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Zoona mobile money: investing for impact (cases A and B)

John Bazley, Cynthia Schweer Rayner, Aunnie Patton Power

Publication date: 19 June 2017

Abstract

Subject area

Impact investing, Social enterprise.

Study level/applicability

MBA, EMBA, Executive Education.

Case overview

Zoona mobile money: investing for impact details a slightly altered version of the real events that occurred in late 2011 with the series A round of investment in Zoona, a mobile money business in Zambia. The focus is on the decisions that have to be made by the management team of a socially innovative tech start-up (Zoona) providing mobile money and financial services to previously unbanked consumers in Zambia.

Expected learning outcomes

By the end of this case, the student should be able to: understand the basics of term sheets and be able to perform a high level analysis and comparison of two distinct term sheets; identify investor objectives, ultimately recognising the general differences between private equity and venture capital investors; identify and weigh the costs and benefits of term sheets, as well as identify negotiating points and necessary trade-offs in the investment process; and identify and understand the “soft” benefits of investors and weigh these in relation to a term sheet analysis.

Supplementary materials

Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.

Subject code

CSS 1: Accounting and Finance.

Keywords

Acknowledgements

Support for the development of this teaching case was part of a broader partnership with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

Citation

Bazley, J., Rayner, C.S. and Power, A.P. (2017), "Zoona mobile money: investing for impact (cases A and B)", , Vol. 7 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-06-2016-0122

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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