Evaluating only Zippi’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Unit economics as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
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Documented cause
Zippi offered working capital credit lines to delivery drivers and gig workers in Brazil — a massively underserved segment. Despite raising $10M and a compelling social narrative, the company faced high default rates from a volatile income base, costly credit infrastructure, and thin margins. By 2022 the unit economics had not improved and the company wound down.
Lesson
“Serving underbanked borrowers requires years of proprietary default data to build accurate risk models — you cannot borrow someone else's credit scoring framework for this segment.”