Financing for FinTechs

Cauris provides debt financing to market-leading, socially responsible financial technology companies (Fintechs)

Borrowers Supported

Small Businesses Supported

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Active Countries

INVESTMENTS

We provide secured debt facilities for a variety of business models, including the following:

Asset Financing

Because productive assets enable entrepreneurs and small businesses to flourish and grow

SME Financing

Because small businesses are the foundation of every economy

Trade Financing

Because trade is the lifeblood of economic activity and growth

Our Portfolio Companies

We leverage strong asset-level underwriting, structural protections, and advanced analytics to secure debt investments in Fintech partners.

Who We Are

Cauris is an impact investor that delivers growth capital to best-in-class Fintechs. We aim to facilitate access to quality credit for 10 million small businesses and entrepreneurs, accelerating the rise of the global middle class, enabling economic growth in emerging markets and supporting efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Cauris’s debt financing enables its partners to scale quality credit to financially underserved small businesses and entrepreneurs that are the economic engines of every economy. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and highly structured underwriting, Cauris delivers both consistent financial returns and compelling social impact.

Our Team

We are a cross-functional team with deep debt investment and Fintech experience. We have over 50-years of cumulative experience as Fintech investors and operators. Few investment teams bring our breadth of Fintech experience, finance acumen, market insights, and deep networks.

Alexandre Liege

Chief Executive Officer

Head of product and credit at Juvo (consumer lending)
Product roles at Mastercard, YellowPepper (sold to Visa), MTN Mobile Money.
MBA from Columbia Business School; Undergraduate degree from ESCE, a business school in Paris, France

Azer Songnaba, CFA

Chief Investment Officer

$10B+ of structured finance transactions at Goldman Sachs
Credit risk and underwriting of Fintechs and banks at Mastercard
MBA from Columbia Business School; Masters of Science in Finance from the University of Florida; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Alexander Raia

Managing Director

Fintech and financial inclusion strategy at Mastercard
$3B+ M&A at Goldman Sachs and financial inclusion adjunct at NYU
MBA from the Wharton School; undergraduate degree in Economics from Vassar College

Sylvestre Coulibaly

Vice President

Equity derivatives sales for Citi in Hong Kong
FX derivatives sales at UBS
Masters degree in Financial Markets from Université Paris Dauphine; undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics from Université Paris Diderot

Charles Packer

Chief Technology Officer

Head of engineering at Juvo and Gaia
Decades of experience leading engineering teams
Undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

Borrower Benefits

Fast execution

To provide our partners with growth capital when they need it most

Flexible capital

To enable our partners to scale
responsibly

True partnership

To support our partners as
they grow

Technology

Cauris’s proprietary “DeepDive” technology provides visibility into the operations and loan portfolios of emerging market Fintechs, enabling smarter credit decisions and more effective portfolio monitoring.

Local Integrations

Provides near real-time insight into portfolio company performance and financial health via connections with Fintechs and their financial institutions

Loan Monitoring

Provides visibility into Fintechs’ underlying loan books to monitor performance metrics and
covenant compliance

Advanced Analytics

Provides performance, risk and liquidity
analysis to enable data-driven
credit decisions