Top 5 Angel Investors in Ecuador (October 2026)

Eduardo Castro-Wright is a private investor. He was the former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and president and CEO of Global e-Commerce and Global Sourcing. Prior to this, Eduardo was president and CEO of Walmart U.S., where he led the transformation of stores, improvements in the customer experience, and the development of a strongleadership team. Before joining Walmart, Eduardo was president and CEO of Honeywell Transportation and Power Systems Worldwide and prior to that he was President and CEO of Nabisco Asia-Pacific. He holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Mexico, Ecuador

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $400k–$5.3M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

COR — COR is the management platform for agencies and consultancies. Automate time tracking, visualize profitability in real time, and scale with AI.
Instaleap LLC — A B2B SaaS platform for supermarkets and grocery retailers to centralize eCommerce, marketplaces, fulfillment, picking and delivery operations.
Home Delivery Service (HDS Global) — We’re on a mission to transform eCommerce – end-to-end – starting with fresh groceries and other home essentials. Powered by the latest in AI and advanced robotics, our patented automated fulfillment system, RoboFS, enables quick, touchless order fulfillment, bringing fresher-than-store goods, direct to your door. Our shopping experience isalso built around each customer’s dietary needs, preferences, and brand favorites. Gone are the days of filtering and scrolling through irrelevant inventory. With HDS, you’ll only ever see products that match your exact criteria. HDS also offers: • Made-to-order meats and prepared foods, customized to your exact specs • Free home delivery with no subscription /delivery / service fees or tips • Tri-temperature-controlled vans, so frozen items arrive fully frozen • Retail-level customer service and easy at-home returns, right at your doorstep • Sustainable delivery totes, eliminating nearly all cardboard and plastic waste

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Co-founder & COO @ UMW Recordings Inc.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Foundries, Group Buying
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Ecuador

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

UMW Recordings Inc. — UMW Recordings Inc. is a music distribution and catalog services company based in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The company supports independent artists, record labels, managers and music businesses with digital music distribution, release management, metadata review, royalty reporting, catalog administration and platform support.UMW Recordings Inc. helpsmusic projects deliver releases to major digital platforms while maintaining better control over catalog data, rights information, reporting and operational requests. The company serves artists and labels that need a professional distribution structure, reliable support and long-term catalog management.Español: UMW Recordings Inc. es una empresa de distribución musical y servicios de catálogo con sede en Guayaquil, Ecuador. La compañía brinda apoyo a artistas independientes, sellos discográficos, managers y empresas musicales con distribución digital de música, gestión de lanzamientos, revisión de metadatos, informes de regalías, administración de catálogos y soporte para plataformas.UMW Recordings Inc. ayuda a los proyectos musicales a lanzar sus obras en las principales plataformas digitales, manteniendo un mayor control sobre los datos del catálogo, la información de derechos, los informes y las solicitudes operativas. La compañía ofrece sus servicios a artistas y sellos que necesitan una estructura de distribución profesional, soporte confiable y gestión de catálogos a largo plazo.

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Fernando Pontaza is a Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Invariantes Fund.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Ecuador, Guatemala

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.2M; Series A $3M–$50M; Series B $42M–$130M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Picker — On-demand delivery gateway.
Atom Computing — Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California.

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Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 203
Round size: Seed $685k–$5.8M; Series A $2.3M–$15M; Series B $3.7M–$55M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — OTPless is a software company that develops SaaS products which enables users to log into various platforms using WhatsApp. They have officially partnered with WhatsApp to make their product safe, reliable and efficient. They are a young and dynamic company looking to revolutionize logging in as we know it. OTPless is headquartered in Delhi,India and was founded in 2021.
Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.

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