First Access is pioneering the first instant risk scores and data marketplace for emerging economies, enabling the next 2.5B people to build financial identities using their mobile data. Our award-winning system turns prepaid mobile records into personal financial profiles for people who have never had a bank account, not to mention a credit score, and is patent-pending in over 100 countries. A private, for-profit social business founded in 2011 in New York City, the company’s mission is to reduce the cost of lending and borrowing in informal markets. First Access cloud software is accessible to any type of financial institution and allows loan officers, credit committees and other employees to request and retrieve instant scores from any phone, any time, anywhere in the world. First Access risk models have the highest reported accuracy of any in the developing world, and have been validated for business, housing, agriculture and distributed energy loans in collaboration with institutions serving over 30 million people. Our NYC headquarters are located at the Center for Social Innovation in Chelsea, and African operations are located at the Commission for Science and Technology in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Follow First Access on Twitter, or find them on LinkedIn and AngelList.
