eMBA Open Projects

Ironhack

• Industry: Edtech
• Location: Miami, FL, USA (Hybrid)
• Challenge Area: Marketing
• Language Requirement: No

Ironhack is a global edtech company training the next generation of tech talent.

The Fellow will take on a growth Marketing and Partnership role spearheading a newly minted partnership with a major American professional baseball team.

Endeavor Contact: Teresa Echeverria (teresa.echeverria@endeavor.org)

Bold

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Fully Remote
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

Bold is a high-growth Colombian fintech that serves small and medium-sized businesses.

The Fellow will be responsible for helping the fast-growing company scale their digital customer acquisition.

Endeavor Contact: Patricia Pineda (patricia.pineda@endeavor.org.co)

Grinta

• Industry: Healthcare
• Location: Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

Grinta is a Fintech-enabled B2B tech platform that modernizes the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies. 

Fellow will review strategy and business model based on learning from other comparable in emerging markets and design expansion matrix in Africa.

Endeavor Contact: Chahira El Assiouty (chahira.elassiouty@endeavor.org)

Bold

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Bogotá, Colombia (TBD if remote)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: Spanish (mainly the ability to read)

Bold is a high-growth Colombian fintech that serves small and medium-sized businesses.

In order to build a better picture of their multi-product roadmap, Bold is looking for an MBA Fellow to map the potential scale of each of the company's products. The fellow will scope the opportunity for growth in online payments, merchant credit for different segments, consumer credit, etc.

Endeavor Contact: Patricia Pineda (patricia.pineda@endeavor.org.co)

Alegra

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Fully Remote
• Challenge Area: Research & Competitive Analysis
• Language Requirement: Español-Avanzado

Alegra is a solution for accounting, administrative and billing in the Cloud that helps administrators, entrepreneurs and accountants to take control of their business.

Fellow will explore the  Fintech ecosystem opportunities in Latam and Spain to provide innovative solutions related to Open banking/ Finance, Digital Payments among others for Alegra's SME customers.

Endeavor Contact: Maria Uribe (maria.uribe@endeavor.org.co)

Growsari

• Industry: Smart Cities
• Location: Manila, Philippines (Hybrid)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

GrowSari aids 1M+ sari-sari stores in the Philippines with infrastructure and tools to become service hubs for communities.

Growsari is seeking an MBA intern to expand the E-lista credit offering to be used for payments beyond GrowSari purchases, which will benefit both the stores and FMCG partners by reducing friction and increasing credit opportunities.

Endeavor Contact: GM Espeleta (gm.espeleta@endeavor.org)

R5

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Bogotá, Colombia or Lima, Perú (TBD)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: Spanish

R5 is a Digital financial services provider for vehicle owners (mainly insurance and financing). 

Fellow will define the go-to-market strategy to enter a new market in the region.

Endeavor Contact: Patricia Pineda (patricia.pineda@endeavor.org.co)

MAX

• Industry: Smart Cities
• Location: Lagos, Nigeria (Fully In-person)
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: No

MAX is Democratizing Access to New & Low Emission Vehicles in Africa.

MAX is seeking an MBA intern to work on an internal automation and transformation project that will  transform the company's revenue and fleet operations.

Endeavor Contact: Leye Agunbiade (leye.agunbiade@endeavor.org)

Chiper

• Industry: Retail & Commerce
• Location: Bogotá, Colombia (TBD if Remote)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

Chiper is the leading B2B e-commerce ecosystem for independent corner stores in Latin America. 

The Product Owner (Fellow) will be responsible for designing the go-to-market strategy for launching new zones, creating different GTM plans that meet the needs of each customer value segments.

Endeavor Contact: Vanessa Guerrero (vanessa.guerrero@endeavor.org.co)

Merchant Capital

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Johannesburg, South Africa (Hybrid) 
• Challenge Area: Research/Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

Merchant Capital is empowering SMEs with frictionless working capital though proprietary credit, underwriting and technology.  

Merchant Capital is seeking an MBA intern to research the US market opportunity for their direct lending and embedded finance platform.

Endeavor Contact: Nolufefe Nghala (nolufefe.nghala@endeavor.co.za)

Project Agora,

a TDG Company

• Industry: Enterprise Software and Services
• Location: Athens, Greece (TBD)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

 Project Agora's mission is to Keep the Open Web Open.

The MBA Fellow will be required to model Project Agora's Corporate Development Plan and finalize the 5-year business plan alongside the CEO & CFO.

Endeavor Contact: Iliana Agora  (iliana.agora@endeavor.org)

Lori Systems

• Industry: Smart Cities
• Location: Nairobi, Kenya (Hybrid)
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

Lori is an e-logistics company that seamlessly coordinates haulage across Africa.  

Lori is launching a new digital product to the market.  The MBA candidate will work hand in hand with the tech and ops teams to grow adoption.

Endeavor Contact: Tabitha Amondi (tabitha.amondi@endeavor.org)

Kitabisa

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Fully Remote
• Challenge Area: Expansion
• Language Requirement: No

Kitabisa is Indonesia’s leading platform where people help and protect each other through donation-based crowdfunding and insurance.

The MBA Fellow will support with Kitabisa's internationalization and expansion across SEA .

Endeavor Contact: Syifa Zakia (zakia.syifa@endeavor.org)

Kitabisa

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Fully Remote
• Challenge Area: Business Development
• Language Requirement: No

Kitabisa is Indonesia’s leading platform where people help and protect each other through donation-based crowdfunding and insurance.

The MBA Fellow will spearhead research and GTM for an internal strategic project that aims to connect Kitabisa beneficiaries to vocational education and job opportunities. 

Endeavor Contact: Syifa Zakia (zakia.syifa@endeavor.org)

Kitabisa

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Fully Remote
• Challenge Area: Business Development
• Language Requirement: No

Kitabisa is Indonesia’s leading platform where people help and protect each other through donation-based crowdfunding and insurance.

The MBA Fellow will scope, create, and implement a socially impactful program within the Kitabisa Impact Lab.

Endeavor Contact: Syifa Zakia (zakia.syifa@endeavor.org)

Tul

• Industry: Retail & Commerce
• Location: São Paulo, Brazil
• Challenge Area: Business Development
• Language Requirement: Portuguese (intermediate)

Tul is a tech company that develops solutions for the hardware and material construction industry.

Tul started as a ecommerce for mom & pop hardware stores and seeks an MBA Fellow to explore expansion to a marketplace for both businesses and consumers. 

Endeavor Contact: Pablo Quintero (pablo.quintero@endeavor.org.co)

Victory Farms

• Industry: Agriculture
• Location: Nairobi, Kenya
• Challenge Area: Data Analytics
• Language Requirement: No

Victory Farms is sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing fish farm and on track to becoming the most sustainable fish farm on the planet.

Victory Farms is seeking an MBA intern to provide PMO support for an ERP system roll-out.

Endeavor Contact: Alan Nderitu (alan.nderitu@endeavor.org)

Africa Healthcare Network

• Industry: Healthcare
• Location: Nairobi, Kenya
• Challenge Area: Growth Strategy
• Language Requirement: No

Africa Healthcare Network is the leading provider of kidney care across East Africa, with 35 dialysis centers providing life-sustaining care to an underserved population.

The purpose of this project is to assess opportunities outside AHN's existing core with the goal of identifying other healthcare "verticals" (besides dialysis) that the business might pursue.

Endeavor Contact: Alan Nderitu (alan.nderitu@endeavor.org)

Africa Healthcare Network

• Industry: Healthcare
• Location: Nairobi, Kenya
• Challenge Area: Data Analytics
• Language Requirement: No

Africa Healthcare Network is the leading provider of kidney care across East Africa, with 35 dialysis centers providing life-sustaining care to an underserved population.

This is an opportunity to help build a cutting edge disease identification and prevention tool, helping patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

Endeavor Contact: Alan Nderitu (alan.nderitu@endeavor.org)

Ozow

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Cape Town, South Africa
• Challenge Area: Product
• Language Requirement: No

Ozow is a South African payment solution that enables innovative, easy, fast and safe online consumer and merchant payments through a market leading Pay-by-Bank solution. 

Ozow is seeking a Summer MBA Fellow who will work within the Product team to develop end to end solutions for lending, cash advance and crypto to integrate within the Ozow product ecosystem.

Endeavor Contact: Jacqui Gogele (jacqui.gogele@endeavor.co.za)

Ozow

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Cape Town, South Africa
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: No

Ozow is a South African payment solution that enables innovative, easy, fast and safe online consumer and merchant payments through a market leading Pay-by-Bank solution. 

Ozow is seeking a Summer MBA Fellow who will implement AI and ML across a number of business units within the company to both optimize and automate various functions. 

Endeavor Contact: Jacqui Gogele (jacqui.gogele@endeavor.co.za)

Puntored

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Bogotá, Colombia (TBD if Remote)
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: Spanish (Preferred but not required)

Puntored is a fintech-technology company dedicated to processing alternative means payments (wallets) through thier our own physical and digital network.

The MBA Intern will review the end-to-end customer journey,  identifying and deep-diving into opportunities to improve operations procedures and increase quality and value to the company. 

Endeavor Contact: Alejandra Gonzalez (alejandra.gonzalez@endeavor.org.co)

Refinancia

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Bogotá, Colombia (TBD if Remote)
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: No

Refinancia is the leading servicer in Colombia and Peru, specialized in managing and collecting on current and defaulted credit portfolios.

Refinancia is seeking an MBA Fellow that will help them understand the market opportunity of a new business line.

Endeavor Contact: Alejandra Gonzalez (alejandra.gonzalez@endeavor.org.co)

Puntored

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Bogotá, Colombia (TBD if Remote)
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: No

Puntored is a fintech-technology company dedicated to processing alternative means payments (wallets) through thier our own physical and digital network.

The MBA Intern will create a launch base model of credit score using our historic data and actual data products that could be used internally and potentially serve as a new product.

Endeavor Contact: Alejandra Gonzalez (alejandra.gonzalez@endeavor.org.co)

Zid

• Industry: Retail & Commerce
• Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: No

Zid is a modern retail technology company serving  9000+ reatilers with a full suite of products starting from online store to logistics and payments. 

Zid is seeking an MBA Fellow that will work on making the onboarding process for merchants more efficient. 

Endeavor Contact: Abdulaziz Alsanea (abdulaziz.alsanea@endeavor.org)

Capitaria

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Santiago, Chile (TBD if Remote)
• Challenge Area: Business Development
• Language Requirement: No

Capitaria is a Financial Broker that offers CFD products to clients through a trading platform. Capitaria was the first broker to offer the Chilean Peso online.

Capitaria is seeking an MBA Fellow to research the effects of a new Fintech Law that will change the regulatory landscape and devise a strategy in response to this change. 

Endeavor Contact: Clemente Yapur (cyapur@endeavor.cl)

You Order Me

• Industry: Retail & Commerce
• Location: Santiago, Chile (TBD if remote)
• Challenge Area: Operations
• Language Requirement: No

Yom is a marketplace for corners stores in Latam.

Yom is seeking an MBA Fellow to develop a new operating model in order to accommodate exponential growth that the company has experience. 

Endeavor Contact: Luz Melendez (lmelendez@endeavor.cl)

OnTop

• Industry: Fintech
• Location: Fully Remote
• Challenge Area: Business Development
• Language Requirement: No

OnTop is an international payroll solution with built-in financial services for remote workers.

The MBA Fellow would be responsible for conducting an industry, opportunities & competitor dynamics analysis and develop a practical framework for business expansion strategies.

Endeavor Contact: Pablo Quintero (pablo.quintero@endeavor.org.co)