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Arjuna Costa

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

October 21, 2024

Investing in Akua: Revolutionizing Payment Processing in Colombia and Spanish-Speaking LatAm

Flourish participated in Akua's $4.3M seed round announced in October 2024. This marks our first investment in Colombia.

Portfolio

Infrastructure

Fintech One-On-One Podcast: Peter Renton Interviews Arjuna Costa

"It is the big challenge for fintech: making the financial lives better for the those who are underserved," said Peter Renton, founder and producer of Fintech One-on-One, the sector's oldest podcast founded in 2013. "We have come a long way in the past decade but there is still so much...

Opinion: Successful Startups Are Led by Healthy Founders

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. At Flourish, we want founders to thrive, along with their companies. In the past few years, we have explored…

Portfolio

Frontier

February 28, 2024

StepChange: Announcing Our First Climate Finance Investment

We are very excited to introduce you to StepChange, an India-based provider of cutting-edge climate data science solutions for risk management.

[The Africa Report] Flourish Ventures MD Arjuna Costa targets next generation of unicorns

Flourish Ventures has secured $350m in new funding from the family office of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. By David Whitehouse Flourish Ventures, which invested in Nigerian unicorn Flutterwave in its first seed round in 2017, will be seeking to unearth new unicorns as it deploys $350m in fresh capital, managing...

October 25, 2023

We’re Doubling Down on Investing in Fintech Entrepreneurs with $350M in Fresh Capital

Today we are thrilled to announce a significant milestone with our early-stage global venture fund, as we’ve secured a new commitment of $350 million. This…

Is Your Board Strong? 5 Ways for Founders to Tell

As the fundraising landscape shifts from boom times to a more challenging environment, the pressure is ratcheting up on founders.

Why We Invested in Mapan: Rising Social Fintech Empowers Indonesian Women

Flourish and Patamar re-teamed to invest in Mapan’s community of digital saving circles. In 2009, smartphones were a mostly untapped invention – and had not…

[The Enthusiast: Founders & VCs Podcast] Arjuna Costa (Flourish) challenges in achieving true financial inclusion

On this episode Pat sits down with Arjuna Costa, Managing Partner at leading financial inclusion fund Flourish, investor in the likes of Neon, Chime, Paga and Heru. We dive into the challenges of achieving true financial inclusion and access to capital for everyone, how the next waves of fintech products will evolve...