Jessica Jackley
Entrepreneur and Kiva co-founder
Jessica Jackley is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the microlending website Kiva and later the crowdfunding platform ProFounder.
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American Born 1977
About Jessica Jackley
Jessica Jackley co-founded Kiva, a peer-to-peer microlending website, and later co-founded ProFounder, a crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs in the US, where she was also CEO. Her interests include social justice, financial inclusion and the sharing economy. Walt Disney Imagineering appointed her as its first Entrepreneur in Residence. She earned an MBA at Stanford's business school and a BA at Bucknell University. Jackley wrote Clay Water Brick, a book about learning from entrepreneurs who achieve a great deal with very little.