why alter
Pockets of extreme poverty generate global instability and must be fixed. They suck up traditional aid like black holes, and engage our military in an endless game of whack-a-mole.
What these places need are jobs… and lots of them. Alter, born out of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, aims to bring Silicon Valley’s style of high-growth entrepreneurship to the broken parts of the world that need it most.
Alter is on a mission to scale the best ventures in the world’s toughest places
Our Partners
“High Impact Entrepreneurs are the globe’s change agents, and Alter excels at finding and supporting them in the frontier countries that need change the most.”
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