Angaza

Angaza provides a pay-as-you-go distribution and payments platform that enables businesses to sell life-changing products — solar home systems, clean cookstoves, smartphones, and other off-grid goods — to the 2+ billion people without access to traditional banking or upfront purchasing power. Distributors use Angaza's platform to manage customers, offer installment payment plans via mobile money, track inventory, coordinate field sales teams, and gain reporting insights. The platform integrates with PAYGO-enabled hardware from dozens of manufacturers and operates across 200+ distribution partners in 50 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Founded in 2012 in San Francisco, Angaza has facilitated 5M+ product sales, impacted 28M people, saved consumers $800M, and diverted 4B kg of CO2. The company has received the Ashden Award, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and Echoing Green Fellowship.