Village Capital

Akiba is an innovative platform that transforms the management of employee savings funds and financial resources. It enables companies to oversee employee funds in a digital and transparent manner, facilitating efficient administration. Additionally, Akiba provides credits and payroll advances, streamlining access to financial support for employees. The platform also features a money-saving and investment component, offering users the opportunity to shop online with discounts and earn two percent cash back on their purchases. Through these services, Akiba aims to enhance financial well-being for both companies and their employees.

UrbanaGrow contributes to generating agri-food independence, providing a profitable business, with a positive social impact, as well as a technology to produce vegetables in an environmentally responsible way and resilient to climate change.

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.

ICT for Development Kenya reaches out to undeserved communities in East Africa offering Technology literacy.

E-learning linked to financial health and inclusion for emerging market citizens

Creci Inc. operates a platform that facilitates loans and credit facilities for social impact small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Established in 2019 and headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, with additional offices in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia, the company provides an online tool that assesses project impact and assigns a social impact score. This allows small businesses to evaluate their alignment with social impact goals and track performance metrics across their portfolios. Creci is dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs who aim to address critical global challenges, particularly those aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The platform streamlines the loan application process, reducing paperwork and enabling quicker access to financing for entrepreneurs.

Finclude offers financial well being services that empower EU citizens fair access to credit and expand the retail credit markets for financial institutions.

Worthy Financial, Inc. is a financial services company based in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 2016. It operates a micro-investment app that allows users to save and grow their money through small, incremental investments. The app automatically invests users' spare change into interest-earning bonds, specifically a $10 bond that offers a 5% return. The proceeds from these bond sales are primarily loaned to small, creditworthy businesses across the United States, using collateral such as inventory and accounts receivable to secure the funds. By connecting retail investors with alternative investment opportunities, Worthy Financial aims to strengthen local communities and provide accessible financial growth options for everyday Americans.

Provider of financial lending services intended to provide financial inclusion to the low-income and unbanked entrepreneur population. The company provides finance based on a model that evaluates clients based on behavior and reliability, enabling lower-income business clients to get affordable and legal alternative nano-credit and reducing financial vulnerability.

Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providers stifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products. Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight. By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data.

Operator of an innovation and training ecosystem intended for the emergence of global solutions. The company educates young entrepreneurs and promotes excellence in Africa with ecosystem development, access to training, and business acceleration, startup and corporate success, enabling the entrepreneurial market, and startups to foster business, creativity, and sharing.

Social Lender is a lending solution based on social reputation on mobile, online and social media platforms.

Mazima Retirement Plan engages in helping those working in the formal sector save for retirement.

Doopla is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform that provides above-market returns to investors, while charging below-market interest rates to borrowers.

SmartCrowd is a real estate investment platform that facilitates access to the UAE real estate market through a user-friendly online portal. By allowing low minimum investments, it enables individuals to invest in fractional shares of properties, making real estate investment more accessible to low and middle-income individuals. The platform simplifies the investment process by allowing users to treat their properties like stock portfolios, thereby focusing on asset allocation rather than the complexities of managing physical properties. This innovative approach not only reduces barriers to entry but also provides significant time and cost savings, empowering investors to build a diversified property portfolio without excessive leverage or risk.

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.

VestMunity is a real estate crowdfunding platform that enables community members to invest in local real estate projects with minimal financial commitment. By leveraging the principles of crowdfunding, the platform allows individuals to become stakeholders in various real estate opportunities, making it easier for them to participate in the real estate market. This approach simplifies the investment process and democratizes access to real estate investments, making it accessible to a broader audience.

Atikus Investments Incorporated offers credit insurance on loans for micro, small, and medium sized enterprises. Through its product J.E.M. Guard, the company focuses on increasing the proportion of loans granted to women and underserved demographics. Additionally, it provides LoanSkout, which is a mobile loan origination and administration application and FINCH, which is its SMS-enabled outreach tool. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York with a location in Kigali, Rwanda.

Infiniteach is dedicated to autism innovation through technology and training. It is a digital learning platform for one in 68 children diagnosed with autism. Its first product, Skill Champ, makes it easy for parents and teachers to create customized lessons that are rooted in evidence-based autism interventions. Infiniteach was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

EDOM is a Kenya-based fortified flour and enriched porridge producer mitigating malnutrition in Sub-Sarahan Africa through a BoP-targeted sales strategy. The business has achieved a 68% revenue CAGR since inception, 4-fold net margin increase in 2013, and has a 4,000+ smallholder farmer network in Uganda and Kenya. With I-DEV support, EDOM has engaged a leading global impact investor to secure the first tranche of a multi-stage investment which will be used to provide WC and M&E financing to double production and extend BoP outreach.

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