FINCA VENTURES

Chanzi offtakes food waste from smallholder farmers, commercial farms, urban markets and businesses, converts the food waste into protein using Black Soldier Fly larvae, and sells the feed additive to poultry and fish farmers, agrodealers, and feed mills across Tanzania and Kenya.

Kuunda designed an agent liquidity tool for agent networks, called Hapa Cash, to solve agent liquidity management challenges by providing agents access to a single-day overdraft, which allows them to continue meeting cash-in transaction demand when they face a lack of liquidity.

Affinity is a full-fledged digitally-driven financial institution that provides banking products to the underserved and unbanked in Ghana.

Amped Innovation designs and manufactures solar-powered appliances that empower households and SMEs currently relying on traditional fuels and lighting or diesel-powered generators with more cost-effective, productive and healthier solutions.

Bankingly provides digital banking channels for small and medium size financial institutions in emerging markets globally.

CassVita uses proprietary technology to extend the shelf life of cassava from 2-3 days to 18 months. CassVita’s technology reduces post-harvest losses experienced by smallholder farmers and enables increases in income of up to 400%.

Cinch brings the economics of industrial farming to smallholder farmers by aggregating groups of smallholder farmers into larger “mosaic” farms, consolidating management of their land through a licensing agreement, investing in infrastructure and using a professional agronomy team to transition land to grow high value produce, all while providing smallholder farmers with a guaranteed monthly income and option to work on the land for a daily wage.

EA Fruits transforms local fruit and vegetable supply chains by building cold-chain infrastructure from rural farmers to urban vendors, guaranteeing markets and stable prices for farmers and quality access to products for vendors.

Elucid assesses and mitigates risks to human health and livelihoods in global supply chains, starting with providing small-scale agriculture producers with essential healthcare services.

Floatpays provides workers with early access to earned wages coupled with savings products, financial literacy training, and budgeting tools.

Fluid Finance helps financial institutions invest in smallholder farmers in Ghana by making agri-investments more secure through their cashless input loans, buying crops from farmers, and digital loan management system.

Good Nature Agro works from end-to-end within the specialized legume value chain, enlisting and training smallholder farmers to grow high-value legume seeds and guaranteeing offtake for growers.

Ignitia enables farmers to reduce risk and make smarter decisions about planting and harvesting by providing the most accurate, proprietary, hyper-local tropical weather forecasts via SMS.

Jibu equips and capitalizes emerging market entrepreneurs to own profitable franchises that provide access to basic necessities for their communities, starting with affordable drinking water.

Kentaste sources coconuts from thousands of smallholder farmers along the coast of Kenya to process into a variety of coconut products including bulk and retail virgin coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut cream, desiccated coconut and coconut flour.

MDaaS Global improves access to high-quality and affordable diagnostic services by building and operating technology-enabled health centers in fast-growing, clinically underserved cities.

Meridia provides mapping and land documentation services to smallholder farmers, unlocking land value for rural and peri-urban populations.

Penda Health is a primary healthcare provider that offers a wide range of outpatient services in low-income, densely populated urban communities in Nairobi, Kenya.

Releaf is a supply chain technology company that utilizes proprietary hardware and software to source from smallholder farmers at scale, control quality, and deliver processed output to local factories.

Rising Academies operates their own network of low-cost private schools in sub-Saharan Africa and uses their technology and know-how to improve the quality of public provision through five large scale government partnerships in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Rwanda.

Sanivation creates cleaner towns through an innovative, affordable waste-to-energy model for inclusive city-wide sanitation that transforms pit latrine fecal sludge into high-efficiency, environmentally friendly industrial boiler briquettes for local businesses.

Sisu designed Hemafuse, a manual autotransfusion device that salvages, filters, and recycles blood during episodes of internal bleeding, without the use of electricity.

YYTZ sources cashews directly from women’s groups in Tanzania, pays them a price premium through establishing mechanization activity in the community, and sells the final product under the consumer brand, More Than Cashews.

Kwara designed a digital banking platform for savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs).