Do you want to root your capital in Mexico in ways that generate long-term community wealth?
¿Quieres arraigar tu capital en México de formas que generen riqueza comunitaria de largo plazo?
Are you ready to share decision-making power with communities—investing alongside them, not just for them?
¿Estás listo/a para compartir el poder de decisión con las comunidades—invirtiendo junto a ellas, no solo para ellas?
Communities in Mexico are building economic self-determination through cooperative and regenerative models. Are you ready to invest in this emerging infrastructure?
Las comunidades en México están construyendo su autodeterminación económica a través de modelos cooperativos y regenerativos. ¿Estás listo/a para invertir en esta infraestructura emergente?
Offerings
Community of Action & Strategic Advisory
We facilitate a virtual community of action and practice where investors share experiences, navigate challenges, and collaborate on resource sharing in a space designed for collective learning. Additionally, we host advisory sessions to provide more tailored guidance to each community member.
Curated Learning &
Capacity-Building
We design and host a multi-national, bilingual investor learning network, offering curated learning experiences, in-person gatherings, and immersive site visits to meet community leaders and see regenerative projects firsthand.
Field Knowledge &
Resources
We provide custom landscape research and reports on regenerative, investable projects and organizations in Mexico, while working alongside licensed advisors for investment recommendations.
Who we are
Meet the Principals
abdiel j. lópez
Co-Founder & Co-Principal
abdiel is a community weaver and cultural curator exploring paths toward economic and cultural futures rooted in justice, regeneration, and collective care. They serve as Director of Capital Activation at Justice Funders, partnering with foundations to align investment portfolios with just transition values. abdiel is a queer person of Chatino ancestry who has helped build the solidarity economy ecosystem. Their current work focuses on building networks for just transition investing and cultural curation across the Americas.
Previous Affiliations: Justice Funders, Roanhorse Consulting, Purpose Foundation, Center for Cultural Innovation, University of Southern California
Ari Sahagún
Co-Founder & Co-Principal
Ari is a recovering member of the middle class looking for paths between here and post-capitalism. She is working on a book to cultivate a sense of togetherness in moving outside capitalism, through healing ourselves at the individual, group, and social level. Ari is a queer, chronically ill, white chicana who has helped organize people with wealth to move money toward Black- and Indigenous-led next economy projects. Their current work focuses on building and coaching networks for justice and economic reparations.
Previous Affiliations (select): Valiente Capital Design, Collective Mind, Climate Justice Alliance, Buen Vivir Fund, Regenerative Finance, Resource Generation
Why We’re the Team For You
With 25 years of collective experience organizing & researching networks for justice and economic reparations, co-founders abdiel and Ari live and work in Mexico City, where they are seeding a national investment infrastructure for the solidarity economy.
Collectively, we:
- Possess deep expertise in quantitative & qualitative research, capital activation, just transition investing, and movement building;
- Are bilingual and bicultural, with strong networks across the U.S. and Mexico; and
- Have a track record of partnering with foundations, high-net-worth families, and grassroots organizations.
Why now?
Impact investing is emerging in Mexico but remains limited and conventional.
- According to one survey from 2023 from The ImPact, only about $20 million in impact existed across surveyed high-net-worth families
- Most investments follow the “doing well by doing good” mantra, thus prioritizing strong financial returns over true systems change
- This approach perpetuates extraction rather than regeneration
The wealth gap is staggering.
- 36 in 100 Mexicans live in poverty (2024 OxFam Report)
- 14 UHNWI in Mexico collectively own $180 billion USD
It’s time for a new economy: one rooted in regeneration, seeded through divesting from our current extractive model.
What’s Missing:
- No visible models of radical reparative investing in Latin America rooted in solidarity economics,
- No peer networks or communities of practice centered on Just Transition principles,
- No established network of investable solidarity economy enterprises, and
- No sustained support for Millennials and Gen-Z inheritors with progressive values who seek alternatives and will eventually hold decision-making power among their families.
Horizonte Común was designed for this.
Let’s talk.
Ready?