Miles to go as financial inclusion has only scratched surface: TRIBE CEO

Tech is helping extend credit to the MSME sector

Sometimes one may feel a journey is coming to an end when, in fact, it may be just beginning. That is how Atreya Rayaprolu, the 43-year-old CEO of TRIBE, which lends to the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) sector, felt when he looked closely at the financial inclusion space in India in 2013-14. 

He could see how far India had come after the micro finance boom of the mid-1990s. But he also realised that financial inclusion had touched only the tip of the iceberg and there was still a long way to go. TRIBE, which is part of the Mumbai-based