Founder
Charles Mfouapon
Founder & CEO
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Charles Mfouapon is the founder of AfriScore, a B2B credit intelligence platform built to enable financial institutions to lend to credit-invisible populations across Africa. He leads product, engineering, and regulatory strategy.
His work sits at the intersection of financial regulation, quantitative risk modeling, and distributed systems. He founded AfriScore after years of research into alternative-data credit scoring and the structural barriers that keep people invisible to formal credit systems, even though 40% of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa now hold a mobile-money account.
He is a recipient of the 35 Under 35 Cameroon Youth Excellence Award in Technology & Innovation, presented in partnership with the U.S. Embassy Yaoundé. He has also been nominated for the Prize for Technology and Innovation at The Future Awards Africa.
Focus areas
- Credit Risk Modeling
- Quantitative Finance
- Financial Regulation (OHADA, CEMAC)
- Machine Learning Systems
Selected credentials
- 35 Under 35 Honoree, U.S. Embassy Yaoundé (2026)
- Nominee, Prize for Technology and Innovation — The Future Awards Africa (20th edition)
- MSc Financial Engineering — WorldQuant University
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We work with lenders who want to see how AfriScore performs on their own portfolio. The pilot is free and runs beside your current process.