# Symbiotics Group

> Symbiotics Group is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symbiotics/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SymbioticsNews
- Website: http://symbioticsgroup.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Symbiotics-Group/171294413319

Symbiotics Group is an investment company that offers market research, investment advisory, brokerage, and asset management services. It works for institutional investors such as investment funds, asset managers, development banks, and pension funds.The company invests in microfinance and offers SME finance, social housing, sustainableagriculture, and energy efficiency opportunities. It supports financial institutions, mostly microfinance institutions but also more generally financing intermediaries which target micro-, small, and medium enterprises and low income households in emerging economies.Symbiotics Group was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with offices in Cape Town, London, Zurich, Mexico City, and Singapore.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$3.5M |
| Post-IPO Debt | $5M–$165M |
| Debt Financing | $2.5M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 27 | 61% |
| FinTech | 16 | 36% |
| Finance | 10 | 23% |
| Energy | 5 | 11% |
| Banking | 5 | 11% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 28 | 64% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 4 | 9% |
| Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 10 | 23% |
| Ghana | 3 | 7% |
| United States | 3 | 7% |
| Kenya | 2 | 5% |
| Uganda | 2 | 5% |

19 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aldric Luyt | Head of Fintech | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aldric-aldric |
| Eugene Tan | Regional Manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-tan-9d2f |
| Prashant Bhardwaj | Regional manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prashant-bhardwaj-4e73 |
| Vincent Dufresne | Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-dufresne |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| iFarmer | iFarmer operates an online platform that enables individuals and institutions to finance farming in a secured manner. While iFarmer offers advisory services, smart technologies and training to the farmer and also connects farmers to wholesale/retail buyers directly through a lean and connected supply chain. iFarmer also enables servicesproviders such as insurance, input and logistics companies to offer their services and make the agriculture financing and supply chain more efficient ad profitable for all the stakeholders including the farmers. | $1.5M | Debt Financing | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Farmnet | Farmnet trading arm of Singapore-headquartered TechCoop, operates as a key player in Vietnam's agricultural supply chain, focusing on commodities trading and related services. | $11.8M | Debt Financing | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Platinum Credit Uganda | Platinum Credit is a microfinance company that providers emergency loans to TSC members, Civil Servants and employees of selected companies. | $4M | Debt Financing | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Fido | Fido builds technology that enables fast and secure access to digital financial services. Their financial platform and machine learning risk models make instant credit decisions for customers with no financial track record while reducing operational costs. | $5.5M | Debt Financing | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Namdev Finvest | Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector. | $37M | Debt Financing | Jan 18, 2026 |  |
| Dugar Finance and Investments | Dugar Finance and Investments is a financial service firm that offers car loans, property loans, refinance, and investment services. | $18M | Debt Financing | Dec 19, 2025 |  |
| VENTENY | VENTENY is a Philippines-based company with one of the more unique business models e27 has come across in awhile. The startup is trying to solve the problem of employee churn by offering two distinctly different services. | $5M | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 13, 2025 |  |
| Complete Farmer | Complete Farmer is an end-to-end digital agriculture platform that provides industries with an easy way to cheaply source for quality farm produce and individuals anywhere in the world with a convenient way to own a farm by eliminating middlemen and farm produce aggregators. | $5M | Debt Financing | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Dugar Finance and Investments | Dugar Finance and Investments is a financial service firm that offers car loans, property loans, refinance, and investment services. | $3M | Debt Financing | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| DFCC Bank PLC | DFCC Bank provides financial and advisory services to the agriculture, exports, manufacturing, health, education, and construction sectors. They offer loans and advances, project financing, deposits, leasing, credit and debit cards, trade financing, and remittance services. | $12M | Post-IPO Debt | May 23, 2025 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FMO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fmo) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [British International Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdc-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Norfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norfunds) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [responsAbility Investments AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/responsability-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AU Small Finance Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au-financiers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Symbiotics Group invest in?

Symbiotics Group invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Debt Financing and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Symbiotics Group's check size?

Symbiotics Group typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$3.5M at Seed, $5M–$165M at Post-IPO Debt and $2.5M–$37M 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 Symbiotics Group participates in.

### How do I contact Symbiotics Group?

Public channels for Symbiotics Group 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 Symbiotics Group?

The team at Symbiotics Group includes Aldric Luyt (Head of Fintech), Eugene Tan (Regional Manager) and Prashant Bhardwaj (Regional 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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