The Opportunity
Latin America is ripe for social and economic transformation. With its rapidly growing and digitizing middle class, we are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring our empathy, ingenuity, and grit to design and scale vibrant solutions for this traditionally underserved demographic.
311M
People in middle-class
140M
Informal workers
$4T USD
Middle-class expenditure
Our approach
We build large and transformative companies for the emerging middle-class in Latin America.
A sizable and empowered middle class is the foundation of a more equal, stable, and prosperous society. Our mandate is to create impact through disruption, building for an abundant Latin America.
We adapt to the needs of the high-growth Latin American middle-class.
This is how we do it
Binding
entrepreneurs & opportunities
Bridging
the experience gap
Catalyzing
early-stage capital
Our Story
From a small, donated office in a university to a multi-country portfolio of companies
2021
Great year for Polymath! Started the year launching 2 new ventures, Ropstar and Tani, a growing team of 300+ people, and new financing rounds increasing our total capital raised to $50M+.
2012
In the beginning - June of 2012 - we recruited ten talented (and a little crazy) people for the first Ideation project in Medellin. In three months, we designed two venture concepts: Taximo and Aflore. Let’s build!
2013
Our team moved to Bogota to set up the foundations for years to come: an exceptional team of entrepreneurs, an extensive network of investors and advisors, and the launch of Taximo, our first venture in Colombia.
2014
After one year of operation in Bogota, we launched three new ventures; Aflore, Autolab, and VincuVentas.
2015
We pivoted Vincu Ventas to a complete digital model as a response to de incresing digitization of the demographic (middle-class). .
2017
Polymath arrived in Mexico to extend our impact in the region and pursue our purpose of transforming Latin America's middle-class.
2018
We launched Elenas and learnt from Asia’s venture ecosystem through our office in China.
2020
Crazy year, right? Amidst the crisis, we learned and thrived. We launched Polymath+, our co-building business with corporate partners, Autolab grew shop visits by 7X, and Elenas sales increased by 20X.
2021
Great year for Polymath! Started the year launching 2 new ventures, Ropstar and Tani, a growing team of 300+ people, and new financing rounds increasing our total capital raised to $50M+.
2012
In the beginning - June of 2012 - we recruited ten talented (and a little crazy) people for the first Ideation project in Medellin. In three months, we designed two venture concepts: Taximo and Aflore. Let’s build!
Our founders and leaders come from different backgrounds but they share the same vision; transforming the emerging middle-class in the region through intentional and innovative solutions.
"The dream of building a company with huge growth and valuation potential — and that can have a huge social impact — is a reality"
We are a growing global team of dream builders