Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is an international nonprofit organization established in 1979 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It aims to support individuals and communities in overcoming challenges posed by conflict, crisis, and natural disasters. The organization provides a range of services, including emergency relief, agriculture and economic development, housing and infrastructure support, as well as nonviolent conflict management. Mercy Corps also emphasizes financial assistance through donations and planned giving programs, and it actively invests in local economies by offering small business loans and grants to help vulnerable populations achieve sustainable livelihoods. Throughout its history, Mercy Corps has responded to numerous global emergencies and has provided approximately $3.7 billion in lifesaving assistance. The organization focuses on critical areas such as climate, food security, gender equality, and sanitation, and it is dedicated to empowering youth affected by violence to become advocates for change in their communities.

Hebe Foster

Platform Associate

Najia Hyder

Regional Director, Caucasus, Central and South Asia

Jennifer Schmidt

Director, Corporate Partnerships

36 past transactions

Tappi

Seed Round in 2023
Tappi is a full-stack SaaS business built for small businesses in Africa to help them find customers online. We help SMBs get discovered, find customers, and build their reputation using messaging, payments, and AI.

AgriAku

Series A in 2022
AgriAku is a technology-driven local agribusiness company focused on enhancing the agricultural value chain. It operates a marketplace that connects agricultural supply stores with manufacturers and distributors, allowing traders and farm shop owners to access a comprehensive range of agricultural inputs, including seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals, and equipment, at competitive prices. Through its Agroaku Mitra and Agroaku Hub apps, AgriAku provides full-stack agricultural services tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers, facilitating easier procurement and improving the efficiency of the agricultural supply process.

Verqor

Seed Round in 2022
Verqor is a financial technology platform that aims to transform the agricultural sector by facilitating access to cashless credit for farmers. Through its innovative platform, farmers can purchase supplies and machinery on credit, enabling them to enhance their productivity. Verqor employs alternative data-driven credit scoring methods to promote financial inclusion, allowing financial institutions to issue low-risk credits based on a more comprehensive assessment of farmers' creditworthiness. Additionally, the platform fosters connections among various stakeholders in the agriculture industry, including buyers, sellers, and financial institutions, improving transparency and control within the supply chain. By leveraging technology and alternative financing solutions, Verqor supports farmers in optimizing their operations and accessing essential resources.

Open Forest Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is an open-source platform designed to facilitate the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of forestation data for projects of any size globally. By utilizing blockchain technology, OFP enables individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and governments to create transparent and immutable proof-of-impact data that is verified by independent experts. This innovative approach aims to enhance the monitoring and funding of reforestation, afforestation, and conservation initiatives. OFP seeks to establish a more inclusive and scalable framework for financing nature-based climate solutions, thereby contributing to the global response to climate change.

AgriAku

Seed Round in 2022
AgriAku is a technology-driven local agribusiness company focused on enhancing the agricultural value chain. It operates a marketplace that connects agricultural supply stores with manufacturers and distributors, allowing traders and farm shop owners to access a comprehensive range of agricultural inputs, including seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals, and equipment, at competitive prices. Through its Agroaku Mitra and Agroaku Hub apps, AgriAku provides full-stack agricultural services tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers, facilitating easier procurement and improving the efficiency of the agricultural supply process.

Umoja

Venture Round in 2021
Emerging Impact modernizes financial services in emerging markets through blockchain technology. It is a benefit corporation that supports NGOs and government agencies leverage blockchain technology as a tool for humanitarian programming. The Oakland, California-headquartered company was established in 2020.

Kuunda

Seed Round in 2021
Kuunda operates a B2B advisory platform that focuses on providing financial services tailored for developing economies. The company offers a range of tools, including liquidity management and data insight solutions, which help clients meet their financial requirements through a digital interface. By enabling users to access liquidity, Kuunda supports underserved agents, merchants, and consumers, facilitating their ability to maintain their standard of living, grow their businesses, and enhance economic resilience. Additionally, Kuunda's platform promotes increased network productivity and expands the distribution of products, yielding tangible and measurable results for its clients.

Ejara

Seed Round in 2021
Ejara is an app for Africa and its diasporas to access various investment offers fractional shares, commodities, cryptocurrency, and more.

Topl

Venture Round in 2021
Topl LLC, founded in 2017, is based in Houston, Texas, and specializes in blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) for supply chain management and certification. The company has developed The Topl Blockchain, which serves as a protocol designed to support ethical and sustainable practices by allowing organizations to track and trace their supply chains comprehensively. This technology enables businesses to verify and monetize their commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. Additionally, Topl provides a suite of hosted services and tools that facilitate user interaction with its blockchain, enhancing accessibility for companies seeking to leverage this technology. By focusing on the impact space, Topl aims to transform ethical practices into tangible assets within the economy.

Pivo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pivo is a financial platform designed to support small and medium-sized businesses across Africa by providing access to a comprehensive range of financial services in one location. The platform aims to democratize finance, offering tools specifically tailored for the supply chain sector. By streamlining access to various financial services, Pivo enables its clients to efficiently engage with borderless financial solutions, promoting enhanced operational efficiency and growth opportunities for businesses in the region.

Ignitia

Series A in 2021
Ignitia AB is a company based in Stockholm, Sweden, that specializes in producing high-resolution weather forecasts and climate data tailored for tropical regions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since its commercial launch in 2015, Ignitia has focused on enhancing agricultural productivity and resilience among small-scale farmers by providing hyper-local weather updates via SMS based on GPS locations. Its services include daily, monthly, and seasonal rain forecasts, short-term forecasting, climate statistics, and early warning systems for storms and extreme weather. The company's technology is specifically designed to predict rapid weather changes driven by convection forces, which are common in tropical climates. Ignitia's offerings support various sectors, including agriculture, industry, mining, and offshore applications, aiming to mitigate the adverse effects of an unpredictable climate on farming and other activities.

Cloud to Street

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a remote sensing platform created to map floods in real time. The company's remote sensing platform delivers dynamic risk information in a Web dashboard at a fraction of the cost of traditional flood modeling by predicting the size and damage of flood as the storm approaches, enabling catastrophe insurers, communities and watershed managers to understand their risk and prepare and respond to the next flood.

PayHippo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
PayHippo is a financial technology company focused on providing financing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. It offers automated underwriting and credit assessment tools that facilitate the flow of capital to approximately 40 million small businesses in the region. Through its API integration, PayHippo enables partners to effectively monitor the SMEs utilizing its financing services. The company specializes in providing various financial products, including working capital loans, asset financing, and inventory financing, which help businesses acquire necessary equipment and access clean energy solutions. By bridging the financing gap for SMEs, PayHippo contributes to the growth and sustainability of small businesses in Africa.

Goldfinch

Venture Round in 2021
Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.

OKO

Seed Round in 2021
OKO specializes in providing crop micro-insurance services aimed at supporting farmers in emerging markets. By leveraging satellite technology, the company assesses risk and develops tailored insurance products that are accessible and affordable for small farmers. OKO utilizes mobile technologies to facilitate the distribution of insurance, collection of premiums, and management of claims, allowing farmers to receive personalized and automated policies directly through their mobile phones. This innovative approach ensures that farmers have financial protection against adverse weather conditions such as droughts and excessive rainfall, enhancing their resilience and security in unpredictable agricultural environments.

Powered by People

Seed Round in 2021
Powered by People is a mobile-first, distributed manufacturing system offering online tools, financing solutions, and a B2B marketplace to the small and mid-sized enterprises in the creative manufacturing and handmade sector.

ImaliPay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.

Teliman

Seed Round in 2021
Teliman has launched the very first on-demand taxi-moto service in Bamako, connecting urban commuters with professional drivers (trained, equipped and fully insured) in Africa’s fastest growing capital (Bamako). Rather than “disrupting” the local eco-system, Teliman aims at developing innovative solutions to create shared value for a community where public transportation is highly insufficient and 600,000+ passengers struggle every day to commute. Having gained the trust of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (via CFAO) and local investors in pre-seed, Teliman aims to provide a safe, convenient and affordable solution for Mali and West-Africa.

SympliFi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SympliFi is to help diaspora around the world realize their financial goals in their home country.

Valiu

Seed Round in 2020
Valiu Inc. is a fintech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, that specializes in electronic fund transfer services from Colombia to Venezuela. The company has developed a mobile application designed to facilitate a dollar savings and transfer system, making financial services accessible to all Venezuelans, including migrants and their families. This service is tailored to accommodate users of varying socioeconomic backgrounds and different mobile device capabilities, ensuring that a broad audience can utilize its offerings.

Valiu

Seed Round in 2020
Valiu Inc. is a fintech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, that specializes in electronic fund transfer services from Colombia to Venezuela. The company has developed a mobile application designed to facilitate a dollar savings and transfer system, making financial services accessible to all Venezuelans, including migrants and their families. This service is tailored to accommodate users of varying socioeconomic backgrounds and different mobile device capabilities, ensuring that a broad audience can utilize its offerings.

Turaco

Seed Round in 2020
Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.

Turaco

Seed Round in 2019
Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.

Valiu

Seed Round in 2019
Valiu Inc. is a fintech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, that specializes in electronic fund transfer services from Colombia to Venezuela. The company has developed a mobile application designed to facilitate a dollar savings and transfer system, making financial services accessible to all Venezuelans, including migrants and their families. This service is tailored to accommodate users of varying socioeconomic backgrounds and different mobile device capabilities, ensuring that a broad audience can utilize its offerings.

Beyond Capital

Grant in 2019
Beyond Capital Fund ("BCF") is an impact investment fund that promotes economic development in impoverished communities through investments.

Meridia

Venture Round in 2019
Meridia is a mobile platform dedicated to supporting smallholder farmer families by providing them with documentation of their land. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Meridia addresses the challenges these families face, including limited land rights and restricted access to essential services. The platform enables users to create a profile that allows them to access tailored inputs and financial services, helping to improve their livelihoods. Meridia operates in multiple countries, including Indonesia, Ghana, and Albania, aiming to empower smallholder farmers by integrating them into the formal economy.

Harvesting

Venture Round in 2018
Harvesting Inc. operates a global business intelligence platform focused on agriculture. The company's software-as-a-service platform enables stakeholders in the agricultural value chain to view, analyze, and manage agri-climatic business risks through comprehensive data collection, analysis, and reporting. Its agriculture intelligence engine offers insights from croplands, including daily satellite images to assess the state of cropland and relevant weather information. By processing various datasets and employing machine learning algorithms, the platform delivers accurate information essential for agricultural operations. The online dashboard is particularly beneficial for crop insurance companies, allowing them to monitor and analyze risks while enhancing their insurance programs. Additionally, Harvesting provides crop monitoring and risk assessment services for seed, fertilizer, and pesticide companies, along with sugar mills. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company is dedicated to improving decision-making within the agricultural sector.

Vega Coffee

Venture Round in 2018
The Vega Marketplace will eventually feature farmers representing a variety of regions and coffee varietals. Customers will be able to search for farmers and select coffee based on origin, tasting notes, and/or roasting profile.

Pula

Seed Round in 2018
Pula GmbH is an insurance intermediary based in Mollis, Switzerland, specializing in agricultural insurance broking services. The company focuses on providing data-driven insurance solutions for small-scale farmers across six countries in Africa. By leveraging machine learning and analyzing weather patterns and farm losses, Pula helps farmers navigate climate risks and enhance their agricultural practices. Through the use of mobile technology, Pula empowers hundreds of thousands of smallholders to protect their crops and make informed financial decisions, ultimately enabling them to invest in their farms and improve their overall income.

Liftit

Seed Round in 2017
Liftit is a B2B logistics company that connects providers of cargo transportation services with companies or people who need this service. It is a marketplace that connects shippers who need to deliver home goods, electronics, construction materials, and anything that fits into a truck with independent truck drivers who can fulfill those needs. The company's platform is intended to use technological innovation to connect, optimize, measure analyze, and solve problems in the logistics industry. Founded in 2017, Liftit is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

Lynk Jobs

Seed Round in 2017
Lynk Jobs Limited operates a digital platform that connects informal workers, such as artisans and service providers, with households and businesses seeking their services. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Lynk facilitates the recruitment of professionals across various categories, including cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, and wellness services. Users can describe their project needs, receive quotes from verified professionals, and manage logistics through the platform. Lynk addresses the challenges faced by informal workers by providing them with job security, fair wages, and opportunities for skill development. Additionally, the company offers training courses focused on personal and professional growth, further enhancing the capabilities of the workers in its network.

Suyo

Grant in 2017
Suyo Columbia SAS is a Colombian company that specializes in property formalization services aimed at low-income families in urban areas, specifically in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Medellín, Suyo assists residents of informal settlements in securing legal recognition of their property rights. By leveraging modern technology alongside a team of legal and property professionals, Suyo provides a range of services, including land titling, building registration, successions, and property purchase studies. The company is committed to offering affordable and reliable solutions, significantly reducing costs compared to other providers in the region.

FarmDrive

Venture Round in 2017
FarmDrive Limited is a technology company based in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on providing alternative credit scoring for smallholder farmers in Africa. Founded in 2014, the company collects and aggregates various alternative datasets to build credit scores, helping to bridge the data gap that often hinders financial institutions from lending to creditworthy farmers. By utilizing mobile technology and machine learning, FarmDrive connects these farmers to essential financial services such as loans, digital payments, insurance, and savings. In addition to empowering farmers, the company offers products and services to financial institutions, aiding them in expanding their agricultural portfolios while managing risks and reducing operational costs. Through its innovative approach, FarmDrive aims to enhance access to financial resources for underserved rural clients, thereby fostering sustainable and profitable farming businesses.

Wasoko

Seed Round in 2017
Sokowatch revolutionizes access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. Through individual agents equipped with proprietary mobile data-collection tools, Sokowatch increases sales and market coverage for companies in emerging markets. It enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers. Sokowatch evaluates retailers to provide them with access to credit and other financial services typically not available to informal businesses. Sokowatch's systems track real-time sales and orders across thousands of stores. Access to market trends and purchasing habits enables manufacturers to tailor their marketing strategies and allows Sokowatch to offer personalized promotions and business insights to individual retailers.
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