Swish Swish digitizes community finance by helping informal market

SWISH

Digital Infrastructure for Community Finance and Informal Commerce in Africa

Founder: Tunde
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

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1. Vision

To become Africa’s leading platform for managing community finance, cooperative operations, and informal commerce digitally.

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2. Problem

Across Africa, millions of people participate in cooperatives, market associations, savings groups, and informal business networks.

Most of these organizations still rely on:

• Paper records
• Manual contribution tracking
• Informal lending systems
• Physical attendance registers
• Fragmented communication channels

This creates inefficiency, poor transparency, limited access to credit, and difficulty scaling operations.

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3. Solution

Swish is a digital platform that helps cooperatives, associations, and informal business communities manage their financial and operational activities from one place.

The platform enables organizations to:

• Manage members
• Tra