# IDH

> IDH is a VC fund in Utrecht backing Financial Services and Farming. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idh-the-sustainable-trade-initiative/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/idh_buzz
- Website: https://www.idhsustainabletrade.com/

IDH is a VC fund in Utrecht focused on Financial Services and Farming. IDH is the Sustainable Trade Initiative that brings governments, companies, CSOs, and financiers together in action-driven coalitions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $2.1M–$9.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 38% |
| Farming | 4 | 31% |
| AgTech | 3 | 23% |
| Finance | 3 | 23% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 3 | 23% |
| Kenya | 1 | 8% |
| Uganda | 1 | 8% |
| Mozambique | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barbara Visser | Chief Operating Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barbara-visser-cc60 |
| Roland Waardenburg | Program Manager and Marketing Coach | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roland-waardenburg-b287 |
| Ronald Sanabria | Senior Program Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ronald-sanabria |
| Unmesh Brahme | Director Markets | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unmesh-brahme |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apollo Agriculture | Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that candouble farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models. | $2.1M | Debt Financing | May 06, 2026 |  |
| JKCC General Supplies | JKCC General Supplies is the producer and exporter of quality coffee. | $6.5M | Debt Financing | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Avanti Finance | Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products | $14.1M | Series B | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Advans Côte d'Ivoire | Advans Ivory Coast offers a range of financial services customised to clients’ needs. They help customers grow their businesses and achieve their personal goals. They employ a client-centric approach, using client feedback to improve their services. They provide everything from microloans to Small and medium-sized enterprises loans to currentaccounts, savings plans, insurance, and transfers. | $2.5M | Debt Financing | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Stellapps | Stellapps designs dairy management software applications that leverage the power of technology to improve dairy supply chain parameters. The company's applications leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud, mobility and data analytics to improve agri-supply chain parameters, including milk production, milk procurement, cold chainanimal insurance and farmer payments, enabling dairy farms, dairy farmers and cooperatives to maximize profits while minimizing effort. | $26M | Series C | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| Hatch Africa | Hatch Africa is pioneering a new business model in Sub-Saharan Africa that brings eggs and chicks to every household, | $9.5M | Debt Financing | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Avanti Finance | Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products | $24M | Series B | Apr 03, 2023 |  |
| Koa Switzerland | Take the chance to experience a unique addition to your world of flavors with the exotic taste of CocoA Juice. A taste that to date only reached the palates of just a few in the world.CocoA Juice is captured directly on the farms in the middle of the Ghanaian rain forests. Our dedicated team on the ground extracts the juice together withtraditional small scale farmers under hygienic and environmentally sustainable conditions.In a completely redesigned process, we combine traditional organic farming practices with modern-day technology and methodologies -all the while reducing food waste, increasing livelihood on rural areas and at the same time carrying the unique taste of CocoA into the world.CocoA's flavor originates from the pulp that surrounds the cocoa beans within the cocoa fruit. Through respectful cooperation with the cocoa farmers, our process neither interferes with traditional farming nor does it affect the quality of the beans, but generates an additional source of income for the hard-working farmers.Our project is a real Win-Win for everyone. Not only does our project bring the world a new exotic flavor, but it's also rich in antioxidants, increases the income of Ghanaian Farmers, creates more jobs, utilizes 25% more of the fruit rather than the current 10% figure, and more. | $5.5M | Debt Financing | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Stellapps | Stellapps designs dairy management software applications that leverage the power of technology to improve dairy supply chain parameters. The company's applications leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud, mobility and data analytics to improve agri-supply chain parameters, including milk production, milk procurement, cold chainanimal insurance and farmer payments, enabling dairy farms, dairy farmers and cooperatives to maximize profits while minimizing effort. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| LendXS | LendXS is a digital credit services platform which provides loan performance management tools for rural financial institutions |  | Seed | Jun 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-melinda-gates-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NRJN Trust](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nrjn-trust) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does IDH invest in?

IDH invests primarily in Financial Services, Farming and AgTech startups, most often at Debt Financing and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is IDH's check size?

IDH typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$9.5M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds IDH participates in.

### How do I contact IDH?

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### Who are the partners at IDH?

The team at IDH includes Barbara Visser (Chief Operating Officer), Roland Waardenburg (Program Manager and Marketing Coach) and Ronald Sanabria (Senior Program Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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