About

A different bet on the African smallholder.

Prime Edge Growth was founded on a single conviction: that the data the village already holds is enough to underwrite the future of African agriculture.

We started where most agri finance programs end: with the farmer being told no. We watched seasoned producers — women who had fed three generations of children — be turned down for loans of a few hundred dollars because they didn't fit the template. The template was the problem.

So we built a new one. One that reads social cohesion the way a banker reads a balance sheet. One that paces repayment to the rains. One that hands lenders an assessment they can actually defend to their board.

Mission

To unlock fair, season aligned credit for every African smallholder by giving lenders a model they can trust.

Vision

An African financial system in which a farmer's social capital is recognized as legitimate financial capital.

The team

Operators, economists, builders.

Portrait of Debrah Onyango, Founder and CEO at Prime Edge Growth

Debrah Onyango

Founder and CEO

Portrait of Cheryl Njoroge, Credit Manager at Prime Edge Growth

Cheryl Njoroge

Credit Manager

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