Agora Partnerships

Agora Partnerships is a pioneering not-for-profit organization empowering purpose-driven entrepreneurs across Latin America and the Caribbean. We give entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-serving organizations the tools, resources and networks they need to accelerate the growth of their enterprises and embed impact into their models to generate change. In order to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals - to challenge global inequality, fight extreme poverty, and protect our planet - and to create the 380 million new jobs associated with them, we need to unlock entrepreneurial potential - and this is what Agora aims to achieve.

We work with impact-driven companies by providing them with acceleration services to help entrepreneurs build a more inclusive and sustainable society. This includes: (1) access to knowledge (e.g. business strategy, investment preparedness, financial expertise, through bootcamps and 1:1 consulting); (2) access to networks (peers, mentors, service providers, and investors); and (3) access to capital (directly and through our investor network). Agora works to advance entrepreneurship by building community, treating every entrepreneur as an individual with tailored, strategic support, running a network of aligned investors, all the while working to strengthen the general environment for entrepreneurship in communities in which we operate.


In addition to working directly with the entrepreneurs, we realize that the environments in which entrepreneurs operate are critically important to their success. As a result, we also focus our work on strengthening the ecosystems in which we operate through industry events, financial innovation, train-the-trainer programs, and field building initiatives (e.g. Agora is a founding member of ANDE and B Corp and leader of a COVID-19 Ecosystem Task Force).

We have 15 years of experience working in the field of impact investing and social entrepreneurship, a field presence throughout the continent, a multidisciplinary team, and an extensive network of partners. We have a hub-and-spoke model with two main regional offices, one for North America (USA and Mexico) and one for Central America (based in Nicaragua), from which we have been able to serve entrepreneurs across 21 Latin American countries. More than 15 professionals from different areas make up our human talent and we have developed robust recruiting processes that enable us to quickly and efficiently source highly qualified consultants based on project needs from our pool of 40 former consulting fellows. In addition to our experts in business development, we have a strong administrative team that allows us to fulfill all the requirements of our funders, some of which include USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Argidius Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.

To date, we have supported over 300 impact-focused entrepreneurs and over 600 traditional entrepreneurs and have been running 3 different programs: an impact-focused accelerator, a Train-the-Trainer for early-stage ecosystem players and a business-resilience process for traditional businesses. Specifically in 2019, we delivered over 500 hours of individual consulting, obtained a +90% satisfaction rate from our programs’ participants, helped them produce over 700 deliverables and disbursed over US$200,000 to entrepreneurs. Collectively, our alumni have impacted over 6 million lives across the region, raised over $100M USD, and employed 5,000+ people.