# Mercy Corps Ventures

> Mercy Corps Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 73 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, United States
- Total investments: 73
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercy-corps-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MCSocialVenture
- Website: https://www.mercycorpsventures.vc

Mercy Corps Ventures is a VC fund in Portland focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $330k–$5.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$7M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 19 | 26% |
| FinTech | 15 | 21% |
| Agriculture | 11 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 12% |
| AgTech | 8 | 11% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 37 | 51% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 18% |
| Series A | 8 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 13 | 18% |
| United States | 11 | 15% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 4% |
| Colombia | 3 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 3 | 4% |

21 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hetal Patel | Director, Investments | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hetal-patel-6a05 |
| Bethany Kanten | Director of Strategy and Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethany-kanten |
| Daniel Block | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-block-34b1 |
| Kenneth Kou | Fintech + Innovation Lead and Head of Venture Lab | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-kou |
| Natalie Vergara Giron | Head of Platform | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natalie-vergara-giron |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ReForest Latam | ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change. |  | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Logidoo | Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time. |  |  | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| PowerLabs | PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Farm to Feed | Farm to Feed is a food supply chain company that is providing a digitally-enabled solution to food loss/waste. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 18, 2025 |  |
| MazaoHub | MazaoHub is a AI-powered end-to-end farm management company. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 20, 2025 |  |
| Blooms | Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters. | $2.6M | Seed | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Ábaco | Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions. | $7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 28, 2025 |  |
| Tappi | Tappi is a full-stack SaaS business built for small businesses in Africa to help them find businesses online. We help SMBs get discovered, find customers, and build their reputation using messaging, payments, and AI. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2023 |  |
| TAPPI | TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2023 |  |
| AquaRech | AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade. | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 22, 2023 |  |

10 of 73 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Mercy Corps Ventures invest in?

Mercy Corps Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 73 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 $330k–$5.3M at Seed, $100k–$7M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$35M 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 LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 Hetal Patel (Director, Investments), Bethany Kanten (Director of Strategy and Operations) and Daniel Block (Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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