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Omidyar Network creates opportunity for people to improve their lives by investing in innovative organizations that harness the power of markets. We fund and help scale both for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations around the world to catalyze broad, positive social impact. Our efforts are organized around two initiatives: Access to Capital and Media, Markets & Transparency.

Access to Capital

Microfinance
Balkan Financial Sector Equity Fund
Balkan Financial Sector Equity Fund invests in financial institutions that drive economic development in the Balkans.

BlueOrchard
BlueOrchard promotes economic development through private investments in microfinance.

Boulder Institute of Microfinance
Boulder Institute of Microfinance promotes critical thinking and professional development to advance microfinance.

BRAC
BRAC empowers the world’s poor through a comprehensive set of development initiatives.

Catalyst Microfinance Investors
CMI enables the growth of microfinance institutions throughout Asia and Africa.

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
CGAP is an independent policy and research center that helps the microfinance industry better serve the poor.

Elevar Equity
Elevar Equity infuses capital into underserved markets.

Finestrella
Finestrella provides innovative telephony services to low-income and unbanked populations in Mexico.

Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium
Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium finances microfinance institutions throughout the developing world.

International Association of Microfinance Investors
IAMFI bolsters the microfinance industry by helping market-driven investors achieve their goals.

Kiva
Kiva harnesses the power of technology to bring needed capital to microfinance institutions.

LeapFrog Investments
LeapFrog—the world’s first microinsurance fund—invests to provide life-changing financial services to financially excluded clients.

Mango
Mango empowers underbanked adults in the United States with innovative and affordable financial services.

MFX Solutions
MFX Solutions helps to scale the microfinance industry by reducing currency risk.

Microfinance Centre
MFC promotes and catalyzes the microfinance industry in Central and Eastern Europe.

Microfinance Information Exchange
MIX provides comprehensive business information and data services for the microfinance sector.

MicroSave
MicroSave works to increase access to client-focused financial services in Asia and Africa.

MicroVest
MicroVest invests in microfinance institutions so that they can better serve the poor.

Opportunity International
Opportunity International banks on technology to bring financial services to the poor.

Rêv
Rêv is a global payment solutions company that address the needs of underbanked consumers and micro-merchants.

Sa-Dhan
Sa-Dhan enables hundreds of microfinance institutions in India to better serve the poor.

SEEP Network
SEEP Network builds a global learning community for microfinance networks and associations.

SOLIDUS Investment Fund
SOLIDUS champions the growth of leading microfinance institutions in Latin America.
Entrepreneurship
African Leadership Academy
African Leadership Academy is developing the next generation of ethical leaders and entrepreneurs who will shape Africa’s future.

Ashoka
Ashoka promotes social change by connecting a global network of entrepreneurs.

Aspiring Minds
Aspiring Minds fosters labor inclusion through proven employability assessment solutions.

Bridge International Academies
Bridge International revolutionizes access to affordable, high-quality primary education in Africa.

d.light design
d.light design brings safe, bright light to millions of families without access to electricity.

Endeavor
Endeavor supports emerging market entrepreneurs to fuel economic growth.

IGNIA
IGNIA fights poverty by investing in high-growth social enterprises in Latin America.

Living Goods
Living Goods operates networks of village-based health entrepreneurs that work to defeat diseases of poverty.

SONG Growth Company
SONG Growth Company invests in small and medium-sized enterprise in India.

Teach for India
Teach For India builds a movement of leaders committed to ensuring all children in India receive an excellent education.

Tree House
Tree House provides affordable, high-quality education in India.
Property Rights
Foundation for Ecological Security
The Foundation for Ecological Security extends land rights to India’s rural poor.

Institute for Liberty and Democracy
The Institute for Liberty and Democracy works with governments to empower the poor through property and business rights.

International Land Coalition
The International Land Coalition promotes secure and equitable access to land for the rural poor.

Landesa
Landesa is transforming 400 million lives worldwide through land rights.
Other
Prosper
People look to Prosper for person-to-person lending.

Virgin Money
Virgin Money enables lending between friends, relatives, and other private parties.

Media, Markets & Transparency