# Engineers Without Borders Canada

> Engineers Without Borders Canada is a VC fund backing FinTech, Agriculture and Financial Services. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2019
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Sep 2026

Engineers Without Borders Canada is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Agriculture.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 50% |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 2 | 50% |
| Ghana | 1 | 25% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FarmDrive | FarmDrive is a technology company that applies data science and machine learning to build software that increases access to meaningful financial services - loans, digital payments insurance, savings. FarmDrive’s mission is to drive capital to underserved rural clients and transform them into sustainable and profitable businesses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 04, 2019 | https://farmdrive.co.ke/ |
| Bloom Impact | Bloom Impact is a digital marketplace that lets small business owners in emerging markets easily access financing for their business, like loans and savings, through their smartphone. We eliminate the costs and hassle involved in finding financing. We're digitizing and disrupting how financial services are delivered!Small businesses arecritical to growing the economy in emerging markets and creating much needed employment opportunities, yet they lack access to financial products like loans and savings accounts that will help them grow and become sustainable. With over 60 years of combined experience in Fintech, financial services and emerging markets, the Bloom Impact team deeply understands the problem, the opportunity and the best solution. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 20, 2017 | https://x.com/BloomImpact |
| M-Shule | M-Shule is the first personalized knowledge-building platform in Africa to connect learners to tailored learning, evaluation, activation, and data (LEAD) tools over SMS. Meaning “mobile school” in Swahili, M-Shule combines SMS with artificial intelligence to reach offline or low-income communities with self-paced, interactive, and personalisedresources to power their success. Organisations leverage this award-winning approach to help individuals learn new skills, evaluate their progress, activate them to new behaviors, and collect and analyse data on their progress. By making an all-in-one skill-building platform possible with the simplest feature phone, M-Shule unlocks new opportunities for millions across Sub-Saharan Africa and the world. |  | Seed | Oct 20, 2017 | http://m-shule.com |
| GreenPath Food | GreenPath supports and improves the production of food on Partner Farms, growing greater amounts of fruit and vegetables by using organic, bio-diverse, and environmentally sustainable farming practices. Increased fruit and vegetable yields lead to higher incomes, and incentivize farmers to move away from growing less nutritious crops that requireincreasingly expensive synthetic chemicals and pesticides, that leave harmful side effects on land and human health. With more nutritious foods on their farms, our farmers also eat more healthily at home. | $275K | Seed | Jan 17, 2017 | https://www.greenpathfood.com/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1to4 Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1to4-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ADAP Seed Fund 2](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adap-seed-fund-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AK Impact Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ak-impact-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Injini](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/injini) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sunu Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunu-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Lakes Charitable Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lakes-charitable-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Engineers Without Borders Canada invest in?

Engineers Without Borders Canada invests primarily in FinTech, Agriculture and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Engineers Without Borders Canada last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Engineers Without Borders Canada closed in Feb 2019. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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