Accion Venture Lab

Accion Venture Lab is an investment and advisory group that uses digital technology to help build a financially inclusive world. It concentrates on global challenges facing people who lack access to good financial services. It backs new ways to reach the underserved and works with established financial industry players.

What Accion Venture Lab does

• Investment: funding for new approaches to reaching underserved customers.
• Advice to industry: guidance for financial sector leaders.
• Partnerships: collaborations that create opportunity for underserved people.
• Insights and advocacy: shared research and support for inclusive innovation.

Who it works with

Financial institutions, start-ups and low-income customers, including micro and small businesses. Stories on its site cover insurance for low-income families in Mozambique, embedded insurance for small firms, digital finance for rural women and a small business in Ecuador.

Key facts

• Focus: Financial inclusion through digital technology
• Markets mentioned: Mozambique and Ecuador