“Can an agro-input-anchored credit platform become the default working-capital rail for Latin American smallholder farmers?”
Verqor is a Mexican agri-fintech founded in 2018 that provides cashless, in-kind credit to smallholder growers for the purchase of fertilizers, agrochemicals, seeds, and machinery, with repayment timed to harvest sales rather than monthly instalments. Underwriting leans on alternative data — NDVI satellite data, supply-chain trends, weather, and crop prices — rather than traditional credit scores, and ~74% of users are accessing formal credit for the first time. The 2023 $7.5M round added Yara Growth Ventures (the agro-input giant's venture arm) as a strategic anchor alongside debt facilities from Addem Capital and Co_Capital to fund the growing loan book.
Verqor's lending and capital products are provided by Verqor (in-house).
Verqor was founded by Hugo Garduño and is founded in 2018, headquartered in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico.
Verqor has raised $7.5M (2023 pre-Series A, equity + debt) in total (latest round: Pre-Series A, 2023).
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