Top Emerging Markets Startups in 2027

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. The spread of smartphones presents an incredible opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. We are revolutionizing banking in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria. We will soon launch in other regions. Led by the founder and former CEO of Kiva.org, our team has unmatched experience in financial technology and emerging markets. Since our launch in April 2015, we’ve disbursed millions of loans across Africa and are growing rapidly. Our success has led to investments from Silicon Valley’s leading VCs.

Milo is a financial technology company that is reimagining the way global consumers access credit and financial solutions in a borderless world. We are passionate about driving transformation of financial services, solving real problems, and making a meaningful impact in people’s lives. At Milo, we are building amazing digital solutions and rethinking what’s possible. Milo has built the leading home credit solution for global consumers. By building our technology stack from the ground up and bringing on a world class team, we have already lent out millions of dollars to amazing consumers. Milo is able to close loans in days and not in months. We are looking for new team members that get excited about creating, designing and implementing new solutions for global consumers. Our team is looking for passionate individuals to join our product, design, operations and marketing teams. For more information, visit milocredit.com

Arbutus Medical’s purpose is to develop a portfolio of frugal innovations that save costs for hospitals and improve access to orthopaedic surgery for 5 million patients by 2030. The company's flagship product is a novel orthopaedic power tool system (the DrillCover platform) that costs 30x less than competitors. Arbutus launched its DrillCover in late 2016, focused on low-income countries for 2 years, then pivoted and validated fit in veterinary medicine (62% YoY growth), military field medicine (sales to US and Canadian militaries), and US Trauma Centers. Arbutus has enabled 58,000 surgeries to date.

Using the QuickSell app SMEs can organize their product inventory and quickly build beautiful digital product showcases to share with new and existing customers. QuickSell is an intelligent plug and play cloud-based solution. Over 5 crore businesses in India & globally are now looking towards SaaS-based solutions to make their systems more efficient and effective. By 2019 end, we had 300k downloads from more than 100 countries across 110 business verticals with 0 marketing costs on PlayStore! Our opportunity is as big as the number of all businesses that have a smartphone. Go ahead… take a moment and let that sink in!! We are a frugal startup trying to make sure that we go a long way ahead & trying to build something big! So, if you want to join our journey in creating something that's valuable and helps businesses & economies to reach out effectively, then join us in this adventure!

Jaza provides the most affordable last-mile energy solution in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 600 million people live without access to electricity. Solar panels power charging stations which customers use to charge batteries. The batteries are carried home to power lights and cellphones. Charging fees are prepaid using mobile banking.

BBG Ventures is an early-stage fund backing big ideas that will reshape the way we live. We focus on female founders who intuitively understand the dominant consumer, enabling them to transform the collective or individual lived experience of the 99%. Female founders are poised to do giant things. We’re here to give them that first, crucial investment. We look for companies that drive systems change, create 10x better consumer solutions, or address new buying behaviors across some of the biggest categories of consumer spending that are ripe for reinvention: Health and Wellbeing, Future of Education and Work, Climate Friendly Products and Platforms, Overlooked and Emerging Consumers.

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TechnoServe is a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. TechnoServe work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than four decades of proven results, they believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.