money transfer start-up
Money transfer firm aims to use tech for good
From a chance meeting on a beach in Mozambique to a thriving cross-border money transfer business, Mama Money’s start-up story is a feel-good tale about financial inclusion
30 June 2022 - 05:00
Eleven years ago, Raphael Grojnowski and Mathieu Coquillon met by chance on a beach in Mozambique. At the time, Grojnowski was working for the UN World Food Programme in Rwanda; Coquillon was taking a sabbatical from the corporate rat race. He also happened to be hitchhiking up to Egypt — so it made sense to catch a ride as far as Rwanda in Grojnowski’s yellow bus.
“That,” Coquillon tells the FM, “is where it all started.”..
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