Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures

Acumen Latam Impact Ventures – ALIVE Ventures – is a new type of Latin American fund manager. A fund manager that places impact at centerstage, measuring impact using a data driven approach to not only count lives but more importantly to understand how lives are being impacted. A fund manager that incorporates gender lens investing every step of the way, from origination to post-investment management. A fund manager that seeks to build a vibrant community of like-minded investors that truly care about impact and learning. A fund manager that seeks to grow the impact investing space in Latin America by collaborating and sharing knowledge broadly. And finally, but equally important, a fund manager that seeks to provide attractive risk adjusted returns to its investors.

Santiago Alvarez

Co-founder and Managing Partner

8 past transactions

Beereaders

Seed Round in 2023
Beereaders is a digital platform that promotes literacy skills among Spanish-speaking students presenting personalized learning and using original Spanish content in a game-like experience.

Slang

Series A in 2021
Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers proficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.

Symplifica

Venture Round in 2021
Symplifica.com specializes in software development for human resources. Symplifica.com is based in Colombia.

Finaktiva

Series B in 2021
Finaktiva SAS is a fintech company based in Medellin, Colombia, founded in 2017. It operates a digital credit platform that provides flexible online loans tailored to the cash flow and capital needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs. The platform focuses on businesses characterized by innovative models, strong growth rates, and positive community impact. Finaktiva combines cash management, supply chain finance, and lending services to help SMEs manage their liquidity and finance their growth effectively. By analyzing ventures and ensuring proper documentation, the company facilitates timely credit disbursement, enabling businesses to access necessary financing and make prompt payments to suppliers.

uPlanner

Venture Round in 2021
uPlanner is an international technology solutions company based in Providencia, Chile, focused on enhancing higher education through innovative software designed to optimize academic planning and resource management. Founded in 2012, uPlanner offers various products aimed at improving student experiences, resource allocation, and institutional management. Utilizing advanced mathematical algorithms and artificial intelligence, the company provides tools that help educational institutions enhance key performance indicators, such as student retention and learning outcomes. Its primary product lines—Planning, Assessment, and Student Success—address critical needs in higher education, enabling institutions to accurately assess dropout probabilities and make data-driven decisions. By transitioning educational institutions from outdated systems to modern, cloud-based analytical tools, uPlanner empowers them to streamline processes and improve overall educational quality, ultimately helping students achieve better outcomes.

Crehana

Venture Round in 2020
Crehana is an online training platform based in Lima, Peru, aimed at creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, it offers over 500 courses covering a range of subjects including Design, Coding, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. The platform focuses on affordable, project-based learning, enabling users to acquire practical skills that align with their professional aspirations. Crehana's mission is to empower individuals to achieve their career goals through accessible online education, thereby redefining traditional learning paradigms in the creative sector.

Levee

Venture Round in 2020
Levee develops a platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to connect informal, unskilled workers to formal, more secure, and higher paying jobs in companies. It serves C-Level Executives, human resources, and operations of various sectors, including retail, outsourced services, food services, and laboratories and hospitals. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Crehana

Series A in 2019
Crehana is an online training platform based in Lima, Peru, aimed at creative and digital professionals in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 2015, it offers over 500 courses covering a range of subjects including Design, Coding, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. The platform focuses on affordable, project-based learning, enabling users to acquire practical skills that align with their professional aspirations. Crehana's mission is to empower individuals to achieve their career goals through accessible online education, thereby redefining traditional learning paradigms in the creative sector.