# James Polan

> James Polan is a debt financing investor at U.S. International Development Finance Corp backing Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [U.S. International Development Finance Corp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-s-international-development-finance-corp)
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 89%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-polan-0b8b26181/

James Polan is a debt financing investor at U.S. International Development Finance Corp focused on Financial Services and Finance. Jim Polan is the Vice-President of the Office of Development Credit at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 67% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |
| Credit | 1 | 11% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |
| Farming | 1 | 11% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 6 | 67% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 1 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 6 | 67% |
| Kenya | 2 | 22% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arya Collateral | Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages. | $19.8M | Debt Financing | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Roam | Roam is a technologically oriented electric mobility firm that creates and develops electric motorbikes and electric buses for emerging markets. Roam provides supporting infrastructure, fleet management software, and after-sales services to create an ecosystem that speeds up the transition to sustainable mobility in new frontier markets. | $10M | Debt Financing | Feb 14, 2024 |  |
| Pahal | Pahal renders financial products & services that include micro-credits, life insurance, personal, and vehicle loans for low-income families. | $12M | Debt Financing | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| 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 | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| Vistaar Finance | Vistaar designs and delivers customized loan products that address the individual needs of small businesses in terms of loan amount and tenor. Vistaar targets the dominant livelihoods in specific markets, e.g. power looms/textiles, and creates financial products to address the specific needs of that industry. One of the company core strengthslies in its solid, experienced, and visionary leadership: Vistaar founders have more than 55 years of combined experience across commercial, agriculture and rural banking, technology, and operations. | $50M | Debt Financing | Aug 04, 2023 |  |
| IIFL Finance | IIFL Finance offers financial services such as home loans, small ticket-sized home loans, secured MSME Loans, and project loans. Their diversified business model includes credit and finance, wealth management, financial product distribution, asset management, capital market advisory, and investment banking. | $50M | Post-IPO Debt | Jul 16, 2023 |  |
| TerraPay | TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement. | $100.5M | Series B | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Neogrowth | Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013. | $20M | Debt Financing | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| India Shelter | The main objective of India Shelter Finance is to provide credit to middle income households to acquire new housing or to extend and improve their current housing. The Company provides home loans up to a maximum of 20 lakhs to low and middle income urban borrowers for a period of up to 20 years. These loans can be used by borrowers for purchase ofapartments, construction of homes, home improvements and home extensions. | $10M | Debt Financing | Aug 24, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Finnfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finnfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prime-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About U.S. International Development Finance Corp

VC Fund · Washington, United States

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

5 contacts available at U.S. International Development Finance Corp.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Black | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-black-2 |
| Denise Kutsch | Associate Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denise-kutsch |
| Geoffrey Tan | Managing Director, Asia Pacific | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoffrey-tan |
| U.S. International Development Finance Corp | Regional Managing Director in South Asia Region | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-rao-3616 |
| James Polan | Vice-President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-polan-7562 |

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## FAQ

### What does James Polan invest in?

James Polan invests primarily in Financial Services, Finance and Credit startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did James Polan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Polan closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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