Quona Capital Management Ltd. is a venture capital firm established in 2014, headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City. The firm specializes in early to growth stage investments in the fintech sector, focusing on disruptive innovations that enhance financial inclusion in emerging markets, particularly in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Quona Capital targets companies that provide a range of financial products and services, including alternative lending, remittances, insurance, and payment solutions. The firm emphasizes investments that improve access to financial services for underserved consumers and small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Its investment strategy also encompasses adjacent sectors such as agriculture, health, education, and mobility. Quona Capital typically invests between $1 million and $10 million, supporting entrepreneurs dedicated to creating innovative financial solutions.
FRANQ is a Brazilian fintech company that operates a financial platform connecting individuals and small to medium-sized enterprises with a diverse range of financial products and services. The platform aggregates offerings from 50 financial institutions and distributes them through a network of 7,000 independent brokers, known as Personal Bankers. This multi-sided marketplace allows banking professionals to serve as one-stop shops for their clients, providing access to over 100 financial products at no cost to consumers. By ensuring the independence of these self-employed bankers and investment advisors, FRANQ promotes transparency and choice in the financial market, enabling clients to select products that best meet their needs.
Shivalik Small Finance Bank
Venture Round in 2024
Shivalik Small Finance Bank is a technology-driven financial institution that focuses on serving small and underserved segments of the population. It utilizes a cloud-based architecture powered by Infosys Finacle for its core and digital banking, enabling efficient management and growth. The bank offers a range of retail banking services, including access to all major retail payment platforms such as UPI, IMPS, and NEFT/RTGS. With a customer base exceeding 450,000, including 15,000 self-help groups, Shivalik operates 31 branches and over 250 banking agents across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Uttarakhand. As of March 31, 2021, the bank reported total deposits of Rs 1,245 Crores and total advances of Rs 805 Crores. Additionally, Shivalik serves as a corporate agent for various insurance products, partnering with well-known insurance providers to enhance its service offerings.
Addi
Venture Round in 2024
Addi is a technology company specializing in credit and banking solutions, particularly through its point-of-sale lending application. This platform enables consumers to apply for credit at the moment of purchase in partner retail stores, facilitating interest-free installment payments. By offering a buy now, pay later option, Addi aims to enhance digital commerce and provide borrowers with quick and affordable financing for their shopping needs.
Alami
Series B in 2023
Alami is a licensed peer-to-peer lending platform established in 2019 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It focuses on providing financing to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises through sharia finance principles. The platform connects lenders with funding recipients in a transparent manner, emphasizing the creation of a sustainable financial ecosystem aligned with Islamic values. By leveraging advanced data analysis, Alami offers meaningful insights into sharia financing, helping clients reduce transaction costs and expand their access to financial resources from various Islamic financial institutions.
Neogrowth
Series D in 2022
Neogrowth is a non-banking financial company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that specializes in providing financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises in India. Established in 2011 by Dhruv Khaitan and Piyush Khaitan, the company focuses on meeting the financial needs of businesses that sell goods and services directly to consumers. Neogrowth offers term working capital loans and inventory financing against future credit and debit card sales, facilitating easy access to credit for small merchants. Its clientele includes a diverse range of sectors, such as retail companies selling apparel, electronics, and handicrafts, as well as restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gyms, and health diagnostic centers.
Shivalik Small Finance Bank
Venture Round in 2022
Shivalik Small Finance Bank is a technology-driven financial institution that focuses on serving small and underserved segments of the population. It utilizes a cloud-based architecture powered by Infosys Finacle for its core and digital banking, enabling efficient management and growth. The bank offers a range of retail banking services, including access to all major retail payment platforms such as UPI, IMPS, and NEFT/RTGS. With a customer base exceeding 450,000, including 15,000 self-help groups, Shivalik operates 31 branches and over 250 banking agents across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Uttarakhand. As of March 31, 2021, the bank reported total deposits of Rs 1,245 Crores and total advances of Rs 805 Crores. Additionally, Shivalik serves as a corporate agent for various insurance products, partnering with well-known insurance providers to enhance its service offerings.
FRANQ
Venture Round in 2022
FRANQ is a Brazilian fintech company that operates a financial platform connecting individuals and small to medium-sized enterprises with a diverse range of financial products and services. The platform aggregates offerings from 50 financial institutions and distributes them through a network of 7,000 independent brokers, known as Personal Bankers. This multi-sided marketplace allows banking professionals to serve as one-stop shops for their clients, providing access to over 100 financial products at no cost to consumers. By ensuring the independence of these self-employed bankers and investment advisors, FRANQ promotes transparency and choice in the financial market, enabling clients to select products that best meet their needs.
Alami
Series B in 2022
Alami is a licensed peer-to-peer lending platform established in 2019 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It focuses on providing financing to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises through sharia finance principles. The platform connects lenders with funding recipients in a transparent manner, emphasizing the creation of a sustainable financial ecosystem aligned with Islamic values. By leveraging advanced data analysis, Alami offers meaningful insights into sharia financing, helping clients reduce transaction costs and expand their access to financial resources from various Islamic financial institutions.
MoHash
Seed Round in 2022
MoHash is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that leverages crypto assets, particularly stablecoins, to facilitate access to global capital and liquidity for private debt in rapidly expanding economies. The protocol allows investors to earn sustainable and scalable high yields by issuing a fungible token, which represents a claim on a diversified pool of risk-managed and financially regulated debt instruments. This approach aims to safeguard investors' interests while enabling them to capitalize on emerging markets undergoing technological advancements in financial services. Through its innovative model, MoHash seeks to provide a pathway for higher returns in the evolving landscape of decentralized finance.
mewt
Seed Round in 2022
Mewt is a fintech company that helps simplify business banking for MSMEs by unifying accounts offered by state-run banks, private banks, and neo banks under one account. Mewt allows businesses to make fast transfers and accept payments with no delays on proprietary QR code. Mewt was founded in 2021 and is located in Bangalore, India.
JULO
Series B in 2022
JULO provides affordable unsecured personal loan (KTA) exclusively to smartphone users.They strive to provide low cost loan product to the masses while ensuring that it's economically viable to their lender partners. This is achieved by exercising prudent underwriting assessments to ensure that approved applicants are both able and willing to pay back.They also reward positive behavior by giving cashback bonus and allowing good customers to borrow a higher amount at lower interest rate at loan maturity.
Addi
Series B in 2021
Addi is a technology company specializing in credit and banking solutions, particularly through its point-of-sale lending application. This platform enables consumers to apply for credit at the moment of purchase in partner retail stores, facilitating interest-free installment payments. By offering a buy now, pay later option, Addi aims to enhance digital commerce and provide borrowers with quick and affordable financing for their shopping needs.
Alami
Series A in 2021
Alami is a licensed peer-to-peer lending platform established in 2019 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It focuses on providing financing to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises through sharia finance principles. The platform connects lenders with funding recipients in a transparent manner, emphasizing the creation of a sustainable financial ecosystem aligned with Islamic values. By leveraging advanced data analysis, Alami offers meaningful insights into sharia financing, helping clients reduce transaction costs and expand their access to financial resources from various Islamic financial institutions.
Yoco
Series C in 2021
Yoco Technologies (Pty) Ltd. is a South African technology company based in Cape Town that focuses on providing a seamless mobile point-of-sale experience for small businesses and entrepreneurs. By creating a unified platform, Yoco enables businesses to accept secure payments both online and in-person, while simplifying operational processes. The company offers a diverse product ecosystem that includes payment solutions, lending options, and business management software. It serves over 300,000 small businesses, processing billions of dollars annually, and aims to enhance the commerce experience for both buyers and sellers by minimizing time spent on transactions and administrative tasks.
Addi
Series B in 2021
Addi is a technology company specializing in credit and banking solutions, particularly through its point-of-sale lending application. This platform enables consumers to apply for credit at the moment of purchase in partner retail stores, facilitating interest-free installment payments. By offering a buy now, pay later option, Addi aims to enhance digital commerce and provide borrowers with quick and affordable financing for their shopping needs.
Alami
Series A in 2021
Alami is a licensed peer-to-peer lending platform established in 2019 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It focuses on providing financing to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises through sharia finance principles. The platform connects lenders with funding recipients in a transparent manner, emphasizing the creation of a sustainable financial ecosystem aligned with Islamic values. By leveraging advanced data analysis, Alami offers meaningful insights into sharia financing, helping clients reduce transaction costs and expand their access to financial resources from various Islamic financial institutions.
Addi
Series B in 2020
Addi is a technology company specializing in credit and banking solutions, particularly through its point-of-sale lending application. This platform enables consumers to apply for credit at the moment of purchase in partner retail stores, facilitating interest-free installment payments. By offering a buy now, pay later option, Addi aims to enhance digital commerce and provide borrowers with quick and affordable financing for their shopping needs.
JULO
Series A in 2019
JULO provides affordable unsecured personal loan (KTA) exclusively to smartphone users.They strive to provide low cost loan product to the masses while ensuring that it's economically viable to their lender partners. This is achieved by exercising prudent underwriting assessments to ensure that approved applicants are both able and willing to pay back.They also reward positive behavior by giving cashback bonus and allowing good customers to borrow a higher amount at lower interest rate at loan maturity.
Yoco
Series B in 2018
Yoco Technologies (Pty) Ltd. is a South African technology company based in Cape Town that focuses on providing a seamless mobile point-of-sale experience for small businesses and entrepreneurs. By creating a unified platform, Yoco enables businesses to accept secure payments both online and in-person, while simplifying operational processes. The company offers a diverse product ecosystem that includes payment solutions, lending options, and business management software. It serves over 300,000 small businesses, processing billions of dollars annually, and aims to enhance the commerce experience for both buyers and sellers by minimizing time spent on transactions and administrative tasks.
Neogrowth
Series D in 2018
Neogrowth is a non-banking financial company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that specializes in providing financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises in India. Established in 2011 by Dhruv Khaitan and Piyush Khaitan, the company focuses on meeting the financial needs of businesses that sell goods and services directly to consumers. Neogrowth offers term working capital loans and inventory financing against future credit and debit card sales, facilitating easy access to credit for small merchants. Its clientele includes a diverse range of sectors, such as retail companies selling apparel, electronics, and handicrafts, as well as restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gyms, and health diagnostic centers.
Creditas
Series C in 2017
Creditas is a financial technology company that operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Yoco
Series A in 2017
Yoco Technologies (Pty) Ltd. is a South African technology company based in Cape Town that focuses on providing a seamless mobile point-of-sale experience for small businesses and entrepreneurs. By creating a unified platform, Yoco enables businesses to accept secure payments both online and in-person, while simplifying operational processes. The company offers a diverse product ecosystem that includes payment solutions, lending options, and business management software. It serves over 300,000 small businesses, processing billions of dollars annually, and aims to enhance the commerce experience for both buyers and sellers by minimizing time spent on transactions and administrative tasks.
Creditas
Series B in 2017
Creditas is a financial technology company that operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Coins.ph
Series A in 2016
Coins.ph is a blockchain-based financial platform that provides consumers with a variety of banking and digital payment services. Founded in 2014, the platform enables local and international remittances, bill payments, online shopping, and the purchase of game credits through a mobile wallet. Coins.ph facilitates frictionless money transfers by leveraging blockchain technology, making financial services more accessible to both customers and small businesses. The platform distinguishes itself by offering no minimum cash-in amounts and no monthly fees, allowing users to perform transactions conveniently from their mobile devices.
Zoona
Series B in 2016
Zoona is a mobile technology company focused on providing financial services to underserved communities across Africa. Founded in 2009, it has established a robust distribution network that facilitates money transfers, electronic voucher payments, savings, credit, and bill payments primarily for unbanked customers. With operations in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique, Zoona leverages cutting-edge technology and a network of agents to ensure safe and reliable access to financial services. The company has processed over $2 billion in transactions and has received recognition from organizations such as The Nike Foundation and The Unreasonable Group for its impactful contributions to empowering young entrepreneurs and helping to alleviate poverty, particularly among girls.
Neogrowth
Series C in 2016
Neogrowth is a non-banking financial company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that specializes in providing financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises in India. Established in 2011 by Dhruv Khaitan and Piyush Khaitan, the company focuses on meeting the financial needs of businesses that sell goods and services directly to consumers. Neogrowth offers term working capital loans and inventory financing against future credit and debit card sales, facilitating easy access to credit for small merchants. Its clientele includes a diverse range of sectors, such as retail companies selling apparel, electronics, and handicrafts, as well as restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gyms, and health diagnostic centers.
Creditas
Series A in 2016
Creditas is a financial technology company that operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Neogrowth
Series C in 2015
Neogrowth is a non-banking financial company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that specializes in providing financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises in India. Established in 2011 by Dhruv Khaitan and Piyush Khaitan, the company focuses on meeting the financial needs of businesses that sell goods and services directly to consumers. Neogrowth offers term working capital loans and inventory financing against future credit and debit card sales, facilitating easy access to credit for small merchants. Its clientele includes a diverse range of sectors, such as retail companies selling apparel, electronics, and handicrafts, as well as restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gyms, and health diagnostic centers.
Creditas
Series A in 2015
Creditas is a financial technology company that operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company
Series B in 2012
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company Private Limited, established in 2010 and headquartered in Gurugram, India, specializes in providing housing finance solutions to families with informal incomes. The company aims to assist customers who may not qualify for loans from traditional lending institutions by offering home loans, home improvement loans, and loans against property. Shubham stands out for its innovative operating model, which prioritizes an interview-based approach over conventional document-based underwriting, allowing for a better understanding of each customer's income and expense flows. This focus on urban low-income and informal income families reflects Shubham's commitment to facilitating home ownership through accessible and formal credit options.
Tiaxa
Series F in 2012
Tiaxa is a provider of innovative financial services focused on enhancing financial inclusion through mobile technology. The company offers more than 2 million Nano-Credits daily across 14 countries, including Argentina, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. These Nano-Credits allow prepaid mobile subscribers to access small loans, either as airtime for mobile services or cash through mobile money, facilitating phone calls, SMS messages, and data transactions when users run out of credit. Additionally, Tiaxa supports mobile telecommunications operators by providing infrastructure and revenue enhancement services, improving the management of prepaid user bases and increasing revenues for major operators worldwide.
Zoona
Series A in 2012
Zoona is a mobile technology company focused on providing financial services to underserved communities across Africa. Founded in 2009, it has established a robust distribution network that facilitates money transfers, electronic voucher payments, savings, credit, and bill payments primarily for unbanked customers. With operations in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique, Zoona leverages cutting-edge technology and a network of agents to ensure safe and reliable access to financial services. The company has processed over $2 billion in transactions and has received recognition from organizations such as The Nike Foundation and The Unreasonable Group for its impactful contributions to empowering young entrepreneurs and helping to alleviate poverty, particularly among girls.
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