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.

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Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

2014

Seed

$430k

2014

Seed

$700k

2013

Seed

$750k

2012

Seed

$625k

Key Employees

Wenyi Cai
Founder

Ash Kirvan
Founder

Craig Edelman
Founder

Kevin McElroy
Founder