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Potencia Ventures
Venture capital
Potencia Ventures is an impact investment group that backs business models serving low-income people. It invests in funds and early-stage companies, and works with Occam Advisors to identify, execute and manage those investments.
Invests inEducationAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordseducationfuture of workimpact investinglow-income populationsupskillingemployability
Your fit with Potencia Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsPotencia Ventures lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Education (48%), AI & Machine Learning (22%) and Healthcare & Biotech (11%). 33% of its companies are based in Brazil. It invests most often alongside elea Foundation, Avalancha Ventures and Black Ops VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Potencia Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Potencia Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 16. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 33% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 82th | 48% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| elea Foundation | 2 |
| Avalancha Ventures | 1 |
| Black Ops VC | 1 |
| Breachway Capital | 1 |
| BridgeX Ventures | 1 |
| California Innovation Fund | 1 |
| Cape Fear Ventures | 1 |
| Cedro Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 48% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Human Resources | 4% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Potencia Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Potencia Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 30 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Potencia Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Potencia Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbusta implements decisions that automate processes and scale the quality of its customers' services | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company specializes in reading and writing education in schools | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Flevo provides financial services to facilitate access to education in Latin America | EducationFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Beam helps government, nonprofit, and education organizations launch and manage programs in days, not months. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dio provides access to various courses, bootcamps, and projects in technology and artificial intelligence | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Edmachina provides a platform for student retention using AI-powered predictive decisions and automated revenue-generating actions. | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI enrollment platform for universities to automate workflows and scale their teams. | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Escalate provides 24/7 support to frontline employees to help them get to work on time, offering assistance with transportation, food, childcare, and other issues. | Human ResourcesHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Folio matches verified clinicians to remote, flexible jobs | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for operational personnel training with AI | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Kuepa Edutech offers educational programs that connect students with the labor market. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Leme works with municipal secretaries to transform learning data into actions that reduce inequalities in education. | Education | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Letrus develops and implements educational technology for reading and writing in schools | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Skillmaker is an AI-powered XR workforce development platform that provides training for workforce development | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Trampay provides digital banking services and financial solutions to delivery drivers and logistics operators in Brazil. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Upmat develops educational experiences focused on basic education, combining mathematics, logic, and technology to increase student and educator engagement. | Education | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- potenciaventures.net
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
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