Investor & Technical Assistance Database

This database targets companies looking for financial and/or technical support. The database lists organisations and initiatives providing different kinds of support, such as capital in the form of grants, loans and equity, or technical support in the form of advice, partnership brokering or networking support. To learn more about the database, click the info button on the right. 

For current training opportunities, networking events, and calls for application, access our opportunities page

Use the search filters below to narrow down your search for financial and/or technical support providers.

ABOUT THE DATABASE

Who is this database for?

This database aims to serve inclusive businesses that are looking for sources of support to help them grow, ranging from capital to technical support.

 

What does the database cover?

This database lists organizations that provide technical and financial support to inclusive businesses. The database will continue growing as support organizations are registered. Inclusive businesses are diverse, and so too are the range of organizations that provide support and the types of support they offer. The resources listed cover a continuum of financing solutions, from grants and concessional financing to commercial finance and private equity. They also include organizations and initiatives providing technical assistance (TA), advice, partnership brokering, information, advocacy, and networking. The database is easy to navigate and provides useful filters such as the range of financial support provided and the stage of enterprise supported (if such information is available). 

More organizations will be added over time and suggestions are welcome. Other database that we recommend include:

► GET.invest: focused on renewable energy in Africa
► Nexus for Development: focused on Southeast Asia
 The Mix: Database on microfinance services

Why and how was the database developed?

Inclusive business entrepreneurs often face difficulties identifying partners that could provide crucial financial and technical support. Even though such support is available, information about it is often fragmented and hard to find. The database addresses this challenge, making information on financial and technical support easy to identify and navigate by providing easily searchable categories and filters.

The entries and information provided in the database are compiled by the research team using information publicly available on organization websites or provided directly by the organizations themselves. 

 

Who developed the database?

The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business (now inclusivebusiness.net) and the Asian Development Bank set up this database to help overcome this challenge. The Connect to Grow programme supported further development of this database in 2016, specifically to include intermediaries in its target countries. In late 2017 and 2018, the DFID Impact Programme funded the most comprehensive review and update of the database yet, which was implemented by Endeva. The Endeva team reviewed the categories and all existing entries, and also added hundreds of entries with the support of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and other partners.

ANDE has just launched a new site of their own that provides data about financial and non-financial support available for small and growing businesses in a specific city or country. ANDE’s Ecosystem Snapshots aim to help those supporting entrepreneurs to foster conditions in which businesses can thrive. 

 

USING THE DATABASE

What can users search for on the database?

You can keep your search for organizations broad by just selecting the finance and/or technical support offering you are looking for or you can narrow down your search by selecting further filters such as type of organization, sector, region/country etc. If you are looking for a specific topic that is not included in the current category list, use the keywords search bar to search the entire database. This will return results on that topic from the whole database.

 

If users want all entries from Asia, does one need to select all Asian countries, too (or ditto for other continents)?

No. If you would like to see all the material for one continent, for example South Asia, select ‘South Asia’ under the ‘Region/Country’ filter and click on the ‘Apply’ button. This will bring up all intermediaries that provide support in South Asia.

 

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Intermediary Database

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The Yield Lab
Latin America and the Caribbean

The AgriFoodTech Venture Capital firm with the largest presence and experience across Latin America.
Founded in 2017 and with offices in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, our team is investing in companies based in Latin America in the whole food and agriculture innovation spectrum, from farm to fork.

Type of OrganisationImpact investment fund/ impact investment fund manager/ impact focused venture capital fund
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru
Amount$150,000 - 500,000, $500,000 - 2M
Exact Amount
Focus TypeSmall and growing businesses, Start-ups
Focus StageEarly Stage
Social Nest Foundation
Global

Social Nest Foundation is a global platform supporting entrepreneurs, enterprises, governments, and investors with needed resources, opportunities, and tailored guidance so that they can create solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.

Type of OrganisationFoundation
Region/CountryGlobal
Exact Amount
Technical Support OfferingMentoring, Talent Placement, Network-based support
Focus TypeSmall and growing businesses, Start-ups, NGOs/Non-profits
Focus StageEarly Stage
Sitawi
Latin America and the Caribbean

SITAWI Finance for Good was founded in 2008, and is an organization that pioneered the development of social impact financial solutions and the analysis of the social and environmental performance of companies and financial institutions.
The Social Finance program is responsible for the development of Social Impact Bonds (BIS) in Brazil and the management of Philanthropic Funds (FF) and of the Social and Environmental Revolving Funds (FSR), based on which donations, loans, and impact investments are made to organizations and enterprises committed to impact, regardless of their being for-profit or non-for-profit organizations.

Type of OrganisationDevelopment Finance Institution
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Exact Amount
Focus TypeLarge companies, Small and growing businesses, Start-ups, NGOs/Non-profits
Roots of impact
Global

Roots of Impact designs and implements innovative financing solutions, in which public and catalytic funds mobilize private investment and enable strong impact performance. With their Social Finance Academy, they help to create vibrant impact ecosystems, and run programs for access to impact finance. Research and education for effective blended & innovative finance in partnership with the Initiative for Blended Finance at the University of Zurich.

Type of OrganisationConsultancy
Region/CountryGlobal
Exact Amount
Technical Support OfferingInformation sharing, resources and publications, Partnership brokering, investment facilitation, networking
Focus TypeLarge companies, Small and growing businesses, Start-ups
New Ventures
Latin America and the Caribbean

Since 2004, New Ventures is a leading platform that catalyzes social and environmental businesses and strengthens the ecosystem that supports them by means of financing, acceleration, and promotion services and programs.

Type of OrganisationAccelerator/Incubator
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Mexico
Exact Amount
Technical Support OfferingMentoring, Talent Placement, Network-based support
Focus TypeSmall and growing businesses, Start-ups
Impaqto
Latin America and the Caribbean

Impaqto addresses the issues faced by entrepreneurs and companies by offering coworking spaces, incubation and pre-acceleration programs, and innovation consulting. Impaqto Capital addresses the financial gap in impact investing.

Type of OrganisationAccelerator/Incubator
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Ecuador
Finance OfferingDebt finance
Amount$50,000 -150,000
Exact Amount
Technical Support OfferingOne-to-one advisory support, Consulting Services, Physical co-working space
Focus TypeStart-ups
Focus StageEarly Stage
Impact Latam
Latin America and the Caribbean

Impact Latam promotes ventures and companies with an economic, social and ecological impact. They accompany companies, investors and organizations in their transition to economic, social and environmental impact.

Type of OrganisationAcademia
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Exact Amount
Technical Support OfferingInformation sharing, resources and publications, Partnership brokering, investment facilitation, networking, Training, and other classroom based support (online/offline)
Focus TypeSmall and growing businesses, Start-ups, NGOs/Non-profits
IC Fundación
Latin America and the Caribbean

The goal of IC Fundación is to drive positive, sustainable social and economic changes among vulnerable communities and families in Colombia by supporting the development and consolidation of associative enterprises. Through business strengthening and financing processes, IC Fundación helps associative enterprises attain a level of business development where they can access credit from impact funds or other traditional financing institutions.

Type of OrganisationFoundation
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Finance OfferingDebt finance
Exact Amount
Focus TypeSmall and growing businesses, Start-ups
FUNDES
Latin America and the Caribbean

Fundes empowers, digitizes, and nurtures small business owners from the traditional economy. The solutions unlock their potential as changemakers for their community, their habitat, and all those who depend on them.

Type of OrganisationConsultancy
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Exact Amount
Technical Support OfferingMentoring, Talent Placement, Network-based support
Focus TypeSmall and growing businesses
Focus StageEarly Stage, Growth Companies, Mature
Fundação Arymax
Latin America and the Caribbean

Created in 1990, Fundação ARYMAX is a non-profit entity that mobilizes private resources for the development and strengthening of people, initiatives, and organizations of the Brazilian society. Arymax’s mission is to support initiative that promote the productive inclusion of economically vulnerable people, in order to generate employment and income and increase the productivity of the country. It supports organizations of the Jewish community, supporting capacity building and community strengthening.

Type of OrganisationFoundation
Region/CountryLatin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Exact Amount
IB TopicsEmployment, Youth