Cross-Border · Women-Led · Informal Economy

Women-led enterprises are not risks to be managed.
They are returns to be captured.

EmpowerHer Capital deploys structured micro-capital, AI-driven credit visibility, and institutional networks to women-led informal enterprises operating in the global informal economy — closing the $1.7 trillion financing gap one entrepreneur at a time.

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40%

Average revenue growth across cohort

vs. MFI sector average of 18%

100%

Repayment rate — zero defaults

vs. IFC benchmark of 94%

Portfolio at risk

vs. sector average of 5.2%

The Problem

The gap is not about risk.
It's about visibility.

"Millions of people work, produce, and build entire lives — yet remain invisible to the systems that determine who receives financing."

The $1.7 trillion financing gap facing informal economies is not a reflection of credit risk — it is a failure of institutional infrastructure. Traditional lending systems require bank accounts, credit scores, and collateral. Women-led informal enterprises have none of these. But they do have track records, cash flows, and demonstrable growth potential that existing systems are simply not built to see.

EmpowerHer Capital was built to change that. Our AI-driven credit visibility framework uses alternative data — purchasing patterns, sales velocity, social capital, and peer networks — to generate creditworthiness signals for entrepreneurs who have never entered the formal financial system.

The data from our pilot cohort makes the case plainly: this is not a charity. It is an underpriced asset class.

Our Model

Four stages. One durable outcome:
economic visibility at scale.

Credit Visibility Assessment

AI-driven alternative data scoring using purchasing patterns, sales velocity, and social capital to generate creditworthiness signals for unbanked entrepreneurs.

Capital Deployment

Structured micro-grants and loans from $250–$2,000, sized to enterprise stage and repayment capacity. No collateral required. Milestone-based disbursement.

Mentorship & Operational Support

Each recipient is paired with a sector practitioner from our global advisory network. Structured operational and financial guidance over a 12-month engagement.

Network Integration

Pathway into institutional ecosystems — Ecobank, IFC country offices, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women — enabling sustained access beyond EmpowerHer's direct support.

Impact

The numbers make the argument.

40^%

Average revenue growth across pilot cohort

vs. microfinance sector average of 18%

83^%

Improvement in financial stability

vs. sector average of 41%

100^%

Repayment rate, zero defaults

vs. IFC benchmark of 94%

0^%

Portfolio at risk

vs. sector average of 5.2%

Following a $15,750 Alpha Pilot across 15 businesses in Lagos, Ibadan, and Accra, EmpowerHer Capital is now scaling into institutional partnerships and preparing for a second cohort. The AI-driven credit visibility framework is currently being presented to multilateral institutions at the World Bank–IMF level as a model for closing the global informal financing gap.

Featured at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (September 2025) and the World Bank–IMF Annual Meetings (October 2025). Recognized by Middlebury College's Projects for Peace as a model for economic inclusion at scale.

2028 Targets

6,000

Entrepreneurs reached across three continents

$180M

Projected aggregate economic impact

Continents: Africa, and expanding globally

Partners & Recognition

Backed by institutions that move capital.

Ecobank

Strategic Banking Partner

Pan-African banking partner providing financial infrastructure and distribution access across the continent.

IFC Country Offices

World Bank Group · Development Finance

Advisory engagement and institutional partnership with the International Finance Corporation across country offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women

Advisory Engagement

Advisory engagement with Goldman Sachs' flagship women's economic empowerment initiative, providing access to global networks and training resources.

Clinton Global Initiative

Featured · Annual Meeting 2025

Featured at the CGI Annual Meeting (September 2025) as a model for scalable economic inclusion.

World Bank / IMF

Civil Society Policy Forum · Spring 2026

AI-driven agricultural lending framework presented to global policymakers at the World Bank–IMF Spring Meetings, April 2026.

Middlebury College

Projects for Peace · Recognition

Recognized as a model for economic inclusion at scale through Middlebury's Projects for Peace program.

Leadership

About the founder.

Mansur Kasali — Founder & Chair of the Board

Mansur Kasali is the Founder and Chair of the Board of EmpowerHer Capital — a social entrepreneur, finance professional, and policy voice working at the intersection of global capital and economic inclusion.

In April 2026, he became the youngest individual in the 82-year history of the World Bank–IMF Meetings to address the institution in a technical capacity, presenting EmpowerHer's AI-driven credit visibility framework to multilateral policymakers shaping global development finance.

His professional background spans investment banking at Citigroup and Nomura — where he was selected as one of 11 sophomores nationally — and pre-doctoral research at Harvard's Opportunity Insights under economist Raj Chetty, with findings presented to White House economic advisers and the Federal Reserve Board.

The founding insight behind EmpowerHer Capital is personal. Mansur grew up watching his mother build an enterprise in Ibadan, Nigeria — entirely outside any institutional system designed to see her. EmpowerHer Capital exists to make that experience the rule, not the exception.

Full profile · www.mansurkasali.com →

For Entrepreneurs

Ready to make your enterprise visible?

If you run a women-led informal enterprise in Nigeria, Ghana, or the surrounding region and are ready to grow with structured capital and mentorship, we want to hear from you.

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For Institutions & Partners

Help us close the gap at scale.

If you represent a financial institution, development organization, corporate partner, or philanthropic foundation, we're building the infrastructure to reach 6,000 entrepreneurs by 2028 — and we need partners who move capital.

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Women-led enterprises are not risks to be managed.They are returns to be captured.

The gap is not about risk.It's about visibility.