Accion

Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. We catalyze financial service providers to deliver high-quality, affordable solutions at scale for the three billion people who are left out of – or poorly served by – the financial sector. For more than 50 years, Accion has helped tens of millions of people through its work with more than 90 partners in 40 countries.

Matthieu Albrieux

Investment Officer

Tahira Dosani

MD, Accion Venture Lab

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Shannon Dwyer

Investment and Portfolio Associate

John Fischer

CIO

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Ashley Lewis

Investment Professional

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Rachel Morpeth

Senior Associate, Global Investments

Amee Parbhoo

Director, Investments

Livingston Parsons

CFO

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Alex Qian

Investment Professional

Vikas Raj

MD

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Paul Rasmussen

Investment and Portfolio Associate

Michael Schlein

President and CEO

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Radhika Shroff

Deputy CIO, Gateway Fund, Accion Global Investments

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Coryell Stout

Investment Professional

111 past transactions

Credright

Venture Round in 2021
CredRight Private Limited owns and operates a data driven lending platform that provides credit to unserved and underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) leveraging rotating savings and credit association (ROSCAs) and chit funds. It builds credit profile of the applicant(s) and allows them to avail transparent and on time credit. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

Self Lender

Series B in 2018
Self Financial is a venture-backed fintech startup that helps customers build credit and save money. It provides tools necessary for building on-time payment history and responsible use of credit, in collaboration with issuing banks.s services are for those who are new to credit or who might not have access to traditional financial products. It offers Self Credit Builder Account to help consumers build both credit and savings without relying on credit history and Self Visa Credit Card, a card that helps existing customers build their security deposit in instalments. Self Financial is formerly known as Self Lender. The startup was founded by Conor Swanson and James Garvey in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Zoona is a mobile technology company developing products such as money transfers, electronic voucher payments, and agent payments.
Aye Finance is a finance company that provides business loans to micro and small businesses in Northern India.The company's mission is to provide innovative and customer-centered financial services to micro and small business through effective technology and robust processes. It works with a relevant technology to facilitate better financial inclusion and to consequently serve micro-enterprises. Aye Finance was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Lidya

Seed Round in 2017
Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria. We use mobile-first technology with a strong customer experience and proprietary credit scoring algorithms to help small & medium businesses open an account online in 15 minutes, manage funds, and access credit needed to grow their businesses and plan their futures. In addition, we have created dashboards and tools to help businesses manage their receivables and cashflow to build credit scores that unlock higher credit limits and affordable rates. Welcome to Lidya. Welcome to the future.

ESCALA EDUCACION

Seed Round in 2017
ESCALA EDUCACION S.A.S offers employees of its business partners savings plans to facilitate access to higher education and education for their children. The company also offers vocational support, enrollment discounts in higher education institutions, provides scholarships for education. The company provides savings plans coupled with company matching funds, tuition discounts, career counseling, and other education benefits. ESCALA EDUCACION S.A.S was founded in 2015 and is based in Medellin, Colombia.

Fairbanc

Seed Round in 2021
Fairbanc is a scalable, AI-powered mobile loan and payments platform for emerging market small-medium enterprises (SMEs) that requires no collateral or credit history. The company's AI-powered platform can read digital footprints such as transaction history with large suppliers, and data on the mobile phone to grant instant digital credit line that SMEs can use to purchase inventories from our selected suppliers. Fairbanc's proven gender-intelligent ecosystem for loans and payments can be used in many vertical markets, eliminating the shortcomings of cash. Retail shop-owners can boost sales up to 20%, eliminate cash shortages, enjoy an easier payments regimen, and develop a credit history; suppliers receive more consistent order cycles, more instant payments upon delivery, and SKU sales expansion.

Smartcoin

Series A in 2020
SmartCoin is a mobile app based lending platform, capable of assessing the risk profile of a prospective borrower in real time, using data science and machine learning algorithms. Their proprietary credit underwriting engine aggregates thousands of data points on a customer’s smartphone to build a customized credit score. A customer is instantly offered personalized loan products on the basis of his risk and capacity, and the money is transferred digitally to their bank account.

NOW Money

Venture Round in 2021
NOW Money uses mobile banking technology to bring accounts and remittance to the unbanked population of the Middle East. It provides a convenient and easy to use solution for those currently excluded from the financial system, bringing full access to the financial system, and significant savings on remittance.

Billpocket

Seed Round in 2015
Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.

CreditMantri

Series A in 2015
CreditMantri Finserv Private Limited provides individuals with credit score analysis and credit improvement program. It engages in educating consumers about their credit history, as well as leverages the same to improve/enhance their chances for becoming loan/credit card eligible. The company also provides individuals with a plan to improve their credit score and works with them for improving their loan/credit card eligibility. In addition, it helps individuals obtain their CIBIL report and provide them with a credit scan; and conducts analysis and provides them with a credit health report. Further, the company provides services for individuals to find loans/credit cards, improve credit score and history, and reduce their EMI costs. CreditMantri Finserv Private Limited was founded in 2012 and is based in Chennai, India.

StreetShares

Series A in 2016
StreetShares, Inc. operates a peer to peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. The company provides a lending-as-a-service (LaaS) based platform that allows community banks and credit unions to make business loans. Its products include term loans, business bonds, StreetShares Pro Investing, and secured and unsecured small business loans. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

Credright

Seed Round in 2018
CredRight Private Limited owns and operates a data driven lending platform that provides credit to unserved and underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) leveraging rotating savings and credit association (ROSCAs) and chit funds. It builds credit profile of the applicant(s) and allows them to avail transparent and on time credit. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

TerraMagna

Seed Round in 2020
TerraMagna is a fintech company that focuses on risk mitigation for agribusinesses. It leverages technology and alternative data sources to transform a risky and volatile process into a simple and safe experience. TerraMagna enables retailers, industries, and farmers to have access to fair credit and investors have high-yield, market-uncorrelated and high-volume assets to invest in. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in São José Dos Campos.

Henry

Seed Round in 2020
Henry trains software developers for free and helps them find a job in exchange for a share of their future income. The company is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages.

Tienda Pago

Series A in 2018
Tienda Pago is the merchant support platform that facilitates your weekly merchandise purchase to distributors. It is the result of years of experience of a team of experts whose objective is to promote ecosystems where all participants, both distributors and traders, benefit from the service and proactively motivate other participants to join the system.

Fairbanc

Seed Round in 2022
Fairbanc is a scalable, AI-powered mobile loan and payments platform for emerging market small-medium enterprises (SMEs) that requires no collateral or credit history. The company's AI-powered platform can read digital footprints such as transaction history with large suppliers, and data on the mobile phone to grant instant digital credit line that SMEs can use to purchase inventories from our selected suppliers. Fairbanc's proven gender-intelligent ecosystem for loans and payments can be used in many vertical markets, eliminating the shortcomings of cash. Retail shop-owners can boost sales up to 20%, eliminate cash shortages, enjoy an easier payments regimen, and develop a credit history; suppliers receive more consistent order cycles, more instant payments upon delivery, and SKU sales expansion.

BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited

Venture Round in 2018
BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited provides a mobile technology based transactional platform for access to digitized services to residents of rural, urban, and semi-urban areas. It offers banking services, savings, NREGA and other government payments, money transfers, utility payments, and prepaid mobile top-ups through a network of basic convenience outlets. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Hyderabad, India. BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited operates as a subsidiary of Bhartiya Samruddhi Investments and Consulting Services, Ltd.

Smartcoin

Seed Round in 2018
SmartCoin is a mobile app based lending platform, capable of assessing the risk profile of a prospective borrower in real time, using data science and machine learning algorithms. Their proprietary credit underwriting engine aggregates thousands of data points on a customer’s smartphone to build a customized credit score. A customer is instantly offered personalized loan products on the basis of his risk and capacity, and the money is transferred digitally to their bank account.

Lidya

Series B in 2021
Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria. We use mobile-first technology with a strong customer experience and proprietary credit scoring algorithms to help small & medium businesses open an account online in 15 minutes, manage funds, and access credit needed to grow their businesses and plan their futures. In addition, we have created dashboards and tools to help businesses manage their receivables and cashflow to build credit scores that unlock higher credit limits and affordable rates. Welcome to Lidya. Welcome to the future.

Lulalend

Seed Round in 2016
LulaLend is more than a company. It’s a belief in the power of small business, making a difference, building a better solution and striving for excellence. We work hard to empower businesses across South Africa with the funds they need to grow, and we have a great time doing it!

First Circle

Seed Round in 2017
First Circle exists to radically improve the course of opportunity for SMEs across South East Asia; to help business owners achieve growth beyond their wildest dreams; to expand their First Circle past their family and friends. They are creating great technology which allows us to bring together the best businesses. We provide them with the funding and support they need to grow for many years to come. They do this with a simple online account, advanced data analytics, dedicated customer success representatives, and a community of business owners complete with a host of useful resources.

CreditMantri

Series B in 2017
CreditMantri Finserv Private Limited provides individuals with credit score analysis and credit improvement program. It engages in educating consumers about their credit history, as well as leverages the same to improve/enhance their chances for becoming loan/credit card eligible. The company also provides individuals with a plan to improve their credit score and works with them for improving their loan/credit card eligibility. In addition, it helps individuals obtain their CIBIL report and provide them with a credit scan; and conducts analysis and provides them with a credit health report. Further, the company provides services for individuals to find loans/credit cards, improve credit score and history, and reduce their EMI costs. CreditMantri Finserv Private Limited was founded in 2012 and is based in Chennai, India.

Khazna

Seed Round in 2020
Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.

Tiaxa

Series F in 2012
TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users'​ mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines. Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.

Khazna

Series A in 2022
Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.

Annapurna Finance Private Limited

Private Equity Round in 2021
Annapurna Finance Private Limited, a non-banking financial company, provides micro finance services to women and low-income households in rural and semi-urban areas in India. It offers income generation loans for SHG/JLG clients, including loans for the cultivation of agriculture crops, agri equipment financing, loans for agri allied activities, micro enterprise loans, and loans for handicraft and handloom works; business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises to meet their working capital needs; and housing finance for home construction, flat purchase, home renovation, and balance transfer needs. The company also provides loans for persons with disability and financially excluded sections of the society; financial assistance to individuals to provide access to safe water and sanitation facilities at household level; dairy development loans; solar light loans; consumer durable loans; home improvement loans; and affordable loans to street vendors. In addition, it offers credit linked insurance to the clients. The company was formerly known as Annapurna Microfinance Private Limited and changed its name to Annapurna Finance Private Limited in 2018. Annapurna Finance Private Limited was incorporated in 1986 and is based in Bhubaneswar, India.

Capiter

Series A in 2021
Capiter develops a B2B e-commerce marketplace that offers on-demand cashflow solutions to small businesses and vendors. It helps suppliers to convert their sales into cash and eliminate their collection and credit risk. The company provides buyers with on-demand credit on purchase. Capiter was founded in 2019 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Grupo R5 Ltda

Seed Round in 2022
Grupo R5 Ltda operates R5, provides mortgages loans and insurance policy using assets, such as cars and motorcycles as collateral to customers in Bogota, Medellin, Cali, and Bucaramanga. It enables users to buy and provides consulting services online. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Lidya

Series A in 2018
Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria. We use mobile-first technology with a strong customer experience and proprietary credit scoring algorithms to help small & medium businesses open an account online in 15 minutes, manage funds, and access credit needed to grow their businesses and plan their futures. In addition, we have created dashboards and tools to help businesses manage their receivables and cashflow to build credit scores that unlock higher credit limits and affordable rates. Welcome to Lidya. Welcome to the future.

Kopo Kopo, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Kopo Kopo Inc. provides a merchant services platform that includes mobile payment acceptance, CRM, and other value-added services. Its platform runs on M-PESA platform. The company serves various businesses that range from salons to restaurants to office supply stores in East African markets. Kopo Kopo was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.

Volabit

Venture Round in 2015
Volabit is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform. Volabit allows cash-based online payments through its mobile wallet as well as faster and cheaper international transfers. Volabit is financially empowering people through the use of Bitcoin.

MyRobin.id

Seed Round in 2022
MyRobin.id is a recruitment platform for hospitality and restaurants where employers post job vacancies and post it to social media. Qualified candidates get notifications and apply for work and they are directly connected with the employers for a job interview and scheduling. MyRobin.id was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Dinie

Seed Round in 2021
Dinie provides flexible, convenient and easy-to-use financing solutions for small businesses. Through our end-to-end lending API, we enable digital platforms (marketplaces, Saas, ERPs) to offer instant credit to their customers to help them grow their businesses. As more companies incorporate financial services into their existing product offerings, we look forward to enabling the huge market opportunity of next generation embedded banking services. Dinie was founded by two serial entrepreneurs, Suzy Ferreira and Andrea Burattini (at age 27 sold her first Fintech to Accenture in 2013). Dinie has also Kris Lembke as Co-Founder & CTO (+10y in tech & payments) and Vinicius Cibim as Co-Founder & CFO (+10y in finance & fintech). Dinie counts on highly experienced angel investors like Rita Liu (Ex. CEO Alipay Europe), Sergio Fogel (Co-Founder of dLocal), Benjamin Gleason & Thiago Alvarez (Founders of GuiaBolso), Markus Rinderer (Founder of PAY.ON), Alexander Muller (Founder of Kreditech) and Matthias Setzer (Global Payments Director at Facebook, and previously at Paypal & Naspers).

Lidya

Seed Round in 2017
Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria. We use mobile-first technology with a strong customer experience and proprietary credit scoring algorithms to help small & medium businesses open an account online in 15 minutes, manage funds, and access credit needed to grow their businesses and plan their futures. In addition, we have created dashboards and tools to help businesses manage their receivables and cashflow to build credit scores that unlock higher credit limits and affordable rates. Welcome to Lidya. Welcome to the future.

Advance

Seed Round in 2020
Advance develops online marketing community platforms for advertisers in a crossmedia format.

Destácame SpA

Seed Round in 2017
Destácame SpA develops and markets a credit-ranking service that gives customers an account of their credit rating. The company is based in Santiago, Chile.

Advance Tech Lending Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Advance Tech Lending Inc. operates an online platform that increases employee productivity through financial empowerment. It increases employee engagement, reduces the turnovers and workplace stress, and recruit and retain the talent in the organization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Makati City, Philippines.

Jeitto

Seed Round in 2019
Jeitto Meios de Pagamento Ltda. operates as a mobile-first neobank that provides credit, payment, and other financial services to underserved consumers. The company offers its services through its application. It operates digital wallet for purchases and payments through a credit limit in the application in addition to the prepayment function. It allows customers to pay e-commerce purchases, utilities, mobile top up, transport, gift cards, online entertainment, and other services available on the application. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited provides a mobile technology based transactional platform for access to digitized services to residents of rural, urban, and semi-urban areas. It offers banking services, savings, NREGA and other government payments, money transfers, utility payments, and prepaid mobile top-ups through a network of basic convenience outlets. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Hyderabad, India. BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited operates as a subsidiary of Bhartiya Samruddhi Investments and Consulting Services, Ltd.

Destácame SpA

Series A in 2019
Destácame SpA develops and markets a credit-ranking service that gives customers an account of their credit rating. The company is based in Santiago, Chile.

NOW Money

Convertible Note in 2017
NOW Money uses mobile banking technology to bring accounts and remittance to the unbanked population of the Middle East. It provides a convenient and easy to use solution for those currently excluded from the financial system, bringing full access to the financial system, and significant savings on remittance.

StreetShares

Seed Round in 2015
StreetShares, Inc. operates a peer to peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. The company provides a lending-as-a-service (LaaS) based platform that allows community banks and credit unions to make business loans. Its products include term loans, business bonds, StreetShares Pro Investing, and secured and unsecured small business loans. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

GO Finance Co

Seed Round in 2014
GO Finance Company Limited, a Tanzanian non-bank financial institution, offers digital solutions to assess the credit risk of small and medium enterprise merchants. It offers GOBi, a mobile and cloud based financial record keeping tool, which collects transaction data of micro, small, and medium enterprises and use it to provide access to digital data for credit decision making compared to traditional banking methods. The company provides working capital finance to small businesses in local product distribution value chains in East Africa. GO Finance Company Limited is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Varthana

Seed Round in 2013
Varthana provides loans and support for affordable private schools. They are a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Konfio

Convertible Note in 2014
Konfio provides digital banking and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools. The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and is headquartered in Mexico City.

Aye Finance Private Limited

Seed Round in 2015
Aye Finance is a finance company that provides business loans to micro and small businesses in Northern India.The company's mission is to provide innovative and customer-centered financial services to micro and small business through effective technology and robust processes. It works with a relevant technology to facilitate better financial inclusion and to consequently serve micro-enterprises. Aye Finance was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Saija Finance

Series B in 2012
Saija Finance Private Limited is the only NBFC-MFI (Non Banking Finance Company – Micro Finance Institution) to be based in the state of Bihar, with its head quarter in Patna, the state capital. Saija was formed with a focus on providing microfinance services for urban and rural poor, as well as micro and small businessmen, in the underserved geographies of Northern & Eastern India, starting with Bihar. The geographic regions served by Saija are amongst the poorest in India and also are grossly underserved by formal financial institutions. Saija today serves ~26037 clients across 5 districts of Bihar, operating with seven branches.

Joust

Seed Round in 2019
Joust is a banking platform that directly provides merchant services and business banking for the self-employed. It provides its services via a chartered, FDIC-insured community bank (nbkc), and PayArmour—a proprietary invoice factoring service. With technology powered by Q2 and StoneCastle’s banking-as-a-service solution, Joust and nbkc solve the financial uncertainty often felt by independent workers. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

CreditMantri

Venture Round in 2020
CreditMantri Finserv Private Limited provides individuals with credit score analysis and credit improvement program. It engages in educating consumers about their credit history, as well as leverages the same to improve/enhance their chances for becoming loan/credit card eligible. The company also provides individuals with a plan to improve their credit score and works with them for improving their loan/credit card eligibility. In addition, it helps individuals obtain their CIBIL report and provide them with a credit scan; and conducts analysis and provides them with a credit health report. Further, the company provides services for individuals to find loans/credit cards, improve credit score and history, and reduce their EMI costs. CreditMantri Finserv Private Limited was founded in 2012 and is based in Chennai, India.

SMECorner.com

Series B in 2020
SMEcorner is a financial lending firm that focuses on providing quick access to business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises. The companys mission is to fill India's SME lending gap with the use of an online platform that combines machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. SME owners can fund their business through their 2 different products which are the unsecured business loans and loan against property. SMEcorner's lending process is based on a combination of traditional and new alternate data, with strong use of decision science. SMEcorner was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

ftcash

Series A in 2019
ftcash is one of India’s fast-growing financial technology venture, recognized by Forbes, which aims to empower micro-merchants and small businesses with the power of credit using digital payments, using only a bank account and a feature phone. ftcash uses its proprietary algorithm to understand the credit-worthiness using their transaction flow data on the ftcash payments platform along with several other data points including psychometric analysis, which can be leveraged to provide these SMEs institutional finance and recollect the money from their daily transactions. ftcash works with Banks and Financial Institutions to deploy its solution for all their SMEs. After a successful launch in India in 2015, ftcash is expanding globally. ftcash is being supported by PayPal and MasterCard to enable merchant services globally.

IFMR Trust

Venture Round in 2015
IFMR Holdings is positioned as a financial inclusion platform and houses three businesses: IFMR Capital – a debt capital markets platform for 75 originators offering micro-loans, small business finance, affordable housing and commercial vehicles finance; IFMR Rural Finance – a technology licensor that developed the Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services (KGFS) model for remote rural markets
Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.

SMECorner.com

Series A in 2019
SMEcorner is a financial lending firm that focuses on providing quick access to business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises. The companys mission is to fill India's SME lending gap with the use of an online platform that combines machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. SME owners can fund their business through their 2 different products which are the unsecured business loans and loan against property. SMEcorner's lending process is based on a combination of traditional and new alternate data, with strong use of decision science. SMEcorner was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Aye Finance is a finance company that provides business loans to micro and small businesses in Northern India.The company's mission is to provide innovative and customer-centered financial services to micro and small business through effective technology and robust processes. It works with a relevant technology to facilitate better financial inclusion and to consequently serve micro-enterprises. Aye Finance was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Comunidad 4Uno

Seed Round in 2016
Comunidad 4Uno (C4Uno) is an online platform that distributes tailored and market-based financial products to low income and financially excluded domestic workers. The company aims to be the largest and most reliable financial product distribution channel for the low income population in Mexico by 2020.

SMECorner.com

Pre Seed Round in 2015
SMEcorner is a financial lending firm that focuses on providing quick access to business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises. The companys mission is to fill India's SME lending gap with the use of an online platform that combines machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. SME owners can fund their business through their 2 different products which are the unsecured business loans and loan against property. SMEcorner's lending process is based on a combination of traditional and new alternate data, with strong use of decision science. SMEcorner was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

DemystData

Seed Round in 2012
At DemystData, we believe that data and analytical technology are essential to innovation within financial services, and key for the advancement of the goal of financial inclusion.

Tienda Pago

Seed Round in 2015
Tienda Pago is the merchant support platform that facilitates your weekly merchandise purchase to distributors. It is the result of years of experience of a team of experts whose objective is to promote ecosystems where all participants, both distributors and traders, benefit from the service and proactively motivate other participants to join the system.

Artoo

Series A in 2015
Artoo is a specialized CRM for financial institutions that allows them to manage all their interactions with the customer on a single platform and derive key insights. Modules Include - Lead Management, Loan Origination, Cash Flow Templates, Credit Bureau Integration, Credit Underwriting, Credit Scoring, Collections, Analytics, KYC Image Capture, LUC & Monitoring

Toffee Insurance

Seed Round in 2018
Toffee Insurance is making insurance affordable, relevant and accessible for everyone with its one simple plan that covers for health, life, household and more. Be it small insurance packs for your day to day possessions, topical health hazards or protecting you and your family for life, Toffee does all the heavy lifting in easy monthly payments. Find your Toffee here: www.toffeeinsurance.com!

Apollo Agriculture, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. We use agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that can double farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data and crop yield models. Our team team brings together tech and operations experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired for ~$1B), Tesla, and One Acre Fund.

MeraDoctor

Seed Round in 2013
MeraDoctor is India's largest platform for live chat consultations with doctors. Their focus is on quickly getting users high-quality medical advice from licensed, carefully screened and trained doctors. By focusing on chat (like WhatsApp), they give people the most convenient and easy way to get advice.

IntooBR

Seed Round in 2015
Intoo is a B2B plataform that facilitates the proccess of getting credit before banks and institutional investors.

StreetShares

Seed Round in 2014
StreetShares, Inc. operates a peer to peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. The company provides a lending-as-a-service (LaaS) based platform that allows community banks and credit unions to make business loans. Its products include term loans, business bonds, StreetShares Pro Investing, and secured and unsecured small business loans. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

StreetShares

Series A in 2016
StreetShares, Inc. operates a peer to peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. The company provides a lending-as-a-service (LaaS) based platform that allows community banks and credit unions to make business loans. Its products include term loans, business bonds, StreetShares Pro Investing, and secured and unsecured small business loans. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

Coda Payments Pte Ltd.

Series A in 2013
Coda Payments Pte Ltd. offers mobile payment solutions that enable customers to make payments for online digital content and services from their mobile phones. The company offers PulsaQ, a prepaid mobile credit payment solution. It serves mobile-owners in Indonesia. Coda Payments Pte Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Singapore.
Umati Capital is a start-up financial services company that aims to revolutionize access to finance through the consistent and innovative use of technology. Launched in September 2012, they are a non-bank financial institution focused on the provision of credit and related payment technologies. They are currently focused within agri-business supply chains, retailer value chains and fast moving consumer goods manufacturers. They leverage proprietary technology to provide branchless financial services to small scale suppliers, trading companies and industrial processors.

Prayaan Capital

Seed Round in 2020
Prayaan Capital Pvt Ltd provides credit facilities to micro, small, and medium Entrepreneurs. The company provides services of loan, mobile based solutions; insurances; advisory services such as business avenues, government schemes, subsidiaries, and research materials; business enhancement tools; banking products; and tracking of financial health. Prayaan Capital Pvt Ltd was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Chennai, India.

Quippi

Venture Round in 2014
Quippi Corporation operates as an international shopping card company. It offers gift cards that are sold in the United States and are accepted at retailers in Mexico. The company’s gift card enables its user’s friends or families in a foreign country to spend it at its retail partners. It sells its products through its Website, retail stores, and a network of sales associates. Quippi Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is based in La Jolla, California. As of October 6, 2015, Quippi Corporation operates as a subsidiary of EMIDA Technologies, Inc.

Apollo Agriculture, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. We use agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that can double farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data and crop yield models. Our team team brings together tech and operations experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired for ~$1B), Tesla, and One Acre Fund.

Pula Advisors

Seed Round in 2018
Pula is an insurance intermediary that implements data driven agricultural insurance. Pula assists hundreds of thousands of small-scale farmers across 6 countries in Africa. Farmers are able to safeguard their crops and invest in their farms through financial tools that take advantage of the rising use of mobile technology.

SMECorner.com

Seed Round in 2018
SMEcorner is a financial lending firm that focuses on providing quick access to business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises. The companys mission is to fill India's SME lending gap with the use of an online platform that combines machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. SME owners can fund their business through their 2 different products which are the unsecured business loans and loan against property. SMEcorner's lending process is based on a combination of traditional and new alternate data, with strong use of decision science. SMEcorner was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Toffee Insurance

Series A in 2019
Toffee Insurance is making insurance affordable, relevant and accessible for everyone with its one simple plan that covers for health, life, household and more. Be it small insurance packs for your day to day possessions, topical health hazards or protecting you and your family for life, Toffee does all the heavy lifting in easy monthly payments. Find your Toffee here: www.toffeeinsurance.com!

Self Lender

Series A in 2017
Self Financial is a venture-backed fintech startup that helps customers build credit and save money. It provides tools necessary for building on-time payment history and responsible use of credit, in collaboration with issuing banks.s services are for those who are new to credit or who might not have access to traditional financial products. It offers Self Credit Builder Account to help consumers build both credit and savings without relying on credit history and Self Visa Credit Card, a card that helps existing customers build their security deposit in instalments. Self Financial is formerly known as Self Lender. The startup was founded by Conor Swanson and James Garvey in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Clip

Seed Round in 2013
Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.

CIVICO

Series A in 2019
CÍVICO is a digital company that maps cities and citizens by crowdsourcing location data to drive transactions between consumers, merchants and brands. CÍVICO is currently up and running in México City, Bogotá and Santiago with more than 4 million monthly active users using our apps and web, 1,000,000 crowdsourced places in its database and 50,000 crowdsourcer´s mapping their cities. From the consumer perspective, we are solving their daily needs in their city by aggregating all their city in a single app. CÍVICO is a multipurpose app where we are building and mapping the most relevant digital information system which includes local places, news, public transport, bicycles, events, movies, deliveries, and much more. From the business perspective, we are understanding real time consumer behavior by mapping daily life in the city and we connect those consumers with key markets in a city. Currently we are focused on 4 key players in a city: merchants/smb´s, banks, brands and government.

Destácame SpA

Seed Round in 2016
Destácame SpA develops and markets a credit-ranking service that gives customers an account of their credit rating. The company is based in Santiago, Chile.

First Circle

Venture Round in 2017
First Circle exists to radically improve the course of opportunity for SMEs across South East Asia; to help business owners achieve growth beyond their wildest dreams; to expand their First Circle past their family and friends. They are creating great technology which allows us to bring together the best businesses. We provide them with the funding and support they need to grow for many years to come. They do this with a simple online account, advanced data analytics, dedicated customer success representatives, and a community of business owners complete with a host of useful resources.

Lend Street Financial, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Lend Street Financial, Inc. provides consumer lending solutions for people in financial distress to refinance their old debt and rebuild their credit. The company also negotiates with customers’ creditor to get a discount on their debt. It serves customers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

eMoneyPool, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
eMoneyPool is an online money marketplace that specializes in short term savings. It operates as an online community portal for peer-lending groups. It enables its users to pool money each month and take turns receiving the total lump sum. The company offers an online platform that helps people access capital through their social networks and creates a path for individuals to access traditional mainstream lenders by leveraging alternative credit and payment histories. eMoneyPoo was founded by Francisco Cervera in 2012 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

First Access

Venture Round in 2015
First Access is a financial technology company that offers a smart data platform for emerging market financial institutions. Micro and SME lenders have a clear path to a digital future. With an intuitive user experience for digitizing paper-based operations, institutions can collect rich data, monitor trends, and then automate processes while gaining more trust in the data. First Access has leveraged its credit scoring experience to allow incremental change without disrupting day-to-day operations. Financial institutions can grow more sophisticated with data, incorporating machine learning insights as it goes. The company's mission is to turn data into financial opportunity by helping lenders around the world digitize and automate access to credit with powerful, user-friendly technology. First Access was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.

Flex Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their third birthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.

Lumkani

Seed Round in 2018
Lumkani is a social enterprise known for its fire detector and system designed to overcome the shack-fire challenge in urban slums in South Africa and across the globe with the use of a heat detection technology. It measures the incidence of harmful fires and alert families inside the shack of the danger, using the rate-of-rise of temperature technology. Its devices are networked using transmission technology which connects each device within a 60 meter radius of each other. In the event of a fire, devices within this range ring creating a community-wide response to the danger. Lumkani is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Salud Fácil

Seed Round in 2013
Salud Fácil provides financing for patients at the base of the economic pyramid to gain access to healthcare and medical services at low interest rates. Salud Fácil finances all types of medical procedures addressing the need for quality and affordable care in a market where out-of-pocket healthcare costs represent 52% of total healthcare costs (highest in OEDC) and only 5% of the population can afford private insurance.
Lend Street Financial, Inc. provides consumer lending solutions for people in financial distress to refinance their old debt and rebuild their credit. The company also negotiates with customers’ creditor to get a discount on their debt. It serves customers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

SmartMEI

Seed Round in 2017
SmartMEI provides banking and automated accounting for micro-entrepreneurs in Brazil. The company was started by two Brazilian graduates from the MBA Class of ‘15 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who wanted to use cutting-edge technology to help entrepreneurs in their home country to thrive. SmartMEI is a business-in-a-box solution that takes care of the basic back-office needs of every micro-business owner: being in full compliance with the government, collecting from clients, making payments and managing cash. SmartMEI is currently being used by companies in more than 3.500 cities all over Brazil.

Clip

Seed Round in 2013
Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.

Quippi

Seed Round in 2013
Quippi Corporation operates as an international shopping card company. It offers gift cards that are sold in the United States and are accepted at retailers in Mexico. The company’s gift card enables its user’s friends or families in a foreign country to spend it at its retail partners. It sells its products through its Website, retail stores, and a network of sales associates. Quippi Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is based in La Jolla, California. As of October 6, 2015, Quippi Corporation operates as a subsidiary of EMIDA Technologies, Inc.

Aire Labs Ltd.

Venture Round in 2016
Aire provides credit assessment services that gives people a new credit score to help them qualify for essential financial products. Aire is committed to helping people with the world of credit. They work with financial institutions by enhancing their ability to reach more customers and serve them responsibly. They are authorised & regulated in the UK by the FCA to provide credit references as one of the newest entrants in this sector. The company was founded on 2014 and based in London.

Aire Labs Ltd.

Venture Round in 2016
Aire provides credit assessment services that gives people a new credit score to help them qualify for essential financial products. Aire is committed to helping people with the world of credit. They work with financial institutions by enhancing their ability to reach more customers and serve them responsibly. They are authorised & regulated in the UK by the FCA to provide credit references as one of the newest entrants in this sector. The company was founded on 2014 and based in London.

Tez Financial Services

Seed Round in 2018
Tez Financial Services Limited provides digital non-banking micro financing services. The company develops an application through which it aggregates credit, savings, insurance, and investments into a single platform. Its products include Tez advance which provides nano credit services; Tez Bima which distributes insurance; and Tez Sarmaya which caters to the medium-to-long term investment needs. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Karachi, Pakistan.