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Top 16 Microfinance institutions based in France

RevenueBase identified 50 microfinance institutions headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 3,413 professional contacts across them, including 719 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers microfinance institutions headquartered in France, 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.

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The 16 largest microfinance institutions based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 16 of 50 microfinance institutions based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to microfinance institutions: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0001,253 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Baobab is the leading digital financial inclusion group focusing on serving individuals, micro and small businesses in Africa and China.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,000966 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Baobab is a leading financial services group operating in seven countries across the African continent.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 2026n/a208 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Juakali is the perfect solution for microfinance institutions and banks that are looking to increase their productivity and streamline their operations.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Indirect evidenceMontreuil, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200166 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“France Active is a non-profit organisation with the goal of facilitating access to enterprise setup through access to bank credit.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5033 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1983 by CCFD-Terre Solidaire, SIDI (Solidarité Internationale pour le Développement et l'Investissement) is a pioneer of social finance in France.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“HORUS Development Finance is a consulting firm that has been specializing in financial inclusion for 30 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Indirect evidenceNantes, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le Crédit Municipal de Nantes est un établissement de crédit à vocation sociale au service des habitants et de leurs territoires.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Indirect evidenceVilleurbanne, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Grâce à ses actions (micro-assurance, prévention, information), la Fondation Entrepreneurs de la Cité protège les micro-entrepreneurs- Imaginée par Bruno Rousset, la Fondation…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 2026n/a12 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Advans is a leading international microfinance group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLaval, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Initiative Mayenne est une association loi 1901 créé en 1996 sous l'impulsion des collectivités locales, Mayenne Expansion, les chambres consulaires et les banques pour aider les…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Indirect evidenceBordeaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“La CSDL c’est une association loi 1901 à but non lucratif, implantée en Gironde, Dordogne et Lot et Garonne et qui propose :*un microcrédit professionnel pour accompagner les…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLe Petit-quevilly, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Nsengo transforms official development assistance and philanthropy into circular, traceable, and digital agricultural capital.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Since its creation in 1998 the French NGO, Entrepreneurs du Monde, has been working with communities in developing countries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Indirect evidenceSaint-vulbas, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Initiative Plaine de l’Ain Côtière est une association locale de développement économique affiliée au réseau national Initiative France.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Strong evidenceRochefort, FranceHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Sikka Inclusive Finance LLC is a consulting company providing its services to inclusive finance and microfinance institutions and practitioners.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Microfinance institutions based in France at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
21.1%Verified-email coverage
68.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
32.0%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
26
11-50
12
51-200
4
201-500
1
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
2
5,001-10,000
4

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 50 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 institutions, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “microfinance institutions”. 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 institutions), 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 institutions, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 719 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
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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 institutions, 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 institutions are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 50 microfinance institutions headquartered in France 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?

Microcred, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most microfinance institutions?

Paris leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Bordeaux (2) and Lyon (2).

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 719 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 50 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.