Harbor Road Ventures

Over the past decade, financial inclusion has risen as a global priority. Extending affordable, effective, and client-centric financial services, especially to low-income populations and small businesses, creates countless opportunities—allowing individuals to put food on the table, afford better health care, start a business, or save for retirement. For governments, financial inclusion lays the foundation for stability and inclusive economic growth For the global community, financial inclusion helps accelerate economic progress, reduce extreme poverty, and build shared prosperity. Together we can make a significant contribution to help increase financial inclusion with those people who are unbanked and that have a smartphone.

Kanvas Labs is building a mobile platform that allows its users to create micro-social networks around real world experiences. It enables its users to create videos with photos and gifs or record with a custom stop motion camera. These clips can be edited with text, stickers, overlays, drawings, or music and then shared with friends and followers on the networks, as well as other social destinations such as [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook), [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), [Tumblr](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tumblr), and [Instagram](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/instagram).

Fondu (formerly SpotOn) was a community for sharing bite-sized reviews about places to eat and drink. Users wrote a short review of places they visited and gave it a rating of 1-4 "petals" that got pushed to their followers in the community. After launching SpotOn as an NYC only beta at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May, the team spent a lot of time refining the recommendation engine and testing with users. Based on extensive user feedback, the team decided to evolve their product into a social network for bite-sized reviews and renamed the company to Fondu. Fondu was acquired by [Airbnb] (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-buys-fondu-2012-10) in 2012