• Capacity Development Provider

Proximity Designs

Focusing on the agriculture sector, Proximity Designs have developed a platform composed of three businesses financing, farm technologies and agronomic advice that deliver affordable and innovative products and services designed for small farmers to help them get out of poverty. Proximity's products and services boost farm productivity and increase household income by an average of USD 250 per year.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Direct Consulting Services
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Technology development or adoption

  • Investment Instruments

    • Debt

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Rural communities
    • Resiliency / climate change

  • Impact objectives

    • Agricultural productivity
    • Food security and nutrition
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Access to information
    • Access to financial services
    • Sustainable land use

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • Data analytics
    • FinTech
    • Internet of things (IoT)
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