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We’ve ranked the top 35 Micro Lending companies in India. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Micro Lending Companies & Startups (India)
Lendingkart
Lendingkart is an online financing company that provides short-term working capital loans to SME borrowers.
Founder(s): Harshvardhan Lunia, Mukul Sachan
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Micro Lending
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CreditAccess Grameen
CreditAccess Grameen provides micro financial products and services for women from rural poor and low income households in India.
Founder(s): Vinatha Reddy
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Micro Lending, Personal Finance
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Kinara Capital
Kinara Capital is a financing company that provides flexible collateral-free loans to small business entrepreneurs.
Founder(s): Hardika Shah
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Micro Lending, Social Entrepreneurship
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Belstar Investment and Finance Private Limited
Belstar Investment and Finance Private Limited is a provider of scalable microfinance services to entrepreneurs.
Founder(s): Kalpana Sankar
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance
Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance provides housing microfinance loan products for low-income households in rural areas in India.
Founder(s): Prashant Banerjee
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Lending, Micro Lending, Real Estate
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Asirvad Microfinance
Asirvad Microfinance provides microfinance loans to women from a poor and low-income households.
Founder(s): S V Raja Vaidyanathan
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Shikhar Microfinance
Shikhar Microfinance empowers communities by providing financial services and livelihood opportunities to the underprivileged segments.
Founder(s): Satyavir Chakrapani
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Muthoot Microfin
Muthoot Microfin Limited is the microfinance arm of Muthoot Pappachan group
Founder(s): Muthoot Pappachan, Ninan Mathai Muthoot
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Satya MicroCapital
Satya MicroCapital is a micro finance company based on a group lending model that allows borrowers to share liability.
Founder(s): Vivek Tiwari
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Micro Lending
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Microfinance.ai
microfinance.ai, promotes a digital mobile platform for local-language preferred users to avail micro-financial services digitally
Founder(s): Kapil Patil, Swati Sinha
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Industries: FinTech, Micro Lending, Software
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Z2P
Credit-analysis and micro-loans to people based on proprietory credit algorithms based on machine learning.
Founder(s): Rajat Yadav
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Apps, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Machine Learning, Micro Lending, Personal Finance
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Farm Infinity
Farm Infinity is a digital platform to provide easy financial access to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses.
Founder(s): Alok Ekka, Gunajit Brahma
Location: Guwahati, Assam, India
Industries: AgTech, Banking, Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Micro Lending
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Artoo
Artoo is a CRM system that enables financial institutes to manage their interactions with its customers and deliver them with insights.
Founder(s): Indus Chadha, Kavita Nehemiah, Sameer Segal
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Credit, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Micro Lending, Mobile, SaaS, Social Entrepreneurship, Software
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Spandana Sphoorty Financial
Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd is a Micro Finance firm head-quartered at Hyderabad, India.
Founder(s): G. Padmaja Reddy
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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ftcash
ftcash empowers the underserved micro-merchanrs through financial inclusion using digital payments and loans.
Founder(s): Deepak Kothari, Sanjeev Chandak, Vaibhav Lodha
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Apps, Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Micro Lending, Mobile Payments, Payments
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FincSquare
FincSquare is a P2P lending platform and offers various financial services like savings, loans, insurance, etc.
Founder(s): Sanjay Darbha
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Industries: Financial Services, Information Technology, Micro Lending, Personal Finance
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Sambandh Finserve
Sambandh Finserve is a non-banking financial institution.
Founder(s): Deepak Kindo, Livinus Kindo
Location: Rourkela, Orissa, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Grameen Koota
Grameen Koota is a microfinance institution providing a wide range of financial services to the rural poor and low-income households.
Founder(s): Vinatha Reddy
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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PinCap
PinCap is an RBI registered NBFC catering micro, small and medium enterprises with their financial needs.
Founder(s): Praveen Sinha
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Industries: Commercial Lending, Financial Services, FinTech, Micro Lending
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Power Finance
Power Finance provides financial products and related advisory, and other services to power sector.
Founder(s): Ravinder Dhillon
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Industries: Banking, Commercial Lending, Energy, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Yabx Technologies
Yabx enables the underserved with limited credit history to get fair access to financial services tailored to their needs.
Founder(s): Rajat Dayal
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Industries: FinTech, Micro Lending
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Inditrade Capital
Inditrade Capital is a digitally-driven lender that seeks to leverage technology to serve the financially under-served and marginalized.
Founder(s): Jiji Antony, Reji Jacob
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Micro Lending
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Micrograam
To build a model through which, with relatively small sums of money, we can enable thousands of people to move away from economic.
Founder(s): Rangan Varadan
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending, Social Entrepreneurship
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Fingage
SAAS,FinTech, India, Compliance,Lending
Founder(s): Shubham Khandelwal
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Billing, Compliance, FinTech, Micro Lending, Payments, SaaS
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Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network
GUARDIAN is addressing the complex water and sanitation problems faced by low-income communities in India.
Founder(s): Selvaraj Muthulakshmi, Subbiah Kumarasamy
Location: Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Communities, Micro Lending
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WonderLend Hubs
WonderLend Hubs is a fintech company that provides a micro-modular lending solution for new products and existing products.
Founder(s): Anusha Jathanna, Rajesh Iyer, Ram Ramdas
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Udhaar Card
Udhaar Card is a Digital Money Lending Marketplace for Students above 18 years of age.
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Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Lending, Marketplace, Micro Lending, Personal Finance
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BSS Microfinance
BSS Microfinance is a public company that manages microfinance loans of Kotak Mahindra Bank.
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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Mozavi Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Peer to Peer lending online service provider in india
Founder(s): Falgun Dharukiya
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Industries: Consumer Lending, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Lending, Micro Lending, Peer to Peer, Personal Finance
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HumanKinds
Credit delivery, Growth financing & Financial empowerment for independent working women of India
Founder(s): Arpan Das
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care, Micro Lending
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Arth
Arth is a financing company that provides loans and lending solutions to MSMEs and micro-entrepreneurs.
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Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Industries: Finance, Lending, Micro Lending
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BF Investment
BF Investment is engaged in the business of loans and investments.
Founder(s):
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Credit, Hedge Funds, Micro Lending
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Vedika Credit Capital
Vedika Credit Capital Ltd is a non-deposit-taking micro-finance Company.
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Location: Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, Lending, Micro Lending
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M Power Micro Finance
M Power Micro Finance is a non-banking finance firm that specializes in rural, agricultural and business loans.
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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Creditlah
Financing Growth of Microbusinesses
Founder(s): Abhinov Balagoni
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Micro Lending
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