Interview with Kiva

sara standish — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:35:36 -0500

Kiva is an open platform that allows anyone with $25 to invest in a small business in a developing country. Partnering with microfinance institutions in development countries, Kiva has created peer to peer connections between investors and entrepreneurs, while lowering the cost of capital for microfinance institutions that could change the way we look at investing in microfinance forever. For many loyal Next Billion readers, you know that Alex Bloom first blogged about Kiva here and the organization was featured on World Changing, which set off a fire storm of questions, both general and technical about how Kiva works. Three months later, NextBillion's Sara Standish sat down with Matt Flanery, Co-founder and CEO, Premal Shah, President, and Krista Van Lewen, Director of Public Relations to discuss how they have handled Kiva’s explosive growth and where they see the organization (and microfinance in general) heading in the future.

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Interview with Kiva