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Positive Ventures
Positive Ventures is a São Paulo VC firm funding early-stage climate and impact startups across Latin America with SDG-linked return targets.
Positive Ventures
Positive Ventures operates as a São Paulo-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies across Latin America. The firm channels institutional and impact-aligned capital into startups that address environmental and social challenges, with a portfolio spanning climate resilience, digital health, and financial inclusion. Investment activity centers on pre-seed, seed, and early Series A rounds with initial check sizes typically ranging from $500,000 to $2 million, reserving capital for follow-on investments through subsequent funding stages. The firm blends direct equity investments with a structured impact-measurement framework that tracks both financial performance and progress toward specific SDG-linked metrics. Portfolio exposure stretches across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile, with sector concentrations in climate technology, agritech, enterprise software serving underserved populations, and digital health platforms. Confirmed portfolio companies include Agrolend, a Brazilian agri-fintech providing credit to small and medium farmers, and Biome4All, a climate tech startup focused on biodiversity monitoring (public record). The firm maintains an active presence in the Latin American impact-investing ecosystem, participating in co-investment syndicates with development finance institutions and global climate funds. The team combines operational experience across Latin American markets with ties to international limited partners seeking exposure to the region's emerging climate economy. Positive Ventures distinguishes itself structurally through its explicit dual-fiduciary mandate — targeting market-rate venture returns while contractually binding portfolio companies to measurable environmental and social outcome targets, a posture more commonly associated with European Article 9 funds than Latin American VC firms.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Latin America
Country
Brazil
City
Sao Paulo
Corporate office
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How does Positive Ventures measure impact across its portfolio?
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.
What investment stages does Positive Ventures typically target?
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.
Which geographies does Positive Ventures cover within Latin America?
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.
Does Positive Ventures invest outside of climate and impact 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.
Who backs Positive Ventures as limited partners?
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).
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