We are a leading early-stage investor in fintech for inclusion and experts in the transformation of financial service providers, with decades of experience harnessing the capital markets to enable underserved people to improve their lives.
At Accion, we know financial services are powerful tools to help reduce poverty and create opportunity. We find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach large numbers of underserved people and accelerate their growth by investing capital and providing strategic governance and advice.
We focus on social impact, driving systems-level change. We make equity and quasi-equity investments from pre-seed to growth-stage and prioritize investments in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States.
Accion Impact Management is our platform for impact investments in financial inclusion leveraging third-party capital.
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Since 1961, Accion has helped build more than 267 financial service providers serving low-income clients in 75 countries, reaching 440 million people.
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We currently work with 221 partners across 34 countries.
$475.8M
As of December 31, 2023, we have $475.8M impact Assets Under Management (AUM).
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Accion Venture Lab
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally.
Accion Emerge
Accion Emerge invests in growth-stage companies embracing innovation in embedded finance, agritech, and the future of work to unlock opportunities for underserved people. We build demonstration models, some of which go on to become new investment strategies, leveraging third-party capital.
Accion Digital Transformation
Accion Digital Transformation provides growth capital and strategic support for the digital transformation of financial institutions, building the next generation of responsible service providers for underserved people and catalyzing the industry.
Accion Quona Partnership
Since launching one of the world’s first global fintech funds focused on the underserved in 2015, Quona and Accion have worked together to mobilize the capital markets to jumpstart fintech companies that are leveraging the power of digital technology to improve the quality and availability of financial services for families and small businesses.
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