Mumbi Annstella

General Manager Tala Kenya

Mumbi is a business leader with experience working across Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda in Fintech and Edtech, and has an educational background in mechatronics engineering.

She currently serves as the General Manager at Tala Kenya, a fintech company that has disbursed over $1.9 billion in credit to more than 3.5 million customers across Kenya. She has also served in various capacities as a growth advisor for companies such as Mara, Ndovu, Moringa School, and Katapult among others. Prior to Tala, Mumbi led growth and expansion at Moringa School and was the founding director at Impact Africa Network. Mumbi is also passionate about catalysing startup ecosystems and is an angel and venture partner at Ralicap.

Her work is guided by a passion in technology and startup ecosystems in emerging markets, their growth, inner workings, and optimisation and how this links to economic development.