Luis Olave

Luis Olave
Occupation	Entrepreneur, CEO
Known for	Co-founder and CEO of Altur

Luis Olave is a Mexican entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Altur, a company that develops voice artificial intelligence agents for debt collection and sales operations. Altur was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch.

Career

Olave co-founded Altur alongside Pedro Fernández, who serves as the company's chief technology officer. The company positions itself as a provider of AI-powered call center automation, marketing its product as a "human-less call center" capable of handling debt collection and sales operations entirely through AI agents.

Altur's platform encompasses several functions traditionally performed by human-staffed call centers. The system segments accounts based on their attributes and selects the optimal communication channel, timing, frequency, and tone to maximize contact and conversion rates. The company has developed a proprietary dialer described as optimized for debt collection and banking sales in Latin America, which the company claims is up to six times more effective than conventional approaches.

The company operates primarily in the Latin American market, with a focus on Mexico. Altur has been identified as the sole Mexican startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 cohort. Among its clients, the company lists several financial services and technology firms operating in the region, including Albo, R2 Capital, Compartamos, and others.

Altur was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch (S25), one of only two companies with Latin American founders in that cohort. The company is backed by Y Combinator, though specific funding amounts have not been publicly disclosed.