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Mercy Corps Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

VC

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

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Portfolio

8+ companies

Team

9 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

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

JA

Jim Arbogast

Senior Director

DW

Dida Wako

Director

MR

Mathieu Rouquette

Director

TB

Trisha Bury

Director

KG

Kramer Gillin

Director

SL

Steve Linick

Chief Compliance Officer

JK

Jeeyon Kim

Director of Research

SA

Sylvester Abara

Technical Director

AD

Abdoulaye Diop

Finance and Compliance Director

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Marketplace
Fintech
Developer Tools
AI / ML
Food / AgTech
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (8)

Other

HA

Harvesting

Agtech / agricultural finance·Early stage; exact round not stated·Social Venture Fund

Uses weather, satellite, agronomic, and other data with machine-learning models to help financial institutions assess agricultural lending and insurance risk.

TE

Teliman

Mobility / inclusive employment·Seed·Digital Africa seed fund

Provides motorcycle-taxi transportation in Bamako, Mali, using a lease-to-own model that helps drivers earn income and eventually own their motorcycles.

BO

Boost

Fintech / commerce infrastructure·Early stage; exact round not stated

Helps small retailers in Ghana order inventory through mobile channels, access discounted procurement, and obtain inventory financing and other financial services.

TO

Tolbi

Agtech / precision agriculture·Early stage; exact round not stated

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.

TO

Topl

Blockchain / supply-chain infrastructure·Early stage; exact round not stated

Builds blockchain infrastructure for supply-chain traceability, digital identity, payments, and verification of sustainable practices, including in agriculture.

AQ

Aquarech

Aquaculture / food systems·Early stage; exact round not stated

Connects participants in Africa’s fish-farming value chain, supporting activities from feed supply through fish sales.

PO

Popular Power

Climate tech / solar-energy software·Pre-seed

Provides software that helps solar operators monitor and manage distributed solar assets, customers, technicians, and hardware in one platform.

PO

PowerLabs

Climate tech / distributed energy·Early stage; exact round not stated

Develops smart-metering and distributed-energy infrastructure that enables businesses in Nigeria to manage and share excess solar power.

How to pitch Mercy Corps Ventures
  • •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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