Delivering pathways to sustained prosperity

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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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Driving impact through bold leadership

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Cyber resilience for financial inclusion

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) drive growth and job creation, and account for 90% of businesses and more than half of global employment. Yet, within this group lies a segment often referred to as the “missing middle”.

Mastercard Strive 

With philanthropic support from the Mastercard Impact Fund, we work with partners to meet small businesses where they are and support them with innovative digital and data-first solutions to unleash their full potential to catalyze inclusive growth.

(partner) Mastercard Strive 

Asia Pacific

Financial inclusion

Digital transformation

Tackling the digital financing gap to support SMEs in ASEAN

Small business

North America

Middle East & Africa

Europe

Latin American & Caribbean

Global

AI for social impact

Climate change

Data for good

Economic development

Financial health

Gender equity

Global development

Public-private partnerships