# Potencia Ventures

> Potencia Ventures is a VC fund backing Education and Software. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.potenciaventures.net

Potencia Ventures is a VC fund focused on Education and Software. Potencia focuses on fund managers that invest in early-stage companies that serve lower-income populations, with a preference for managers that include education or employability in their investment thesis.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $264k–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $250k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 9 | 53% |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 24% |
| FinTech | 3 | 18% |
| Training | 3 | 18% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 24% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 47% |
| Brazil | 3 | 18% |
| Peru | 1 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Mexico | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kelly Michel | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelly-michel |
| Patrick Maloney | Team Member | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-maloney-6a82 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UpMat Educacional | UpMat Educacional delivers innovative educational content aimed at transforming the way students learn mathematics and computing. | $263.8K | Seed | Apr 27, 2025 |  |
| Folio.works | Each of us will spend about 30% of our lives at work. Folio prepares young adults to thrive in meaningful careers by helping them gain real-world experience. Our platform facilitates internships, part time jobs, and open-source challenge projects.We partner with universities and governments to facilitate coop programs, for-credit internships, andworkforce training dollars to make internships ubiquitous. In turn, we’re building the most effective dataset on entry-level talent to power the future of hiring. | $4M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Trampay | Trampay provides financial services. They deliver products and services that serve both providers and companies. They offer services for doctor's offices, laboratories, restaurants, entertainment, and education. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Mar 08, 2024 |  |
| Escalate USA | Escalate USA is a frontline retention platform helping employers retain talent and creating pathways for entry-level talent. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Apprenty | Apprenty integrates education and employment to better prepare the next generation for future skills and to assist companies in more effectively recruiting talent and diversity. | $1.6M | Seed | Jul 21, 2023 |  |
| Unmudl | Unmudl is the Skills-to-Jobs™ Marketplace, connects learners and employers via a coast-to-coast network of leading community colleges. Through Unmudl, learners easily access courses and short-term credential programs that lead to jobs. These jobs pay family-supporting wages and contribute directly to the country's economic growth and recovery.Employers use the Unmudl marketplace to source diverse talent directly from courses and programs. | $1M |  | Apr 10, 2023 |  |
| Flourish Fi | Flourish is a Berkeley-CA financial technology company with a mission to empower people to build positive money habits. Flourish licenses its turnkey engagement and financial wellness platform to financial institutions in the Americas. The team at Flourish enables banks, credit unions, and other institutions to drive deposit growth, clientloyalty and higher customer satisfaction by transforming how people interact with their money. | $2.3M |  | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| Flourish Fi | Flourish is a Berkeley-CA financial technology company with a mission to empower people to build positive money habits. Flourish licenses its turnkey engagement and financial wellness platform to financial institutions in the Americas. The team at Flourish enables banks, credit unions, and other institutions to drive deposit growth, clientloyalty and higher customer satisfaction by transforming how people interact with their money. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 23, 2022 |  |
| Beam | Beam simplifies complex government program journeys with configurable, intelligent end-to-end workflows. Beam's platform helps government administer programs end-to-end, including application, eligibility determination, case management, payment, and reporting -- from simple programs like emergency relief to the most complex like housingvoucher programs. | $6.4M | Series A | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| PAIRIN | PAIRIN is a social enterprise company that uses friendly science to personalize career exploration, hiring, and professional development. It aims to make education relevant and hiring equitable. PAIRIN's My Journey product is a workforce process management platform that personalizes career exploration, job matching, and skill development foreducation, workforce programs, and governments. | $2.1M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalancha Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalancha-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Potencia Ventures invest in?

Potencia Ventures invests primarily in Education, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Potencia Ventures's check size?

Potencia Ventures typically joins rounds of $264k–$4M at Seed and $250k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Potencia Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Potencia Ventures?

Public channels for Potencia Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Potencia Ventures?

The team at Potencia Ventures includes Kelly Michel (Founder and CEO) and Patrick Maloney (Team Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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