VentureKast is a podcast about the coolest financial inclusion startups in the world and the entrepreneurs who build and grow them. It’s for anyone interested in startups, impact investing, fintech or financial inclusion. VentureKast features first-hand accounts of startup CEOs from all over the world who have dedicated their lives to building businesses that are pioneering the use of technology for financial inclusion – for everything from payments, to credit to insurance and more. VentureKast is an inside look into how impact investors and entrepreneurs think, and what the whole social enterprise world is about. VentureKast is brought to you by Accion Venture Lab, a venture investment initiative that drives financial inclusion globally. We invest capital in and provide support to innovative fintech start-ups that increase access to, improve the quality of, and reduce the cost of financial services for the underserved at scale.
“Most microentrepreneurs here in Brazil… don’t have a lot of the tools that a bigger business would get. And they were struggling a lot,” says Carlos ...
Apollo Agriculture co-founder and CEO Eli Pollak joins VentureKast to share how Apollo is staying focused on helping their small-scale farmer customer...
An interview with Jaime de los Angeles, CEO of Advance, a salary-on-demand platform in the Philippines that is engaging directly with users in order t...
Accion Venture Lab's Amee Parbhoo joins the first episode of a four-part mini-series of VentureKast to discuss insights and strategies from Accion Ven...
In episode ten of VentureKast: Rebuild, Creditas COO Ann Williams explains how Creditas has reached out to their customers during COVID-19 to find out...
In episode nine of VentureKast: Rebuild, managing director of the Center for Financial inclusion Mayada El-Zoghbi explains how COVID-19 has impacted d...
In episode eight of VentureKast: Rebuild, co-founder and CEO of LendStreet Jerry Nemorin explains that customers of traditional lenders struggle to co...
In episode six of VentureKast: Rebuild, Co-Founder and CEO of Toffee Insurance Rohan Kumar explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a “mass beh...
In episode five of VentureKast: Rebuild, Anthemis Partner Vica Manos describes how the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the shift to innovative, incl...