Press Releases

 The Economic Times (ET) conferred Hardika Shah, Founder & CEO of Kinara Capital, with its prestigious ET Startup Awards 2024 in its Woman Ahead category. The ET Startup Awards recognized Hardika for identifying a critical gap in the market and delivering a solution for it by building Kinara Capital. Hardika was 1-of-8 winners out of hundreds considered this year and chosen by an independent jury panel led by the eminent Nandan Nilekani.

Kinara Capital, a leading fintech driving MSME financial inclusion in India, achieved a remarkable milestone by winning two prestigious international awards at the Global SME Finance Forum 2024 held in São Paulo, Brazil. Kinara Capital won the Platinum Award in the SME Financier of the Year – NBFI, MFI, Fintech Global category, and the Silver Award in the SME Financier of the Year – Asia category. The awards recognize Kinara Capital for championing MSME growth in India and for demonstrating innovation and leadership in expanding financial inclusion.

Kinara Capital, a fast-growing fintech driving last-mile MSME financial inclusion, today announced the recent appointment of Parthasarathy N. S. (Partha) as a new Independent Director on the company’s Board of Directors (BoD). Partha is a well-renowned Information Technology (IT) leader with over 35+ years of experience in shaping engineering, organizational development, capacity building and more, for a wide range of organizations. Most notably, he is known as the Co-founder of Mindtree which he took from its startup phase to crossing the $1 billion revenue milestone as a listed company.

Kinara Capital, a fast-growing fintech driving financial inclusion of the micro-small-medium enterprise (MSME) sector, today released its 3rd edition of MSME Insights, a detailed data analysis highlighting sector trends.

Kinara Capital, India’s fast-growing fintech driving MSME financial inclusion, today reported its FY24 financial year results marking it as the organization’s 9th consecutive year of profitability.

 Kinara Capital, India’s fast-growing fintech driving last-mile MSME financial inclusion, today announced acquiring the coveted ‘A’ grade in Social and Environmental Rating (SER) from MFR, a global leader in providing independent assessments, data and technical expertise for sustainable finance organizations. Kinara Capital proudly joins an exclusive group of only 4 organizations in India to ever have achieved an SER rating of ‘A’ from MFR.

Kinara Capital, a fintech driving financial inclusion of small business entrepreneurs in India, announces ranking on the esteemed FT500 list of Top 500 High-Growth Companies in Asia-Pacific, published annually by the Financial Times and Statista. This year’s listing also places Kinara Capital among Asia’s Top 40 Fastest Growing Fintechs.

Kinara Capital, India’s fast-growing fintech driving vast MSME financial inclusion, today launched its latest advertising & brand campaign under the theme of ‘Aapka Business Chale NonStop with Kinara’ featuring the all-rounder Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja as a superhero.

Kinara Capital, India’s fast-growing fintech driving MSME financial inclusion, today announced a new INR 500 crores fund and expanded benefits to mark the 5th year anniversary of its HerVikas program for women entrepreneurs. The new benefits aim to encourage more women-owned MSME startups to experience the gains of early access to formal credit by providing them with catalytic capital.

Kinara Capital, a fast-growing fintech driving vast financial inclusion of the MSME sector, today released MSME Insights, a detailed data analysis of women-owned MSMEs. According to MSME Insights, women-owned MSMEs hired 11% more women employees than male-owned MSMEs. The analysis further revealed that 1/3rd of all new jobs created by women-owned MSMEs went to women employees, thus boosting local economies.