Tala is a digital financial-services platform founded by Shivani Siroya that provides mobile credit and a Stellar-powered non-custodial crypto wallet to underserved customers across emerging markets. Tala's Twitter Score is 17 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #57,893 among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Tala describes itself as AI-native credit infrastructure for the global majority, having deployed more than $8 billion in capital to more than 14 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In October 2024, Tala launched a non-custodial crypto wallet built on the Stellar Development Foundation network, with Peru as its first market. Earlier, in May 2021, Tala announced a collaboration with Visa, Circle, and the Stellar Development Foundation to explore the conversion, storage, and use of cryptocurrencies, beginning with USDC.
Tala raised a $145 million Series E in October 2021, led by Upstart, with participation from the Stellar Development Foundation, Kindred Ventures, J. Safra Group, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, and PayPal Ventures, bringing total funding at that time to more than $350 million. Additional backers include Ribbit Capital, GGV Capital, Data Collective VC, ThomVest Ventures, Female Founders Fund, and Colchis. Tala has published 4,655 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 120 accounts a total of 407 times.
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The accounts that follow Tala include 79 founders, 28 angel investors, 14 influencers and 16 VCs, among them Andrew Chen, Michael Arrington, Circle, Shaan Puri, zac.eth and Mark W. Yusko - Two Point One Quadrillion.