Registration for Season 4 of HiPip’s 40 Days 40 FinTechs opens

Registration for the fourth edition of the HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs is now open.

Although the 2020 and 2021 seasons ran in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, they laid the groundwork for the project with more than 200 submissions and about 85 shortlisted participants altogether.

The third edition, which ran in 2022, was even much bigger and better as it focused on the East African region. Some 47 participants, drawn from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania were featured out of more than 150 submissions.

Run under HiPipo’s Include Everyone program that also encompasses other initiatives such as FinTech Landscape Exhibition, Women in FinTech Hackathon, Summit & Incubator, and the Digital and Financial Inclusion Summit and Digital Impact Awards Africa; the #40Days40FinTechs platform aptly provides a setting for the various players and stakeholders involved in digital and financial technology to exhibit their products and services.

It also gives players a platform to share their ideas on how the unserved and underserved by the present financial systems can be brought into the fold.

“40 Days 40 FinTechs Season Four is here and will especially focus on not only innovativeness but will also pay keen attention to the actual impact of each featured innovation. We shall move to all regions in Uganda, in addition to engaging participants from across East Africa. In all these places, we shall interact with the innovators and the end-users of their innovations,” Innocent Kawooya, HiPipo CEO noted. 

He added: “We shall seek to find out how all these innovations have changed people’s lives, how the innovators have made the communities they serve in better, and how they have contributed to economic transformation at all levels. We shall also collect feedback on what must be done to make these innovations better and how to scale them to reach even more people. This season, we shall tell the social, economic and cultural impact of fintech innovations.” 

#40Days40FinTechs continues to be the world’s premier showcase event for innovations that are enabling underserved populations to join the digital economy space. We know that this can only get better owing to the inspiration and collaboration of our partners; Level One Project, Mojaloop Foundation, INFITX, Cyberplc Academy, Ideation Corner and Crosslake Technologies. Most importantly, the initiative owes its continued success to the generous support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Digital innovators and fintechs from all over East Africa can register before May 12, 2023, on www.hipipo.org, to stand a chance to participate in 40 Days 40 FinTechs Season Four. Participation is on a first-come, first-serve basis as long as your submission meets all the participation requirements.

• Registration: April 20 to May 12, 2023

• Profiling: May 1 to June 16, 2023

• FinTech Landscape Exhibition: July 7-8, 2023