Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Women-focused microfinance lenders worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,959 women-focused microfinance lenders worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 126,782 professional contacts across them, including 14,526 with verified work emails. India is the largest market and Nairobi the largest hub.
This list covers women-focused microfinance lenders worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for women-focused microfinance lenders follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest women-focused microfinance lenders worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,727 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited (SSFL) has been operating as a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and licensed by the Reserve Bank…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,407 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Satin Creditcare Network Limited (SCNL or Satin) is a leading microfinance institution (MFI) in the country with a presence in 26 states & 4 union territories and over villages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Muthoot Microfin is a part of the Muthoot Pappachan Group (MPG).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,838 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IIFL Samasta Finance Limited (Formerly Samasta Microfinance Limited), is a financial institution committed to working towards women’s economic empowerment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2006 in Kolkata, Arohan Financial Services Limited, a part of The Aavishkaar Group, is among India’s largest NBFC MFIs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Financiera Independencia nació en 1993 como la primera Sociedad Financiera de Objeto Limitado (SOFOL) de México.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,038 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first-generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunities through credit provisioning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,000 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Svatantra Microfin Private Limited (Svatantra), an NBFC-MFI, has impacted more than 30 million lives since inception in 2012.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,843 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Belstar Microfinance Limited, a subsidiary of Muthoot Finance, is a leading NBFC-MFI committed to digital financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,797 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2010, Amartha Financial (Amartha) delivers technology-driven financial services to grassroots users in Indonesia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,760 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Micro finance Organisation dedicated to providing financial services to the poor who reman outside the formal financial sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,588 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Construimos oportunidades para las familias vulnerables, mejorando sus ingresos y calidad de vida a través de nuestra metodología: Finanzas Productivas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,515 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Fusion, we believe that financial empowerment is the foundation of meaningful progress.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,444 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Misión, visión y valores Misión Ser la institución financiera preferida por la micro y pequeña empresa del país, por su reconocida solvencia y calidad de sus servicios, atrayendo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JSC Credo Bank (Credo) successfully operates in 11 regions of Georgia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in October 2016 and headquartered in New Delhi, SATYA MicroCapital Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec plus de 20 ans d’expertise, la Fondation Arrawaj est un acteur économique et social majeur dans le secteur de la micro-finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,071 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With its headquarters nestled in Jalandhar, Punjab, MML embarked on a remarkable journey dedicated to the Financial & Social Empowerment of Women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 996 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AccessBank focuses on micro and small business because this sector is vital for the development and diversification of Azerbaijan's economy, the creation of jobs and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 983 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Somos la Caja Municipal pionera del sector microfinanciero, con más de 44 años trabajando para mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas, priorizando la rentabilidad de nuestros…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 958 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to empower the economically active poor by taking a range of tailor made micro financial services to their door step using globally tested best practice…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 955 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pro Mujer is a social enterprise with more than 30 years of experience, driven by the mission of advancing towards gender equality in Latin America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 942 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Opportunity International is a global non-profit (with affiliates in the UK, Canada, Germany and Australia) celebrating over 50 years of equipping people with tools and business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 931 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who We are?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 917 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fusion Microfinance is a registered NBFC – MFI which operates in a Joint Liability Group lending model of Grameen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: women-focused microfinance lenders. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names women-focused microfinance lenders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of women-focused microfinance lenders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name women-focused microfinance lenders. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Women-focused microfinance lenders worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among women-focused microfinance lenders, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for women-focused microfinance lenders are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “women-focused microfinance lenders”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names women-focused microfinance lenders), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among women-focused microfinance lenders, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 14,526 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Women-focused microfinance lenders by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Women-focused microfinance lenders list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in India245
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in the United States195
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Nigeria93
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Kenya67
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Uganda61
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Mexico49
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Brazil48
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Pakistan34
- Women-focused microfinance lenders based in Canada25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names women-focused microfinance lenders, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many women-focused microfinance lenders are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,959 women-focused microfinance lenders worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited, headquartered in Hyderabad, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most women-focused microfinance lenders?
India leads with 245 companies, followed by the United States (195) and Nigeria (93). Every women-focused microfinance lenders list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most women-focused microfinance lenders?
Nairobi leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by Kampala (25) and Lusaka (25).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.