ALIVE Ventures
Carrera 7 No. 83-29, Of. 502, Bogota, Cundinamarca, 110221, Colombia
Overview
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.
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 4
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 4
Investment portfolio
- Pulpos
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Pulpos provides a cloud-based POS and management platform that enables independent retailers to manage inventory, costs, margins, expiries, digital storefronts and suppliers through familiar communication channels like WhatsApp. The company builds tools for centralized inventory management, product catalogs with personalized links, and features to track informal credit and transaction cycles common among Mexican SMEs. Pulpos validated its model with a study of more than 5,000 merchants and over one million messages, finding high usage of cash and direct credit between merchants and customers. Founded in 2023, Pulpos serves over 5,000 active sellers concentrated in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara and plans physical offices in those cities for localized support. The startup is integrating AI agents to automate customer interactions, debt reminders, receipt issuance and inventory updates to improve operational visibility for small merchants. Financially, Pulpos raised a US$4 million seed in April 2024 led by Andreessen Horowitz and has now secured an additional US$5 million led by Dalus Capital.
- Solfium
Led · Series A · Apr 2026
Solfium offers a unified clean-energy platform that integrates solar generation with energy management systems, battery storage, electric vehicle chargers, and predictive maintenance while connecting suppliers, distributors, employees, and corporate facilities. The company reports that since 2022 it has installed 36,260 solar panels, adding 25 MW of capacity and projected to reduce 281,000 tons of CO2 over 25 years while delivering roughly USD 28 million in savings to customers and electricity consumers. Solfium’s leadership emphasizes enabling access to clean energy for both large corporates and more than five million MSMEs in Mexico, with ambitions to expand further across Latin America. The company closed a $10 million Series A to strengthen its technology stack and accelerate market expansion, with strategic investor support from BDC Capital and LATAM Impact Fund aimed at validating impact and scaling operations. CEO and cofounder Andrés Friedman has highlighted customer energy-cost reductions of up to 95% as a key value proposition. Solfium is headquartered in Montreal and is using its platform and new capital to deepen presence in Mexico and grow distributed solar deployment.
- Prestamype
Led · Equity · Mar 2026
Founded in 2017, Prestamype offers digital credit and factoring services to Peruvian mipymes and operates a digital exchange, Cambio Seguro. Since launch it has disbursed more than US$650 million to finance SMEs; in 2025 it reported US$319 million in factoring disbursements (a 163% increase year-over-year) and reached breakeven two years prior. Cambio Seguro executed over 67,000 operations with US$700 million transacted in 2025. The company states that mortgage-backed loans and factoring generate over 90% of the holding’s revenues and projects ambitious growth for 2026 (US$85 million in loan disbursements and US$632 million in factoring operations). To support growth, Prestamype is creating a SAFI, pursuing additional institutional debt lines, evaluating new products (unsecured loans and leasing), expanding its physical presence in Peruvian cities, and targeting international expansion to Colombia and Mexico; it is also planning a US$10–15 million Series A.
- GoodSAM Foods
Led · Series A · Mar 2025
GoodSAM Foods is a B-Corp Certified P.B.C. snack and food brand dedicated to regenerative agriculture, transparency, and farmer empowerment. It produces organic nuts, organic chocolate, organic coffee and fruit chips sold nationwide at Whole Foods Market, Sprouts, and a variety of natural, independent and specialty retailers. Led by CEO Heather K. Terry and based in Greenwich, CT, the company sources from smallholder and indigenous farmers across nine countries including Colombia, Mexico and Kenya. GoodSAM emphasizes direct trade and farmer empowerment as part of its supply-chain model. In March 2025 the company raised $9M in Series A funding to support growth. The funds will be used for team expansion, new product line launches, and continued direct trade support for its supplier communities.
- Magneto Global
Participated · Seed · May 2024
Magneto Global SAS offers an AI-driven SaaS platform for digital selection, evaluation and mobility of human talent, enabling real-time recruitment, assessment and selection workflows. The platform is designed to streamline talent processes and deliver cost savings and operational efficiencies for employers. Magneto serves a portfolio of over 2,500 clients, including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Sura, Nutresa, Grupo Éxito and Alkosto. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate growth, expand its client base to over 20,000 businesses across Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the United States, and further enhance its technology platform. Magneto was founded by Alejandro Arango and Pablo Arango and is headquartered in Medellín, Colombia.