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Top 25 Microfinance and lending organizations based in Kenya

RevenueBase identified 227 microfinance and lending organizations headquartered in Kenya as of September 2026 and tracks 12,133 professional contacts across them, including 941 with verified work emails. Nairobi is the largest hub.

This list covers microfinance and lending organizations 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 17, 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.

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227Companies
12,133Contacts tracked
941Verified emails
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The 25 largest microfinance and lending organizations based in Kenya

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 227 microfinance and lending organizations based in Kenya, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to microfinance and lending organizations: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000569 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mogo Kenya is a developing markets fintech which provides credit access to underbanked and underserved consumers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500410 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Juhudi Kilimo company is a micro finance institution incorporated in 2009.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500396 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Vision: An empowered and resilient society with sustainable enterprises and jobs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500337 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
5Partial evidenceMwatate, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,000297 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
6Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500275 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Musoni is the world’s first financial institution to exclusively use mobile money.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500242 contacts →

Indirect 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 17, 2026
8Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026n/a226 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
9Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500222 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Quick Flexible Loans”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500113 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Letshego Kenya Limited is the largest credit only microfinance institution in Kenya.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500107 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
12Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Women Enterprise Fund was established in 2007 with five mandates which address, financial inclusion through affordable credit, capacity building, market linkages, marketing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
13Indirect evidenceMombasa, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,00093 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Watu is an Asset FinTech revolutionising financial inclusion across Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20083 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
15Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20080 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Somo is a non-profit organization that empowers micro and small social enterprises in East Africa's marginalized communities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
16Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20078 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
17Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5063 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust (MESPT) is a development organization founded in 2002 by the Government of Kenya and the European Union to promote economic growth…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
18Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5062 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“FinCredit Ltd (formerly AAR Credit Services Ltd) is a premier credit only micro-finance institution with operations in Kenya and Uganda.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
19Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50062 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Platinum Credit Limited is a Micro Finance Company licensed in Kenya under the Company’s Act.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
20Indirect evidenceChogoria, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20054 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 17, 2026
21Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20050 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are the leading Lending Institution”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
22Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20049 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 17, 2026
23Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50049 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Sumac Microfinance Bank is licensed and regulated by Central Bank of Kenya.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
24Indirect evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50048 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Anvil Shield Holdings Ltd story begins in 2009.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
25Partial evidenceNairobi, KenyaHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20047 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026

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Microfinance and lending organizations based in Kenya at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026
7.8%Verified-email coverage
53.4Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
73.1%Largest-city concentration · Nairobi
Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
70
11-50
89
51-200
36
201-500
24
501-1,000
2
1,001-5,000
6

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 227 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 microfinance and lending organizations, 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 “microfinance and lending organizations”. 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 microfinance and lending organizations), 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 microfinance and lending organizations, 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, 941 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 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Microfinance and lending organizations by metro

  • Microfinance and lending organizations in Nairobi166

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 microfinance and lending organizations, 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 microfinance and lending organizations are there based in Kenya?

RevenueBase identified 227 microfinance and lending organizations 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?

Mogo Kenya, headquartered in Nairobi, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most microfinance and lending organizations?

Nairobi leads with 166 headquartered companies, followed by Mombasa (12) and Thika (5).

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 941 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 227 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 17, 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.