Samhita Community Development Services (SCDS), founded in 2007, is a section-25 company specialising in microfinance and microenterprise financing. SCDS was founded in 2007 by Ms. Praseeda Kunam and engages in holistic intervention through health, legal rights and literacy programs for the community. The company is headquartered in Bhopal. 

Avanti Finance and Samhita together provided credit support to over 30,000 households amounting to INR 900 Million in some of the remotest areas of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Exclusive programs were also designed to provide credit facilities to Covid affected households in SCDSs network.

Lawrencedale Agro Processing India (LEAF) is one of India’s premier fresh produce supply chain companies. Through its value chain intervention, farmer members have access to better yields, crop advisory, storage and price realisation opportunities. LEAF operates with a network of five farmer service centers covering over 16,000 farmers across three states.

In association with Avanti Finance, LEAF has enabled input credit support for 1600 farmers thereby increasing their net income by over 50% due to timely credit and LEAFs intervention.

Founded in 2020, CultivaFin is a financial intermediary, partnering with NBFCs and Co-operatives to offer financial inclusion services for the unserved and underserved population in the southern states.

CultivaFin has been associated with Avanti for over three years, during which both entities have built a portfolio spanning livelihoods, the agri-value chain, and SME segments, reaching over 12,000 households.

Vector Finance is an NBFC-MFI incorporated in 2018, operates in 6 states with a network of 130+ branches. The company has active partnerships with some of the leading SFBs and NBFCs in the country and has an AUM of INR 4000 Mn at end of FY 21-22.

Avanti Finance and Vector Finance have served more than 15,000 households by offering customised loan products across micro enterprises, agriculture and dairy.

Stellapps is a leading farm to consumer dairy digitization service provider, improving farm productivity, milk quality and bringing in supply chain traceability in the dairy value chain. It leverages advanced analytics and artificial intelligence through its full-stack IoT platform to enable dairy ecosystem partnerships (financial and insurance institutions, veterinary services etc.) to drive value for each stakeholder. Till now, it has deployed its solutions in more than 30,000 villages and has 2 Million registered dairy farmers on its platform.

Avanti Finance and Stellapps partnered to provide on-tap credit facilities to dairy farmers and milk societies to enhance production capacity and household income.

Agri Entrepreneur Growth Foundation (AEGF) is promoted by Syngenta Foundation India and Tata Trusts with an objective to create 100,000 Agri Entrepreneurs and provide better services to over 20 Million farmers. AEGF identifies and trains rural youth to bring in services around input, credit, crop advisory and market linkage for the associated farmers.

Avanti and AEGF collaborated to provide initial capital support to the Agri Entrepreneurs across 8 states.

Nightingale Finvest (NFPL) is an NBFC-MFI headquartered in Guwahati with operations in 5 north eastern states. Their target segment includes families below poverty line, unemployed youth and weavers. NFPL has its roots to a social organisation and engages in initiatives like health camps, cleanliness programmes, AIDS awareness and agriculture.

Avanti has collaborated with NFPL to improve accessibility of financial services in Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland. So far, we have reached 5,000 families and sanctioned credit facilities worth INR 45 Mn. Avanti’s paperless process coupled with NFPLs SOP have led to further optimisation of operational expenses for NFPL.

Dhosa Fincare Pvt. Ltd. (formerly Dhosa Chandaneswar Bratyajana Samity (DCBS)) has been offering a variety of financial services under its financial inclusion initiative across eastern states like West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand for more than two decades.

Avanti and Dhosa Fincare have been associated for over three years, during which Dhosa has built a strategic portfolio for Avanti by providing financial services in West Bengal and Bihar, impacting more than 22,000 households by offering financial products targeting livelihoods such as agriculture, dairy, and micro-enterprises.

The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is one of the pioneer development organisations in the country. It was co-founded by Ms. Ela Bhatt in 1972. SEWA focuses on making women self-reliant by creating employment opportunities, work security, income security, food security and social security.

Avanti and SEWA joined hands to provide credit facilities to households that were impacted due to Covid. As a part of this program, we have provided financial assistance to 1500 women entrepreneurs.

Dvara e-registry (DER) is a new age agtech, set up in 2019, with a mission to enhance credit supply to the farming communities in India. It has developed an inhouse FPO stack to monitor, underwrite individual farmers based on verifiable sources (remote sensing and AI). DER provides current and historical data about growth stage, health, yield and cultivation potential of landholding of farmers.

Avanti Finance and Dvara E Registry have joined hands to provide credit facilities to FPOs and their farmer members for agriculture and allied activities. The program is currently live in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Odisha across 20+ FPOs and will deploy alternate data sets to underwrite farmer loans.