Mercy Corps Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm
Mercy Corps Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in Other, Marketplace, Fintech. The firm has 8 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 8 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Marketplace, Fintech, Developer Tools, AI / ML, Food / AgTech, Consumer
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Pre-Seed, Seed
8+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in frontier-market startups improving resilience and access in underserved economies, including logistics and asset-access models.
How Mercy Corps Ventures invests
Mercy Corps Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Marketplace, Fintech, Developer Tools, AI / ML.
Mercy Corps Ventures has backed 8 companies in our records, including Harvesting, Teliman, Boost.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (8)
Other
Harvesting
Uses weather, satellite, agronomic, and other data with machine-learning models to help financial institutions assess agricultural lending and insurance risk.
Teliman
Provides motorcycle-taxi transportation in Bamako, Mali, using a lease-to-own model that helps drivers earn income and eventually own their motorcycles.
Boost
Helps small retailers in Ghana order inventory through mobile channels, access discounted procurement, and obtain inventory financing and other financial services.
Tolbi
Uses farm-level, satellite, and field data with agronomic algorithms and AI to provide farmers and agricultural stakeholders with production recommendations and yield-risk information.
Topl
Builds blockchain infrastructure for supply-chain traceability, digital identity, payments, and verification of sustainable practices, including in agriculture.
Aquarech
Connects participants in Africa’s fish-farming value chain, supporting activities from feed supply through fish sales.
Popular Power
Provides software that helps solar operators monitor and manage distributed solar assets, customers, technicians, and hardware in one platform.
PowerLabs
Develops smart-metering and distributed-energy infrastructure that enables businesses in Nigeria to manage and share excess solar power.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Marketplace, Fintech — the sectors they actively back.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jim Arbogast, Senior Director.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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