Deetken Impact
Alternative Finance
You’ve got Big Goals for your business.
We are here to help you achieve them.
Deetken Impact Alternative Finance (DIAF) is a joint venture between Deetken Impact and Adobe Capital*. Together, we provide tailored financing for impact-focused businesses in Latin America. We offer a flexible alternative to traditional equity or debt instruments by designing financing solutions that are founder-friendly and aim to support long-term, sustainable growth. We focus on profitable growth-stage enterprises with proven creative business models designed to address the most pressing social and environmental priorities of the region.
We support exceptional impact-driven entrepreneurs who create innovative, profitable and scalable business models to address our most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Our Focus
We aspire to create long-lasting positive changes in the lives of thousands of people across Latin America and help solve important social and environmental issues.
Latin America has been one of the hardest-hit regions by the pandemic. Although many social and environmental challenges can be solved through profitable, market-based solutions, the region’s SMEs face significant constraints in terms of access to financing. These constraints have been further exacerbated by the pandemic, making the region’s economic recovery even more elusive.
We are here to help.
Our Strategy
We work with impact-driven entrepreneurs to provide tailored debt financing structures from subordinated loans to revenue-based financing that can effectively support their long-term growth strategies.
To this end, we provide flexible financing structures to help catalyze innovative social and environmental solutions. We foster success stories that demonstrate that impact investing is a viable and proftable alternative to transform society in a long-lasting and positive manner.
We believe that for-profit business models can provide underserved communities with basic services and help solve pressing environmental issues. Companies developing these innovative approaches are frequently more flexible than larger companies. As a result, they can act as agents of change by developing sustainable, market-based solutions, and act as local engines of economic growth.
Fund I
Mexico’s first triple bottom line impact investment fund
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Rural & Low-Income Housing
The opportunity to build a decent home
SME Financing
Strengthening businesses through financial inclusion
Student Loans
Financing the dream of future leaders
Low-Income Eye Clinics
Giving back sight to Mexico
Circular Economy
Giving people the opportunity to do more
Alternative Energy
Promoting the use of alternative fuel to the reduce CO2 emissions
Urban Mobility
Sustainable mobility for the city
Fund II
Regional impact investment fund with an innovative royalty-based financing approach
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Student Loans
Financing the dream of future leaders
SME Financing
Strengthening businesses through financial inclusion
Renewable Energy
Scaling clean power generation thruogh community collaboration
Circular Economy
Giving people the opportunity to do more
Fund III
Ilu Women’s Empowerment Fund
Gender-lens impact fund to empower women and advance gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Investments Completed
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Financial Inclusion
Social Entrepreneurship
Renewable Energy
Learn more about the Ilu Women's Empowerment Fund here
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Impact at a Glance
We have developed our own customized impact management framework based on the Impact Management Project that identifies five dimensions of impact performance: what, who, how much, contribution and risk. As part of our due diligence process, we evaluate the impact of potential investments through a scoring methodology, which allows us to understand the companies’ impact in a clear, detailed and objective way. Through this assessment we can examine in detail not only the current impact merits as well as the impact potential of any impact-driven company. Additionally, we use this methodology to measure and report our Portfolio Companies’ impact on an annual basis.
As part of our monitoring process, we measure the impact of our investments in alignment with the following United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals:
To date, our investments have made the following impacts
25,212 people accessed education programs
134,013 low-income beneficiaries
57,319 tons of CO2 saved
167,419 people received heath treatments
20,188 female beneficiaries
79,236 microentrepreneurs or SME's supported
13,658 individuals received student loans
Spotlight On Our Impact
IPETH
IPETH is a post-secondary educational institution operating in Mexico and Guatemala focused on providing affordable degrees in Physical Therapy for low and middle-income students. Additionally, it reduces the deficit of well-trained physiotherapists and offers on-campus, subsidized rehabilitation services for patients who would otherwise not be able to afford treatment.
Impact
IPETH has increased access to higher education in a highly demanded and well-paid field, offering lower middle-income students the opportunity to develop professional skills while at the same time, providing services to low-income patients. Gender impacts are also significant, in terms of the diversity of their team and management as well as the high percentage of students who are women.
The company has generated the following impact in the past three years:
- 14,587 students enrolled
- 59.5% of those students are female students
- 58% of those students are low-income students
- 18,281 patients have completed treatment
- 17,052 low-income patients have been treated
Provive
Provive provides low-income homebuyers with affordable homes, while renovating crime-ridden and deteriorated communities. They have devised an innovative urban regeneration program that promotes community participation and increases each residents’ overall standard of living.
They purchase and refurbish previously abandoned homes and work with the local community through its Tu+Yo Foundation to catalyze comprehensive community development solutions.
Impact
ProVive has given access to thousands of Mexican families to a decent, affordable home in a healthy community and a desirable urban location no more than 20 km away from formal job opportunities and ready access to public transportation.
They have created the following impact:
- 8,300 homes refurbished
- 36,500 individuals housed
- 5 community centers built
- More than 100,000 volunteers
- More than 470,000 volunteering hours
Provive
Provive provides low-income homebuyers with affordable homes, while renovating crime-ridden and deteriorated communities. They have devised an innovative urban regeneration program that promotes community participation and increases each residents’ overall standard of living.
They purchase and refurbish previously abandoned homes and work with the local community through its Tu+Yo Foundation to catalyze comprehensive community development solutions.
Habvita
Habvita is a social enterprise that builds, finances and sells affordable rural homes in Mexico. Based on a community organization model, the company can build several homes simultaneously, lowering material costs and generating economies of scale. Habvita also helps customers secure government subsidies and obtain mortgages, allowing them to pay off their homes within a reasonable amount of time.
Impact
The company has a strong social mandate to improve the quality of lives of under-served communities through affordable, dignified and environmentally friendly housing while also improving access to credit to rural populations. They plan to increase their impact by adapting their product and services to the needs of women clients.
They have generated the following impacts in the past three years:
- 1,136 houses built
- 321 houses refurbished
- 5,800 individuals benefited by houses built or refurbished
SalaUno
SalaUno offers affordable high-quality comprehensive eye care services for low and middle-income patients in Mexico. They focus on underserved geographies where there are no alternatives. The demographic mix of patients that the company serves includes a fairly significant proportion of low-income patients that receive free or subsidized treatments.
Impact
They achieve impact through preventing and reversing blindness, as well as removing the geographic, informational and financial barriers to eye care treatment in Mexico. There is a strong and growing need for SalaUno’s services due to the aging population and high incidence of diabetes, as well as the low rate of cataract operations in the country.
The company has achieved the following impact in the past three years:
- 19,747 cataract surgeries performed
- 79,636 treatments performed
- 5,299 legally blind people operated
- 2,160 subsidized or free surgeries performed
SalaUno
SalaUno offers affordable high-quality comprehensive eye care services for low and middle-income patients in Mexico. They focus on underserved geographies where there are no alternatives. The demographic mix of patients that the company serves includes a fairly significant proportion of low-income patients that receive free or subsidized treatments.
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*Deetken Impact, a Canadian Investment Fund Manager registered with Canadian Securities Commissions, holds a 49.9% equity stake in Adobe Capital, a Mexican investment fund manager. Fund I and Fund II are managed by Adobe Capital. The Ilu Fund is managed by Deetken Impact.
