productive assets for businesses in emerging markets - allowing them to focus on scaling instead of just keeping the lights on.

productive assets for businesses in emerging markets

We finance

the assets in real-time through IoT technology, allowing our investors to see the economic activity at the foundation of their investment.

the assets in real-time through IoT technology

We track

healthy returns, with a detailed breakdown of projections and performance over time.

fixed returns and track your performance

You earn

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Our Smart Asset Financing model leverages data and tracks investments in real time, eliminating the guesswork. Here’s how we do it:

Introducing… Smart Asset Financing™

How Untapped’s investment model works

We just closed our first $1M round, and now we’re crowdfunding our second to give investors everywhere a chance to join the movement!

Get in now to unlock our early-bird perks including 5% cash back when our investment platform launches in 2022, a shoutout on our investor wall, and more!

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Track jobs created and other metrics from your dashboard

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Fund entrepreneurs that are excluded from traditional finance

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Finance assets for the provision of essential goods & services

Allow great ideas to scale and generate social impact, by financing entrepreneurs in emerging market

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Our financing approach delivers competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

Data-driven investing in emerging markets

Your investment duration can last anywhere from 3 to 18 months, and you manage your liquidity options.

Your investment, your terms

Your investment supports businesses and livelihoods where it is needed most.

Built-in impact

Start investing in emerging markets with just a couple of clicks

*While these projections are based on past investment data, all investments involve risks, and returns are never guaranteed. For more on our T&Cs, <a href='https://untapped-global.com/terms-of-use'>click here</a>.

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See how much you can make at the end of the duration of your investment.

Invest in emerging market entrepreneurs, and make your money count

Earn a fixed return of 3.5% to 8% APY

Earn fixed returns while bolstering job creation in emerging markets 

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Become an investor with as little as $300 today.

Invest and make your money change lives

"Real investment options that lead to healthy financial returns and a lasting positive impact"

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"Untapped Global is reshaping profitable investing in emerging markets"

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"Untapped has financed assets for more than 5,000 entrepreneurs who work across sectors such as clean water, solar, e-mobility and inclusive fintech"

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One of FastCompany's World Changing Ideas of 2022

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“Untapped has learned that the combination of real-time data and a flexible financing model accomplishes better results for the lender as well as the borrower”

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“The Untapped model intends to provide transparency for international investors looking to tap into emerging markets.”

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“Untapped’s data platform […] can be systemically disruptive and drive billions of dollars to SMEs that otherwise would be excluded from financing”

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We invest across asset classes, sectors, geographies, and currencies in the fastest growing markets, to deliver investors competitive returns, and measurable impact.

Connecting global investors, and capital to opportunities in emerging markets

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We use data to drive our investment decisions, and assess the health of our portfolio. Since 2021 we have captured over 27 million data points in real time from the over 55,000 assets we’ve financed.

Data-driven due diligence with Smart Asset Financing™

How we fit into your portfolio

You know exactly what you get. We pay intrest every 3 months

Fixed return

Predictability

Better liquidity

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We deliver competitive returns for institutional and individual investors.

Earn up to 14% APY

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. . . revenue-generating assets deployed through our portfolio companies for entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

We finance . . .

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. . . each asset's usage and the revenue it generates using IoT technology while collecting the data for insights into the health of the business.

We track . . .

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. . . our investors healthy returns, and provide data on underlying asset revenue streams, and the impact of their investment.

We pay . . .

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. . . a share of each asset's revenues to repay the financing - the more the entrepreneur makes, the higher the yield on our financing.

We collect . . .

How Smart Asset Financing™ works

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Our data-driven approach offers investors unprecedented transparency, and access to impact data in sectors such as e-mobility, healthcare, and clean energy.

Measurable impact

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Numbers since inception in 2021 through end of Jan 2025.

Entrepreneurs supported

SME revenue catalyzed by each $1 invested

Revenue catalyzed for entrepreneurs

Tons of CO2 displaced

Our track record

How diversification keeps your money safe

Flexclub is a subscription marketplace for vehicles and vehicle leasing companies, increasing employment and ownership opportunities for rideshare drivers in Mexico and South Africa

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Paga is Nigeria's leading mobile money company, building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money, and access an array of financial services.

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Watu offers financing tools and loans to entrepreneurs in Uganda, allowing them to finance the assets or equipment (often motorbikes) they need to succeed in their businesses.

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Ilara Health makes common diagnostics accessible and affordable to the 500 million people in Africa who today struggle to access even basic blood tests.

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Zembo offers electric motorcycles to boda-boda (motorbike) drivers, with rechagable batteries from solar-powered stations.

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DotPay allows people across Nigeria to withdraw money, send money, pay bills and take out loans with their POS devices.

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Koolboks combines the natural forces of the sun and water to create eco-friendly, solar refrigeration products for domestic, commercial, and healthcare use across Nigeria.

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Mazi mobility is building out Africa’s solution for smart and clean mass mobility infrastructure, starting with EV bikes and battery swapping infrastructure.

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Asaak offers motorbikes for bodaboda (motorbike) drivers via a lease scheme, with limited barriers to acquiring, and use repayment rates to analyse and update entreprenuers' credit scores.

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Solar Taxi provides access to electric vehicles, specifically motorbikes, for gig workers in Ghana.

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I-Drop produces Waterpods, safe water dispensing systems installed in grocery stores across South Africa, that combine advanced purification technology into a compact, user-friendly design.

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Your investment finances high-growth businesses in Africa and Latin America.

Invest in a diversified portfolio of companies in emerging markets

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Our platform allows you to make and track investments with a few clicks!

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The only investment platform bringing you Africa’s fastest-growing 
startups