Yapuchiri
ya·pu·chi·ri · noun
Yapuchiris collect, create and share agroecological knowledge in their own community. They experiment on their own land first — then teach.
Blending ancestral knowledge with newly adopted practice, they act as the bridge between what a region already knows and what it has yet to try. That posture is the one we took as our name.
In that spirit YAPU builds digital tools for financial institutions in developing countries that serve the most vulnerable, microenterprises and SMEs — identifying social, climate and nature-related risk, and answering it with dedicated loan products.
Every credit decision lands on someone's field, shop or harvest.
In developing countries it often depends on a lender whether a business can thrive — or a farmer will have a good harvest.
Field-ready workflows replace paper and spreadsheets, so small-ticket rural lending finally adds up.
Social, climate and nature-related risk sit inside the credit decision — and improve the terms clients are offered.
Documented impact opens the door to additional funding, and institutions grow into agents of change.
Engineers, agronomists,
finance specialists
Eight goals we work against every day
Local partners, local realities — international best practice.
YAPU believes in creating local capacity using international best practices. We work with different types of cooperation agreements, but always aim to work with local partners, so that local realities, solutions and know-how are reflected in what we build.
Our platform adjusts to any local condition — business models, lending methodologies, climate solutions and economic sectors among them.