VilCap, Inc.
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Who is our customer
Village Capital is an organization that supports impact-driven seed-stage start-up companies that has a globally distributed team that has supported entrepreneurs in 28 countries. They strategically partner with locally led organizations to ensure a tailored approach to the existing needs and resources in the ecosystem.
What is our funding objective?
As part of FMO's Reducing Inequalities ambition, the funding objective is to support inclusive businesses in frontier and growth markets with funding to scale their business operations. Through this partnership with FMO, Vilcap will act as a fund manager to the investment facility as well as provide support and thought leadership on broader ecosystem building activities, and use of innovative finance models to increase impact.
Why do we fund this investment?
This project is aligned with Massif’s mandate to lower the barrier of access to finance for developing & inclusive businesses that serve the Base of the Pyramid group by providing them with financial products and technical assistance to further innovate and grow their business operations. This effort is also rooted in FMO’s investments toward Reducing Inequalities with a particular emphasis on obtaining insights from leveraging impact performance data to select, finance, and support high-impact and scalable companies.
- Website customer/investment
- https://vilcap.com/
- Country
- Global
- Sector
- Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Services
- Publication date
- 12/28/2022
- Effective date
- 12/2/2022
- Total FMO financing
- USD 0.40 MLN
- Funding
- MASSIF