Accion Venture Lab is an seed stage investment initiative started by non-profit, Accion. It provides capital investments and ongoing strategy consulting for financial technology startups. The company invests in fintech businesses that utilize technology to bring financial services to financially underserved populations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Accion Venture Lab announced a new $23M fund in September 2019. This new fund included initial capital contributions from the Ford Foundation, Visa, Inc. and Proparco .
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The Nigeria-based Lidya uses a tech-based credit algorithm to loan to small businesses without credit histories.
Konfio is a Mexico City-based online financial services platform offering small and medium businesses find access to working capital credit and loans.
CreditMantri is a Chennai-based data-driven platform developer providing credit and financial reports to users based on their credit history and helping users understand the status of their credit health and credit profile.
DemystData is a company that provides data integration technology for financial services.
A venture capital firm in Pakistan that focuses on providing financial security.
Joust is an Austin, Texas-based provider of mobile banking tools for freelancers and entrepreneurs.
Self Lender is a credit builder that aims to help users build credit and save money.
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Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations. - 4
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Investor in 200+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the Universe. - 5
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 6
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 7
Mevludin Mešanović
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering