RWANDA Fintechub.............

About us

What we Do

We offer a virtual six-month program to selected fintech startups to help them become investment ready and scale. Startups participating in FinTecHub program will receive several benefits incluging:

Technical and Business skills capacity building

A diagnostic assessment to understand needs of participating startup

Tailored technical assistance and business operations support as needed

Access to specialized mentorship and investment readiness training

Access to market and capital

Chance to win $20,000 competitive grant at the end of the program

Visibility on the local, regional, and international markets

Potential relationships with UNCDF and ICT Chamber partners

Bridge with regulators

Guidance on policy and regulatory requirements to provide certainty

Advocacy for enabling policy and regulatory environment

Platform for dialogue between fintech startups and regulators

knowledge exchange

Access to tools and frameworks to assess fintech startups businesses

Peer learning opportunities with a cohort of fintech startups

Share insights with the broader ecosystem to stimulate more innovation

Focus Areas

FinTecHub will select startups operating in a range of segments, including:

Saving

Payments

Insurance

Why Now

The number of fintech startups in Rwanda has almost tripled in the last five years, from 17 in 2004 to 44 in 2019, when UNCDF conducted the fintech landscape study. Despite this rapid growth, fintech startups are severely constrained in accessing the capital and skills they need to grow and scale their business. Fintechub is conceived to address this challenges. Our goal is to support the growth of fintech startups in Rwanda by providing them with the resources and guidance they need to scale.

Our Team

Who are the people behind all the operations and good stories of Fintech?

Moise TUYIZERE
Director Of Operations

3+ years of initiating and delivering sustained results and effective change for Rwanda ICT Chamber across a wide range of areas.

Tina UWASE
Leads Entrepreneurship and International relationship at Rwanda ICT Chamber private sector federation

Tina is professional manager with 5 years of experience applying exceptional ability to create and implement a good work culture in an organ

Testimonials

Are people happy with all the Fintech aid they get?

Tesi RUSAGARA Managing Director at Kigali Innovation City

What Fintechub Rwanda does was our motivation to join it. We as well had the aim of directly supporting the startups so that they are able to grow their customer base and raise money. Startups thriving is and was the aim of Fintechub.

Munezero Angelos Public Digitization Analyst at Rwanda MINICT

The rationale for supporting fintechs startups comes from the country's target: to achieve 100% adult financial inclusion by 2024. this Fintechub Rwanda is making that target being aimed quickly and effectively, as we speak we are at 93 fintechs.

Eduard KIRENGA Managing Director at Uplus Mutual Partners

Uplus aims at making the startups or groups grow financially to be specific. We had no hesitation with being partners of Fintechub Rwanda, we exactly knew that it was the right place and hub to be joining at the moment for some of our needs was a technical support.

Emmanuel Nkurunziza Managing Director atUrID Technologies Ltd

Time is our primary aspect we don't get along with the queues in the payment sectors around Rwanda. So we brought up a solution for this and that solution has been more secure and well supported financially in the partnership with Fintechub Rwanda.

SHIKAMA Dioscore CEO at Food Bundles

Sustainability of the market mainly in agriculture has been the aim of Food bundles from the very beginning. We had to use digital platforms for this sustainability to be achieved and Fintech was the right place for finance and technology.