The leading crowd-sourced microcredit platform, Kiva.org, has recently launched micro-lending in India. I am a big fan of Kiva and I am a personal lender on the platform having made more than 200 loans — see my Kiva lender page. But their micro-lending product for India is very different than what they offer for other countries.… Read more >
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Milaap is pioneering new types of microloans in India
June 21, 2012 – BoP Financial Services, Update
This is a guest post by Alexandra Tsiolas, a college student at the University of Oslo, Norway. Alexandra met with Anoj Viswanathan, co-founder of Milaap, an innovative startup which is pioneering new types of microloans in India leveraging an online crowd-funding model. Milaap is a Unitus Seed Fund investee. More about Milaap > Alexandra: How… Read more >