Measurable Impact with Untapped

We track in real time how much revenue each asset generates for local entrepreneurs across asset types and countries.

6.47x

Untapped Impact Multiplier

Every $1 invested creates $5.86 of wealth in emerging markets

29,559,623

8.4%*

Community Wealth

Revenue of local operators using assets financed through Untapped

Running total from inception through Sep 2023, based on over 4.5 million data points. * Percent shift since end of Q2 2023.

What is the Untapped Impact Multiplier?

Our impact multiplier measures the revenue generated by entrepreneurs per dollar invested with Untapped. We finance entrepreneurs with productive assets such as electric motorcycles, medical devices, point-of-sale devices, solar refrigerators, amongst others.

What is Community Wealth?

We calculate community wealth as the sum of revenue generated by end users of all assets we’ve financed since inception. This number represents the amount of money earned and spent within the community, which helps boost local economies and build community resilience.

Meet The Entrepreneur: Geoffrey Ndhogezi, Ugandan Electric Motorcycle Pioneer

Geoffrey has been a motorcycle taxi driver for the past 8 years, only recently switching to an electric motorcycle provided by Untapped Operating Partner Zembo. “The petrol motorcycle was expensive to maintain. It needed frequent oil changes, in addition to high petrol costs. It wasn’t sustainable and cut into my profits…”

Explore our portfolio

Mexico, South Africa

Mobility

Flexclub

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

Nigeria

Payments

Paga

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.

South Africa

Energy

PayGas

PayGas offers affordable access to clean cooking energy (LPG), by building and operating locally-managed gas dispensing stations in South African townships, where consumers can buy only what they need.

Mali

Mobility

Teliman

Teliman is scaling the moto-taxi sector in Bamako, Mali, making it easy for moto-taxi drivers to acquire a bike via a leasing scheme, and to find customers via their ride-hailing application.

Uganda

Mobility

Watu

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.

Kenya

Healthcare

Ilara Health

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

Uganda

Mobility

Zembo

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

Nigeria

Payments

DotPay

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

Nigeria

Energy

KoolBoks

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.

Kenya

Mobility

Mazi Mobility

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

Uganda

Mobility

Asaak

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.

Ghana

Mobility

Solar Taxi

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

South Africa

Water

iDrop

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.