Frontera Venture Partners is a pioneering platform
to advance industrial investment and productive transformation from and with the private sector in Peru and South America
Venture building, investing & scaling, with skin in the game
Ventures
Acting on identified opportunities to add value to local production through industrialization, building ventures in clear market gaps (e.g., Camu Camu value added elaborate products operation in Ucayali, Peru) and investing through equity and debt, with direct exposure and decision-making and operations involvement
Partnering with local champions (corporate leaders, emerging PE/VC ecosystems) to achieve industrialization ambitions through investment in local ventures and new venture building (e.g., spin-offs, complementary JVs
to achieve transfer of technology)
Leveraging global network and years of strategic pitches for growth projects to attract and coordinate global investment and market entrants from the frontier, channeling global capital to promising existing local ventures and new ventures
The Frontera Corridor
Our home base is Peru, sitting at the center of the expanding Pacific trade and investment space, with significant value-added product potential, unique megadiversity to lead in sustainable businesses, and a stable currency and investment environment despite political back and forths.
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From there, Frontera aims to play in industrial transformation opportunities across Bolivia, Chile and Argentina as well. This South American corridor, articulated by the almighty Andes range, endowed with the lion's share of world critical resources from copper and lithium through energy abundance to superfoods, can enter a significant business expansion phase, with an aligned market-supporting momentum in the political environment not seen in generations.
Manifesto
It's time to build
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We believe that real, productive businesses —opportunity-driven, well-designed, and well-run— are essential to prosperity. We believe in the power of businesses rooted in physical endowments. In adding value to local resources. In the engineer, the pioneer, the builder, the investor, the employer.
The digital economy is accelerating, even more so with Generative AI, but product and physical businesses remain a massive, underexploited growth avenue for South America. New trade routes, the global race for strategic resources, and the region’s unique positioning —from the world's largest carbon sinks, through Amazon and Andean superfoods, electric battery minerals and other critical materials, to massive energy abundance— create an opportunity space the world cannot ignore.
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We stand on the verge of a generational opportunity: a multi-aligned region in a reorganizing geo economic map, uniquely positioned to lead in sustainable businesses, endowed with what the world needs for the energy transition, supported by a sophisticated workforce, and increasingly connected to the frontier of global industrial technology.
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To crystalize this promise, industrial policy is necessary, but not sufficient. State actors can incentivize but cannot build and run every business. South America needs proactive, visionary private-sector leaders willing to leap beyond the borders of their current scope. And the region needs global technology leaders, investors and builders willing to bet on its potential —transferring know-how, building capability, and laying the groundwork for future innovation.
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At Frontera, we take this mission into our own hands
We are doers. We don’t pontificate. We partner to build, invest in, and support the growth of ventures that make a difference for productive transformation, from a realistic and pragmatic yet visionary vantage point forged on the ground.
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We work in the field. We learn, systematically, from direct exposure, not just research from a desk. But our vision incorporates the latest perspectives in industrial strategy, in direct connection with global experts and leaders on the frontlines. In this unique combination, we uncover overlooked opportunities for local and global actors alike. ​
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We partner ambitiously and effectively, with emerging entrepreneurs and large corporates, financing players and investors, multilaterals, global knowledge centers, world-class experts, and government actors to unlock gridlocks. ​
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We actively leverage the productive knowledge and technology frontier to build winning businesses in promising sectors and high-value products, advancing the regional advantage.
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We apply the discipline of invested capital relentlessly. We focus industrial development on opportunities that make real business sense, avoiding the misalignments and distortions of past import-substitution and state-led industrial policy experiments. ​​
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We make an impact where resources are, where communities yearn for investment and the chance to build prosperity through business.
We aim to lift the next generation of industrialists
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Will you build with us?
About
Leandro J. Urbano
Founder & CEO
Leandro is an industrial business strategy and economic development expert with a global career, on a mission to drive prosperity through private sector action. He moved to Peru in 2025 to explore and map the country's economic geography and investment opportunities. He witnessed the potential of Peru and neighboring resource-endowed, growingly pro-business countries (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia), and founded Frontera to put his global experience into action, catalyzing industrialization and prosperity through ventures and business action in Peru and South America.
Over 7 years and +30 strategic projects in Boston Consulting Group and as independent, Leandro advised companies and investors across industrial goods verticals (natural resources, forestry, advanced materials, green technologies, manufacturing, aerospace & defense, space, transportation & logistics, infrastructure), and governments in industrial ecosystems development, innovation and investment attraction, across Europe, the US, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
He is trained in industrial strategy and economic development at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government (MPA/ID), and business administration & finance at Esade Business School (BBA).
