Community Investment Management
600 Montgomery Street Suite 1900, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
Overview
Community Investment Management provides responsible and transparent financing to small businesses in the United States in partnership with a select group of technology-driven lenders. CIM combines experience, innovation, and values to align the interests of small business borrowers and investors. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 12
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 11
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Exchanges
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Marketplace
Investment portfolio
- Jeeves Inc.
Led · Debt Financing · Dec 2025
Jeeves offers an integrated solution that lets businesses manage corporate cards, automate bill payments, reconcile invoices compliant with Mexico’s SAT requirements, and access treasury services such as dollar-backed stablecoin wallets for cross-border operations. Thousands of clients—including SmartFit, BMW, Lululemon, H&M, MacroPay, Kueski, and Nubank—use multiple Jeeves products simultaneously, giving the company the highest average revenue per customer among regional fintechs and banks. Mexico has become Jeeves’ largest market, with revenue there growing more than 250 % in the last 12 months and net revenue retention consistently above 130 %. The company operates in over 20 countries and has built market-specific credit programs to support larger enterprise customers. Recent product enhancements leverage AI to simplify the creation and reconciliation of CFDI invoices. The firm is led by founder and CEO Dileep Thazhmon and recently appointed former Capital One executive Pablo Cortina as Chief Revenue Officer. Jeeves’ strategy is to deepen its presence in Latin America while expanding credit capacity to serve bigger accounts, funded by its enlarged credit lines.
- aviva
Led · Debt Financing · Nov 2025
Aviva offers loans generally between $100 and $1,000 to individuals and small businesses, primarily serving informal-economy customers outside major metropolitan areas. Customers apply through videoconference bots at physical kiosks and applications are evaluated in minutes using AI models that analyze behavioral and identity signals. The company currently operates in more than 300 small and mid-sized cities across 23 Mexican states and reports over 300,000 completed kiosk application processes. Aviva’s product lineup includes a working-capital loan for microbusinesses and a point-of-sale consumer credit product deployed through kiosks inside retail stores. Founded in 2022 by Filiberto Castro, David Hernández, Amran Frey and Israel García, the company has raised $34 million in capital and more than $80 million in credit lines to date. Aviva aims to reach an addressable market of over 50 million adults with limited access to banking services and plans to use recent funding to expand locations, products and technology staff.
- Kiwi
Led · Debt Financing · Nov 2025
Founded in 2020 by Dominican Republic natives Mariano Sanz and Alexander Schachter, Kiwi offers an AI-driven mobile platform that provides small-dollar lines of credit to U.S. Latinos who lack traditional credit histories. The service has already reached more than 100,000 consumers and is designed to help users build or repair their credit profiles while accessing transparent, fairly priced capital. Kiwi follows a playbook proven in emerging markets: start with credit, then layer on savings, spending, and additional financial products to drive long-term economic mobility. The company targets the nearly 20 % of the U.S. population that is Latino, a segment contributing over $4 trillion annually to the economy yet remains underserved by mainstream financial institutions. Advanced AI underwriting and alternative data power Kiwi’s approvals, while the mobile experience simplifies repayment and credit-building for customers. With new institutional backing, the team plans to enter more states, roll out new product lines, and scale its platform to millions of users. Earlier in 2023, Kiwi raised an $8 million Series A to support these growth ambitions.
- Zolve
Led · Debt Financing · Oct 2023
Zolve offers banking and credit products to high‑skilled global citizens relocating to the U.S., using applicants' home‑country credit history to underwrite accounts on day one. The product set today includes checking accounts and credit cards, with plans to introduce loans starting with auto loans and later expanding to personal and education loans. The startup has amassed 750,000 customers since launch and has processed over $1.2 billion in transactions to date. Zolve reported $25 million in net revenue last year. The company aims to expand geographically, planning to enter Canada by July or August and the UK and Australia the following year. Longer term, it intends to build a connected financial network to serve users moving between Western and Asian markets. Zolve offers banking and credit products for immigrants, including the Zolve Debit Card, Zolve Credit Card and Zolve Azpire Credit Card, with accounts issued by Community Federal Savings Bank. The platform has attracted around 500,000 users since its inception and has facilitated more than $600M in transactions. Led by founder Raghunandan G, the company positions itself to expand its financial services internationally. Zolve plans to use new financing to grow across the UK, Canada and Australia. The cards and accounts are issued and offered by Community Federal Savings Bank, Member FDIC. The company previously raised $15M in a seed round and a subsequent $40M raise in October 2021. Zolve is a Bangalore-headquartered neobanking startup focused on helping immigrants gain access to U.S. financial services. Its core product is a credit card, complemented by a local bank account and debit card, with Zolve underwriting risk so partner banks can offer services without security deposits. The startup rolled out its credit card to 2,000 customers and has a waiting list exceeding 70,000, with customers widely using the product and paying on time. Customers have deposited about $2 million into Zolve accounts and are often using them as primary bank accounts. The company has grown headcount from five earlier this year to roughly 100 and plans to hire 150 more people. Zolve plans to expand offerings to immigrants from several additional countries early next year. Zolve is a neobanking platform aimed at individuals moving from India to the U.S. (and vice versa) that works with banks in both countries to provide seamless access to financial products. The startup underwrites the risk for partner banks, enabling customers to open accounts and obtain services as if they were banking with a national institution. Beyond basic banking, Zolve lets customers in India buy U.S.-listed shares and purchase cryptocurrency from exchanges based in the U.S. or Europe. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore and was founded by Raghunandan G, who previously started TaxiForSure. Zolve has amassed more than 5,000 customers and has revenue-sharing arrangements with its banking partners. Because it onboards customers in India while generating much of its revenue from U.S. partners, the company says it is already operating on a profitable model.
- Finkargo
Led · Equity · Nov 2022
Finkargo provides an international trade platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses in LATAM with supplier sourcing, shipment verification, cargo insurance and embedded trade financing. The company uses proprietary trade data to analyze supply chains and tailor solutions to each importer’s needs. It plans to use new funding to accelerate growth in Mexico and expand its offering beyond trade financing into an integrated suite of trade services, including supplier sourcing, product verifications, cargo insurance, foreign exchange, and international trade data intelligence. Founded in 2021 and based in Mexico City, Finkargo has served over 250 customers and supported more than 2,000 import operations. Its network includes 430 suppliers across 40 countries. The company aims to scale its supply‑chain and financing capabilities with the additional capital. Finkargo is a Colombian fintech that provides trade-finance products to MiPymes to finance international purchases. Its financial product strengthens clients' international operations by improving negotiation power, diversifying suppliers, speeding access to capital, and using guarantees adjusted to business realities. The company digitizes these solutions and states it can pay international suppliers in under 24 hours, offering agility, transparency and flexibility. Finkargo reports it has financed $50M in international purchases, serves more than 600 MiPymes, and says clients have increased operation value by 62% while supplier bases rose 27%; more than 25% of clients are leveraging global value chains. The startup was founded by Santiago Molina, Tomás Shuk and Andrés Ferrer and plans to use the new capital to further grow its MiPyme base in Colombia in the next year. The funding is intended to expand access to cross-border trade finance for underserved small and medium businesses in the region.