Positive Ventures

Positive Ventures ties each investment to specific targets within the UN Sustainable Development Goals framework, tracking metrics such as carbon abatement, smallholder income improvement, or healthcare access expansion. The firm integrates impact reporting into its quarterly portfolio reviews, providing limited partners with both financial and impact performance data. This dual-mandate structure is embedded in term sheets, not treated as a side-car initiative.

The firm leads or participates in pre-seed through early Series A rounds, with initial investments ranging from approximately $500,000 to $2 million. Positive Ventures reserves capital for follow-on investments in later rounds, maintaining pro-rata positions in top-performing portfolio companies through Series B and beyond when syndicate dynamics allow.

Brazil represents the largest concentration of portfolio activity, reflecting the firm's São Paulo headquarters and Brazil's outsized share of regional venture deal flow. Beyond Brazil, the firm has deployed capital in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile, with a growing pipeline in Central America's climate resilience and agritech sectors.

Climate technology, digital health, financial inclusion, and sustainable agriculture form the core mandate. The firm generally avoids pure-play consumer internet, ad-tech, and extractive industries. Enterprise software investments typically require a measurable tie to decarbonization, financial access for underserved populations, or healthcare delivery improvement in low-resource settings.

The firm's LP base includes international development finance institutions, family offices with explicit impact mandates, and European institutional investors seeking Latin American climate exposure. Positive Ventures has not publicly disclosed a full LP roster, but syndicate patterns suggest relationships with multilateral climate funds and mission-aligned European family offices (public record).