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Ahmed Wadi on financial inclusion

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“We now create more than 50,000 new savings groups every month, and we grow them all full-sell.”

Ahmed Wadi
CEO & Founder, MoneyFellows
Policy Impact financial inclusionscalesavings groups

On , Ahmed Wadi, CEO & Founder at MoneyFellows, spoke about financial inclusion during إزاي ماني فيللوز عملت أول جمعية رقمية | بودكاست مغامرة on Moghamra مغامرة .

إزاي ماني فيللوز عملت أول جمعية رقمية | بودكاست مغامرة
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إزاي ماني فيللوز عملت أول جمعية رقمية | بودكاست مغامرة
Moghamra مغامرة
Watch on YouTube at 19:43
في الحلقة دي بنتكلم مع أحمد وادي، المؤسس والمدير التنفيذي لشركة ماني فيللوز، أول وأكبر تطبيق جمعيات في مصر. مع ظهور حلول التكنولوجيا المالية (فينتيك) وبناء على تجربة شخصية، وادي أدرك إمكانية تحويل فكرة مصرية تقليدي جدًا لتوفير الفلوس، اللي هي "الجمعية"، لـ منصة رقمية مبتكرة وسهلة غيرت مفهوم المصريين عن الجمعية أحمد وادي حاصل على بكالوريوس في هندسة الكمبيوتر من جامعة شتوتغارت (2009) ماجستير في تكنولوجيا المعلومات من الجامعة التقنية في ميونخ (2014). قبل تأسيس ماني فيللوز، اشتغل في وظائف هندسة برمجيات في شركةألباين إلكترونكس للبحث والتطوير أوروبا وشركة ماجنيتي ماريللي. وفي سنة 2006، أسس أوبجكتلي بالتعاون مع مركز الابتكار التابع لـ مايكروسوفت في القاهرة. In this episode, we speak to Ahmed Wadi, Founder & CEO of Money Fellows, the first and biggest money circles app in Egypt. With the rise of fintech solutions and emerging from a personal need, Wadi realized the potential of digitizing a very traditional Egyptian money-saving model, AKA, Gam’eya, to be a groundbreaking platform that has transformed how Egyptians save money.  Ahmed Wadi holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Stuttgart (2009) and a master’s in Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich (2014). Before founding Money Fellows, he worked in software engineering roles at Alpine Electronics R&D Europe GmbH and Magneti Marelli. In 2006, he founded Objectly, in collaboration with Microsoft’s Innovation Center in Cairo. ___________________________________________________________________ Our Sponsors: Nawy: https://www.nawy.com WUZZUF & Forasna: https://wuzzuf.net/ https://forasna.com Follow Moghamra:   / moghamra     / moghamrapodcast     / moghamra   Listen on your favorite platform: https://bio.site/moghamra Contact Refai: Linkedin:   / refaix   Our Guest: Linkedin:  / ahmadwadi   In this episode 0:00 Introduction 2:42 The Origin of Money Fellows 15:31 Acquiring Early Users 25:51 Early Challenges: Lack of Data 32:47 The Impact of User Experience 44:15 When to Automate: Finding the Right Time 55:21 Scaling the Team and Business 1:05:31 Selecting the Right Investor 1:19:32 Building the Right Team في الحلقة 0:00 البداية 2:42 إزاي مانى فيللوز بدأت 15:31 جذب مستخدمين الأوائل 25:51 أول تحديات: قلة البيانات 32:47 أهمية تجربة المستخدم 44:15 الاعتماد على التكنولوجيا 55:21 توسع الفريق والشركة 1:05:31 اختيار المستثمر المناسب 1:19:32 بناء فريق عمل قوي
Ahmed Wadi

About Ahmed Wadi

CEO & Founder · MoneyFellows

Ahmed Wadi, founder and CEO of Money Fellows, has stated that the company now launches new savings groups each month equivalent to one billion Egyptian pounds in new funds. He said the company has acquired around nine million clients to date)Skip, with close to one million active clients. Wadi noted that Money Fellows secured a $13 million funding round and that the company’s total funding has reached $60 million, attracted from foreign investors including development banks and governments. He said the company plans to invest in developing new products and reducing default risk. Wadi has described Money Fellows as a platform that digitizes the traditional rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) model, which he said is used by an estimated 2.4 billion people globally. He stated that the company launched a prepaid card product in early 2025)Skip, and that Money Fellows entered the Central Bank of Egypt’s experimental fund regulation, describing it as the only company to do so and now in the exit phase toward an actual license. Wadi has said the company was founded in 2017, started in the UK, and moved to Egypt in 2018. He has also discussed the challenges of building a startup in an unregulated market, stating that early investors faced a high risk of losing their money.

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