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Putting Impact Capital to Work for Low-Income Communities in Latin America

ALIVE invests at the intersection of profit and impact, targeting scalable companies that have impact embedded in their business models.

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What We Do

ALIVE Ventures seeks to transform lives for low-income communities in Latin America (with a focus on Colombia and Peru) by investing in socially impactful companies that have innovative business models and require capital to grow. Over the course of each investment, ALIVE works closely with its investees to help scale their solutions, tackling some of the most pressing challenges faced by the region's most vulnerable.

Our Strategy

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Social Impact

ALIVE places impact at center stage, transforming lives for low-income communities and measuring impact using a data-driven approach to understand how lives are impacted. 

02

Gender Lens

ALIVE recognizes that women are disproportionately affected by poverty due to ingrained discrimination in the region, and therefore applies a gender lens across its investment processes.

03

Climate
Resilience

ALIVE invests in companies that deliver innovative solutions which help vulnerable populations across Latin America adapt to climate change and/or build climate resilience.​

04

Financial
Returns

ALIVE seeks to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to its investors, through early growth capital investments in impact-driven, profitable companies. 

05

Ecosystem
Building

ALIVE seeks to build a vibrant community of like-minded investors that truly care about impact and learning. 

06

Knowledge
Sharing

ALIVE seeks to grow the impact investing space in Latin America by collaborating and sharing knowledge broadly.

Explore Our Investment Themes

ALIVE tackles economic inequality by investing in innovative, high growth companies who are providing low-income communities with at least one of the following themes

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Education & Pathways to Quality Jobs 

Companies that provide vulnerable populations with high quality, cost effective and pertinent education and training, and connect them with the formal job market. 

Edtech  |  Workforce Development  |  HRtech
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Sustainable Income Generation Opportunities

Companies that provide services that allow SMEs and small-scale entrepreneurs— including farmers— to thrive.

Fintech  |  Agribusiness  |  Agtech  |  Tech for SMEs 
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Access to Critical Goods & Services

Companies that provide low-income communities with critical goods and services, such as access to energy, connectivity, and access to health.

Access to Renewable Energy  |  Internet  |  Healthtech 
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Solutions for Climate Resilience & Adaptation

Companies that provide vulnerable populations with ways to mitigate climate change and/or improve their ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to climate related risks.​

Circular Economy  |  Foodtech  |  Agtech

Strategic Accompaniment

ALIVE provides significant value-added post-investment support including tools, talent, technical assistance, strategic guidance and access to our network. The key areas in which ALIVE supports its portfolio include:

Marketing & Sales
Governance
& Talent
Impact, Gender,
& ESG
Operations
& IT
Strategic
Finance

Our Team

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Virgilio Barco

Co-founder & Managing Partner

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Santiago Alvarez

Co-founder & Managing Partner

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Maria Pia Morante

Partner

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Lina Moya

Principal

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Cristina Martinez-Acitores

Head Access to Financing

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Daniela Tello Rioja

Finance & Admin. Manager

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Alan Pierce

Impact & Knowledge Manager

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Laura Muñoz

Investment Associate

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Esteban Hemelberg

Investment Analyst

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Esteban Barriga

Investment Analyst

Strategic Partnership with Acumen

Thanks to its strategic relationship with Acumen, ALIVE has the unparalleled access to more than 20 years of Acumen experience investing in more than 115 companies around the world.


Additionally, Acumen has sector experts, a dedicated value creation team and a vast network of consultants and advisors to which ALIVE has access.

Our Partners

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