and services is designed to include loans, payments, deposits, investment and insurance-related products, and asset management products and services, to cater to the needs of African businesses and individuals.

Sidian Bank offers corporate banking services such as SME banking, loans and insurance.

SUMA is a revolutionary FinTech company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach to Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, and virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness through entertainment.

Roojai is an MGA that creates, sets prices for, and handles its own assortment of retail insurance products, with a concentration on verticals such as Motor and Health insurance. Roojai has been present in Thailand since 2016 and Indonesia since 2022.