FINCA Ventures

Designs and manufactures solar-powered appliances for households and SMEs reliant on traditional fuels or diesel generators.

Provides digital banking channels for small and medium financial institutions in emerging markets globally.

Uses proprietary technology to extend cassava shelf life from days to 18 months, reducing post-harvest losses for smallholder farmers.

Converts food waste into protein feed additive using Black Soldier Fly larvae, sold to poultry and fish farmers across Tanzania and Kenya.

Aggregates smallholder farmers into larger 'mosaic' farms with professional agronomy and guaranteed income.

Builds cold-chain infrastructure linking rural farmers to urban vendors in East Africa.

Assesses and mitigates health risks in global supply chains, providing healthcare to small-scale agriculture producers.

Provides workers early access to earned wages plus savings products and financial literacy tools.

Helps financial institutions invest in smallholder farmers in Ghana via cashless input loans and digital loan management.

Works end-to-end in the legume value chain, training smallholder farmers and guaranteeing offtake.

Provides hyper-local tropical weather forecasts via SMS to help farmers make smarter planting decisions.

Sources coconuts from smallholder farmers in Kenya to process into a variety of coconut products.

Provides agents access to single-day overdrafts via its Hapa Cash tool to solve agent liquidity management challenges.

Digital banking platform for savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs).

Builds and operates technology-enabled diagnostic health centers in underserved cities in West Africa.

Provides mapping and land documentation services to smallholder farmers, unlocking land value.

Primary healthcare provider offering outpatient services in low-income urban communities in Nairobi, Kenya.

Supply chain technology company sourcing from smallholder farmers and delivering processed output to local factories.

Operates low-cost private schools and improves public education through government partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Waste-to-energy sanitation model transforming fecal sludge into industrial boiler briquettes.

Designed Hemafuse, a manual autotransfusion device that recycles blood during internal bleeding without electricity.

Sources cashews from women's groups in Tanzania and sells under the More Than Cashews consumer brand.