Startup Waco has partnered with Kiva, the largest crowd-lending platform in the world, to bring Waco an innovative new solution to provide access to capital for small businesses. Kiva creates an important new path to the financial mainstream, offering a $0 fee, 0% interest loans to small businesses, with Startup Waco providing wrap-around financial education and advisory services to the recipient businesses. Since launching in 2021, Startup Waco has deployed over $250k to local businesses on the Kiva platform.