Quona Capital

What is Quona Capital?

Quona Capital is a venture capital firm with a focus on financial technology, investing in growth-oriented businesses and entrepreneurs. With a presence in Falls Church, Virginia and founded in 2014, the firm primarily targets markets including sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, India, and Southeast Asia.

Quona Capital emphasizes serving underserved businesses and customers, blending purpose with investment performance. The firm is deeply involved in diverse markets, with their team speaking over 20 languages, showing a commitment to the regions they invest in. Quona has served 24.7 million customers through their portfolio, with 89% being underserved, and has touched 144.5 million lives, with 79% underserved.

They take an active role in their investments by leveraging their partners' expertise as former financial services and tech investors, entrepreneurs, and operators in both emerging and developed markets. Their investment activities span a broad range of industries including software, PropTech, IT, AgroTech, business solutions, FinTech, CleanTech, Blockchain, impact, logistics, payments, real estate, and investment management. Quona Capital typically invests between $250,000 and $10,000,000, with a sweet spot of around $4,000,000 for seed, pre-seed, and Series A stages, predominantly in Latin America.

They manage assets worth $203 million and actively seek to foster financial resilience across emerging economies, supporting the financial advancement in their target countries through strategic investments in innovative solutions that offer both social impact and financial returns.

What they say:

We are a venture capital firm with a focus on emerging markets.

What we look for: We invest in innovative fintech companies, particularly those with a focus on impact.