Companies

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:

REGIONS

Sector

Paloma

Turns parents into effective at-home tutors through AI-powered, 15-minute activities aligned to school curricula.

Primary and Secondary Education

Prentus

Enables career centers to boost, track, and scale student job outcomes and students to get hired faster.

Post Secondary Education

Talently

Connects tech professionals in Latin America with global remote job opportunities, combining training, vetting, and job placement into one streamlined service.

LatAm

Future of Work

TetherEd

Supports governments to manage and digitize the enrollment process for entire school systems, enabling real-time access to school slots, applications, waitlists, and enrollment.

LatAm

Primary and Secondary Education

Trampay

Provides financial services for informal and gig workers, smoothing their cash flows and boosting their earning potential.

Brazil

Future of Work

Unmudl

Leverages community and technical colleges to train working learners for employer-backed frontline and technical job openings.

Future of Work

UpMat

Engages schools, teachers, and students across Brazil with math and computing challenges that foster teacher development and generate data-driven insights.

Brazil

Primary and Secondary Education

Varthana

Provides loans and support to low-cost private schools for improvements to infrastructure and operations.

India (historic)

Primary and Secondary Education