Invest Sou Sou Alternative Financing

We build social banking APIs designed to help clients attract and retain customers from target market segments and create lending opportunities. Invest Sou Sou offers a suite of social banking products and services. We help bridge the divide between banks, women, minorities, and low-income communities. Building credit readiness for first-time homebuyers, supporting gig economy workers, and more.

Benefits

Attract and retain customers from target markets
Create lending opportunities
Bridge the divide between banks, women, minorities, and low-income communities

Main Features

Lending circles
Intelligent lender matching platform
Social banking API

Primary Audience

Economic empowerment organizations
Low-income community-based organizations
Financial literacy and credit worthiness organizations
Banks and financial institutions

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For people who can’t get a bank loan, there’s a global tradition that provides an alternative for financing: a lending circle. People regularly contribute to a fund and intermittently withdraw amounts when it’s their turn. In West Africa and the Caribbean, it’s called “sousou.”

Fonta Gilliam

Co-Founder & CEO

Invest Sou Sou

Fonta Gilliam

Co-Founder & CEO

Invest Sou Sou

Banks overlook the thousands of prospective loan applicants because they do not fit into traditional credit risk profiles. This has created a deep divide between banks, women, minorities, and low-income communities.