What to know about this Lending Partner
December 11th, 2025 - Status Update:
This Lending Partner was previously named Interactuar and is now rebranding due to some regulatory and legal implications in Colombia. To help with this process, Kiva is separating the Corporacion Interactuar loan disbursals from the previous Interactuar partner account. Kiva has re-onboarded Corporacion Interactuar and you can find more information about them in the details on this page.
The Lending Partner
Interactuar is a non-profit institution offering microfinance, practical vocational courses and business development services to rural and urban micro-entrepreneurs in low-income communities in Colombia. Since 1983, they have been working to create sustainable employment opportunities for communities affected by its armed conflict, geographic exclusion and high unemployment.
Interactuar's services target low-income microentrepreneurs to assist them in starting a business and/or growing the efficiency and competitiveness of their existing micro-business.
Unique Lending Approach:
Interactuar´s loans are offered to low-income aspiring or existing micro-entrepreneurs who don´t have access to normal streams of financing due to lack of credit history, collateral or rural/geographic exclusion. Interactuar goes to urban areas and remote towns that otherwise would not have access to financing.
Borrowers also have access to Interactuar´s full suite of business development services and vocational courses meant to prepare clients with practical experience. This is an especially unique suite of services as bottom of the pyramid business owners do not usually have access to these kind of consulting services.
All of these services are designed to provide small business owners with holistic support in order to help generate sustainable businesses for low-income communities in Colombia.