Oikocredit International

Oikocredit is a financial institution established in 1968 and based in the Netherlands. It focuses on empowering individuals and communities by providing funding to the microfinance sector, fair trade organizations, cooperatives, and small to medium enterprises. Oikocredit aims to create sustainable opportunities for people in need, enabling them to improve their own circumstances through access to financial resources.

Harsh Shah

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Past deals in Lending

Avanti Finance

Series B in 2024
Avanti Finance operates a financial inclusion platform designed to expand access to credit and affordable financial services. The company provides an open-access digital framework that allows users and partners to create and deploy various financial products. Through this platform, Avanti Finance offers loan products and capital to third parties, enabling them to serve individuals who traditionally lack access to loans. Its approach focuses on delivering microfinance solutions via a cashless interface, thereby facilitating easier and more inclusive access to financial resources for underserved populations.

Kaleidofin

Venture Round in 2024
Kaleidofin is a fintech platform focused on providing comprehensive financial solutions to under-banked individuals and households. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the platform aims to help customers achieve their financial goals by offering tailored services that address the specific challenges faced by this demographic, such as volatile income and limited financial literacy. By creating individual profiles based on various data sources, Kaleidofin customizes its offerings to meet the unique needs of each customer. The platform also emphasizes goal-based financial planning, enabling users to save and invest effectively despite financial uncertainties. Through the use of analytics and user-centered design, Kaleidofin strives to improve financial outcomes for its clients.

Validus Capital

Debt Financing in 2024
Validus Capital is a fintech company focused on providing growth financing to underserved small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the ASEAN region, including Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. The company utilizes data and artificial intelligence to enhance the financing process, facilitating access to secured short-term and medium-term credit. Through its online marketplace, Validus employs a peer-to-peer lending model that connects SMEs with accredited investors, enabling businesses to secure financing efficiently while minimizing costs associated with financial intermediation. Validus is committed to driving inclusive economic growth by partnering with corporations to support SME ecosystems and holds regulatory licenses from authorities such as the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Indonesia's OJK.

Altum Credo

Secondary Market in 2024
Altum Credo is a company dedicated to making home ownership more accessible for first-time buyers, particularly those from low and middle-income backgrounds. It offers a range of services, including long-term home loans tailored for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), refinancing options, and support for retail investors. The company places a strong emphasis on affordability, ensuring that equated monthly installments are manageable. By providing low-interest rates and minimal processing fees, Altum Credo aims to empower individuals and families to achieve their dream of owning a home.

Altum Credo

Series C in 2024
Altum Credo is a company dedicated to making home ownership more accessible for first-time buyers, particularly those from low and middle-income backgrounds. It offers a range of services, including long-term home loans tailored for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), refinancing options, and support for retail investors. The company places a strong emphasis on affordability, ensuring that equated monthly installments are manageable. By providing low-interest rates and minimal processing fees, Altum Credo aims to empower individuals and families to achieve their dream of owning a home.

Leasafric Ghana

Private Equity Round in 2024
Leasafric Ghana Limited is a prominent provider of finance leasing services based in Accra, Ghana. Established in 1994, the company specializes in financing equipment and vehicles for both companies and individuals. Its service offerings include operating leases and fleet management, as well as finance leases for automobiles and consumer goods. Additionally, Leasafric Ghana provides outsourcing services that encompass personnel evaluation, the development of staff job goals and descriptions, staff training, and chauffeur training. As a subsidiary of C & I Leasing Plc, Leasafric Ghana plays a significant role in facilitating business operations through its comprehensive leasing solutions.

Sindhuja Microcredit

Series C in 2024
Sindhuja Microcredit Pvt Ltd, established in 2017 and headquartered in Patna, India, specializes in providing credit products tailored to micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses. The company offers micro finance and micro enterprise loans, focusing on serving self-employed women entrepreneurs in rural and underserved areas, leveraging digital technology to enhance accessibility and affordability.

Juhudi Kilimo

Debt Financing in 2024
Juhudi Kilimo Company Limited is a Nairobi-based microfinance institution founded in 2004 that specializes in providing asset financing, technical assistance, and business training services to smallholder farmers and small-to-medium agro-businesses in Kenya. The company offers a diverse range of financing options, including loans for livestock such as dairy cows, goats, poultry, pigs, and other animals, as well as for fish farming. Additionally, it finances agricultural equipment like irrigation systems and energy-related machinery, along with vehicles such as motorcycles and bicycles for transporting farm goods. By focusing on loans that support agricultural activities and providing business management and financial literacy training, Juhudi Kilimo aims to enhance the livelihoods of rural farmers and empower them to create wealth through improved agricultural practices.

Prestamype

Seed Round in 2023
Prestamype, established in 2017, focuses on enhancing access to funding for micro and small businesses in Peru by offering improved credit conditions. The company initially introduced a secured working capital loan product backed by real estate collateral, successfully lending over USD 24 million to approximately 750 entrepreneurs by October 2021. Expanding its services, Prestamype launched an online foreign exchange platform, Cambio Seguro, in 2019, and introduced a digital factoring product in 2020. The company's online financing platform facilitates digital loans, online factoring, and currency exchange, providing home equity loans with customizable repayment schedules and quick payouts. Prestamype has attracted investment from prominent funds, including INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru, further solidifying its position in the market.

Ed Partners

Debt Financing in 2023
Ed Partners Africa is a non-banking financial institution that transforms the education sector through working with school owners of affordable schools by providing financial solutions.

Bankingly

Series A in 2023
Bankingly is a fintech company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay. It offers software as a service (SaaS) to financial institutions, enabling them to provide internet-based banking services through various digital channels, including mobile and online banking as well as conversational banking. Bankingly's mission is to enhance financial inclusion for underbanked and lower-income customers in emerging markets. The company's cloud-hosted technologies allow financial institutions to adjust their costs based on the number of active users, ensuring a scalable and efficient model. The platform includes a mobile application, transactional website, chatbot, and other tools that facilitate secure digital banking transactions and effective client communication. With over 1,500,000 users across more than 100 entities, Bankingly is committed to helping financial organizations grow and adapt to the evolving digital landscape.

Avanti Finance

Series B in 2023
Avanti Finance operates a financial inclusion platform designed to expand access to credit and affordable financial services. The company provides an open-access digital framework that allows users and partners to create and deploy various financial products. Through this platform, Avanti Finance offers loan products and capital to third parties, enabling them to serve individuals who traditionally lack access to loans. Its approach focuses on delivering microfinance solutions via a cashless interface, thereby facilitating easier and more inclusive access to financial resources for underserved populations.

MyCredit Limited

Debt Financing in 2023
MyCredit is a non-banking financial institution based in Nairobi, Kenya, that specializes in providing a range of financial services. The company offers various types of loans, including business and salary loans, as well as guarantees such as bid bonds and performance bonds. Additionally, MyCredit provides leasing services and a comprehensive suite of insurance products. These insurance offerings encompass motor insurance, personal accident coverage, burglary insurance, liability insurance, fidelity guarantee, money insurance, agriculture insurance, and domestic package insurance, as well as travel insurance. By catering to diverse financial needs, MyCredit aims to support individuals and businesses in managing their financial risks and enhancing their economic opportunities.

Yellow

Debt Financing in 2023
Yellow is a fintech company dedicated to delivering impactful products and services to rural households through a wide-reaching sales network. The company specializes in the last mile distribution of affordable pay-as-you-go solar home systems, targeting low-income communities. By offering accessible energy solutions, Yellow aims to improve the quality of life for these households, promoting both financial inclusion and sustainable energy use in underserved areas.

Sitara

Secondary Market in 2022
Sitara, known as Sewa Grih Rin Limited, is a housing finance company based in New Delhi, India, that was established in 2011. The company specializes in providing affordable housing loans to low-income households, particularly those in urban and peri-urban areas. It offers a range of mortgage products that can be used alongside government subsidies, as well as non-mortgage loans aimed at home and infrastructure improvements. Focused on addressing the needs of informally employed individuals, Sitara empowers these households, especially women, by helping them acquire tangible financial assets and improve their living conditions. Through its services, the company strives to bridge the financing gap for those who typically lack access to formal housing finance, thereby enhancing the overall quality of life for its clients.

Sitara

Series C in 2022
Sitara, known as Sewa Grih Rin Limited, is a housing finance company based in New Delhi, India, that was established in 2011. The company specializes in providing affordable housing loans to low-income households, particularly those in urban and peri-urban areas. It offers a range of mortgage products that can be used alongside government subsidies, as well as non-mortgage loans aimed at home and infrastructure improvements. Focused on addressing the needs of informally employed individuals, Sitara empowers these households, especially women, by helping them acquire tangible financial assets and improve their living conditions. Through its services, the company strives to bridge the financing gap for those who typically lack access to formal housing finance, thereby enhancing the overall quality of life for its clients.

Bankingly

Series A in 2022
Bankingly is a fintech company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay. It offers software as a service (SaaS) to financial institutions, enabling them to provide internet-based banking services through various digital channels, including mobile and online banking as well as conversational banking. Bankingly's mission is to enhance financial inclusion for underbanked and lower-income customers in emerging markets. The company's cloud-hosted technologies allow financial institutions to adjust their costs based on the number of active users, ensuring a scalable and efficient model. The platform includes a mobile application, transactional website, chatbot, and other tools that facilitate secure digital banking transactions and effective client communication. With over 1,500,000 users across more than 100 entities, Bankingly is committed to helping financial organizations grow and adapt to the evolving digital landscape.

Kaleidofin

Series B in 2022
Kaleidofin is a fintech platform focused on providing comprehensive financial solutions to under-banked individuals and households. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the platform aims to help customers achieve their financial goals by offering tailored services that address the specific challenges faced by this demographic, such as volatile income and limited financial literacy. By creating individual profiles based on various data sources, Kaleidofin customizes its offerings to meet the unique needs of each customer. The platform also emphasizes goal-based financial planning, enabling users to save and invest effectively despite financial uncertainties. Through the use of analytics and user-centered design, Kaleidofin strives to improve financial outcomes for its clients.

Annapurna Finance

Private Equity Round in 2021
Annapurna Finance is a microfinance institution focused on the financial and economic upliftment of underserved women and economically backward clients. The organization aims to expand microfinance operations in areas lacking access to formal financial systems, providing vital livelihood support to impoverished households. Annapurna Finance offers a range of need-based financial services, including micro-loans for clean water, sanitation, home improvement, support for widowed families, and small businesses. Additionally, the company provides customized insurance plans to ensure that customers receive tailored financial assistance aligned with their life cycle needs. By bringing these clients into the financial mainstream, Annapurna Finance facilitates economic empowerment and entrepreneurial skill development.

Credit Mutuel du Senegal

Debt Financing in 2021
Credit Mutuel du Senegal is a microfinance organization that supports banking services like savings accounts and loans. The company provides creative and banking goods and services suited to their needs.

Avanti Finance

Series A in 2021
Avanti Finance operates a financial inclusion platform designed to expand access to credit and affordable financial services. The company provides an open-access digital framework that allows users and partners to create and deploy various financial products. Through this platform, Avanti Finance offers loan products and capital to third parties, enabling them to serve individuals who traditionally lack access to loans. Its approach focuses on delivering microfinance solutions via a cashless interface, thereby facilitating easier and more inclusive access to financial resources for underserved populations.

Sempli

Venture Round in 2021
Sempli is a digital financial institution based in Colombia that focuses on providing an all-in-one banking solution for small and medium-sized businesses. The company operates an online lending platform designed to facilitate access to capital for these enterprises, helping them grow and enhance their value. By leveraging technology and information, Sempli streamlines the lending process, making it more efficient and convenient for entrepreneurs seeking funding. This approach aims to empower small and medium businesses, enabling them to thrive in a competitive market.

Sempli

Convertible Note in 2021
Sempli is a digital financial institution based in Colombia that focuses on providing an all-in-one banking solution for small and medium-sized businesses. The company operates an online lending platform designed to facilitate access to capital for these enterprises, helping them grow and enhance their value. By leveraging technology and information, Sempli streamlines the lending process, making it more efficient and convenient for entrepreneurs seeking funding. This approach aims to empower small and medium businesses, enabling them to thrive in a competitive market.

Grace and Mercy Household Improvement Initiative

Debt Financing in 2021
Grace and Mercy Household Improvement Initiative offers financial opportunities for the poor and low-income earners. Their products and services are geared toward assisting micro, small, and medium-scale businesses, which comprise the majority of the economy and serve as the engine of the economy. The majority of recipients are women, and young people make up the majority of the excluded and vulnerable. To assist and strengthen the economy of Nigeria's low-income earners by facilitating easy access to financial services for the poor, excluded, and disadvantaged.

First City Monument Bank

Debt Financing in 2021
First City Monument Bank is a commercial banking institution founded in 1982 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. It serves a diverse clientele, including large corporations, small and medium enterprises, and individual customers. The bank offers a wide array of financial services, such as personal banking, business banking, and corporate banking. Its product offerings include loans, savings and current accounts, credit cards, and online banking. Additionally, First City Monument Bank provides specialized services like cash management, foreign exchange, corporate finance, and trade services. The bank's corporate finance division focuses on financial advisory, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and infrastructure and project finance, facilitating digital transformation in banking for its customers.

Avanti Finance

Series A in 2021
Avanti Finance operates a financial inclusion platform designed to expand access to credit and affordable financial services. The company provides an open-access digital framework that allows users and partners to create and deploy various financial products. Through this platform, Avanti Finance offers loan products and capital to third parties, enabling them to serve individuals who traditionally lack access to loans. Its approach focuses on delivering microfinance solutions via a cashless interface, thereby facilitating easier and more inclusive access to financial resources for underserved populations.

Avanti Finance

Debt Financing in 2021
Avanti Finance operates a financial inclusion platform designed to expand access to credit and affordable financial services. The company provides an open-access digital framework that allows users and partners to create and deploy various financial products. Through this platform, Avanti Finance offers loan products and capital to third parties, enabling them to serve individuals who traditionally lack access to loans. Its approach focuses on delivering microfinance solutions via a cashless interface, thereby facilitating easier and more inclusive access to financial resources for underserved populations.

Annapurna Finance

Private Equity Round in 2021
Annapurna Finance is a microfinance institution focused on the financial and economic upliftment of underserved women and economically backward clients. The organization aims to expand microfinance operations in areas lacking access to formal financial systems, providing vital livelihood support to impoverished households. Annapurna Finance offers a range of need-based financial services, including micro-loans for clean water, sanitation, home improvement, support for widowed families, and small businesses. Additionally, the company provides customized insurance plans to ensure that customers receive tailored financial assistance aligned with their life cycle needs. By bringing these clients into the financial mainstream, Annapurna Finance facilitates economic empowerment and entrepreneurial skill development.

BizCapital

Series B in 2020
BizCapital is a financial services provider that specializes in offering loans to small and micro businesses that lack access to traditional banking institutions. The company employs a digital evaluation system that quickly analyzes and ranks loan requests, allowing for rapid funding decisions. By leveraging technology, BizCapital streamlines the loan application process, enabling clients to secure the necessary funds to support their business operations efficiently through an online lending platform.

Kaleidofin

Series A in 2019
Kaleidofin is a fintech platform focused on providing comprehensive financial solutions to under-banked individuals and households. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the platform aims to help customers achieve their financial goals by offering tailored services that address the specific challenges faced by this demographic, such as volatile income and limited financial literacy. By creating individual profiles based on various data sources, Kaleidofin customizes its offerings to meet the unique needs of each customer. The platform also emphasizes goal-based financial planning, enabling users to save and invest effectively despite financial uncertainties. Through the use of analytics and user-centered design, Kaleidofin strives to improve financial outcomes for its clients.

Sempli

Series A in 2019
Sempli is a digital financial institution based in Colombia that focuses on providing an all-in-one banking solution for small and medium-sized businesses. The company operates an online lending platform designed to facilitate access to capital for these enterprises, helping them grow and enhance their value. By leveraging technology and information, Sempli streamlines the lending process, making it more efficient and convenient for entrepreneurs seeking funding. This approach aims to empower small and medium businesses, enabling them to thrive in a competitive market.

Sitara

Series B in 2019
Sitara, known as Sewa Grih Rin Limited, is a housing finance company based in New Delhi, India, that was established in 2011. The company specializes in providing affordable housing loans to low-income households, particularly those in urban and peri-urban areas. It offers a range of mortgage products that can be used alongside government subsidies, as well as non-mortgage loans aimed at home and infrastructure improvements. Focused on addressing the needs of informally employed individuals, Sitara empowers these households, especially women, by helping them acquire tangible financial assets and improve their living conditions. Through its services, the company strives to bridge the financing gap for those who typically lack access to formal housing finance, thereby enhancing the overall quality of life for its clients.

Laudex

Convertible Note in 2018
Laudex is a financial services company based in Mexico that focuses on social development through innovative lending solutions. It specializes in providing student loans to finance tuition fees for university and postgraduate students, both domestically and internationally. By supporting talented individuals, Laudex aims to facilitate access to high-quality education at prestigious institutions around the world, thereby promoting the pursuit of academic excellence and enhancing future opportunities for its borrowers.

Sempli

Convertible Note in 2018
Sempli is a digital financial institution based in Colombia that focuses on providing an all-in-one banking solution for small and medium-sized businesses. The company operates an online lending platform designed to facilitate access to capital for these enterprises, helping them grow and enhance their value. By leveraging technology and information, Sempli streamlines the lending process, making it more efficient and convenient for entrepreneurs seeking funding. This approach aims to empower small and medium businesses, enabling them to thrive in a competitive market.

Aashiyaan Housing & Development Finance

Seed Round in 2018
Aashiyaan Housing and Development Finance Pvt. Ltd. is a housing finance company based in Kolkata, India, established in 2016. It specializes in providing micro housing finance solutions to individuals in the informal sector, including low-income groups such as grocery shop owners, taxi drivers, and small entrepreneurs. The company offers a range of financial products, including loans for self-construction, home purchases, repairs and extensions, as well as loans against property. By focusing on the underserved population in semi-urban and rural areas of eastern India, Aashiyaan Housing aims to facilitate affordable housing ownership and improve living conditions for its clients.

Fusion Microfinance

Series E in 2018
Fusion Microfinance, headquartered in New Delhi, operates primarily in the North Central region of India, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Haryana. Established in January 2010, the company initially focused on microfinance lending to financially underserved women organized into Joint Liability Groups (JLGs). It provides small, collateral-free loans to empower these women and also extends its services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). In addition to lending, Fusion Microfinance leverages its distribution channels to offer various financial products aimed at enhancing productivity, such as loans for purchasing mobile handsets and bicycles. The company's acquisition of the microfinance division Aajeevika, which had a modest initial member base, further strengthened its operations and outreach in the sector.

Annapurna Finance

Private Equity Round in 2017
Annapurna Finance is a microfinance institution focused on the financial and economic upliftment of underserved women and economically backward clients. The organization aims to expand microfinance operations in areas lacking access to formal financial systems, providing vital livelihood support to impoverished households. Annapurna Finance offers a range of need-based financial services, including micro-loans for clean water, sanitation, home improvement, support for widowed families, and small businesses. Additionally, the company provides customized insurance plans to ensure that customers receive tailored financial assistance aligned with their life cycle needs. By bringing these clients into the financial mainstream, Annapurna Finance facilitates economic empowerment and entrepreneurial skill development.

Fusion Microfinance

Series D in 2016
Fusion Microfinance, headquartered in New Delhi, operates primarily in the North Central region of India, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Haryana. Established in January 2010, the company initially focused on microfinance lending to financially underserved women organized into Joint Liability Groups (JLGs). It provides small, collateral-free loans to empower these women and also extends its services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). In addition to lending, Fusion Microfinance leverages its distribution channels to offer various financial products aimed at enhancing productivity, such as loans for purchasing mobile handsets and bicycles. The company's acquisition of the microfinance division Aajeevika, which had a modest initial member base, further strengthened its operations and outreach in the sector.

Fusion Microfinance

Series C in 2015
Fusion Microfinance, headquartered in New Delhi, operates primarily in the North Central region of India, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Haryana. Established in January 2010, the company initially focused on microfinance lending to financially underserved women organized into Joint Liability Groups (JLGs). It provides small, collateral-free loans to empower these women and also extends its services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). In addition to lending, Fusion Microfinance leverages its distribution channels to offer various financial products aimed at enhancing productivity, such as loans for purchasing mobile handsets and bicycles. The company's acquisition of the microfinance division Aajeevika, which had a modest initial member base, further strengthened its operations and outreach in the sector.

Fusion Microfinance

Series B in 2013
Fusion Microfinance, headquartered in New Delhi, operates primarily in the North Central region of India, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Haryana. Established in January 2010, the company initially focused on microfinance lending to financially underserved women organized into Joint Liability Groups (JLGs). It provides small, collateral-free loans to empower these women and also extends its services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). In addition to lending, Fusion Microfinance leverages its distribution channels to offer various financial products aimed at enhancing productivity, such as loans for purchasing mobile handsets and bicycles. The company's acquisition of the microfinance division Aajeevika, which had a modest initial member base, further strengthened its operations and outreach in the sector.
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