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

15 past transactions

Suncolombia S.A.S

Private Placement in 2019
SUNCOLOMBIA S.A.S trades renewable and efficient alternative energy solutions online to education, health, connectivity, and entertainment sectors throughout the national territory of Latin America and Colombia. It offers products, such as batteries, charge controllers, investors, outlet, and solar panels. SUNCOLOMBIA S.A.S was founded in 2012 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Symplifica

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

Crehana

Series A in 2019
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Crehana

Venture Round in 2020
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Prestamype

Seed Round in 2023
Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent USD 18 million to 580 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of July 2020). In 2019, Prestamype launched its online currency exchange platform called Cambio Seguro. The company is still owned 100% by its cofounders.

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.

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.

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.

Flikn SAC

Private Placement in 2018
Flikn SAC operates an online platform that provides project based learning solutions for professionals. The company provides illustration and drawing, design, animation and 3D, web, photography, digital marketing, business, video, digital architecture, craft, and music courses. It also offers Adobe audition, Adobe animate, Adobe photoshop lightroom, Adobe premiere, Adobe illustrator, and Adobe photoshop courses. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Lima, Peru.

uPlanner

Venture Round in 2021
U-Planner develops software to optimize the academic planning, internal processes, and resources of educational institutions. Its products include Student Experience that offers student- centered transformation; Efficiency and Finance that offers optimum resource allocation and control of strategic plans; Teaching and Knowledge that offers teacher and student learning management services; and Management and Quality Improvement, enables improvements in institutional management and quality. It provides solutions and support services for educational improvement. The company's solutions based on mathematical algorithms and artificial intelligence, allows universities to improve key indicators, such as student retention rates, terminal efficiency, learning outcomes, infrastructure costs, and human resources. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Providencia, Chile.

Flikn SAC

Private Placement in 2020
Flikn SAC operates an online platform that provides project based learning solutions for professionals. The company provides illustration and drawing, design, animation and 3D, web, photography, digital marketing, business, video, digital architecture, craft, and music courses. It also offers Adobe audition, Adobe animate, Adobe photoshop lightroom, Adobe premiere, Adobe illustrator, and Adobe photoshop courses. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Lima, Peru.

Phoenix Foods

Private Placement in 2019
Phoenix Foods is a Peruvian based company specialized in setting up, organize and execute the supply needed to ship fresh fruits and vegetables from Peru to the world. Their on-site staff will help to develop a sustainable fresh produce business for importers, shippers and retailers around the world. Phoenix Foods key personnel have been in the produce activity for over 15 years procuring the best produce from the Land of Gold - Peru.

HYBRICO Energy Technologies Ltd

Venture Round in 2023
Green Uptime for Mission Critical Sites - HYBRICO delivers end-to-end energy-as-a-service solutions through hybrid power for telecom towers

Levee

Seed Round in 2019
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.