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Top 25 Micro lenders based in Kenya
RevenueBase identified 136 micro lenders headquartered in Kenya as of September 2026 and tracks 8,887 professional contacts across them, including 432 with verified work emails. Nairobi is the largest hub.
This list covers micro lenders headquartered in Kenya, 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 20, 2026.
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 micro lenders based in Kenya
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Juhudi Kilimo company is a micro finance institution incorporated in 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mwananchi Credit Limited is a No.1, award-winning financial services microfinance institution operating in Kenya since 2010, licensed & regulated by CBK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jirani Smart Ltd is a microfinance founded from the need to offer better financial and non-financial services to the poor especially in rural areas who have for many years not…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ECLOF Kenya is a micro-finance institution providing financial and non-financial services to micro, small and medium entrepreneurs in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ngao Credit Limited is a non-deposit taking Microfinance institution founded with the main goal of providing financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quick Flexible Loans” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Letshego Kenya Limited is the largest credit only microfinance institution in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VisionFund Kenya, was established by World Vision as a wholly owned subsidiary to oversee World Vision's microfinance work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jitegemea Credit is a microfinance institution is a project of PCEA operating under the Board for Social Responsibility (BSR).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Platinum Credit Limited is a Micro Finance Company licensed in Kenya under the Company’s Act.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We support MSME's in Africa by bringing their businesses online and providing working capital financing for them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Village HopeCore International (HopeCore) is an innovative 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Tharaka Nithi County, located on the Eastern slopes of Mt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the leading Lending Institution” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fortune credit was founded in 2014 to provide financial and non-financial services to the financially excluded and underbanked.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sumac Microfinance Bank is licensed and regulated by Central Bank of Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Anvil Shield Holdings Ltd story begins in 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LOLC Kenya Microfinance Bank PLC was licensed in January, 2011 to do deposit taking business as the first start-up Company after successful inspection of premises, policies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “African Capital Limited was established in 2004 and currently provides loans to civil servants, teachers and salaried employees of reputable organizations in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nawiri African Sprouts (NAS) is a Limited Company whose roots are in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2020, Fincorp credit Ltd (FCL) is a non-bank financial institutions operating in Kenya.Our mission is to empower over #1Million SME'S through access of affordable &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Jafari Credit Ltd, a member of Centum Group, is a micro lender in Kenya whose goal is to serve civil servants with integrity and transparency while ensuring timely access to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nyali Capital is non-deposit-taking microfinance providing short-term credit facilities, financial advisory services, and training programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maisha Microfinance Bank is the 13th bank to be licensed by Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) as deposit taking entity (Microfinance bank) to offer banking service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JoyInc Solutions Limited provides credit only micro and nano credit/finance solutions to the unbanked, low income earners who have little or no access to traditional financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EFKen Leasing Ltd (EFKEN) was set up in Kenya by EFAfrica Group in 2020 with a view to increasing access to finance for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: micro 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 micro lenders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of micro lenders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name micro 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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Micro lenders based in Kenya at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Kenya, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Kenya, over 136 companies.
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 micro 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Kenya whose own description of what they do matches “micro 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 micro 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 micro lenders, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Kenya are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 432 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 20, 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.
Micro lenders by metro
- Micro lenders in Nairobi98
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 micro 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 micro lenders are there based in Kenya?
RevenueBase identified 136 micro lenders headquartered in Kenya 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?
Juhudi Kilimo, headquartered in Nairobi, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most micro lenders?
Nairobi leads with 98 headquartered companies, followed by Mombasa (7) and Thika (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 432 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 136 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
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.