About Co_

There is a particular kind of infrastructure that a region depends on but rarely sees: the connective tissue between those trying to change something and the capital, knowledge, and community that makes change possible. CO_, operating as Co_Plataforma, has spent more than a decade building that tissue across Mexico and Latin America.

Founded in 2012, CO_ describes itself as a steward-owned global systemic investing collective working at the nexus of climate change and poverty. That phrase is worth sitting with. Steward-owned means the organisation holds itself accountable not to shareholders seeking extraction but to a purpose: co-creating an economic model that, in their own words, embodies "the interdependence of earth and human systems and helps us shift from an ego-centric to an eco-centric economy."

The work is less about any single intervention than about designing the conditions under which many interventions can take root. CO_ incubates and supports organisations across the impact ecosystem, accelerators, media platforms, B Corp certifiers, investment vehicles, early childhood education providers, that collectively reach around 300 entrepreneurs a year, with more than 5,000 impact enterprises supported across their portfolio over time and 200,000 direct beneficiaries receiving better products and services. These are not abstract figures: they map to real organisations working in healthcare, education, green business, and workforce development across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and beyond.

The platform layer of CO_'s work is where the systemic ambition becomes clearest. Using collective intelligence methods, the team convenes multi-stakeholder platforms where leaders from different sectors can find common ground in strategy and complementarity in service, less a conference, more a practice of ongoing coordination. Beneath that sits rigorous systems research: mapping leverage points, tracing transition pathways, and informing what CO_ calls a hybrid capital stack, a flexible mix of long-term credit, catalytic instruments, and patient capital designed around the actual needs of the ventures it backs rather than the preferences of conventional investors.

The portfolio organisations named on the site range from Makesense, which has engaged more than 200,000 citizens in social and environmental action across seven countries, to aeioTU, which offers an educational model for children from zero to five years old in underserved communities. Each carries a different function; together they form something closer to an ecosystem than a programme list.

What CO_ is ultimately offering, to entrepreneurs, to mission-driven capital holders, and to readers drawn to this work, is belonging inside a long project. Not a transaction, not a pitch round, but a collective effort to rewrite the story of what an economy is for. The invitation is open to those who share the conviction that the separation from nature and community the current economy was built on is not inevitable, and that different conditions are possible to build.