Jake Kendall
Partner, DFS Lab
Jake is co-founder and partner at DFS Lab and early stage investor supporting companies who are creating the digital commerce infrastructure in Africa. He has been investing in African digital platforms since the launch of M-Pesa a decade ago both at the World Bank and then the Gates Foundation. At Gates, his team invested over $1B in mobile money and digital payments projects around the world including leading players like bKash in Bangladesh, and M-Pesa and Equity Bank in Africa. Jake has a BS in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Economics and his academic research work has focused on low income populations and their usage of digital services.