International Finance Corporation

International Finance Corporation (IFC), established in 1956 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a member of the World Bank Group dedicated to private sector development in developing countries. The organization provides a range of financial and advisory services to foster economic growth across various sectors, including agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and technology. IFC invests in both direct projects and funds, focusing on emerging markets and prioritizing sustainability and inclusive development. It offers a diverse array of financial instruments, such as equity, loans, and quasi-equity products, while adhering to strict investment guidelines that exclude certain industries, such as weapons, tobacco, and gambling. IFC typically invests between $1 million and $100 million, supporting projects that are predominantly privately owned in member countries. The organization does not actively manage portfolio companies but seeks to exit investments through equity sales or public listings, often maintaining equity stakes for eight to fifteen years.

Wale Ayeni

Regional Head Africa Venture Capital

Paulo De Bolle

Director, Special Situations

Ali Demirci

Global Head, Venture Capital Funds

Andi Dervishi

Chief Investment Officer and Global Head, Fintech

Imad N. Fakhoury

IFC Regional Director South Asia

Allen Forlemu

Regional Industry Director, Financial Institutions Group, Asia and Pacific

Mary Peschka

Regional Director for Eastern Africa

Search, Leila

Senior Investment Officer and Program Officer

Oumar Seydi

IFC Regional Director, Africa

Past deals in Transport and logistics

Gozem

Venture Round in 2022
Gozem is an application that offers its users transportation, delivery, and cashless payment services. It offers diverse ride-hailing services, such as motorcycle-taxis, car-taxis, and tricycle-taxis, as well as grocery delivery and other offerings.

Toters

Series B in 2022
Toters operates a marketplace that connects customers with retailers, and leverages a network of couriers to deliver from any store in your city. Toters also operates dark grocery stores under the brand Toters Fresh, and holds the leadership position across all verticals and markets it operates in.

Kobo360

Series B in 2021
Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits. Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Bizongo

Series D in 2021
Bizongo is a technology-driven B2B e-commerce and supply chain platform that specializes in packaging, textiles, apparel, and other custom-made products. Founded in 2015 by IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, the company aims to transform the fragmented and disorganized market of customized goods. With a network of over 1,500 curated manufacturers, Bizongo offers services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing solutions. These services help businesses overcome challenges related to inventory management, reduce operational costs, and streamline contract management, thus enhancing efficiency in the production of made-to-order products.

Truck Lagbe

Series A in 2021
Truck Lagbe is Bangladesh's shipping and freight booking and logistics platform. Shippers can book short-haul and long-haul trips from vehicles ranging from 1 ton up to 25 tons in size. The app is available on Android and iOS.

Blackbuck

Series E in 2021
Keeping technology at the core, Blackbuck is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Blackbuck's comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Blackbuck marks the beginning. Founded in 2015, BlackBuck has been a pioneer in bringing the offline operations of trucking online, be it matching a shipper with a trucker or reshaping the infrastructure around trucking to facilitate payments, insurance, and financial services. BlackBuck is committed to making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity and enable shippers of all sizes to have access to the right truck, at the right time for the right price – all at a click of a button. Today, BlackBuck is India’s largest trucking network, and the company’s robust technology platforms deliver reliability, efficiency and seamless experience for shippers and truckers. BlackBuck is powered by a 2000 strong incredible team and is supported by the best of investors’ fraternity that includes Accel Partners, Apoletto Asia, B Capital, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, IFC, Light Street, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Wellington. BlackBuck has won ‘CNBC-TV18 - Young Turks Startup of the Year’ award and ‘Zee Business- Company of the year-Logistics’ award in 2018. BlackBuck is also the subject of a ‘Harvard Business School’ case study.

Bizongo

Series C in 2021
Bizongo is a technology-driven B2B e-commerce and supply chain platform that specializes in packaging, textiles, apparel, and other custom-made products. Founded in 2015 by IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, the company aims to transform the fragmented and disorganized market of customized goods. With a network of over 1,500 curated manufacturers, Bizongo offers services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing solutions. These services help businesses overcome challenges related to inventory management, reduce operational costs, and streamline contract management, thus enhancing efficiency in the production of made-to-order products.

Bolt

Convertible Note in 2021
Bolt Technology OÜ is a transportation platform based in Tallinn, Estonia, that provides ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. Founded in 2013, Bolt operates a smartphone application that allows users to book taxis directly, selecting options based on price and quality ratings, while also tracking the driver's arrival in real time. The platform aims to enhance urban mobility by offering a reliable and accessible alternative to traditional transportation methods, contributing to reduced traffic congestion and pollution in cities. With over 50 million customers across more than 40 countries, Bolt is recognized as one of the fastest-growing startups globally, striving to create a future with less reliance on car ownership.

Bizongo

Series C in 2021
Bizongo is a technology-driven B2B e-commerce and supply chain platform that specializes in packaging, textiles, apparel, and other custom-made products. Founded in 2015 by IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, the company aims to transform the fragmented and disorganized market of customized goods. With a network of over 1,500 curated manufacturers, Bizongo offers services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing solutions. These services help businesses overcome challenges related to inventory management, reduce operational costs, and streamline contract management, thus enhancing efficiency in the production of made-to-order products.

tembici.

Series B in 2020
Tembici is the leading micro-mobility player in Latin America, providing first and last mile transportation solutions do daily commuters.

Bizongo

Series C in 2020
Bizongo is a technology-driven B2B e-commerce and supply chain platform that specializes in packaging, textiles, apparel, and other custom-made products. Founded in 2015 by IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, the company aims to transform the fragmented and disorganized market of customized goods. With a network of over 1,500 curated manufacturers, Bizongo offers services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing solutions. These services help businesses overcome challenges related to inventory management, reduce operational costs, and streamline contract management, thus enhancing efficiency in the production of made-to-order products.

Shadowfax

Series D in 2019
Shadowfax is an on-demand logistics network that provides tech-enabled delivery solutions. Shadowfax’s unique app enables delivery of food, pharmacy,y, and e-commerce for businesses and helps them create customer delight using technology. With a focus on engineering pleasant experiences for customers, Shadowfax envisions becoming a desirable and trustworthy delivery platform for customers.

TruKKer

Series A in 2019
TruKKer is a technology-enabled truck aggregator that operates multiple truck types for multiple end markets. The company integrates demand and supply for land freight services. The network is built on real-time data analytics that creates reliability, transparency, and utilization-based savings for Shippers and thousands of transporters. The network’s rapid growth and scale are creating multiple opportunities through data monetization and consolidated procurement. Trukker's cloud-based freight solutions offer end-to-end coverage and a full-service portfolio for shippers, carriers, and businesses alike. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Kobo360

Series A in 2019
Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits. Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Bizongo

Series C in 2019
Bizongo is a technology-driven B2B e-commerce and supply chain platform that specializes in packaging, textiles, apparel, and other custom-made products. Founded in 2015 by IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, the company aims to transform the fragmented and disorganized market of customized goods. With a network of over 1,500 curated manufacturers, Bizongo offers services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing solutions. These services help businesses overcome challenges related to inventory management, reduce operational costs, and streamline contract management, thus enhancing efficiency in the production of made-to-order products.

TruKKer

Venture Round in 2019
TruKKer is a technology-enabled truck aggregator that operates multiple truck types for multiple end markets. The company integrates demand and supply for land freight services. The network is built on real-time data analytics that creates reliability, transparency, and utilization-based savings for Shippers and thousands of transporters. The network’s rapid growth and scale are creating multiple opportunities through data monetization and consolidated procurement. Trukker's cloud-based freight solutions offer end-to-end coverage and a full-service portfolio for shippers, carriers, and businesses alike. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Blackbuck

Series D in 2019
Keeping technology at the core, Blackbuck is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Blackbuck's comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Blackbuck marks the beginning. Founded in 2015, BlackBuck has been a pioneer in bringing the offline operations of trucking online, be it matching a shipper with a trucker or reshaping the infrastructure around trucking to facilitate payments, insurance, and financial services. BlackBuck is committed to making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity and enable shippers of all sizes to have access to the right truck, at the right time for the right price – all at a click of a button. Today, BlackBuck is India’s largest trucking network, and the company’s robust technology platforms deliver reliability, efficiency and seamless experience for shippers and truckers. BlackBuck is powered by a 2000 strong incredible team and is supported by the best of investors’ fraternity that includes Accel Partners, Apoletto Asia, B Capital, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, IFC, Light Street, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Wellington. BlackBuck has won ‘CNBC-TV18 - Young Turks Startup of the Year’ award and ‘Zee Business- Company of the year-Logistics’ award in 2018. BlackBuck is also the subject of a ‘Harvard Business School’ case study.

Visakha Container Terminal

Debt Financing in 2019
Visakha Container Terminal operates terminals and ports. The business provides storage, railway services, reefer operations, and container handling. In order to offer customers and suppliers secure, dependable services, they are outfitted with full-featured workshop and fueling facility modern software systems. These systems also have the adaptability to meet innovative client requirements for electronic data interchange.

Sohan Lal Commodity Management

Debt Financing in 2019
SLCM group is a one stop comprehensive agri-logistics company, having its Corporate Office in Delhi providing comprehensive agri-commodity Warehouse Management, Procurement, Logistics and Financial solutions to farmers, processors, traders, agri exchanges and government across India and now in Myanmar.

Liftit

Series A in 2018
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.

Kobo360

Seed Round in 2018
Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits. Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Bizongo

Series B in 2018
Bizongo is a technology-driven B2B e-commerce and supply chain platform that specializes in packaging, textiles, apparel, and other custom-made products. Founded in 2015 by IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, the company aims to transform the fragmented and disorganized market of customized goods. With a network of over 1,500 curated manufacturers, Bizongo offers services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing solutions. These services help businesses overcome challenges related to inventory management, reduce operational costs, and streamline contract management, thus enhancing efficiency in the production of made-to-order products.

Mandaê

Series B in 2018
Mandaê joins logistics and technology to innovate the delivery industry with a fluid and uncomplicated service. Think "UPS without the trucks": Mandaê is reinventing parcel logistics through a digital platform that organizes the entirety of the parcel supply chain to deliver a seamless, high-quality and efficient parcel shipment service for SMBs in Brazil. The company's model is asset-light, working with players across each of the principal steps of the parcel supply chain: pickups, cross-docking, and last-mile transport. In a country where the national postal service is effectively the only shipping option for SMBs, Mandaê’s platform is the only one that allows them to use private transporters, helping SMBs save up to 35% on their shipping costs. Its mission is to “Connect Stories” through logistics. The company is well funded with backing from some of Latin America’s top investors, including Monashees, Qualcomm Ventures, Performa, Valor Capital, Hans Hickler (former CEO of DHL Express-USA) and others. Mandaê was selected to the 2015 Endeavor Startup Network, was winner of the ABComm Innovation in E-commerce Logistics Award in 2017, and winner of the São Paulo “Smart Cities” category of the 1776 Challenge Cup.

Lithium Urban Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
Lithium is a business that accelerates sustainability, by bringing solutions to the marketplace that are forward-looking, consumer-friendly and responsible. Lithium represents that unique mix of a company founded on strong commercial basis, proudly anchored in social responsibility and in continuous innovation. Lithium is India's first zero emission transport service, with our fleet of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and associated charging infrastructure, backed by strong technology platform for telemetry, GIS, employee transport management, scheduling, rostering and analytics based optimisation; and trained and certified drivers.

Blackbuck

Series C in 2017
Keeping technology at the core, Blackbuck is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Blackbuck's comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Blackbuck marks the beginning. Founded in 2015, BlackBuck has been a pioneer in bringing the offline operations of trucking online, be it matching a shipper with a trucker or reshaping the infrastructure around trucking to facilitate payments, insurance, and financial services. BlackBuck is committed to making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity and enable shippers of all sizes to have access to the right truck, at the right time for the right price – all at a click of a button. Today, BlackBuck is India’s largest trucking network, and the company’s robust technology platforms deliver reliability, efficiency and seamless experience for shippers and truckers. BlackBuck is powered by a 2000 strong incredible team and is supported by the best of investors’ fraternity that includes Accel Partners, Apoletto Asia, B Capital, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, IFC, Light Street, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Wellington. BlackBuck has won ‘CNBC-TV18 - Young Turks Startup of the Year’ award and ‘Zee Business- Company of the year-Logistics’ award in 2018. BlackBuck is also the subject of a ‘Harvard Business School’ case study.

Loggi

Series C in 2017
Loggi is connecting Brazil, using technology to reinvent logistics with a fast, cost-efficient, and reliable network. It serves major e-commerce players, SMBs and individuals on their shipping needs. Loggi is unlocking the growth of the on-demand economy, supporting new commerce for Brazil’s large, young, urban population. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Huochebang

Series B in 2016
Huochebang operates an online truck logistics platform designed to connect cargo shippers with truck drivers across China. By facilitating communication between these two groups, the platform allows truck drivers to find available freight loads and vacant parking spaces while also providing listings for truck sales and used truck auctions. This comprehensive approach helps streamline the logistics process, improving efficiency and reducing transportation costs for users in the trucking industry. Through its integrated services, Huochebang addresses the challenges faced by both truckers and shippers, enhancing their operational capabilities.

Samson Maritime

Private Equity Round in 2008
Samson Maritime is provides marine support services to the oil and gas industry in India. It offers platform supply vessels and offshore supply vessels services in the areas of supplying of oil, water, cement, and other material to offshore rigs/installations; transferring personnel; emergency evacuations and medical assistance; stand by duties; routine surveillance for safety and security reasons; and assistance in rescue operations.
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