M-KOPA customers have gathered to celebrate fifteen years of service across the continent since the company began operations in 2011. This milestone arrives as the organization reports reaching ten million users across its entire network in total. Three million people joined the network during the past twelve months alone in this year. These figures show that demand continues across Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa today. The company also records revenue figures that reached six hundred million dollars for the 2025 financial year. That figure represents a forty-five percent increase over the previous financial year for the company.
Revenue growth was matched by continued investment in the team behind the work this year. M-KOPA added approximately two hundred new full-time roles during this recent reporting period alone this time. That change represents a nine percent increase in headcount for the entire organization currently. More than five thousand new sales agents joined its distribution network alongside the staff members. You will find that this expansion supports the growing number of M-KOPA customers who rely on the service. The company employs over two thousand five hundred full-time staff members across its offices today.
Chief Financial Officer Faraimose Kutadzaushe described 2025 as a record year for the business overall. Customer and revenue growth reached new highs during this specific twelve month period of business. She explains that the business maintained profitability while reinvesting funds into products and services consistently. Money went toward technology and distribution to scale reach across the African continent effectively now. The market consists of everyday earners who remain underserved by traditional lenders in the region. She says the company remains very early in its growth trajectory for M-KOPA customers today.
The organization currently onboards approximately ten thousand new M-KOPA customers per day for full service. It receives micropayments at a rate of twenty three times per second every moment of day. Increasingly, the majority of customers use more than one M-KOPA product over time now and again. A multi-year relationship may include smartphones, digital loans and electric mobility products for users today. Customers often add new tools to their account as needs change over the years ahead. The firm processes over 2 million payments daily and unlocked over $2 billion in credit.
Founded initially as a provider of financed solar systems, the company changed direction later on. It expanded into smartphone financing in 2020 to serve more customer needs directly today. Since that time, the company has recorded a five-year compound annual growth rate of 50 percent. That performance has been recognized on the Financial Times annual list and CNBC fintech list too. The company is one of the largest and longest-standing firms serving M-KOPA customers on that list. It has also entered electric-vehicle financing recently with new options for drivers in the market.
Kenya currently hosts more than ten thousand electric motorcycles and three-wheelers financed by the business. These vehicles are now in operation across the country for daily work tasks everywhere today. The company has increased investment in the design and manufacture of affordable high-quality smartphones today. Technology acquisitions support this effort alongside local manufacturing plans and facilities for M-KOPA customers now. It opened Africa's largest smartphone-assembly factory in Kenya to build the devices locally today. The latest generation of smartphones, the X4 series, launched this month for users today now.
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