Partner Stories

BAP Finance is delivering the products and services to rural farmers to unlock potentials and propel rural livelihoods forward. To catalyze farmers to realize their potential BAP offers asset financing directly to the BoP– focusing on the truly last mile smallholder farmers. Our portfolio includes productive assets throughout the value chain, including products for tilling, refining, market access, and post harvest storage.

Ignitia provides a highly accurate, hyper-local weather forecast, delivered via SMS to farmers across West Africa. Ignitia’s forecasting model was developed specifically for the tropics and is twice as accurate as global models. Access to reliable weather information allows farmers to improve farming practices, increase yields and maximize their profits.

PEAS is one of the leading providers of non-state secondary education in Africa since its founding 11 years ago in Uganda. PEAS provides an affordable, quality education to students in rural areas who would otherwise not be able to progress after primary school. Pace Able is working to implement a mobile money tuition payment scheme.

Essential Medical Guidance (EMGuidance) is a mobile and web-based clinical support platform for medical professionals. It is off the ground in S. Africa and will expand to additional developing world geographies. Pace Able has contributed strategic and product planning assistance and is an equity investor in EMGuidance.

Fargreen is a pioneer in social business and a leader in Vietnam’s green food movement. Pace Able provided financial support so Fargreen could increase operations staff on its farm. We are also providing ongoing business structure consulting.

Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. Pace Able is an equity investor in Aflore.

Hello Tractor, Inc. is an ag-tech startup focused on improving food and income security for the rural poor, by offering a Uber-like service – for tractors. Pace Able assisted Hello Tractor to purchase two tractors that will be leased to operators.

Mnandi Africa is a Zimbabwe based agricultural support organization, organized in a manner similar to a farm cooperative – today in a single rural village. It is dedicated to improving family income through productivity improvements: farm practice and mechanization. Pace Able provided unrestricted support to assist in purchasing tractor tiller attachment and multiple irrigation installations.

Root Capital invests in agricultural enterprises that transform rural communities. Since 1999, it has loaned $B1.2 to over 670 businesses in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Root Capital has developed complementary mobile technology services that help businesses harness data on farmer suppliers. Pace Able is supporting a next generation implementation of a global data platform that includes additional supply chain actors.

Sanergy designs, manufactures, installs and services low cost, high-quality sanitation facilities, currently in Nairobi, Kenya. Waste from these facilities is safely removed from the community and converted into agricultural inputs, and sold to Kenyan farmers. The product design and manufacturing are under Sanergy’s roof in Kenya. Pace Able is working with the Sanergy innovation team to develop new products for unserved constituencies.

Soko works with artisan entrepreneurs to build their businesses, improve production capacity, and sustainably increase income, using in part a technology platform that creates a “virtual factory” by combining individual artisans capacity. Pace Able has worked with the Soko Nairobi technology team on best practices, system design and future product planning, and has provided an unrestricted support grant.

Tulaa is a marketplace solution for smallholder farmers to access quality agricultural inputs, affordable finance and competitive markets for their products. Through innovative mobile technology, Tulaa lowers the cost and risk for companies to do business with smallholder farmers in Africa. We support Tulaa by participating in go to market planning and other areas.

Watsi builds technology to finance healthcare for people around the world. Starting in 2017, Watsi worked with local partners in Rwibaale, Uganda to design and build Watsi Coverage, a technology platform to administer health insurance. Pace Able is a supporter of the pilot and Watsi’s Uganda-based efforts.