# Santiago Alvarez

> Santiago Alvarez is a venture - series unknown investor at Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures backing Financial Services. See 11 investments, check sizes…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-latam-capital-partners)
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://co.linkedin.com/in/santiago-alvarez-patron

Santiago Alvarez is a venture - series unknown investor at Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures focused on Financial Services and Information Technology. Santiago Alvarez - Co-founder and Managing Partner @ Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 27% |
| EdTech | 2 | 18% |
| FinTech | 2 | 18% |
| Employment | 2 | 18% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 45% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colombia | 4 | 36% |
| Peru | 1 | 9% |
| Brazil | 1 | 9% |
| Mexico | 1 | 9% |
| Guatemala | 1 | 9% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| aviva | Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $18M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| FinMaq | FinMaq is a financial innovation company dedicated to bridging the financing gap for unbanked clients and productive asset distributors. By offering fast, secure, and accessible loans for machinery and equipment, we empower small businesses to grow and thrive. With a robust three-tier guarantee system and a digitalized loan approval process, weensure financial inclusion, business formalization, and social impact. At FinMaq, we’re driving economic growth, creating jobs, and transforming lives—one asset at a time. | $29M |  | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Magneto Global | Magneto Global is a SAAS company that offers a software to help companies in talent acquisition. | $7M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Magneto Global | Magneto Global is a SAAS company that offers a software to help companies in talent acquisition. | $7M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| TECLOGI | Teclogi is a technology company focused in Logistics, which is well known as a Logtech; that means that we provide long haul and last mile transport services, which are operated over a technology platform, that we have developed to digitise and modernise the logistics process. So, TECLOGI was born aiming to solve some of the several challenges weface in the supply chain in Latin America, like a challenging geography, security risks, several intermediaries, and huge security risks. That is why TECLOGI has deployed a solution under two pillars: Operational versatility, which means that, * We operate last mile, as well as long haul services. * We have adapted our platforms and operations to different kinds of vehicles, including electrical trucks. In terms of technology our solution includes: * A marketplace to connect cargo with safe vehicles * A platform to digitise the logistics process end to end * A Fintech product line focused on the drivers. * A 3-step strategy, which includes the deployment of Data Analytics, and the incorporation of Machine Learning technologies. | $4.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| HYBRICO Energy Technologies | HYBRICO was born to solve the three main challenges of the telecom industry in emerging markets worldwide: cost of energy, site availability and carbon footprint. We deliver the only end-to-end energy-as-a-service solution for both off-grid and bad-grid telecom sites. Through our leading-edge hybrid technology and our proprietary cloud-basemonitoring and control software we lower your OPEX, increase your cash flow, maximize your energy uptime (99.95% guaranteed) and reduce your carbon emissions all with zero initial investment. All your energy needs: infrastructure, fuelling, monthly utility bill and maintenance in a long-term fixed-price contract that allows you to better manage your operating costs. Run by experts with decades of field experience in designing high-uptime infrastructures and providing O&M services to thousands of telecom sites. We are cleantech and we are obsessed with achieving the lowest levelized cost of energy in the market. Through technology we make it profitable for you to reduce carbon emissions, increase connectivity and help save the planet. Lets welcome a greener, more connected future. HYBRICO: Green Uptime for Telecom Sites! | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Slang | Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offersproficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years. | $14M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Finaktiva | Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities. | $3M | Series A | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| Crehana | Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to makeeveryone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Levee | LEVEE is a technology company reinventing productivity and the future of work. By using artificial intelligence and machine learning, LEVEE develops solutions focused on improving efficiency in operations and processes, tackling some of the most complex systemic challenges people and companies confront in growth economies. Through the testing ofnew technologies, methods, and data, LEVEE's visionary products bring intelligence to the decision making process, helping companies to reduce the US$ 100 million yearly losses caused by unproductive operations. Composed by a group of top scientists, economists, and engineers, LEVEE was recently awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the Latin America winner on its Inclusive Innovation Challenge, mainly due to the expressive social and economic impact its solutions are bringing to companies, people and the world. The founders met at Stanford University in 1999, and are a close, cross-disciplinary team with emerging markets-based experience in entrepreneurship, investing, law, engineering and development economics. The company was founded in Brazil in 2012 to address the perfect storm of mobile technology democratization, constrained urban mobility and the burgeoning services sectors in emerging markets metropolises. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DILA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dila-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avri Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avri-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B612 Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b612-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Comfama](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comfama-6c2a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impact-ventures-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wollef Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaguar-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures

VC Fund · Bogotá, Colombia

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 ofthe 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.

3 contacts available at Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Santiago Alvarez | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/santiago-alvarez |
| Maria Pía Morante Pérez-Reyes | Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-p%C3%ADa-morante-p%C3%A9rez-reyes |
| Virgilio Barco | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/virgilio-barco |

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## FAQ

### What does Santiago Alvarez invest in?

Santiago Alvarez invests primarily in Financial Services, Information Technology and EdTech startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Colombia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Santiago Alvarez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Santiago Alvarez closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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