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Fintech · Consumer · Marketplace
The App That Turned Payday Loans Into a Neighborly Favor
SoLo Funds built a lending marketplace with no interest and no mandatory fees, betting that strangers would rather help strangers than let a payday lender do it. Two million users later, the model is either a fix for broken small-dollar credit or a regulatory magnet - and the founders keep insisting it is the first.
peer-to-peer-lending · fintechRead →
Climate · Fintech · Marketplace
The Renewable-Energy Company That Turned Local Opposition Into a Funding Model
Root Energy found that Korea's clean-power bottleneck was not the turbine or the solar panel. It was consent - so the company made nearby residents investors, built a regulated climate-finance platform around the idea, and added an RE100 business for corporate buyers.
climate-fintech · renewable-energyRead →