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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
Passionate about all data, financial identity, choice, and all things micro. love exclamations! CEO & Founder of
@Talamobile
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@TEDfellow
Santa Monica, CAtala.coJoined January 2010
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
Honored to be leading this incredible team! Proud of our team for their resiliency & determination to enable financial agency for our 6M+ customers around the world! We’re going to keep working hard to build out more services faster to serve our current and future customers.
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Tala
@talamobile
We’re proud to announce we’ve raised $145 million in Series E funding to continue building the world’s most accessible financial services. Welcome @Upstart & @StellarOrg! And thank you @KindredVentures, J. Safra Group, @IVP @revolution @Lowercase & @PayPal bit.ly/3voKAtH
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Please share any leads on organizations or government assistance programs in Mexico, the Philippines & Kenya so we can add them to our resource pages. My hope is that we can amplify the magnitude of our resources and have a tremendous impact during this time.
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
Our team is gathering resources to share with our customers as they cope with the impact of COVID-19 on their communities. This crisis has affected us all in so many ways and now is a time for us to come together and collaborate.
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
Holding onto Herman Hesse’s timeless words: “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
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@shivsiroya
Excited to launch a month-long financial health initiative in Kenya! #MoneyMarch
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Tala Kenya
@TalaKenya
We’re bringing you #MoneyMarch. The first ever month, dedicated to financial health. Tala is proud to be the coordinating organization for 2020, in conjunction with the Digital Lenders Association. Use #MoneyMarch to follow/join in the conversation.
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
"When you’re starting a business, it’s a journey. You don’t wake up in the morning and start a small business, and you’re already big. You have to start somewhere. You have to grow. It’s like a baby." Entrepreneurship wisdom from our
@TalaKenya
customer, Rainson!
@talamobile
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@shivsiroya
Love this video about women leading movements and the rise of #GivingTuesday! Thank you
@zmarks215
for the wise words you shared with #TeamTala today - “Give time. Give voice. Give goods. Give talent. Give kindness. And not just on this hashtagged day, but every day!”
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NowThis
@nowthisnews
‘Women are natural movement builders.’ — #GivingTuesday has become a worldwide phenomenon and it’s being led by women
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We all benefit from a system where everyone has agency over the terms of their participation. Where each person can live and transact confidently, and sleep better at night knowing they have the necessary solutions to take control of their lives.
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
But this can’t happen in a vacuum. Getting there requires holistic systems change; it’s both in equipping the individual and creating flexible infrastructure with the broader ecosystem to enable us all to design for the margins.
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
Rather than adding people to a broken system, financial equity is about enabling financial health & building a world where every person is equipped with the financial tools & knowledge to build the lives they want.
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Shivani Siroya Retweeted
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
"Showing that it is possible for a woman to succeed and be recognised for success I hope is going to inspire many, many other women to continue working and many other men to give them the respect they deserve." - Esther Duflo at today's press conference announcing her prize.
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Barack Obama
@BarackObama
Economist Raj Chetty is not only identifying the decline in opportunity we’ve seen in recent decades—but trying to reverse it. Inequality, like many problems we face, is as vast as it is complex. But this article left me a little more hopeful:
theatlantic.com
The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
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Shivani Siroya
@shivsiroya
Onward, indeed! #TeamTala 🚀This is just the beginning of creating a financial system that works for us all.
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Tala
@talamobile
We’re proud to announce we’ve raised $110 million in Series D funding to continue building a financial system that works for everyone! Welcome @RPSVentures & @GGVCapital & special thanks to @Lowercase @IVP @DCVC @revolution @thomvest @PayPal #GrowWithTala j.mp/2Zi92iA
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@shivsiroya
Let’s not settle for just inclusion and instead focus on rebuilding the system as a whole - enabling true financial agency.
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Melinda French Gates
@melindagates
What do you do when an old system isn’t working for your customers? You build a new system. That’s what @talamobile & @shivsiroya are doing for financial services. m-gat.es/2JlIGSF
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