We’re excited to share that Mona was selected as a finalist in MIT Solve's 2025 Global Economic Prosperity Challenge. We're honored to be recognized alongside so many impactful solutions from around the world.

This summer, we’re proud to welcome an incredible group of Mona Fellows who are working on strategic projects that advance our mission: building a more inclusive financial system and helping underserved small business owners access affordable capital.

At the Global Citizen NOW summit in Detroit, we were honored to celebrate the creativity, resilience, and impact of small business owners. Our co-founder, Andrew Leon Hanna, joined Mark Cuban and Anika Goss for a powerful conversation on how small businesses — especially minority- and immigrant-owned — bring deep knowledge of new markets, incredible persistence, and the power to revitalize communities.

As part of the first-ever Global Citizen NOW: Detroit summit held today at the new Hudson’s Detroit development, a coalition of local, national, and global organizations – Mona, the Michigan Black Business Alliance, E. Warren Development Corporation, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, and Detroit Future City – announced the launch of the “Detroit Access to Capital Initiative” to support small business entrepreneurs across the city.

We’re excited to be featured in the Chicago Sun-Times for our work expanding access to capital for small business owners across Chicago.

The article spotlights Mona’s partnership with Kiva and the Polsky Center, which has supported 23 incredible entrepreneurs secure over $200,000 in zero-interest loans to grow and scale their missions.

Today, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago and mission-driven fintech Mona announced that their new collaboration has connected more than $200,000 of capital to local small businesses, primarily in Chicago’s South Side. 

Today, social venture Mona announced that its partnership with crowdfunding platform Kiva and DreamxAmerica has reached a new milestone: $500,000 in zero-interest loans distributed to small businesses across the United States – primarily to immigrant, refugee, and women entrepreneurs.

Today, Mona – the award-winning social venture incubated at Stanford University – officially announced the launch of its corporate gifting program showcasing underrepresented entrepreneurs and creators, the majority of whom are women and immigrants.

We are thrilled to announce that Mona has been selected as one of four ventures founded at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for Alpine Social Ventures’ inaugural class. Our founder, Andrew Leon Hanna, is one of the first Alpine Social Ventures Fellows.