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Powered by People is a B2B wholesale platform that seamlessly connects makers in 46 countries with buyers in North America & beyond through secure transactions. We want to make ethical, sustainable and social-impact buying easy and risk free.

The Creative Manufacturing and Handmade sector is one of the fastest growing global industries, yet it is slowed by communications and digital shortcomings. PBP solves this problem by providing a curated digital marketplace for buyers and makers to conduct business. The benefits are multiple. Buyers are able to customize and purchase products from a highly functional platform on flexible payment terms, leaving the international communication, payment and logistics to us. Makers—from Ghana to India to Guatemala—are able to massively expand their customer base simply by uploading their wares to the Powered by People site. And both makers and buyers can virtually track the manufacturing process every step of the way through our innovative PBP Produce tool.

With team members in America, Canada, Kenya, India and Mexico, PBP connects all the dots, providing financing for the makers, facilitating orders and identifying the emerging trends that buyers want on their shelves. And it is the makers, perhaps, who stand to gain the most. When their small businesses thrive, they provide not just for themselves, but their employees, families and communities.
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Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $13M
Founded date: 2019

Investors 4

Funding Rounds 2

DateSeriesAmountInvestors
11.03.2023Series A$8MAltos Vent...
22.03.2022Seed$5MSusa Ventu...

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11.03.2023Powered By People Raises Over $8M in Series A FinancingPowered by People, a Nairobi, Kenya-based provider of a digital wholesale platform, raised over $8M in Series A funding. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from Golden Ventures and Susa Ventures. The company, which also...
13.06.2022Gen Z Will Walk Away From Brands That Don’t Share Their Values – Now Retailers Have An Easy Way To Keep Them BuyingAn artisan from Pais Textil in Peru produces small-batch textiles for the Powered by People ... [+] marketplace Powered by People
03.05.2022Powered by People Named Finalist in Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas AwardsTORONTO (PRWEB) May 03, 2022 The finalists for Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring clean technology, innovative corporate initiatives, brave new designs for cities and buildings, and other creative...
22.03.2022Susa Ventures leads $5M seed round to scale Powered By PeopleSusa Ventures led a $5 million seed round alongside Flexport Fund, Golden Ventures and JVentures that will enable global makers wholesale marketplace Powered by People (PBP) to scale its operations. Kenya-based PBP connects independent bran...
22.03.2022Susa Ventures leads $5M seed round to scale Powered By PeopleSusa Ventures led a $5 million seed round alongside Flexport Fund, Golden Ventures and JVentures that will enable global makers wholesale marketplace Powered by People (PBP) to scale its operations. Kenya-based PBP connects independent bran...
21.03.2022Kenya-based Powered by People gets $5 million seed to scale operations of its wholesale e-commerce platformA wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People, has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B onl...
-Powered by People“Discover responsibly-made products by small-batch makers from around the world at Powered by People, the wholesale marketplace for conscious buyers.”

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