Kabir

Kabir is part of the founding team at Flourish. He has close to 20 years of experience in the financial sector spanning both emerging markets and the US. He leads global ecosystem efforts and makes investments in the US and emerging markets. He is passionate about supporting early-stage entrepreneurs who want to fundamentally transform the financial sector and improve people’s economic outlook.

Previously, while at Omidyar Network, Kabir leveraged his deep expertise in emerging markets to develop a portfolio of investments focused on regtech and banking technology. He invested in startups in frontier markets in South Asia as well as deepened the firm’s policy and ecosystem networks globally seeding a number of new non-profits.

Prior to Omidyar Network, he cofounded a program housed at the World Bank that laid the foundations for the first generation of mobile-first fintech in emerging markets. Kabir has worked in more than 15 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In India, he served as an advisor to the Indian government and as a collaborator on a number of efforts to develop a new digital, public-good infrastructure in the country.

Kabir received his Master’s degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and B.A. degree in Economics from Gettysburg College. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Kabir currently lives outside Washington DC with his wife and two children.

In The News
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general
Why We Invested in Spade: The Real-Time Data Infrastructure That Combats Card Fraud
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve led the $10M Series A round for Spade, a company that is emerging as the leading provider of real-time merchant intelligence for the payment ecosystem that can meaningfully...
Blog
frontier
Why We Invested in Staging Labs: Blockchain infrastructure Startup Protects Consumers from Fraud
By Kabir Kumar, Pranav Mittal, and Su Fen Goh. At Flourish Ventures, we invest in infrastructure that has a strong potential to build a fair finance system.
Blog
infrastructure
Why We Invested in TrueBiz: Startup to Build the KYB Infrastructure of the Future
We are excited to announce our investment in TrueBiz. As fintech-focused investors with a deep interest in regtech and financial services infrastructure as part of a fair financial system, we have been actively tracking the...
Events
flourish conversations
[Flourish Conversations] A One-one-One with Hummingbird Co-Founders
Join Flourish Investor Kabir Kumar when he sits down with the Co-Founders of Regtech rising star Hummingbird.
Events
opinion
LendIt Fintech Live - February 10, 2022
On today's news show Todd Anderson, Kabir Kumar and Peter Renton discussed big #fintech news from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Silvergate Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Polygon Technology, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), GoCardless,...
Events
opinion
[For Fintech's Sake Podcast] Kabir Kumar, Flourish Ventures
My guest this week is Kabir Kumar, Investor at Flourish Ventures. Flourish is a Venture Firm focused on investing in entrepreneurs whose innovations help people achieve financial health and prosperity.
Events
embedded finance
[Flourish Conversations] How Adopting Open Data for Finance Could Boost Economic Growth in 10 Years
Join Flourish Ventures Director Kabir Kumar and Olivia White, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, as they dig into these research findings..
Events
embedded finance
Digital Infrastructure for Fair Finance: Flourish Ventures at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020
The shortcomings of America’s retail financial systems became evident when the government responded to the economic fallout of the pandemic.
Blog
regtech
A Historic US Policy Shift Reflects the Promise of Reglabs
Financial regulators’ statement on alternative data draws on FinRegLab lending report This week, five federal regulators issued a joint statement that using alternative data could expand access to credit. The US has a notoriously fractured...
Blog
regtech
Why We Invested in Cambridge Blockchain: Helping People Get Control Over Their Digital Identity
Kabir Kumar explains why we invested in Cambridge Blockchain.
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