Altura is a market maker for industrial capability
Suppliers of all types and sizes spend 12-18 months and hard dollars trying to win one U.S. contract. Buyers spend months finding, qualifying, procuring these same suppliers. Both costs are real and get priced into the invoice. We envision a better way.
Bring a requirementAlmost twenty years working as an industrial buyer and seller
I have been CEO, COO and enterprise buyer inside B2B industrial companies. I built a chemical company in Houston and sold it. I founded and grew an enterprise SaaS from an idea to a globally recognized platform. I have worked across 200+ Shell facilities in fifteen countries. I have been the one trying to win the contract, and the one trying to award it.
Altura solves the challenge I had across all these roles.
Teo Gutierrez · Founder, Altura Holdings
Costs keep rising because both sides are paying to find each other.
You spend eighteen months from first need to award, and the vendor is usually chosen by month six. A supplier spends twelve to eighteen months and hard dollars to win one contract, and most never do. Both searches are real. Both get priced into your final number.
Think about the last supplier you qualified. Count the months.
We provide a scoped, priced and qualified list before you had to go looking.
We use AI to connect, not to replace.
Nothing is wrong with the industrial market’s products or the people designing and installing them. An aerospace part and a mud motor are still configured, specified, built and commissioned by people, and none of that is going anywhere. What needs fixing is the process in the middle: asking your best engineers to trade the work only they can do for demos and procurement paperwork.
So we’re rebuilding the buying process, not the building process.
We only source from the Americas.
The internet made globalization real and international trade cheap. AI is now making the work itself cheap. What is left is what cannot be generated: a real shop, a real crew, and someone who answers when you call. The best people, tools and natural resources already exist in this hemisphere, and the closer they are, the easier they are to verify.
Houston to Medellín. One working day, two languages.
We are market makers. Market makers take positions.
If you have a technology or a service that is more impactful than your resources can deliver, we should talk. Altura takes positions in a small number of companies building what industrial markets will run on, and we usually become a customer before we become an investor.
Learn about Altura’s newest portfolio company, Lexfi.ai.
Interested in our investment thesis? Email teo@alturaholdings.co.
