Orion Finance For MSMEs
PROBLEM: In Africa business owners struggle to stock their shelves, because they are underserved by Traditional lenders. This make it impossible for these MSMEs traders to grow, affecting innovation, jobs growth, and sustainable development.
SOLUTION: Over 141 million underserved traders in developing countries. Small Businesses are essential in unlocking more inclusive growth, job growth and sustainable development. By leveraging collaboration and digital data, we aim to offer hiqh quality and low risk supply chain financing to help these businesses keep their shelves stocked spurring growth, giving them advantage to order needed supplies and increasing opportunities for growth.
SCALING GLOBALLY. According to IFC Analysis, small businesses are facing over a $5.2 trillion funding gap and are underserved by traditional lenders. Giving them access to SCF they will have an equal opportunities to grow their businesses through our SOLUTION and would impact millions of families, communities and economies across the World.
PROBLEM:
We help Buyers and Suppliers unlock trapped working capital and liquidity by providing on demand 24 hrs alternative financing.
Buyers receive products from suppliers and are required to pay after a grace period of 30-180 days. They would free up supplier's capital if they paid their suppliers earlier through our finance support enhancing their business relationship, due to early payments. Also Suppliers who have slow paying clients can be able to access finances for locked liquidity before their buyers pay up.
SUMMARY: In Africa business owners struggle to stock their shelves, because they are underserved by Traditional lenders. This make it impossible for these MSMEs traders to grow, affecting innovation, jobs growth, and sustainable development.
SOLUTION:
Orion SCF will offer working capital solution to small businesses seeking alternate financing solution.
Offering 24 hour on demand finance solution to MSMEs underserved by Traditional lenders.
SUMMARY : Over 141 million underserved traders in developing countries. Small Businesses are essential in unlocking more inclusive growth, job growth and sustainable development. By leveraging collaboration and digital data, we aim to offer hiqh quality and low risk supply chain financing to help these businesses keep their shelves stocked spurring growth, giving them advantage to order needed supplies and increasing opportunities for growth.
PROBLEM: In Africa business owners struggle to stock their shelves, because they are underserved by Traditional lenders. This make it impossible for these MSMEs traders to grow, affecting innovation, jobs growth, and sustainable development.
SOLUTION: Over 141 million underserved traders in developing countries. Small Businesses are essential in unlocking more inclusive growth, job growth and sustainable development. By leveraging collaboration and digital data, we aim to offer hiqh quality and low risk supply chain financing to help these businesses keep their shelves stocked spurring growth, giving them advantage to order needed supplies and increasing opportunities for growth.
SCALING GLOBALLY. According to IFC Analysis, small businesses are facing over a $5.2 trillion funding gap and are underserved by traditional lenders. Giving them access to SCF they will have an equal opportunities to grow their businesses through our SOLUTION and would impact millions of families, communities and economies across the World
- Enable small and new businesses, especially in untapped communities, to prosper and create good jobs through access to capital, networks, and technology
We believe economic IMPACT is best achieved by developing a vibrant and resilient SME sector.
We believe our solution is aligned to the SOLVE challenge of Business & Enterprise Planning by helping small businesses have an opportunity to grow.
MSMEs traders are underserved by Traditional lenders making it impossible to grow, affecting innovation, jobs growth, and sustainable development.
Supply chain financing aims to help these businesses keep their shelves stocked spurring growth, giving them advantage to order needed supplies and increasing opportunities for growth.
- Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community
- A new business model or process
Several Institutions are quickly realizing the need fo SCF from Kenya Commercial Bank, IFC, Facts Africa, Twiga Foods making it a very lucrative industry.
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Software and Mobile Applications
We have a strong belief that our solution will help turn around several businesses and entrepreneurs by helping them unlock trapped cash flow and putting it back to work to increase innovation, produce/purchase more products as well as increase employees.
- Women & Girls
- Rural
- Urban
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- 1. No Poverty
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Kenya
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
We are currently serving over 50 individuals 10 agribusiness small holding farmers and over 45 small scale shop owners with an average financing of $20 each repayable with any amount.
In the next 1 year we aim to help reach over 100,000 individuals with inventory financing, receivable or payable financing.
In the next 5 years we aim to Impact over 10,000,000 Small holding farmers and Small business in developing countries.
Within 1 year we aim to impact over 100,000, scaling that number to 1,000,000 in 2 years.
Our objective is to help over 5,000,000 million underserved small businesses and small holding farmers.
We have had a rough time whereby Covid 19 has slowed down our fundraising with most investors shifting focus towards combating Covid-19 pandemic. We believe we will help several businesses stay afloat with our SCF financing model in the next one year cushioning they to sail through the hard times.
In five years time we aim to have financed over 5,000,000 businesses with a total of $10,000,0000.
We are constantly engaging with prospective investors with a desire to help the underserved small businesses and small holder farmers with an opportunity to grow, increase jobs and affecting the economies across the world positively. Imagine helping 141 million small business traders and the impact it would have for families, for communities and for economies