Village Capital
Village Capital uses the power of peer support to change the traditional dynamics between investors and entrepreneurs, providing access to entrepreneurship for everyone. We recruit entrepreneurs solving specific problems in agriculture, energy, education, financial inclusion, and health. We then put the power of investment in the hands of the entrepreneurs, who award pre-committed seed funding to the two ventures ranked highest by the entrepreneurs at the end of every program. Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed. We support early-stage ventures with a 501c3 nonprofit that operates training programs for founders, investors, and communities. We also manage a for-profit, managed investment fund that provides early-stage capital to top graduates of each program, as selected by their peers. Our unique peer-selection model received McKinsey/Harvard Business Review’s prestigious M-Prize for innovation in 2013, and we have supported more than 550 enterprises across 51 programs in 9 countries. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates. Over the past 8 years, our program graduates have gone on to generate $61.5M in revenue, reach 8.5 million customers, and create over 11,500 jobs. 96% of our alumni would recommend our program to other entrepreneurs, and to date and 91% of our entrepreneurs are still in business.
Non Equity Assistance in 2023
FatakPay is a fintech platform intended to provide consumers with virtual credit cards. It allows users to scan now and pay later for shopping needs. The mobile application is available on iOS and Android platforms.
Yaba is an operator of an online brand management platform intended to buy, finance, and support the growth of businesses based on amazon.
Akiba is a platform that revolutionizes employee savings funds and funds.It allows companies to manage their employee funds and funds in a digital and transparent manner, in addition to offering credits and payroll advances in an agile manner.
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Creizer is a company with the aim of supporting the MSMEs of entrepreneurs who use online platforms to sell their products or services. It is an empowered entrepreneur who sells online.
At Flexio, we’re using technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to SMBs in Latin America by making it easy for them to manage their cash flow. Flexio is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments in Latin America.
KredFeed enables suppliers on supply chains to unlock their cash flow, by turning their receivables into instant cash, providing them the liquidity they need to scale their businesses; while supplying them with smart cash flow management and CFO tools.
Half of the world's population are not connected to sewer network. Every 1 in 4 people in the world uses a pit latrines - but not all pit latrines are safely managed. AKYAS innovates modular sanitation management products, simplifies such management process, and makes on-site treatment possible for households at a fraction of the cost of traditional infrastructure. AKYAS is already reaching paying household customers, and is seeking to raise funds to reach scale.
Fellow Pay enables SMEs to grow by providing fair access to credit through upfront financing on invoices and extending 60 days of free credit to buyers. The company helps growing B2B SMEs in the manufacturing, export, construction, and real estate industry. Without the typical lengthy application processes and financial verification, Fellow Pay enables quick and efficient access to liquidity. The company's services are available in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US, and the UK.
Microfon is an education financing platform that helps students finance their education by providing customised solutions including scholarships, crowdfunding, and loans.
Datacultr is a PaaS that allows consumer lending companies to significantly reduce their risk on 'New to Credit' customers. Datacultr allows the lender to give out unsecured loans, at a lower risk, by allowing borrowers to present their newly purchased or existing smartphone as collateral.
Akredito offers a lending platform for the financial sector that provides for, consolidates, and refinances the debts of individual defaulters. They also offer discounts and installment plan options.
LIBEEN is a rent-to-buy PropTech dedicated to making homeownership affordable, easy and flexible to all millennials! —Awarded “Best Fintech Startup” in 2020 by the most-read economic newspaper in Spain- El Periódico Expansión. Libeen is a Proptech that gives Millennials access to homeownership in a simple, flexible and user-friendly process called the #SmartHousing. Nowadays Millennials can’t afford buying their home as they don’t have the capacity to save money. Because of this, we’ve developed the #SmartHousing. A completely digital and user friendly process to buy a home using only the monthly rent and a 5% downpayment.
Finclude develops a unique pan-European credit scoring system that allows businesses to assess consumers in a universal way based on their transactional behavior, regardless if they have a credit history or not.
Worthy Financial is a digital investment app that redefines how Americans access alternative investment products. Worthy's first product is a free micro-investment app that helps people save and grow their money – $10 dollars at a time. It offers a $10, 5% interest earning bond, which in turn supports small creditworthy businesses across the U.S., helping to strengthen our local communities.
Complete Farmer is an end-to-end digital agriculture platform that provides industries with an easy way to cheaply source for quality farm produce and individuals anywhere in the world with a convenient way to own a farm by eliminating middlemen and farm produce aggregators.
Solfeh is a private micro-lending institution that started in 2016 in Amman, Jordan. The mission of the organization is “Through digitizing and facilitating our loan process. Solfeh allows everyone to have access to critical financial services. Emergency cash is easy, quick and painless to access through our streamlined online system”. Solfeh is embarked on a plan to allow everyone to have access to critical financial services. Solfeh's vision is “to make obtaining loans easy, simple, and painless.” The importance of a well-defined program in Solfeh is more than ever before. To this end, Solfeh needs to design systematic approaches that respond to their specific clients, lending methodologies, operating environments, and financial and social performance objectives. Our targeted clients and markets have a problem with their personal cash flow. Where their average incomes are relatively equal to their average expenses which makes them have no disposable income to spend allowing an imbalance in their cash. Which makes them have several barriers to access income from other parties. So, in the case of an emergency (Childcare, Healthcare, Education, Debt Consolidation …etc) they are not well prepared to pay for which creates a burden.
CFOremoto empowers SMEs towards funding by giving them access to automated cash management platform that makes them visible to various funding sources in the market.
CloQ is a fintech startup with the mission of providing financial inclusion to the low-income and unbanked population reducing financial vulnerability.
Mo Cash is an online investment banking firm for individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Jokkolabs is a unique environment where entrepreneurs, creatives and innovators can develop their business quickly.
Kredico is an online platform where members' credit requests are collected, score cards are created, and an agreed bank is sent for credit approval. Kredico works with the membership system. Individual score cards are produced for individual and business members. The Kredico rating is updated according to the loan repayment terms.
Fongogo is a localized crowdfunding platform.The company offers anyone from individuals to companies to NGOs a marketplace to fundraise, seek feedback, and marketing projects. Contributors allocate funds, small or large, to their projects of choice for which they receive rewards, and/or recognition, in return. Both creators and contributors have access to tools that allow them to promote their projects on social media networks, which creates a viral effect and increases success.
Tekkredi.com is a platform to help you reconfigure your existing loans in different banks and relax your monthly payment plan.
Social Lender is a lending solution based on social reputation on mobile, online and social media platforms.
Doopla is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform that provides above-market returns to investors, while charging below-market interest rates to borrowers.
Smart Crowd is a real estate investment platform that provides you an opportunity to access the UAE real estate market with a low minimum investment amount from a simple online portal. Smart Crowd’s innovative approach enables investors to treat their investment properties more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation rather than dealing with the hassles of researching and buying vacant properties that need to be leased and managed. This creates significant time and costs savings. By allowing low minimum investment you diversify your properties, allowing you to build a well-diversified investment property portfolio without taking on too much leverage and risk. SmartCrowd is Regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)
Rapicredit is a free and short term online loan platform. Our clients decide how much money they need and the time period to pay. The main characteristics of the service are its flexibility, speed and the absence of physical procedures. They are personalized credits as they are tailored to the needs of the client and 100% on the Internet.
VugaPay is a payment gateway system that facilitates money transfers, payments, and collective finance solutions.
CNote is an investment platform that earns a better return while investing in the causes and communities that matters. CNote rewards great savers with alternative financial vehicles that earn more - safely and simply. Their first product, CNote Savings, helps good savers earn up to 2.5% annual return -- that's 35x more than a traditional savings account. The was founded in 2016 by two women with decades of experience working in finance, venture capital, and private equity. CNote is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Credit Hero is a platform for financial empowerment geared to the needs of working people.
VestMunity is a platform where every community member can become stakeholders in local real estate projects with a minimal investment amount through the power of crowdfunding.
Crediyo is a healthcare finance start-up that provides financial services. They offer healthcare finance, predictive analytics, and lending services.
Yotepresto is the fastest growing Mexican-based marketplace lending platform connecting individual and institutional investors to near-prime borrowers applying for a personal loan.
ComproPago is a platform that allows online businesses to receive cash payments. Due to the low debit and credit card penetration in Mexico (30%) plus the lack of confidence when buying online via credit card, the e-commerce industry in Mexico is in search of alternative solutions to tackle this issue. ComproPago solves this problem by providing more than 130,000 physical payments points (Oxxo, 7eleven, Walmart, Superama, etc.) across the whole country, where customers can make cash payments to pay for products and services bought online.
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