Banks, insurers, buyers, and NGOs are looking for exactly the cooperatives Africa already has, but a data gap keeps the two apart. CoopLink is the bridge: one trusted record of the cooperative’s work flows out; finance, markets, and support flow back.
Three in four agricultural SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa can’t get a loan. Not because the businesses are weak, because a cooperative doesn’t run on paper. It runs on paper plus WhatsApp plus a spreadsheet plus last year’s project app. None of it adds up to a record a bank can trust, so a sound business stays invisible, and the loan officer who wants to say yes can’t.
Cash book, receipt stubs, and the chairman’s memory. Accurate until it rains.
Prices, pledges, and photos of weigh-slips, four thousand messages deep.
One laptop. One password. One version of the truth, maybe.
Built around one donor’s indicators. Abandoned with the project.
None of these is wrong. Together, they are unreadable.
Read the full problem →Real-time, latest-verified figures for reporting, credit de-risking, loan decisioning, and M&E, without ever seeing a farmer’s name.
See what a lender sees →Log every purchase and sale from a phone, online or off. Books that close themselves, and a record that finally gets you taken seriously.
What CoopLink does for you →We’re running pilots now. The best next step is a short conversation about the cooperatives you already work with.