# IFC Venture Capital Group

> IFC Venture Capital Group is a VC fund backing Energy and Internet. See 62 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 62
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ifclinkedin
- Website: https://www.ifc.org/vc

IFC Venture Capital Group is a VC fund in Washington focused on Energy and Internet. IFC VC’s direct equity and early stage investments are meant to create a continuum so that the accelerated businesses that make it can also go further and attract additional sources of finance. IFC will initially target startups and seed funds in “medium-sized markets” such as Nigeria, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, and Ukraine

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $10M–$43M |
| Series C | $9.1M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 7 | 11% |
| Internet | 7 | 11% |
| Software | 7 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 11% |

89 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 15 | 24% |
| Series B | 12 | 19% |
| Series C | 10 | 16% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 5 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 15% |
| India | 8 | 13% |
| China | 4 | 6% |
| Brazil | 4 | 6% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 5% |

23 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nikunj Jinsi | Head | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikunj-jinsi |
| Riccardo Puliti | Regional Vice President for the Middle East and Central Asia | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riccardo-puliti |
| Wale Ayeni | Senior Investment Officer | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wale-ayeni |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ingenix | Ingenix is building an AI Co-pilot for generating real-time hypotheses on clinical endpoints values and adverse events. | $9.9M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Johnvents Industries | Johnvents Industries is an agribusiness focused on long-term growth throughout the agricultural value chain, from production to distribution. | $23.3M | Debt Financing | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Scanntech | Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay. | $40.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Figopara | Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.​ | $11M | Series A | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| Respublica | Respublica develops and manages student accommodation places in South Africa. | $36M | Private Equity | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Liquid Intelligent Technologies | Liquid Intelligent Technologies is an independent data, voice, and IP provider that is committed to building Africa’s digital future. | $250M |  | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Liquid Intelligent Technologies | Liquid Intelligent Technologies is an independent data, voice, and IP provider that is committed to building Africa’s digital future. | $250M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Twiga Foods | Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya. | $50M | Series C | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Revelo | Revelo provides data infrastructure for frontier model AI code generation, including expert annotators, eval frameworks, and reinforcement learning gyms. Its network of 400,000+ vetted software engineers in Latin America powers both AI training data pipelines for code and direct staffing for US tech companies. | $28.2M | Series B | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Konfio | Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City. | $110M | Series E | Sep 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 62 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Creadev](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creadev) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alpha4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha4-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Black River Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-river-ventures-5) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does IFC Venture Capital Group invest in?

IFC Venture Capital Group invests primarily in Energy, Internet and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is IFC Venture Capital Group's check size?

IFC Venture Capital Group typically joins rounds of $10M–$43M at Series B and $9.1M–$60M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds IFC Venture Capital Group participates in.

### How do I contact IFC Venture Capital Group?

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### Who are the partners at IFC Venture Capital Group?

The team at IFC Venture Capital Group includes Nikunj Jinsi (Head), Riccardo Puliti (Regional Vice President for the Middle East and Central Asia) and Wale Ayeni (Senior Investment Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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