Fixing edtech impact.Futura Fund, venture philanthropy for education in Latin America

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01WHY WE EXIST

Education cannot wait.

Millions of children in Latin America finish school without the basics, and inequality starts there. Technology promised to change that picture. Over the past decade, investment multiplied; learning did not.

Futura was born from that discomfort. Technology is not the villain of this story. What was missing was capital patient with education's clock and committed to real impact, measured in learning. Our hypothesis is that education calls for a different architecture of capital. We do not know if we will get it right. At the very least, we want to fail differently.

02WHAT FUTURA IS

A venture philanthropy fund.

Futura is a venture philanthropy fund for early-stage edtechs in Latin America.

It is not a grant. It is not traditional venture capital. It is not an accelerator. We invest patient capital, as equity or debt, in companies or in nonprofits with a sustainability logic, and returns are recycled into the fund to back the next founders. We build alongside, up close, from day one on.

We treat ourselves as an experiment: more questions than certainties, strong hypotheses, and our own way of testing them.

03HOW WE THINK

In the opposite direction.

We know what has not worked. These are the choices we make in the opposite direction.

Founders

We start with the relationship between the person and the problem: people who have taught, run school systems, worked within government or implemented on the ground. Product and market come after.

Capital

Small checks that grow in stages, testing one thing at a time: is the problem real? will someone pay? does it scale? Capital follows uncertainty, with no rush to become a unicorn.

Impact

Impact is an investment condition from the first conversation, measured by the Futura Impact Score (FIS), our 0 to 100 scale for depth, reach, equity and evidence. Screen time does not enter that math.

Co-building

We invest up close. Three hands-on partners and a network of specialists from day one, close enough to help for real, without taking over the founder's trench.

Structural problems

Teacher development, school management, assessment, learning recovery. Problems that, once solved, move learning, equity and mobility. Gadgets and comfortable niches stay out.

04WHO WE ARE

A fund formed by proven builders in education.

Education, technology, investment and impact at the same table.

Tamires Vilela

Founder & managing partner

Executive with a track record in scaling education businesses. Former director at Arco Educação, Fundação Lemann alumna, MBA from MIT Sloan. Spent years close to the gap between what solutions promise and what schools live.

Thiago Rached

Partner

Entrepreneur and former Monashees investor. Co-founded Letrus, a benchmark edtech with proven impact and public sector partnerships. Holds a master's in Education from Columbia University and moves between market logic and education policy.

Guilherme Silveira

Partner

Co-founder of Alura, one of Brazil's largest edtechs, and a pioneer in AI applied to education. Has spent twenty years building and teaching technology at scale. He combines a builder's technical eye with the experience of a founder.

05BUILD

Become a Futura founder

Everyone wants to change education. Our bar asks for more: knowing a problem in depth, carrying the muscle to build, and being open to building alongside us, up close. Nobody has certainty about the solution at this stage, and we are a little suspicious of those who do. If you recognize yourself here, we want to hear from you.

06INVEST

I want to invest

Futura's capital comes from people looking for demonstrated impact in education, willing to work on a clock the market usually does not have. If this architecture makes sense to you, leave your contact and we will set up a conversation.

Futura Fund is a venture philanthropy fund based in São Paulo. It invests in equity or debt in early-stage edtechs and organizations in Latin America. It was founded by Tamires Vilela, Thiago Rached and Guilherme Silveira. We are still under construction, with more questions than certainties.