A non-profit ecosystem builder
& research institute for systemic
change and collective action.

CO_’s Systemic Investing Model

Mindset
Shift

Research

Collaboration

Learning
& Education

Hybrid Capital Investing

Orchestration
& Governance

Hybrid Capital Investing

Source: integrating MLP, Lleeuwis, and Meadows systems’ transformation

What we do

Ecosystem Building

Over the past 10 years we have incubated and supported the launch of various organizations which, through different programs, awards, & mentorship initiatives, help develop, strengthen and scale social and environmental enterprises in Mexico and Latin America.

Collectively we currently support around 300 entrepreneurs per year, and have worked with more than 800 startups that are working to offer accessible and better products, services and opportunities to millions of people in the region.
Multistakeholder Platform

Based on collective intelligence exercises, we create multi-stakeholder platforms with representatives from all sectors and key actors who influence particular systems. This is a space for meeting and collaboration between leaders, where organizations can seek commonalities in their strategies and complementarity in their services in order to scale their impact and optimize, redesign or innovate the system.
Systemic Research

We use systems research as a central tool to uncover the underlying dynamics of sector and landscape challenges, understand key leverage points of change, transition pathways, craft meaningful and collective interventions, and inform the strategic deployment of hybrid capital stacks.

Our impact over the years

+5000

impact enterprises supported by our portfolio organizations
200,000

direct beneficiares receiving better products and services through our support

Research Reports

More detail

The Ecosystem we have built

We have launched, collaborated with, and supported several initiatives that work across different need in the ecosystem:

Disruptivo.tv

Unlock potential for impact through communication, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Disruptivo.tv
disruptivo.tv/
Disruptivo.tv unleashes the potential of people and companies to change the world.

Disruptivo.tv is the largest social entrepreneurship medium in Latin America.

Impact of + 1 million people in 47 countries.
+ 12 thousand people trained
+ 120 allies and universities
Online and offline programs in 26 states in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, US, Chile, Slovenia, Costa Rica.
Makesense

For 10 years, makesense has been creating tools and programs for collective mobilization to enable everyone to take action and build an inclusive and sustainable society.

Makesense
americas.makesense.org/

Makesense develops specific engagement programs that allow everyone to make the transition and find teammates to do so. Depending on the format, the experience can last for two hours, two weeks or two months. Our programs are designed for both those starting out and those who are already involved, moving from individual awareness to collective mobilization.

The makesense model guides people from inaction to activism and gives everyone the means to invent new ways of doing and being. Our tools train people in the acquisition of skills related to societal transformation, from knowledge to know-how to soft skills, and are based on the reputed reference of the OECD Learning Compass.

Impact:

+ 200k citizens working on social and environmental issues

+ 8,000 entrepreneurial projects in seven countries

+ 10k company employees involved
Socialab

More than a business accelerator, SociaLab help entrepreneurs achieve milestones to get to the next level.

Socialab
socialab.com/

Socialab is a high impact accelerator that expedites the attainment of traction and growth of seed investments from launch to scale. They support solutions in innovation, technology, green business, and healthcare.

Socialab is flexible, responsive, and agile.

Impact in Mexico:

+ 150 startups supported

7 applications in 2020 with more than 1,670 ideas received

+ 1.3 millions of pesos of seed capital deployed
Village Capital

Village Capital leverages entrepreneurship to drive impact at scale.

Village Capital
vilcap.com/

Operating since 2009, Village Capital is the largest organization in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.

Focused on transforming the way entrepreneurs and capital connect, how investment decisions are made, and how investments are structured in three key ways: democratizing entrepreneurship, beyond equity, and inclusive capital.

Globally, they have worked with more than 1,100 entrepreneurs in 28 countries, and our affiliated fund, VilCap Investments, has invested in 110 startups that have gone on to raise more than $4 billion in follow-on capital.
SVX.MX

Curate investment opportunities that allow investors to be a part of companies that are building a healthy, resilient, and sustainable world.

SVX.MX
www.svx.mx/

SVX connects investors with funds and companies making the investment process more efficient by providing education and facilitating the transactions. Investors can select and invest in impact investment opportunities utilizing a platform, leveraging their extensive investment sourcing and due diligence process.

Impact:

+ 600 investors educated in Latin America

Influenced 12 funds to modify their investment thesis to include impact
Kaya Impacto

Empowering social and environmental change-makers in Mexico & beyond.

Kaya Impacto
kayaimpacto.com/

Kaya Impact is an advisory firm that accompanies social and environmental entrepreneurs in their fundraising efforts. They work across the whole process by facilitating introductions, running due diligence efforts, and negotiating agreements.

Impact:

+USD 11 million raised

90% of their companies have raised capital
Hult Prize

Inspire, develop , and reward high impact social entrepreneurs around the world.

Hult Prize
www.hultprize.org/

For more than a decade, the Hult Prize Foundation has been transforming how young people envision their own possibilities as impact leaders of change in the world around them. Originally founded as a one-million dollar prize startup program, the organization today is the worldwide leader in impact education and has trained and graduated more than two-million alumni across 121 countries.

Behind the Hult Prize is Hult International Business School. Founded by entrepreneur, Bertil Hult, on the belief that you can only truly learn by doing—the school brings together creative, open-minded people from all over the world to do business, not just study it. Ranked among the best by the Financial Times, Economist, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek, Hult offers full-time, part-time, and live online higher education programs across its global campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai, and New York.

Impact:

+ USD 500 million combined portfolio valuation

+ USD 100 million invested

+ 350k graduates every year
Connovo

Impact venture studio that incubates and scales succesful impact enteprises from other parts of the world in Mexico.

Connovo
www.connovo.org/

Their objective is to build high impact startups that can reach Mexico’s most vulnerable population so they have the opportunities to live in a more sustainable and just country. Connovo finds business models around the world in the education and workforce development space that fit the needs of Mexico and they partner with them to establish and grow in a new geography, offering local co-founders, incubation services, mentorship, back office, and financing.

Three enterprises launched in Mexico: Extensio, Hipocampus, and Hola Code.
Sistema B

Sistema B, as part of B Lab, works to create an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all people and the planet.

Sistema B
www.sistemab.org/en/welcome/
Sistema B is a non-profit organization that believes that governments, civil society organizations, social movements, citizens and businesses’ social responsibility, all together, are not enough to solve our current social and environmental problems. It promotes B Corps and other economic actors in Latin America in order to build a new economy, in which success and financial benefits include social and environmental well-being. Since its creation, in April 2012, there are now 10 national Sistemas B, one International Sistema B, 7 B Local Communities, and a community of over 500 B Corps in the region. Sistema B’s proposal points to an economy that can create value for the world and the planet, promoting ways of economic organization that can be measured from the well-being of people, societies and the Earth simultaneously, and taking into consideration the short and long term.

Impact:

+ 712 certified B corps in Latin America – 55 in Mexico

+ 1,200 Mexican enterprises are measuring and managing their impact

62% of Mexican B corps state having commercial relationships with other B corps
Latimpacto

Community of capital providers -human, intellectual and financial- committed to achieving solutions with greater social and environmental impact in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latimpacto
latimpacto.org/

Latimpacto enables capital providers to connect with and learn from peers and stakeholders leading cutting-edge initiatives and thus to achieve a greater impact through their social and environmental investments. Focused on the capital continuum bringing together philanthropists, investors, companies, governments, and foundations.
Irrazonables

Support entrepreneurs who are using innovation and technology to solve pressing problems.

Irrazonables
irrazonables.org/
Accelerate unstoppable entrepreneurs and partner with institutions to uncover business opportunities while solving social problems at scale.
aeioTU

Transforming communities in an innovative and sustainable way by developing the full potential of children.

aeioTU
www.aeiotu.com/aeiotu-mexico/
We democratize education in order to close the social gaps of inequality through an innovative and sustainable educational model for children from 0 to 5 years of age.