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Payment firm that took Lipa Na M-Pesa to small traders
Kopo Kopo country manager Francis Mugane (left) with Ben Lyon, one of the directors, during the interview at their Nairobi office on August 25. The firm is wooing small companies to embrace mobile payments. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA
Kopo Kopo, a merchant payments company that launched in Kenya in 2012, says it creates a ‘world-class’ platform for small and medium businesses to use mobile payments.
This is how the firm started by three Americans approached Kenya’s leading telco Safaricom to expand the reach and scope of its Lipa Na M-Pesa service.