Welcome to Acumen

Dear Email,

Welcome and thank you for joining our community.

Twenty-one years ago, we had a daring idea: Deploy philanthropically-backed Patient Capital to solve problems of poverty. Since then, Acumen has:

Invested in early-stage entrepreneurs whose products and services transform the lives of lower-income communities

Built a pipeline of future leaders with the skills, determination, and moral imagination to challenge the status quo

Formed alliances to raise and deploy pools of later-stage capital that disrupts systems and builds markets at scale

We can solve the problems of poverty if we all work together with resilience, grit, and a hard-edged hope.

It’s all within our reach.

Welcome along,

The Acumen Team