Representative direct Investments

In 2017 Potencia began making direct investments into private companies that serve lower-income communities either through education or increasing people's prospects for meaningful employment. We invest in early stage companies in Latin America and the US, either on our own or with other investors. Companies that Potencia Ventures supports include:

Kuepa Education

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.

LETRUS

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.

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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Shortlist

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.