IGNIA is an impact investing venture capital firm based in Monterrey, Mexico that supports the founding and expansion of high growth social enterprises that serve the base of the socio-economic pyramid in Latin America. By providing effective responses to the enormously underserved needs of low income populations in high-impact activities, both as consumers as well as productive agents in value-added supply chains, IGNIA empowers entrepreneurship and generates social impact while creating attractive financial returns for its investors.

IGNIA’s founders, Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui and Michael Chu, are pioneers in the fields of microfinance and impact investing. Both bring over 50 years of collective experience in the application of market-based solutions to the constraints limiting the potential of the underserved majority of the population.  Similarly, IGNIA's GP's are leaders and pioneers of financial inclusion and socially oriented business practices in Mexico and Latin America.

The Fund's LP's include the Omidyar Network, The Soros Economic Development Fund, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and J.P. Morgan among others.