Direct Investments
4YOU2 democratizes English language learning in Brazil using a blended methodology: a modern app combined with in-person classes with foreign teachers in brick-and-mortar schools. Students experience high quality education while paying affordable prices and teachers receive a paid international experience in Brazil.
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AllHere fosters student success using mobile messaging powered by artificial intelligence. The AllHere Advisor communicates 24/7 via two way texting and virtual nudges using a customized knowledge base to ensure each family and student receives the right support whenever they need it.
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Arbusta provides quality assurance services for website and mobile applications, functional and technical testing, as well as manual and automated solutions. Core to Arbusta’s model is that the company recruits young people from low-income neighborhoods and trains and hires them to be data testers.
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Arvore’s digital reading platform combines technology and thousands of books and journalistic content to assist students of all ages in Brazil in their reading education.
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Edquity provides an end-to-end cash administration solution to help governments and institutions prioritize incoming applications, verify and process applicants, pay people quickly, and track outcomes over time
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Enguru is an app that assists Indian adults as well as children in live English learning. Enguru is built to serve semi-English-speaking students, working professionals, and job seekers from low-income households. The app supports 12 Indian languages and is the only tutor-led live class offering for English in India.
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Imarticus Learning brings high-quality education from premier universities around the world and develop rigorous programs that are experiential, valuable and progressive.
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Based in Mexico and Colombia, Kuepa offers a blended learning curriculum across a variety of subjects to improve professional and work skills. Kuepa’s offers high quality, affordable educational services that have reached over 30,000 thousand young people and facilitates their entry into the labor market or into higher education.
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Based in Brazil, Letrus develops and markets a platform that analyzes student writing samples and provides feedback to teachers and students. Letrus’s platform is helping to build critical infrastructure in education that leverages technology to improve the student and teacher experience.
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MPOWER provides loans to international students in the US and Canada without credit history, co-signers, or collateral to help finance higher education expenses. By prioritizing a student's academic success and career path in underwriting over their family's financial resources, MPOWER can responsibly provide loans to students who may otherwise not be able to attend university in the US or Canada.
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Oliveboard is an online platform that enables students to learn and prepare for professional exams in India. They offer 80+ exam helpers, 100+ free mock tests, and 400+ free Ebooks, as well as a mobile app to make everything extremely accessible to those who need it.
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Through its MyJourney platform PAIRIN offers workforce process management for government and educational institutions. MyJourney is an education and professional career-planning platform that provides users with an individualized roadmap to help them achieve their education or career goals.
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Shortlist’s platform, which analyzes an applicants' personality and skills, provides talent and recruitment services that connect job seekers in Kenya and India with job opportunities. Shortlist’s platform helps connect people with nontraditional backgrounds who may otherwise be overlooked in the recruitment process with rewarding jobs.
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Talently helps train developers working remotely in the USA or Latin America who have at least two years of experience. They assist in finding positions in popular tech companies and help developers create a personal brand, pass interviews and learn technical english.
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TAQE is a gamified platform that empowers and recommends young people to the labor market. Through interactive classes and tests, the app creates a professional identity for the candidate and matches candidates with job opportunities with a strong culture and skill fit. Young employees begin their career journeys and build professional identities and companies improve productivity.
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Fund Investments
500 Global invests early in founders building fast growing technology companies that drive economic growth.
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Avalanche invests in early stage tech companies enabling decentralization and empowerment.
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Chingona Ventures focuses on founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create business in growth markets that are often overlooked.
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Core Innovation Capital invests in companies that deliver more efficient, well designed financial products that save people time and money.
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Crescera (formerly BR Education) invests in education technology start ups in Brazil.
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The Education Catalyst Fund supports edtech companies that offer solutions for low income families and education in India.
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Elevar Equity is a human centered venture capital firm that has led investments in over 31 companies across 7 countries that have served over 20 million clients.
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Fintech invests with founders who desire to reshape markets in Europe and assist in reducing the cost of financing.
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Gray Ghost Ventures is an impact investing firm dedicated to providing market-based solutions to entrepreneurs who are addressing the needs of low-income communities in emerging markets.
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Latin Idea Ventures Capital is a leading Mexico City-based private equity fund manager that invests in high-growth companies targeting Mexico and the broader Latin American markets.
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LeapFrog invests in extraordinary businesses in Asia and Africa, partnering with their leaders to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.
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NXTP Labs invests in Latin American tech companies that generate positive impact at scale.
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