Accion

Accion is a global nonprofit organization founded in 1961 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dedicated to promoting financial inclusion. The organization works to provide underserved individuals and small businesses with access to essential financial tools that can enhance their lives and foster community growth. Accion engages with financial service providers to deliver affordable, high-quality solutions at scale, challenging industry norms and advocating for regulatory changes to support financial accessibility. Through its Venture Lab initiative, Accion invests in innovative fintech startups that utilize technology and new business models to improve the quality and reduce the cost of financial services for those traditionally excluded from the formal economy. The organization offers both financial investments and strategic support, including governance and operational assistance, to help these startups grow and succeed. Accion's commitment to enhancing financial health and capabilities aims to create a more inclusive financial landscape globally.

Amee Parbhoo

Director of Investments

Vikas Raj

Managing Director, Accion Venture Lab

Raliat Sunmonu

Vice President and Program Manager, MEA

Past deals in Crowdfunding

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.

Cashinvoice

Seed Round in 2021
Cashinvoice is a digital marketplace that unlocks supply chain finance for small businesses. They provide a technology platform that links financial institutions, large corporations, and their MSME supply chain partners to extend working capital by offering embedded lending products that grow and scale. Cashinvoice's technologies enable corporations to accelerate their transformation, modernize and mobilize their finance team's operations, and maximize their business performance.

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.

SMECorner

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.

Flex Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Due to poor financial management, 9 out of 10 businesses in Africa will die before their 5th birthday. The problem persists as there is no Spend management platform to help these businesses manage their finances. Leaving them at the mercy of outdated processes Businesses in Africa have high digital literacy and are willing to adopt digital tools to help them manage their finances. Flex is a spend management platform that helps businesses in Africa manage their spending via mobile, web and corporate cards.

Lulalend

Series A in 2019
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!

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.

SMECorner

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.

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.

Self

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.

Self

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.

SMECorner

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.

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.

Self

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.

Self

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.

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.

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!

StreetShares

Series A in 2016
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

SMECorner

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.

StreetShares

Seed Round in 2015
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

IntooBR

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

Konfio

Convertible Note in 2014
Konfio is a financial services platform for small and medium businesses in Mexico that offers corporate credit cards, working capital loans, and payment solutions. Founded in 2013, Konfio's mission is to boost SME growth and productivity in Mexico.

StreetShares

Seed Round in 2014
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

eMoneyPool

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.
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