Virgilio Barco
Managing Director @ Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures
Bogotá, Colombia
Virgilio Barco is a seed investor at Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures in Bogotá focused on Food and Beverage and Education. Virgilio Barco is the Managing Director at ALIVE Ventures. Virgilio Barco attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 92%
Last updated:
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Industries Virgilio Barco invests in
Stages Virgilio Barco invests in
Countries Virgilio Barco invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 3 (23%)
- Education 2 (15%)
- Employment 2 (15%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (15%)
- Financial Services 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (31%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (31%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Convertible Note 2 (15%)
Country
- Colombia 5 (38%)
- Canada 2 (15%)
- United States 2 (15%)
- Chile 1 (8%)
- Guatemala 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Solfium is a one-of-a-kind solar energy company dedicated to providing the best solutions for your house, business, or industry. Everything we do is driven by the desire to provide you with the greatest possible experience. | $10M / Series A / Nov 07, 2025 | ||
| AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services. | $7.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 30, 2024 | ||
| GoodSAM is a food and beverages company that offers snack and food products made with natural ingredients. | $9M / Series A / Sep 30, 2024 | ||
| Beereaders is a digital platform that promotes literacy skills among Spanish-speaking students presenting personalized learning and using original Spanish content in a game-like experience. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 18, 2023 | ||
| Symplifica is the payroll department of small employers | Seed / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| u-planner is an international technology solutions company for higher education. We seek to improve education by incorporating Data Science concepts such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence that help optimize and improve the educational system, improving the quality of education that students obtain and their final results. u-planner’smission is to empower HEI with innovative technological solutions that allows them to achieve high performance in the execution of their strategic plans. Nowadays, there is a disconnection from what is needed by students, teachers and management. Today we work in three main product lines which represent some of the biggest needs of HEI, Planning, Assessment and Student Success, in which we can, for example, score students based on their dropout probability with a 95% accuracy. This has represented a huge opportunity, and we are using these and other analytical algorithms to empower education systems with new innovative technology solutions. We have led HEIs to step out of their comfort zone, from outdated Oracle data bases and legacy systems, to analytical business tools, replacing manual processes and intuition, with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms that extract information from raw data; this has allowed institutions to avoid specific investments, leaving the architecture and implementations complexities to the provider as a first approach to a cloud based environment; changing education driving impact and insights for institutions to help students in classrooms of today to create the future of tomorrow. | Convertible Note / Jul 12, 2021 | ||
| Suncolombia is a renewable energy company that provides solar solutions. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 28, 2019 | ||
| Formal Job Training and Placement, Technology, Workforce Readiness, Recruitment, HR, Training, Certification, and Placement | $200K / Seed / Sep 30, 2019 | ||
| Acceso is a social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. | $876K / Seed / Jun 12, 2019 | ||
| Formal Job Training and Placement, Technology, Workforce Readiness, Recruitment, HR, Training, Certification, and Placement | $275K / Convertible Note / Jun 24, 2018 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
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 of the 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.
Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures Contacts
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Santiago Alvarez
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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Maria Pía Morante Pérez-Reyes
Executive
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Virgilio Barco
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What does Virgilio Barco invest in?
Virgilio Barco invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Education and Employment startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Colombia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Virgilio Barco closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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