# FINCA Ventures

> FINCA Ventures is a VC fund in Washington backing Financial Services and Agriculture. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/finca-international/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FINCA
- Website: https://www.fincaventures.com/

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that leverages a global microfinance network to catalyze market-based solutions to poverty. It does so by providing patient capital and pre- and post-investment support to high-impact, early-stage social enterprises that offer affordable, high-quality and life-enhancingproducts and services for low-income families.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$4M |
| Grant | $40k–$100k |
| Series A | $1.1M–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 25% |
| Agriculture | 5 | 16% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |
| Health Care | 4 | 13% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 13% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 28% |
| Grant | 7 | 22% |
| Series A | 5 | 16% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 9 | 28% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 9% |
| United States | 3 | 9% |
| Mexico | 2 | 6% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Affinity | Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services. |  | Grant | Feb 16, 2026 |  |
| Cladfy | Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions. | $60K | Grant | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| truQ | We are Nigeria's first truck on-demand platform for all your moving and delivery needs, connecting people to the closest truck/van driver, smart, fast and easy. | $100K | Grant | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| 10mg Health | 10mg Health is an AI-driven credit scoring and digital identity verification technology designed to transform healthcare financing. | $40K | Grant | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Farmerlifeline | Farmerlifeline provides a device called CDD (Crop Pest & Disease Detection Device) detects crop pests and diseases early and alerts the farmer via text message. The device is linked to an online API database, allowing it to send a recommendation for the fertiliser or chemical to use in response to the detected pest or crop disease. | $100K | Grant | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Silo Africa | Silo Africa is a Grain Storage & Logistics Startup Company. | $60K | Grant | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Karpolax | Karpolax provides preservation technologies for agricultural companies that enable them to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. | $40K | Grant | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Lapaire | Lapaire Glasses uses innovative technology to provide free vision tests and affordable eyewear options to the lower and middle income African population. They target the 550 million Africans who need eyeglasses, but are not aware, or cannot afford them. With services such as Lapaire Glasses provides accommodating service such as 24/7 chatonline, mobile clinics offering free vision test, online shop, free delivery and flexible payments aimed to drastically improve the lives of their clients. Lapaire serves customers in Kenya, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali. The East African headquarters is located in Nairobi, Kenya, and West African headquarters located in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| Elucid Social | Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| CassVita | We leverage proprietary technology to eradicate climate-induced food insecurity while creating prosperity for vulnerable farmers. |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does FINCA Ventures invest in?

FINCA Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, Agriculture and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FINCA Ventures's check size?

FINCA Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4M at Seed, $40k–$100k at Grant and $1.1M–$4.2M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FINCA Ventures participates in.

### When did FINCA Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for FINCA Ventures closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 32 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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