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Global Impact Value Exchange

Where Fintech
Meets Its Purpose.

GIVE brings together the world's most ambitious fintech leaders, social impact investors, and nonprofit practitioners committed to solving humanity's greatest challenges.

"GIVE creates the conditions for the world's most brilliant minds to redirect their ambitions toward humanity's most important problems."

Necker Island

GIVE has partnered with Virgin Unite to host its flagship five-day summit on Sir Richard Branson’s 74-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands. Limited to only 40 guests, GIVE’s annual summit has come to redefine what a conference can be.

When people arrive somewhere extraordinary, they permit themselves to think extraordinary thoughts and to make commitments they'll actually keep. Five days of focused collaboration, no conference rooms, no walls between the ocean and the work.

Necker Island aerial view showing tropical landscape and turquoise water GIVE summit working session on Necker Island Participants collaborating at the GIVE summit

A Room Built for
Real Collaboration

GIVE brings together builders, funders, practitioners, and researchers whose collaboration produces concrete commitments for underserved populations.

Fintech Founders & Executives

Builders who have created and scaled financial technology products gather for peer community, deal flow, and the rare chance to direct their work toward global purpose.

Impact Investors

Capital allocators who want pipeline, validation, and mission alignment are offered access to vetted operators deploying capital for measurable good.

Nonprofit Leaders

Practitioners with field experience and urgent operational needs are equipped with cutting-edge fintech frameworks for reaching underserved populations at scale.

Foundations & Grant-Makers

Funders seeking measurable outcomes and trusted delivery partners connect to GIVE's research dissemination and documented community impact.

Nick HughesM-Pesa Founder
Premal ShahKiva.org Co-Founder
Brett KingFintech Author & Futurist
Jo Ann BarefootHarvard Kennedy School Fellow
Emmalyn ShawImpact Investor
Matt PohlsonOmaze Founder
Henk RogersThe Tetris Company Founder
Dean KarlanNorthwestern University Professor
Nick HughesM-Pesa Founder
Premal ShahKiva.org Co-Founder
Brett KingFintech Author & Futurist
Jo Ann BarefootHarvard Kennedy School Fellow
Emmalyn ShawImpact Investor
Matt PohlsonOmaze Founder
Henk RogersThe Tetris Company Founder
Dean KarlanNorthwestern University Professor

Operators Who
Have Built at Scale

Jimmy Ku and Matt Walters, co-founders of GIVE

Jimmy Ku

CEO

Jimmy Ku is a founder, investor, and operator whose fingerprints are on some of fintech’s most impressive growth stories. As a key executive at Flutterwave, he helped scale the platform from 290K to 1M+ merchants and from $9B to $25B+ in total payment volume in under two years. A Venture Partner at 10X Capital and Modi Ventures, he has advised 50+ startups and helped founders raise over $540M.

Matt Walters

COO / CFO

Matt Walters is a former entrepreneur, VC, and nonprofit executive, with 20+ years experience across the US, Asia, and Latin America. As an early employee at Room to Read, Matt led financial operations, overseeing completion of 8,000 libraries by his departure. Most recently Matt led corporate development at Eve, raising nearly $500M through IPO and secondary offerings.

Learn More About GIVE
and the Work Ahead.

GIVE is expanding beyond its current mission scope and building a global community with its core focus on measurable impact. We are excited about this next phase of growth and the positive impact it will have on communities around the world. Interested? Join us!