Mercy Corps Ventures
Mercy Corps Ventures is a family of funds backing visionary early-stage founders who are building catalytic solutions for a more resilient future.
We identify, invest in and accelerate the growth of innovative solutions across adaptive agriculture & food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and other climate resilience technologies in emerging markets. We back founders with the capital, support, and pathways they need to scale.
Our story
Around the world visionary entrepreneurs are launching bold solutions to the defining challenges of our time: climate volatility, financial exclusion, and the fragility of food systems, supply chains, and vital natural ecosystems. These founders aren’t just innovating; they’re rewriting the rules for how underserved communities adapt, survive, and thrive.
Too often, they remain undercapitalized and lack the resources to scale their impact. Mercy Corps Ventures exists to change that by backing bold founders with the capital, partnerships, and support needed to turn catalytic ideas into lasting systems change.
Founded in 2015, Mercy Corps Ventures is now a leading early-stage climate resilience investor. Embedded in key ecosystems across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, our team has had the privilege and honor to partner with some of the most compelling founders making a real impact today.
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Our family of funds
Solving complex systems challenges demands diverse, coordinated capital strategies.
Fund I: Evergreen Fund
Our first fund is an evergreen vehicle investing in category-leading pre-seed and seed-stage startups building a more climate-resilient future.
Fund II: Resilient Future Fund
The Resilient Future Fund will invest in early-stage, tech-enabled startups developing transformational climate adaptation and resilience solutions.
Venture Lab
MCV’s innovation lab, co-designing, funding, and testing promising technologies to de-risk solutions and build evidence for scale.
Powered by Mercy Corps
Outside of Mercy Corps Ventures, we support entrepreneurs within Mercy Corps to develop and grow social enterprise-inspired models for impact.
Scaling success
A true measure of our work is scaling an idea, solution, or program to become self-sustaining. Having been incubated, tested, and refined within Mercy Corps, these entities now stand on their own, bringing new possibilities to communities in powerful ways.
