Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
Portland, United States
Mercy Corps Ventures is a VC fund in Portland focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Mercy Corps Ventures is the impact investing arm of Mercy Corps
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Mercy Corps Ventures invests in
Stages Mercy Corps Ventures invests in
Countries Mercy Corps Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$5.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $600k–$4.1M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 11 (42%)
- FinTech 8 (31%)
- AgTech 5 (19%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (19%)
- Finance 4 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (46%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (19%)
- Series A 3 (12%)
- Grant 1 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- Kenya 4 (15%)
- United States 4 (15%)
- Nigeria 2 (8%)
- Colombia 2 (8%)
- Indonesia 2 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Daniel Block
Investment Principal
|
Investment Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Tjada D'Oyen McKenna
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra. | Seed / May 20, 2023 | ||
| Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a scalable digital platform for verifying and issuing forest carbon credits — bringing transparency, inclusivity, and affordability to a market long defined by exclusivity, high costs, and opacity. OFP is creating the foundation for more inclusive, scalable, and data-backed financing mechanisms for nature-based climatesolutions. | $4.1M / Pre-Seed / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Pivo is a financial hub that allows small & medium businesses across Africa access to all the financial services they need in one place. | $2M / Seed / Nov 21, 2022 | ||
Stable Foods
|
Stable Foods has built an integrated solution to provide inputs and offtake contracts, Irrigation-as-a-Service (IaaS), and training on best practises for regenerative agriculture. | $600K / Pre-Seed / Nov 16, 2022 | |
| Verqor is a platform that disrupts the agricultural sector with finances and technology. We give farmers access to cashless credits that can be used for purchasing supplies and technology, everything through our platform. Verqor uses an alternative data-driven credit scoring criteria, for reaching financial inclusion and technifying the fields. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| AgriAku is a technology-based local agribusiness company that enables traders & farm shop owners to get saprotan(agriculture production facilities) at affordable prices through it's apps - Agroaku Mitra app, and Agroaku Hub app. AgriAku offers full-stack agriculture services for small and medium-sized businesses and farmers. AgriAku offerscomplete agricultural equipment such as seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals to agro equipment. | $6M / Seed / Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Emerging Impact modernizes financial services in emerging markets through blockchain technology. It is a benefit corporation that supports NGOs and government agencies leverage blockchain technology as a tool for humanitarian programming. The Oakland, California-headquartered company was established in 2020. | $1.5M / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Backed by the likes of Coinbase, Mercy Corps, 500 Global, and Norrsken, Umoja Labs provides crypto-enabled payments infrastructure purpose-built for informal markets. We provide mobile money-to-digital currency on/off-ramps, feature-phone enabled digital wallets, and protocol-based infrastructure to accelerate digital financial inclusionacross Africa and the world. | $1.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform. | $2.3M / Seed / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| Ejara is an app for Africa and its diasporas to access various investment offers fractional shares, commodities, cryptocurrency, and more. | $2M / Seed / Oct 07, 2021 | ||
| See all 26 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mercy Corps Ventures invest in?
Mercy Corps Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and AgTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Mercy Corps Ventures's check size?
Mercy Corps Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.3M at Seed, $600k–$4.1M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$12M 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 Mercy Corps Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Mercy Corps Ventures?
Public channels for Mercy Corps Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Mercy Corps Ventures?
The team at Mercy Corps Ventures includes Daniel Block (Investment Principal) and Tjada D'Oyen McKenna (Chief Executive Officer). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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