Our team verifies the submission before it's listed.
04
List
Approved projects appear on the investor dashboard, organized by risk band.
05
Fund
Verified investors connect directly with scored, ready-to-fund projects.
The gap
Why smallholder agriculture stays unfunded
Smallholder farmers produce over a third of the world's food, yet face a systemic financing gap — not because the opportunity isn't real, but because it isn't legible to formal capital.
No trustworthy data
Farms don't produce the financial history investors expect.
High perceived risk
Without structured underwriting, smallholder projects look riskier than they are.
Fragmented opportunities
Good projects exist; there's no consistent place to find them.
Costly diligence
Manual vetting doesn't scale to thousands of small farms.
FINNEX exists to close this gap — with structure, not guesswork.
Our approach
Why FINNEX
01
Built for structured capital, not seasonal cash.
FINNEX targets project-scale financing — irrigation, land, equipment — the capital smallholder cooperatives can't get from mobile money or microloans.
02
Rules-based scoring, on purpose.
Our scoring engine runs on transparent, auditable rules — not an unproven model. We'll introduce machine learning only once we have real outcome data to train it on, not before.
03
Partnered, not reinvented.
Insurance, input distribution, payments — where strong local and regional partners already exist, we work with them instead of building competing infrastructure from scratch.
6×Scoring dimensions
48hTurnaround per project
5Target markets
100%Admin reviewed
Methodology
Six-dimension scoring model
D1
Agronomy
Soil health, crop suitability, yield history, and input utilization benchmarked against regional climate and productivity data.
Browse scored, admin-reviewed agricultural projects with full dimension breakdowns and risk classifications.
Talk to us
Not sure if your project is ready? Talk to our team first.
Book a short call to discuss your situation — no commitment, no application required.
Trust
Built on the ground, backed by structure
Amir Kazemi
CEO
Founder. 4 years in agri-development finance, building FINNEX from strategy to shipped product.
Alireza Sharifmoghaddasi
CFO
PhD in Economics (Monetary Economics); Assistant Professor at Iran's Agricultural Research, Education & Extension Organization (AREEO), specializing in agricultural economics and finance.
Shirin Razghandi
COO
A decade of experience in strategic marketing, market research, and program management; leads FINNEX's operations and go-to-market execution.
Support
FINNEX is supported by We Are Changemakers, a Dutch government-recognized Startup Visa facilitator, as part of our founder's presence in the Netherlands.
A smarter pipeline for agricultural capital.
Whether you manage a cooperative or deploy capital into emerging markets — FINNEX gives you the structure to move faster and with more confidence.
