KickStart International

KickStart aims to get people out of poverty quickly, cost effectively, sustainably, and in doing so, change how the world fights poverty.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Other
  • Location San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2000
  • Employees 235
  • Website kickstart.org

Company Summary

KickStart designs and mass-markets, simple, money-making technologies and systems that open up business opportunities to poor entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing world. Farmers who purchase and use these technologies increase their incomes substantially within a year of purchase. With this increased income they can have a better life; plentiful food, clean water, education for their children, and healthcare for their families.

Team

  • Martin J Fisher
    CEO and Co-Founder

  • Samuel Hartwell
    CFO

  • Alexandre de Carvalho
    COO

  • Edward Chan-Lizardo
    Chief Development and Partnership Officer

Advisors

  • Goodwin Procter, LLC.
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    PKF
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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