Polymath Ventures
Investor- Incubator
Overview
Polymath Ventures is a company builder for emerging markets, creating high-impact businesses - from scratch - to grow massively across Latin America.
Polymath builds businesses that can grow massively across Latin America. All businesses currently operate in Bogotá, Colombia, with some scaling across other Colombian cities.
We design the venture concepts in-house, find the right founding talent to lead them, work full-time alongside the founders, and bring together the necessary capital to ensure their success. We do it this way because we believe this will spur high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging markets, employ thousands of people, and create outsized returns for our investors.
Together, it is the combination of our own methodology and the incredible talent we attract that drastically increases the chance of business success in emerging markets.
Current ventures focus on the transportation, financial services, and education industries.
Country: Colombia
Founded: 2011
Headquarters: Bogota
Investment Strategy
Geography
- Latin America
Sector Focus
- Funding Platforms
Summary
Polymath exists to build scalable companies that transform industries and societies, and become the backbone of the middle class of emerging economies. We believe that this is the best way for sustainable economic development — and the most meaningful way to spend our talent and energy.
We believe in diversity of thinking and experience, both in the individual and in teams that collaborate. We have seen with our own eyes the true innovation that can happen when people with distinct minds work side-by-side.
Funds Raised
Vintage
Fund Name
Amount
Seed
$430k
Seed
$700k
Seed
$750k
Seed
$625k
Key Employees
Wenyi Cai
Founder
Ash Kirvan
Founder
Craig Edelman
Founder
Kevin McElroy
Founder