• Altura Capital has pioneered a winning platform to drive social impact and investment returns by developing an ecosystem of entrepreneurs, executive operating partners, investors, advisors and corporations working together to provide the capital and expertise needed to grow companies in lower and middle income and diverse communities.
• We leverage our strong, longstanding relationships with corporate and government decision-makers to help the entrepreneurs and management teams leading our portfolio companies access supplier diversity and other business growth opportunities.
• Through this approach, Altura Capital, creates high quality jobs and opens the doors of opportunity and lasting progress in diverse communities.
Altura enjoys a unique, sustainable pipeline of investment opportunities not dependent upon an auction process. Through our platform, we often get a first look at high potential investments. Our standardized investment review process means we can examine many opportunities efficiently and select the companies we believe can be breakout winners in their marketplace with our support.
Control of transactions allows us to set or positively influence the terms for execution and bring in the right co-investors that are eager to participate in this proprietary recipe.
Our model facilitates numerous paths to grow our portfolio companies while
fulfilling our impact goals:
As a preferred partner to major organizations, our portfolio companies receive valuable, consistent exposure to strategic buyers. These relationships account for more than half of our successful portfolio exits.
As of Q4, 2020.
I frequently think about the legacy we will leave behind— how will we improve lives and our world? How will we lift communities, build and manage ourselves and learn to collaborate in effective, meaningful ways? That is why we created Altura back in 2005 as an impact investing firm. We firmly believed that Diversity and…
This is a session you don’t want to miss at the Merck Economic Inclusion Virtual Lab 2021. Join the conversation about Scaling with Capital with Altura Capital Management along with Partners Jay Garcia , Carlos Signoret and Judy Frodigh. The conference was held on November 3, 2021 but its available for a year (for free!…
29 OCTOBER THURSDAY 2:00PM ET 3:00PM Join Women Taking the Lead and the American Council of Life Insurers on Thursday, October 29th at 2pm ET to highlight Latinas leading in business and beyond. Hispanics are a powerful force in the business community. They are the fastest-growing segment of small business owners in the country — 75% of new businesses in this…
June 2, 2021 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET | 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. CT Virtual video event presented by all 12 District Banks of the Federal Reserve System The sixth installment of our virtual event series focuses on the impact of racism on entrepreneurs of color. The session will examine solutions that challenge persistent disparities…
The Aspen Institute and Prudential present a half-day Summit on the future of capitalism and impact investing. We’ll explore the ways in which impact investing has been a catalyst for change in capital markets, and where the field must go next to help drive greater financial security and more deeply shared prosperity in a rapidly changing…
Visit us on youtube and learn how we can transform our community and our country, through four key ingredients and capital architecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t88hG2rFDYI&feature=youtu.be
Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) have been a significant engine of new business creation in the US. They helped pull us out of the last recession. And now there is a subset of LOBs that are poised to lead in the next economic recovery, given the right support to weather the present storm and grow in the…
Altura Capital participates in the recently published book, Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship: A New National Economic Imperative, writing the chapter “The G.R.E.A.T. Gacela Theory.” Buy Book – Amazon
It is truly encouraging to see how, under the leadership of Administrator Jovita Carranza, the SBA is working directly with State Governors to offer low interest federal disaster loans for small businesses and non profit organizations, to help alleviate the economic injury caused by COVID-19. I think these loans can be a very valuable tool…
Thank you to SEO and its amazing leaders William Goodloe, Julian Johnson and Raina Singh and all the CIO’s (Chief Investment Officers) who joined the CIO Plenary Session at the 11th SEO Alternative Investment Conference this past March 4 in New York, for the honor and joy to moderate this powerful session.
When corporate board members sit down for a presentation, Monika Mantilla is rarely the person they expect to see. Knowing that hasn’t stopped her. “I’ve been told by board members of Fortune 50 companies, ‘You’re the first Latina to ever present to us in the investment arena,’” she says.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) proudly announces the appointment of three industry-leading entrepreneurs, Betty Manetta, President and CEO of Argent Associates and Asociar LLC; Monika Mantilla, President and CEO of Altura Capital and Managing Partner of Small Business Community Capital; and Rosa Santana, CEO and…
The Unites States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is leading the way to develop the partnerships and policies for the creation of the Capital Architecture our businesses need. I’m very grateful an excited for the opportunity to work with them in the dialogues and initiatives this Agenda entails.
New York, New York (September 23, 2010) – On September 29, 2010 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C, the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) will honor Altura Capital President and CEO Monika Mantilla as its Latino Leader with the prestigious Hispanic Heritage Award for Business.
New York, New York (July 22, 2010) – Monika Mantilla, President and CEO of Altura Capital, was honored with the New York City Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Robert Bard, President and CEO of Latina Style Magazine.
This special section is exclusively dedicated to one of the most significant and influential businesses globally: the business of managing, as fiduciaries, the financial assets of institutional investors. The total institutional investor market – commonly segmented into public pension funds, corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations and family offices – is estimated to be worth…
New York, NY – Altura Capital Group, a New York-based firm specialized in providing Institutional research and product solutions in the emerging manager category, has teamed up with a group of large institutional investors to develop a robust and comprehensive information, research and data platform with a networking component, that will bridge existing access to…
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