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The Mastercard Lighthouse MASSIV Program is over, and we really did have a great time joining the program. DDFinance is thrilled to announce that we won the Impact Potential Award. The program has been great from start to finish and we are truly grateful to have been given the opportunity…

Today, the 10th of June, is the Grand Finale for the MasterCard Lighthouse MASSIV program which DDFinance has been an active part of since February. Check out the video where our CEO, Jan Martin Hunderi, talks about highlights in the company, what inspired him to start DDFinance, and which SDGs…

For the last few months DDFinance has been participating in Mastercard’s Lighthouse MASSIV programme. On the 25th of February we could announce that we were 1 of 5 fintech companies selected for the programme. Lighthouse MASSIV is dedicated to find and scale the next impact unicorn. We have had the…

There is a lot happening at DDFinance nowadays. We now have 15 employees, and for a couple of weeks we also had the pleasure of borrowing a wonderful consultant for our team.  Samantha Roblin has worked for us over the past three weeks, and it was a pleasure! Roblin is…

What holds the insurance industry back from widespread servicing of the much larger low-income segment in developing markets, is a lack of data. Emerging and informal economies operate upon well-established community and society networks of trust and reputation. The ability to capture these relationships and apply analysis upon the result leverage this behaviour…

#ChooseToChallenge and #RaiseYourHand! “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively,…

DDFinance is selected as 1 of 5 companies in Mastercard’s Lighthouse MASSIV program Thursday the 25th of February, Mastercard published the 5 last participants in its Lighthouse MASSIV competition, and DDFinance was one of them! The Lighthouse MASSIV is a unique concept that helps teams make and scale the highest…

Transportation Network Services (Uber) and Accommodation Network Services (Airbnb) transformed their industries!  Insurance Network Service (DDFinance) is built as a market system to move the insurance industry towards providing insurance to the 3 billion currently uninsured population – profitably!

Our innovation enables setting up multiple national greenfield low-cost national insurance market systems, with millions of users and thousands of formal jobs created – this is scale at its best. The innovation is mobile phone driven, a domain of young people.  A one-year pilot completed in Kenya, proved that young…

The Approach To help realise the Kenyan government’s recently adopted goal of universal health coverage, it’s crucial to understand how formal health insurance in general, and DDFinance insurance in particular, affects low-income households’ well-being. Led by researchers at the Zurich Center for Economic Development of the University of Zurich, this…