Parisian fintech startup finres has raised €4.1 million to help drive investors to make better decisions when it comes to ploughing into agriculture.
The funding will be used to help finres launch its investor platform, push ahead with R&D activities, and significantly ramp up its presence in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
The €4.1 million seed funding round was led by Speedinvest alongside Illuminate Financial Management.
Additional participants in the round include AFI Ventures, Kima Ventures, Plug & Play, Raise Sherpas, Tiny VC, and Better Angle. Angel investors in the round include Anna Katharina Alex, Michael Diguet, Renaud Visage, and Valentine Baudouin.
Combining the best elements of science and investment, finres’ sole purpose is to help drive better investments in better agriculture.
The AI-assisted platform offers loan underwriting services that account for climate and price risks for any crop and global location.
Founded in 2019 by Florent Baarsch, former senior economist at the World Bank and the United Nations, to date finres claims to have informed more than €1.4 billion worth of deployments across 32 countries and includes the World Bank, the United Nations, the French Development Agency (AFD), and CRDB, the largest bank in Tanzania amongst its client base.
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