Meet Alloysius Attah – Our Entrepreneur of the Month

<p>Alloysius Attah was born on a farm where his family lived in Ghana&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My aunt farmed two acres of land&comma; despite the challenges she faced in accessing information&comma; financial services and markets&comma;” he says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In his final year at university&comma; he co-founded Farmerline&period; It provides information and technology to farmers in Ghana’s most unconnected corners&period; Through its Mergdata platform&comma; it provides data analytics and through Paytime&comma; a credit scoring and lending app&comma; the company uses alternative data sources for farmers with no credit history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company also helps connect businesses and governments with more than 200&comma;000 farmers in nine African countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last year&comma; Attah won numerous awards&comma; like the SEED Award and the Financial Times&sol;IFC World Bank Group Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Information and Communication Technology&period; He employs 25 people and plans to reach 1 million active users by 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before Farmerline&comma; Attah co-founded two companies&comma; Alloyworld&comma; a web development and photography start-up&comma; and iCottage Networks&comma; a mobile and software development company in Ghana&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; Forbes<&sol;p>&NewLine;