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Students in school, one loan at a time Kushal Chakrabarti Co‐Founder and CEO, Vittana Foundation [email protected]

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Students in school, one loan at a time

Kushal ChakrabartiCo‐Founder and CEO, Vittana Foundation

[email protected]

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Lend $25 to 20‐year‐old Paraguayan studying accounting

“Secret Sauce”

• vocational school

• urban

• children of current microfinance borrowers

• partner with microfinance banks, who manage loans

• emerging vs. developing countries

http://www.vittana.org/lend

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Lend $25 to Katherine studying administration

Typical loan

• 18‐25 years old

• 6‐24 mos. to full repayment

• $500‐$1500 total amount

• bank teller is #1 profession

• Peru, Paraguay, Mongolia, Vietnam

http://www.vittana.org/students/...

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Microfinance — $17 billion platform

Grameen $731.5M

Unitus $1.085B

Kiva $36.1M

15.251.85

(in billions)

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Why no student loans in developing world?

• Until student loan model is proven, capital won’t flow in

• Until capital flows in, model can’t be proven

• MF banks want to lend to students: HKL, Ujjivan, XacBank, AFODENIC, FuPa, mimo, etc.

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Catalyze global, market‐driven student loan system

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By enabling MF banks to lend to students,

• not only do 100K graduates get jobs,

• but 100K employees also simultaneously begin proving feasibility of student loan model

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Student micro‐lenders from across the US

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$1000 of SROI for every $1 of angel philanthropy

• Break‐even after 9 Qs + $600K angel today

• $25M student loans over same period

• Per $800 loan, $20K in add’l wages for grad

• Equals SROI of $1000 for every $1 of angel today

$0

$250

$500

$750

$1,000

Your Angel Dollars Your Impact

(it’s there, I promise!)

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Team: Energy of youth + Wisdom of age

Kushal ChakrabartiCo‐Founder and CEO• Ran Amazon personalized recommendations 

team ‐‐ 25+ patents, papers, talks• 2x Ironman triathlete

Brett WittCo‐Founder and CTO• Programming for 16 years• Built Amazon systems serving customer 

purchase data

Nick CainInternational Partnerships Manager• Newest hire, most recently at Kiva• B.A., Columbia ‘06

Selected Advisors:Matt FlanneryKiva, CEO

Dave McClureFounders Fund, Partner

Mike MurrayUnitus, Founder

Kim RachmelerAmazon, VP

Dave SchappellTeachStreet, CEO

Joel SpiegelAmazon, SVP

Randi ZuckerbergFacebook, VP

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Status + Need

Status

• 11 MF partners: Mongolia, Peru, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Mexico, ...

• Broad Seattle (AMZN, MS, Unitus) backing: http://bit.ly/3MPO0m

• Already raised $230K. Lead angels: Joel Spiegel (AMZN), Mike Murray (MS).

• In due diligence for Draper Richards

Needs

• Venture philanthropy. Asking for $25‐50K angel donors to grow team and reach scale.

• Lend to students. Katherine: http://bit.ly/4uqa9Z

• Help get word out. Bloggers, tweeps — come find me.