Avante

Avante empowers micro-entrepreneurs in financial-inclusion markets, by leveraging technology to humanize financial services

As +50 million micro-businesses continue to remain 'invisible' to the financial system, Avante is focusing on providing micro-finance to businesses operating in 'the bottom of the pyramid. The company's grand mission is to humanize financial services to the audiences suffering from Financial Inclusion. Avante is empowering the massive, underserved, sector of micro-entrepreneurs across South America, by providing them an advanced suite of FinTech services. Its disruptive combination of Credit, Payments and Digital Banking, offer a ground-breaking approach to class E/D businesses, certifying the company as a B Corporation and 2015 B Corp Best for the World honoree. The company is one of the fastest growing Brazilian financial organizations, encompassing 30 people in São Paulo's HeartQuarter, and over 100 agents in Brazil's north-east regions. The company is currently deploying a full-fledged R&D center in the bustling high-tech center of Tel-Aviv, Israel.