International Finance Corporation

International Finance Corporation (IFC), established in 1956 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, is the private equity and venture capital arm of The World Bank Group. It focuses on fostering sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investments and mobilizing capital in international financial markets. IFC provides a wide range of financial products, including loans, equity, quasi-equity, and advisory services, targeting sectors such as agriculture, forestry, financial services, education, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing, retail, tourism, and technology. The organization aims to support businesses and financial institutions in emerging markets to create jobs, improve corporate governance, and enhance environmental performance. IFC typically invests between $1 million and $100 million, often taking minority stakes but preferring majority ownership in its portfolio companies. It does not engage directly in the management of its investments and usually exits through domestic stock markets or other arrangements after several years. By focusing on initiatives that benefit underserved communities, IFC contributes to local economic development and improves the quality of life for people in developing regions.

Wale Ayeni

Acting Global Head, Disruptive Technologies and Venture Capital Investments

Paulo De Bolle

Global Director

Andi Dervishi

Chief Investment Officer and Global Head, Fintech, ePayments and New Finance

Makhtar Diop

Managing Director

Imad N. Fakhoury

IFC Regional Director South Asia

Allen Forlemu

Regional Industry Director

Mary Porter Peschka

Director

Leila Search

Investment Professional

Oumar Seydi

IFC Regional Director, Africa

Past deals in Transport and logistics

Gozem

Venture Round in 2022
Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.

Toters

Series B in 2022
Toters is a delivery service that connects customers with local retailers and restaurants, facilitating the delivery of a wide range of products, including food and groceries. Since its inception in 2017, the company has experienced significant growth in Lebanon and has expanded its operations to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, serving thousands of customers each month through a network of selected partner stores. The Toters application allows users to browse local menus and store offerings, enabling them to place orders easily and track their deliveries in real time. The company focuses on enhancing the overall experience for both customers and partners through its logistics, technology, design, and support services.

Kobo360

Series B in 2021
Kobo360 is a digital logistics platform that connects cargo owners, truck operators, and drivers to streamline the supply chain process. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the platform utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency in logistics operations, particularly in last-mile delivery. Kobo360 aims to reduce communication gaps and optimize pick-ups and deliveries, ensuring goods are moved seamlessly across the continent. The company also supports rural farmers by minimizing farm wastages, thereby enabling them to access new markets and increase their earnings. In addition to its logistics services, Kobo360 plans to establish a marketplace to link farmers directly with buyers globally, which will help eliminate intermediaries and improve profitability for smallholder farmers. Ultimately, Kobo360 seeks to build a comprehensive logistics ecosystem that enhances trade and commerce in Africa and emerging markets.

Bizongo

Series D in 2021
Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace focused on the packaging and material handling industries, offering solutions for packaging sourcing, distribution, inventory management, and design. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates an automated supply chain platform that facilitates efficient inventory management while minimizing issues such as stockouts and excess inventory. Bizongo's vendor digitization platform enhances supply chain operations for made-to-order products, providing services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing. By streamlining these processes, Bizongo helps businesses optimize their operations and reduce costs.

Truck Lagbe

Series A in 2021
Truck Lagbe is a logistics platform based in Bangladesh that specializes in shipping and freight booking. The company offers an application available on both Android and iOS, allowing shippers to easily hire trucks for transporting goods. The platform accommodates various truck sizes, ranging from 1 ton to 25 tons, facilitating both short-haul and long-haul transportation. By streamlining the process of truck booking, Truck Lagbe aims to enhance logistics efficiency and ensure the safe delivery of goods for businesses.

BlackBuck

Series E in 2021
BlackBuck is an online fleet management platform that connects shippers with fleet operators in India. By leveraging technology, it aims to enhance the logistics landscape, making it more reliable and efficient. The platform provides features such as price discovery, route optimization, in-transit tracking, and assurance of timely deliveries. This comprehensive approach not only improves operational productivity for clients but also positively impacts the broader transportation ecosystem, which is crucial for numerous livelihoods. BlackBuck is positioned to drive significant advancements in the transportation sector.

Bizongo

Series C in 2021
Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace focused on the packaging and material handling industries, offering solutions for packaging sourcing, distribution, inventory management, and design. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates an automated supply chain platform that facilitates efficient inventory management while minimizing issues such as stockouts and excess inventory. Bizongo's vendor digitization platform enhances supply chain operations for made-to-order products, providing services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing. By streamlining these processes, Bizongo helps businesses optimize their operations and reduce costs.

Bolt

Convertible Note in 2021
Bolt Technology OÜ operates a transportation platform that offers ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Bolt provides a smartphone application that enables users to book taxis based on price and quality ratings, track drivers in real-time, and order services without waiting for a dispatcher. The company has expanded rapidly, serving over 50 million customers across more than 40 countries, including regions in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Bolt aims to reshape urban mobility by promoting a future with reduced car ownership and enhanced flexible transport options, thereby contributing to decreased traffic congestion and pollution in cities.

Bizongo

Series C in 2021
Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace focused on the packaging and material handling industries, offering solutions for packaging sourcing, distribution, inventory management, and design. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates an automated supply chain platform that facilitates efficient inventory management while minimizing issues such as stockouts and excess inventory. Bizongo's vendor digitization platform enhances supply chain operations for made-to-order products, providing services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing. By streamlining these processes, Bizongo helps businesses optimize their operations and reduce costs.

Tembici

Series B in 2020
Tembici is a prominent micro-mobility company in Latin America, specializing in first and last mile transportation solutions for daily commuters. The company offers shared electric bike rental services designed to integrate bicycles into the urban transport network. By providing accessible parking facilities and rental options, Tembici enables both public and private entities, including residential and corporate clients, to navigate urban environments efficiently while minimizing space usage.

Bizongo

Series C in 2020
Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace focused on the packaging and material handling industries, offering solutions for packaging sourcing, distribution, inventory management, and design. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates an automated supply chain platform that facilitates efficient inventory management while minimizing issues such as stockouts and excess inventory. Bizongo's vendor digitization platform enhances supply chain operations for made-to-order products, providing services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing. By streamlining these processes, Bizongo helps businesses optimize their operations and reduce costs.

Shadowfax

Series D in 2019
Shadowfax Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an on-demand logistics platform based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing last-mile delivery services for local businesses, including restaurants, e-commerce, FMCG, and pharmaceuticals. Shadowfax's technology-driven platform offers a comprehensive delivery solution that enhances customer experiences through efficient logistics. With a presence in over 75 cities across India and more than 7,000 active delivery personnel, the company utilizes a crowdsourced model to optimize its operations. In addition to its delivery services, Shadowfax provides clients with valuable analytics and consumer insights by analyzing delivery data, enabling merchants to focus on their core business while benefiting from improved delivery efficiency.

TruKKer

Series A in 2019
TruKKer operates a digital freight network designed to enhance land freight services by integrating demand and supply through real-time data analytics. The platform simplifies logistics and fleet management by connecting shippers with available transporters, ensuring optimal asset utilization while reducing transportation costs. By leveraging data, TruKKer promotes reliability and transparency in the logistics process, creating opportunities for cost savings and improved efficiency. Its rapid growth is facilitating data monetization and consolidated procurement, allowing businesses to navigate cross-border transportation with greater ease.

Kobo360

Series A in 2019
Kobo360 is a digital logistics platform that connects cargo owners, truck operators, and drivers to streamline the supply chain process. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the platform utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency in logistics operations, particularly in last-mile delivery. Kobo360 aims to reduce communication gaps and optimize pick-ups and deliveries, ensuring goods are moved seamlessly across the continent. The company also supports rural farmers by minimizing farm wastages, thereby enabling them to access new markets and increase their earnings. In addition to its logistics services, Kobo360 plans to establish a marketplace to link farmers directly with buyers globally, which will help eliminate intermediaries and improve profitability for smallholder farmers. Ultimately, Kobo360 seeks to build a comprehensive logistics ecosystem that enhances trade and commerce in Africa and emerging markets.

Bizongo

Series C in 2019
Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace focused on the packaging and material handling industries, offering solutions for packaging sourcing, distribution, inventory management, and design. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates an automated supply chain platform that facilitates efficient inventory management while minimizing issues such as stockouts and excess inventory. Bizongo's vendor digitization platform enhances supply chain operations for made-to-order products, providing services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing. By streamlining these processes, Bizongo helps businesses optimize their operations and reduce costs.

TruKKer

Venture Round in 2019
TruKKer operates a digital freight network designed to enhance land freight services by integrating demand and supply through real-time data analytics. The platform simplifies logistics and fleet management by connecting shippers with available transporters, ensuring optimal asset utilization while reducing transportation costs. By leveraging data, TruKKer promotes reliability and transparency in the logistics process, creating opportunities for cost savings and improved efficiency. Its rapid growth is facilitating data monetization and consolidated procurement, allowing businesses to navigate cross-border transportation with greater ease.

BlackBuck

Series D in 2019
BlackBuck is an online fleet management platform that connects shippers with fleet operators in India. By leveraging technology, it aims to enhance the logistics landscape, making it more reliable and efficient. The platform provides features such as price discovery, route optimization, in-transit tracking, and assurance of timely deliveries. This comprehensive approach not only improves operational productivity for clients but also positively impacts the broader transportation ecosystem, which is crucial for numerous livelihoods. BlackBuck is positioned to drive significant advancements in the transportation sector.

Sohan Lal Commodity Management

Debt Financing in 2019
Sohan Lal Commodity Management Pvt Ltd, based in New Delhi, India, specializes in agricultural commodity warehouse management and procurement services. Founded in 1971, the company provides a range of offerings, including commodity warehousing, agricultural financing, collateral management, risk mitigation, and analytical services. Its Commodity Market Intelligence division conducts primary and secondary crop surveys and monitors crop cycles. The company also ensures quality testing of agricultural products and offers pest control and disinfestation services for stored grains. In addition, Sohan Lal Commodity Management provides assaying, trade and export services, and skill-building initiatives. Its diverse clientele includes farmers, processors, millers, traders, importers, exporters, commodity exchanges, and government entities, with operations extending across India and into 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 digital logistics platform that connects cargo owners, truck operators, and drivers to streamline the supply chain process. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the platform utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency in logistics operations, particularly in last-mile delivery. Kobo360 aims to reduce communication gaps and optimize pick-ups and deliveries, ensuring goods are moved seamlessly across the continent. The company also supports rural farmers by minimizing farm wastages, thereby enabling them to access new markets and increase their earnings. In addition to its logistics services, Kobo360 plans to establish a marketplace to link farmers directly with buyers globally, which will help eliminate intermediaries and improve profitability for smallholder farmers. Ultimately, Kobo360 seeks to build a comprehensive logistics ecosystem that enhances trade and commerce in Africa and emerging markets.

Bizongo

Series B in 2018
Bizongo is an online B2B marketplace focused on the packaging and material handling industries, offering solutions for packaging sourcing, distribution, inventory management, and design. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, the company operates an automated supply chain platform that facilitates efficient inventory management while minimizing issues such as stockouts and excess inventory. Bizongo's vendor digitization platform enhances supply chain operations for made-to-order products, providing services such as digital vendor management, supply chain automation, and financing. By streamlining these processes, Bizongo helps businesses optimize their operations and reduce costs.

Mandaê

Series B in 2018
Mandaê Serviços de Consultoria em Logística LTDA provides air logistics services for packing and delivery. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Lithium Urban Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
Lithium Urban Technologies is a pioneering company in India that focuses on sustainability by providing electric vehicle (EV) services aimed at reducing air pollution and easing traffic congestion in urban areas. As the first zero-emission transport service in the country, Lithium operates a fleet of electric vehicles supported by a robust technology platform that includes telemetry, geographic information systems (GIS), and analytics for optimizing operations. The company emphasizes social responsibility and continuous innovation while offering e-Mobility as a Service (e-MaaS). This approach not only enhances regional connectivity but also serves as a cost-effective and environmentally friendly transportation solution for cities. Trained and certified drivers further enhance the service quality, making Lithium a leader in the transition towards sustainable urban mobility.

BlackBuck

Series C in 2017
BlackBuck is an online fleet management platform that connects shippers with fleet operators in India. By leveraging technology, it aims to enhance the logistics landscape, making it more reliable and efficient. The platform provides features such as price discovery, route optimization, in-transit tracking, and assurance of timely deliveries. This comprehensive approach not only improves operational productivity for clients but also positively impacts the broader transportation ecosystem, which is crucial for numerous livelihoods. BlackBuck is positioned to drive significant advancements in the transportation sector.

Loggi

Series C in 2017
Loggi is connecting Brazil, using technology to reinvent logistics with a fast, cost-efficient and reliable network across e-commerce, wholesale food delivery and courier services. 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
Guiyang Huochebang Technology Co Ltd develops an online logistics platform to connect cargo shippers and truck drivers in china. It offers online and mobile O2O logistics platform that helps shippers and drivers to publish shipping requirements and complete transactions. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Guiyang, China. Guiyang Huochebang Technology Co Ltd is a former subsidiary of Jiangsu Man Yun Software Technology Co., Ltd.

Samson Maritime

Private Equity Round in 2008
Samson Maritime Limited provides marine support services primarily to the oil and gas industry in India. Established in 1994 and based in Mumbai, the company operates a fleet of platform supply and offshore supply vessels that facilitate the transportation of essential materials such as oil, water, and cement to offshore rigs. Their services include personnel transfers, emergency evacuations, medical assistance, and routine safety surveillance. Additionally, Samson Maritime offers anchor handling tug services, which support rig moves and towing operations, as well as firefighting and medical evacuation services. The company also manages single point mooring (SPM) terminals, providing operation, maintenance, and inspection services. Other offerings encompass port and harbor services, including berthing assistance for vessels, long-distance towage, and salvage operations. With site offices situated in various strategic locations across India, Samson Maritime aims to deliver reliable and efficient marine support to enhance offshore exploration and production activities.
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