Franq is democratizing access to financial services for SMEs and consumers by pairing innovative technology with an independent broker network When Paulo Silva was in his late 40s, he traded his suit and the hustle of banking in São Paulo, Brazil for swim trunks and pristine, white sand beaches. His…

By Kristin Sadler In September in San Francisco, Quona hosted our first-ever Investor Day, designed to reconnect marquee debt and equity investors with category-leading fintechs from across the globe. Quona has 60+ fintech investments in emerging markets including Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and MENA, and Investor Day marked…

Orda puts data and insights into the hands of food merchants that most need them — For Nigerian and Kenyan food establishment managers like Abimbola Lawal, working long hours managing restaurants is a fact of life. Amid the frantic day-to-day pace of running O’John Cuisine’s two locations in Lagos, Lawal is tasked with keeping track of sales and inventory — no simple feat for a small…

mewt is helping address India’s $400 billion SME lending market gap by simplifying business banking Rishabh Jain grew up in the small town of Ajmer in Rajasthan, India, where he saw firsthand the struggles of running a small business by his mother and father on a daily basis. What stands…

With 30+ years of experience helping emerging markets get their footing, Quona’s new COO sees impact investing as the future of investing. David Mathewson, who recently joined Quona as Partner and Chief Operating Officer, has been enthralled with emerging markets since he stood in the center of the Brandenburg Gate…

Nocnoc instantly connects global sellers to LatAm’s network of e-commerce marketplaces. And then it helps them succeed. It didn’t take long for Diego Szilagyi, Joaquin Colella, and Ilan Bajarlia — who worked together on the founding team of dLocal, an Uruguay-based unicorn fintech that connects global merchants to emerging markets…

With Bureau, Ranjan Reddy aims to simultaneously solve two key priorities faced by businesses: creating a frictionless user experience while also verifying identity and transactions Ranjan Reddy has always been a little obsessed with mobile phones. His first phone? A Motorola flip, when he was a sophomore in college. His…

Finkargo is building a new asset class to help meet LatAm’s $350 billion trade financing gap For years, Marisol Ramirez Velasquez, CEO of ZMR Colombia, had been struggling to grow her merchandise and electronics import and distribution business, which launched in 2017. Like many SME importers across Latin America, ZMR’s…

For Egyptians traditionally left out of the formal banking system, Khazna provides a suite of services to transform the way they access and manage their money After earning his MBA at Stanford in 2014, Omar Saleh came back to Cairo where he was born and raised, wanting to build a…