Google backs micro-loan provider Inventure that uses mobile technology to generate credit scores and provide access to micro-loans.

US-based micro-loan company Inventure has raised $10m in its series A round from a consortium including Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company Google.

 

Google Ventures was joined in the round by venture capital firms Collaborative Fund, Lowercase Capital and Mesa Ventures.

 

Previously, the company raised $1.2m in seed funding in 2013, according to a regulatory filing. Crunchbase lists the India Internet Fund has having made…