Top 15 FinTech Startup Investors in Myanmar in October 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Myanmar. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Myanmar. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 FinTech Startup Investors in Myanmar in October 2024
Investor | FinTech Myanmar investments |
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Future Venture Capital | 1 |
Finnfund | 1 |
KFW DEG | 1 |
Insitor Partners | 1 |
Incofin Investment Management | 1 |
Asia Impact Investment Fund | 1 |
Proparco | 1 |
Norfund | 1 |
Shunsuke Sasaki | 1 |
Daiwa PI Partners | 1 |
Nordic Microfinance Initiative | 1 |
BOPA | 1 |
PHYZ | 1 |
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries | 1 |
Symbiotics Group | 1 |
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
- Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DALI Stores — DALI Stores operates a chain of grocery stores.
- Monkey Exchange — Monkey Exchange is an online corporate financial alternative to medium and small companies in Brazil focused on reducing cost of capital. We aim to provide financing, using receivables exchange to the supply chain of the multinational groups (Brazilians or not), by linking the suppliers to investors in a competitive environment.It's aGain-Gain situation: lower capital price for producing side and better returns for investors. And this is just the start.
- Georgia Global Utilities — GGU is a water utility and renewable energy holding company that distributes potable water, collects, and processes wastewater.The investments in infrastructure made by the water utility company considerably increase the quality of water supply and wastewater services provided to consumers, as well as contribute to operating efficiency.GGU's renewable energy division owns and runs 240 MW of renewable energy assets, including eight 219 MW hydropower facilities and one 21 MW wind power plant.it was headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- India, Cambodia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
- Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
- Butterfly Learnings — Butterfly Learnings is a Leading ABA Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy Center for parents with special needs children having autism, ADHD, speech delays, down syndrome, learning disabilities & much more.
Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people wholive in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- Namdev Finvest — Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector.
- Rite Water Solutions — Rite Water Solutions offers potable water and water quality improvement solutions. It aims to provide safe drinking water to habitations across India which are affected by chemical and biological contamination of available ground and surface water source.The company’s portfolio of water and process technologies includes electrolytic processtechnologies, nanotechnology-based water quality solutions, membrane and filtration technology, monitoring solutions, analytical instruments, mobile water capabilities, and disinfection solutions.Its products include fluoride removal systems, auto chlorination systems, electro chlorinators, filtration systems, nanotech-based arsenic removal plants, iron removal systems, reverse osmosis systems, CIO2 generator systems, chemical dosing systems, and more.Rite Water Solutions is ISO 9001:2008 certified and is registered under the small scale industry in India.Rite Water Solutions is based in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
- Saggraha Management Services — SaGgraha Management Services is a Bottom of the Pyramid financial services provider with a mission to contribute to the country's financial inclusion effort. The company is promoted by a team of professionals with banking, microfinance and financial services experience. The company believes at maintaining highest ethical and professionalstandards, governance and transparency.
Asia Impact Investment Fund
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Investment focus
- Finance, Non Profit, Association
- Funding Round
- Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- India, Kenya, Mauritius
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- Sonatel — The Sonatel group offers global telecommunications solutions in the fields of fixed, mobile, Internet, television and data serving individuals and businesses. Leader in Senegal, present in Mali since 2002, in Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau since 2007, Sonatel is the global and sub-regional operator of reference.Sonatel has built a modernnetwork, fully digitized by transmission loops and international connections using high-speed optical fiber submarine cables. Sonatel has one of Africa's largest Internet bandwidths of 6.5 Gbps.Sonatel is a structuring company for the economy of his country and has made Senegal a hub of traffic and a major player in the development of telecommunications in Africa and in the world.Through its Orange brand, the Sonatel Group provides its millions of consumers with the best opportunities for convergence between mobile, internet and television technologies.
- Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
- NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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Investment focus
- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial and household products in Ghana, with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
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Investment focus
- Social Media, Content, SNS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
- bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Daiwa PI Partners is a private equity firm focused on non-performing loan investments and energy investments.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Myanmar, Japan, Vietnam
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- Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
- Quantifeed — Quantifeed is Asia's leading digital wealth management platform for financial institutions.
- Rent 2 Own(Myanmar) — Rent2Own is the first company in Myanmar offering a flexible rental service to help prospective buyers acquire asset . Providing tailored options to those in need of asset, but lacking the means to buy in one go. Their main focus is helping entrepreneurs, often farmers, to buy the asset they need to generate income and grow their business.Life isdynamic and ever changing and they help their clients adapt to new circumstances with their flexible contracts that include maintenance and insurance. The contracts can be adjusted anytime and early-terminated without penalty. Thinking about swapping your old motorcycle for a new one? Rent2Own offers the possibility to upgrade. In addition, the option to purchase the bike is available for the whole duration of the contract. After all payments are completed, the ownership of the bike is transferred to the client. They take pride in improving rural mobility. The impact of the availability of transportation can be hardly overstated. A motorcycle helps kids go to school and receive an education. It makes it possible for farmers to sell their products at more distant markets, where they might fetch a higher price. And for those who have found a job further away, a motorcycle allows them to commute.
The Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI) is an innovative strategic partnership between the Norwegian public and private sectors that will invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and provide professional assistance and technical support for these institutions. The mission of NMI is to contribute to the empowerment ofpoor people and to the creation of jobs, wealth, and economic and social sustainability in developing countries by investing in and supporting MFIs.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- India, Uganda, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
- Light Microfinance — Light Microfinance is a non-banking finance company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. Headquartered at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Light Microfinance provides micro and meso finance products and services with gender and poverty-focused programs, targeting rural and peri-urban areas, with a specific focus on poor women. The company operates inGujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and is one of the fastest growing microfinance companies in India today.
BOPA is a Singapore-based equity investor in microfinance institutions.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services, Credit
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, Myanmar
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- Navadhan Capital — Navadhan Capital offers capital to under-banked households.
- Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar
Phyz is an EC solutions services" for the company business.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Management Consulting
- Seed
- Myanmar
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- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
- Funding Round, Private Equity
- France, Zambia, Myanmar
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- Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
- Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
- Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar
Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- India, Kenya, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
- Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
- AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.
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