RV

Rodrigo Villalta Díaz

Director of Investments

BV

Bart Van Eyk

Director of Investments

MH

Mireille Hendriks

Investor Relations

TK

Tom Keleher

Equity Director

Alexander Remy

Equity Investment Officer

Past deals in Guatemala

Kaleidofin

Series A in 2019
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

Kingo

Debt Financing in 2018
Kingo Energy manufactures solar energy producing systems. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Yellow Africa

Debt Financing in 2023
Yellow Africa operates an online platform to sell pay-as-you-go solar-power devices to households in Malawi and Uganda. It sells solar home systems to people in rural areas for lighting, phone charging, and listening to music via radio and mp3. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Lilongwe, Malawi with an additional office in Uganda.

Sewa Grih Rin

Series B in 2019
Sewa Grih Rin Limited, a housing finance company, provides housing loans to low-income households in India. It offers mortgage products for use in conjunction with government subsidies and tenure security; and non-mortgage loans for home and infrastructure improvements. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Sewa Grih Rin

Secondary Market in 2022
Sewa Grih Rin Limited, a housing finance company, provides housing loans to low-income households in India. It offers mortgage products for use in conjunction with government subsidies and tenure security; and non-mortgage loans for home and infrastructure improvements. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

PEG Africa

Debt Financing in 2016
PEGAfrica is an asset financing company currently selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG’s Pay As You Go solar systems give our customers access to better quality light, mobile phone charging, and appliances like radios and televisions. Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller founded PEG in 2013. It has its headquarters in Accra in Ghana.

Kaleidofin

Series A in 2019
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

Solar Panda

Series A in 2022
Solar Panda is a Pay-As-You-Go Solar Home System provider, bringing clean, affordable solar energy to rural African communities without access to electricity. Solar Panda designs, manufactures and sells products that provide lights, mobile phone charging, radio and TV to families. These products are financed for customers to enable affordability and have the ability to greatly improve many facets of the customer's life, including eliminating the need for harmful kerosene lanterns, saving families money, supporting education, enabling greater productivity improving safety. Solar Panda is a Canadian company selling in Kenya. We made our first sale in December 2017, and are now powering hundreds of thousands of homes in Kenya. This is the fastest rate of growth ever achieved by a company in this industry, but we are just getting started. We believe access to electricity should be a right for everyone, everywhere, and our mission is to lead in the affordable solar energy revolution by reaching as many customers without electricity as possible.

Avanti Finance

Series A in 2021
Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products

Tienda Pago

Series A in 2018
Tienda Pago is the merchant support platform that facilitates your weekly merchandise purchase to distributors. It is the result of years of experience of a team of experts whose objective is to promote ecosystems where all participants, both distributors and traders, benefit from the service and proactively motivate other participants to join the system.

SEMPLI SAS

Convertible Note in 2021
SEMPLI SAS operates an online lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company, through its platform, provides online loans and credit for working capital. It also provides specialized content, online courses, and tools in finance and corporate governance to support the financial management and administration of companies. SEMPLI SAS is based in Medellín, Colombia.

SEMPLI SAS

Venture Round in 2021
SEMPLI SAS operates an online lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company, through its platform, provides online loans and credit for working capital. It also provides specialized content, online courses, and tools in finance and corporate governance to support the financial management and administration of companies. SEMPLI SAS is based in Medellín, Colombia.

Avanti Finance

Debt Financing in 2021
Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products

Annapurna Finance Private Limited

Private Equity Round in 2021
Annapurna Finance Private Limited, a non-banking financial company, provides micro finance services to women and low-income households in rural and semi-urban areas in India. It offers income generation loans for SHG/JLG clients, including loans for the cultivation of agriculture crops, agri equipment financing, loans for agri allied activities, micro enterprise loans, and loans for handicraft and handloom works; business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises to meet their working capital needs; and housing finance for home construction, flat purchase, home renovation, and balance transfer needs. The company also provides loans for persons with disability and financially excluded sections of the society; financial assistance to individuals to provide access to safe water and sanitation facilities at household level; dairy development loans; solar light loans; consumer durable loans; home improvement loans; and affordable loans to street vendors. In addition, it offers credit linked insurance to the clients. The company was formerly known as Annapurna Microfinance Private Limited and changed its name to Annapurna Finance Private Limited in 2018. Annapurna Finance Private Limited was incorporated in 1986 and is based in Bhubaneswar, India.

Sewa Grih Rin

Series C in 2022
Sewa Grih Rin Limited, a housing finance company, provides housing loans to low-income households in India. It offers mortgage products for use in conjunction with government subsidies and tenure security; and non-mortgage loans for home and infrastructure improvements. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Kaleidofin

Series B in 2022
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.
Fusion Microfinance Private Limited, a non-banking financial company, provides micro-credit services to women entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas in India. It offers micro-credit services to start new business or expand existing businesses; and life insurance products. As of March 31, 2019, the company operated through a network of 504 branches. Fusion Microfinance Private Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Avanti Finance

Series A in 2021
Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products

Sidian Bank

Debt Financing in 2021
Sidian Bank Ltd. operates as a commercial bank that provides financial services to individuals and enterprises in Kenya. The company offers current and savings accounts; personal loans; digital banking; trade finance; micro banking; corporate banking; and SME banking services. It also provides funds transfer services. Sidian Bank Ltd. was formerly known as K-Rep Bank Limited and changed its name to Sidian Bank Ltd. in April 2016. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Fusion Microfinance Private Limited, a non-banking financial company, provides micro-credit services to women entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas in India. It offers micro-credit services to start new business or expand existing businesses; and life insurance products. As of March 31, 2019, the company operated through a network of 504 branches. Fusion Microfinance Private Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Access Bank Plc.

Post in 2019
Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union money transfer services.

RGVN (North East) Microfinance

Venture Round in 2014
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited engages in retail banking and treasury operations. The company offers loans; and accepts deposits from retail customers. It operates 149 branches in West Bengal and Northeastern India. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Guwahati, India.

First City Monument Bank

Debt Financing in 2021
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Ltd is a full service banking group, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria with the vision to be the Premier Financial Services Group of African origin.

YCook

Series B in 2018
YCook is a food technology company that specializes in minimally processed vegetables, lentils, and fruits. It has developed a process that allows field fresh produce to retain their natural freshness, colour, texture, flavour and nutrients for 12 months without any preservatives or additives or even refrigeration. YCook was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Karnataka, India.

Inyenyeri

Convertible Note in 2018
Inyenyeri gets the even the poorest of Rwandan households to switch from cooking with wood and charcoal by providing clean and renewable fuel that cooks better and is more affordable. Inyenyeri is a for-profit social enterprise. Profitability ensures sustainable social impact and increases access to financial capital needed to scale quickly.
Fusion Microfinance Private Limited, a non-banking financial company, provides micro-credit services to women entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas in India. It offers micro-credit services to start new business or expand existing businesses; and life insurance products. As of March 31, 2019, the company operated through a network of 504 branches. Fusion Microfinance Private Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
Aashiyaan Housing and Development Finance Pvt. Ltd. is a housing finance company that provides housing finance to those in the informal sector. The company provides micro housing finance for self-construction, purchase of home and flat, home repairs and extension, and loan against property. The company caters to the low-income groups, such as grocery shop owners, eatery owners, taxi drivers, sweet shop owners, beauty parlor owners, and other kinds of small entrepreneurs. Aashiyaan Housing and Development Finance Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Kolkata, India.

SEMPLI SAS

Series A in 2019
SEMPLI SAS operates an online lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company, through its platform, provides online loans and credit for working capital. It also provides specialized content, online courses, and tools in finance and corporate governance to support the financial management and administration of companies. SEMPLI SAS is based in Medellín, Colombia.

Origo Commodities India Pvt. Ltd.

Venture Round in 2018
Origo Commodities India Pvt. Ltd. provides post harvest management services for agricultural commodities. Its solutions include commodity handling and collateral management services for producers, processors, corporate houses, and financial institutions. The company provides procurement, professional warehousing, quality certification and gradation, preservation of stock, delivery points for commodity exchanges, audit and surveillance, and trading and other value-added services. Origo Commodities India Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Gurugram, India.

SEMPLI SAS

Convertible Note in 2018
SEMPLI SAS operates an online lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company, through its platform, provides online loans and credit for working capital. It also provides specialized content, online courses, and tools in finance and corporate governance to support the financial management and administration of companies. SEMPLI SAS is based in Medellín, Colombia.

BizCapital

Series B in 2020
BizCapital provides loans to SMEs without access to large banks through an evaluation machine that analyzes and ranks each request in a few seconds, analyzing the variables digitally, enabling customers to get loans to operate business through an online lending platform.

Laudex SAPI de CV

Convertible Note in 2018
Laudex is a financial services company based in Mexico that promotes social development by lending to non traditional sectors. Laudex specializes in providing student loans, to finance tuition at top Universities, both within Mexico and Internationally. Laudex backs talented students so that they can receive the best education possible.
Fusion Microfinance Private Limited, a non-banking financial company, provides micro-credit services to women entrepreneurs in rural and semi-urban areas in India. It offers micro-credit services to start new business or expand existing businesses; and life insurance products. As of March 31, 2019, the company operated through a network of 504 branches. Fusion Microfinance Private Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Sulaxmi Finance

Venture Round in 2009
Sulaxmi Finance Private Limited (SFPL) [previously known as Heathrow Investments Private Limited (HIPL)] is a non-deposit taking NBFC, duly regulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). SFPL operates under the brand name of “Sulaxmi”, which translates to “well-intentioned wealth” in Hindi. Presently, SFPL is solely dedicated to urban microfinance, chiefly in Northern India. The chief promoter of SFPL is Dr. Sunita Sharma, a social worker, teacher and writer of national fame, who has been felicitated by the President of India.

Enko Education

Debt Financing in 2017
Enko Education Investments (PTY) LTD operates a network of private schools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It has additional offices in Cameroon, Mozambique, and Côte d’Ivoire.

SolarNow B.V.

Debt Financing in 2017
SolarNow Services (U) LTD designs, develops, and sells solar systems. It offers household solutions, which include radio torches, flat iron, clippers, lightpacks, floodlight packs, decoders, fridges, solar laptop chargers, and TVs and DVDs: and farming solutions that include solar water pumps; small business solutions, and corporate solutions. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Kampal, Uganda. It has branch locations in Uganda and Kenya. SolarNow Services (U) LTD operates as a subsidiary of SolarNow B.V.