Top 50 Angel Investors in Mexico in November 2024

Investor	Mexico investments
Ricardo Weder	12
Manolo Atala	11
JP Duque	8
Edward Lando	8
Jon Oringer	6
Jon Oringer	6
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	6
Sebastian Mejia	5
Travis Foxhall	5
Justin Mateen	5
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	5
Brad Flora	5
Brian Requarth	5
Guilherme Bonifacio	4
Alan Rutledge	4
David Vélez	4
Martin Schrimpff	4
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	4
Carlos Julio Garcia	4
Kevin Efrusy	4
Luis X. Barrios	3
David Geisen	3
Roger Laughlin	3
Jon Oringer	3
Nate Matherson	3
Güimar Vaca Sittic	3
Patrick Spaulding Ryan	3
David Geisen	3
Federico Ranero	3
Wes Schwalje	3
Jonathan Wasserstrum	3
Chris Thomas	3
Ariel Poler	3
Orbelin Pineda	2
Nigel Eccles	2
Brendan Dickinson	2
Eric Rea	2
Daniel Vogel	2
Avichal Garg	2
David Shim	2
Jared Schrieber	2
Sujay Tyle	2
Hagop Hagopian	2
Laks Srini	2
Alexis Patjane	2
Alejandro Galvez	2
Michael Kleindl	2
Kevin Carter	2
Oso Trava	2
Rafael Baca	2

Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Chile, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.

Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce

Travis Foxhall runs the finance function at Clara, the leading corporate credit card and spend management solution for Latin America. Before joining Clara, he was an early-stage investor with Point72 Ventures and Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis was also Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digital bankin Brazil, where he worked for the CEO on special projects. He began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorganChase and Thomson Reuters. Travis is also an active angel investor, with a focus on seed-stage opportunities in the United States and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Banking, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 techentrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Colombia, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zinobe — Zinobe has operated in Colombia since 2012 and develops online financial products for the consumer and small business sectors. The company is focused on using technology to provide the highest level of customer experience and has developed a data centric credit model to help target underserved markets in Colombia. Zinobe is backed by firms such asQED Investors, a U.S. based venture capital firm specializing in disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.zinobe.com, www.lineru.com.
Atrato — Atrato is a leading buy now pay later company for omnichannel merchants in Mexico
Grin Scooters — Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak

Investment focus

Real Estate, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Luis X Barrios is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of ArkAngeles.co. He also founded TheArkFund in 2016 and is one of the founders of The Pool in 2013.

Investment focus

Apps, Photography, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
InstaFit — INSTAFIT is an online fitness startup based in Mexico City and co-founded by international entrepreneurs Oswaldo Trava and Natalia Amaya. We make it exciting to work out from home by offering on-demand audio & video fitness classes that combine the guidance of a professional trainer, intelligent programming and fun social interactions to createa truly engaging experience for our users.We make it possible to get professional fitness training from top coaches without leaving your home for less than half the price of the cheapest gym. We produce awesome long format workouts led by the world’s best trainers from yoga to functional training to treadmill workouts, with new content published every week and available offline for unparalleled flexibilityThe InstaFit app was launched in late 2016 and has paying users in 37 countries. It has a 4.4 star rating, is the #1 ranked health and fitness app in 15 countries, and was selected as best of 2016 by Apple. The company attacks the region´s most important health issue, obesity, through the use of world class technology, creative marketing and lean startup practices in an internet market with a 5 year CAGR of over 30%.
The Pool - Entrepreneurship Club — The Pool is an entrepreneurial environment that provides its clients with coworking spaces. It serves as a business center as well as providing coworking spaces and offices for startups and companies in growth potential. The Pool was founded in 2013 by Luis X. Barrios and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

David leads as VP Marketplace the country operation of Mercado Libre Mexico, the largest e-commerce and fintech company in Latin America and Mexico. Besides his role at Mercado Libre, David is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in various tech companies in Europe, Latin America and the US. With his ample experience in e-commerce and scalingup businesses, he also serves as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs both nationally and internationally. David co-founded and led the Mexican E-Commerce Chamber (AMVO) and initiated the largest Mexican annual online sales event: Hot Sale. Currently, he is actively involved as a member of the association’s supervisory board, representing the interests of 400+ e-tailers in Mexico. Before initiating AMVO, David co-founded and was the CEO of two Mexican e-commerce Startups, clickOnero and Dafiti. David started his career at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division in London. Prior to joining Mercado Libre, he developed the omnichannel strategy for Europe’s largest consumer electronics retailer, Media Markt, for the Iberian market (Spain & Portugal). David invests as Limited Partner in VC funds in the US, Europe and Mexico. He also participates as an investment committee member at two venture capital funds: Latin Leap and Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund II.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dawa — Dawa is a company that provides reverse logistics. They help to improve the returns journey by increasing the LTV, which aids in customer retention and treasury forecasting.
Agrizon — Agrizon mission is to become the global leader e-platform in Agribusiness, as a AgTech digital company, focus on food sustainability, connecting farmers with their favorite Ag brands. Agrizon.com empower merchants to grow their businesses by offering on-demand delivery, providing delightful experiences from door to door, by building the last-miledelivery in agribusiness, we are bringing communities closer, to farmers.
Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.

Roger Laughlin - Founder & COO @ Kavak

Investment focus

Banking, Payments, Real Estate
Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Tani Salud — Tani Salud is a platform that provides quality care and transparent surgery prices for the middle class in Latin America. The company is based in Mexico City.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Unify AI — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
DryMerge — DryMerge lets you connect your apps and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. Try for free today and save hours of time with 30 seconds.
ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

rintin — rintin is a B2B marketplace that connects small independent retailers with curated emerging brands.
Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!

David leads as VP Marketplace the country operation of Mercado Libre Mexico, the largest e-commerce and fintech company in Latin America and Mexico. Besides his role at Mercado Libre, David is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in various tech companies in Europe, Latin America and the US. With his ample experience in e-commerce and scalingup businesses, he also serves as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs both nationally and internationally. David co-founded and led the Mexican E-Commerce Chamber (AMVO) and initiated the largest Mexican annual online sales event: Hot Sale. Currently, he is actively involved as a member of the association’s supervisory board, representing the interests of 400+ e-tailers in Mexico. Before initiating AMVO, David co-founded and was the CEO of two Mexican e-commerce Startups, clickOnero and Dafiti. David started his career at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division in London. Prior to joining Mercado Libre, he developed the omnichannel strategy for Europe’s largest consumer electronics retailer, Media Markt, for the Iberian market (Spain & Portugal). David invests as Limited Partner in VC funds in the US, Europe and Mexico. He also participates as an investment committee member at two venture capital funds: Latin Leap and Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund II.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dawa — Dawa is a company that provides reverse logistics. They help to improve the returns journey by increasing the LTV, which aids in customer retention and treasury forecasting.
Agrizon — Agrizon mission is to become the global leader e-platform in Agribusiness, as a AgTech digital company, focus on food sustainability, connecting farmers with their favorite Ag brands. Agrizon.com empower merchants to grow their businesses by offering on-demand delivery, providing delightful experiences from door to door, by building the last-miledelivery in agribusiness, we are bringing communities closer, to farmers.
Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.

Federico Ranero COO at Kavak

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Rental
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Hola Cash — Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience.

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Property Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

WATS — WATS is a digital platform for business waste management to enable cost savings and emissions reductions through operational efficiency.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Chris Thomas is a co-founder and partner of Assembly Ventures.Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Previous to this, Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While atFontinalis he served as a Board Member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a Board Observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis Chris served in the U.S. Army as a Communications Officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an Investment Banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a Senior Advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a Co-Owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously advised a number of mobility startups around the globe; served as the Chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States; and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems. Chris earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Economics and International Relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the City of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Automotive
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Kall Morris Inc — Kall Morris Inc orbital debris research and development, consulting experts.
Buddy's Pizza — Buddy's Pizza is a widely recognized as the originator of detroit-style pizza.

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Reloadly — Reloadly makes it easy for developers to connect with Mobile operator services. We are disrupting a Trillion dollar industry! Mobile Operators are stuck in old school business models, where most of the world is moving to open source platforms for developers to build amazing products. Reloadly is bridging the gap between mobile operators anddevelopers, and at the same time creating new sales channels for the 816 mobile operators around the world.
Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!

Professional soccer player. Part of the Mexican National Team.

Investment focus

Video, Soccer, Sports
Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.

Nigel Eccles, CEO and co-founder of Flick, an esports/gaming focused screen share application. Previously Nigel was the CEO and co-founder of FanDuel a fantasy sports application.

Investment focus

Sports, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.
CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
StarStock — StarStock is a marketplace for sports fans and card hobbyists to buy, sell, and invest in their favorite athletes.

Brendan Dickinson is a General Partner at Canaan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Marvin. — marvin. is a company that facilitate the credit and payment flow between suppliers and retailers.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Eric Rea is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Podium.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, FinTech, Productivity Tools
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
Zonos — Zonos, decoding cross border by simplifying international e-commerce, landed cost and shipping with duty and tax software, apps, plugins and APIs. Zonos provides merchants with the tools to create the perfect international shopping experience for global customers.
OneSchema — Empower your data migration team in onboarding customers quickly and effectively. OneSchema's data cleansing and collaboration tools will help your team scale.

Daniel holds two degrees from Stanford (BA in Economics, BS in Computer Systems Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously he built Quantcast's Real Time Bidding system, which became the company's main revenue-generating product-line.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

REWORTH — En Reworth conectamos a instituciones financieras y comercios para ofrecer a los consumidores el programa de cashback personalizado mas efectivo.
Nowports — Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real time.The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows to request a quote, register the products andproviders that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.
Wemerang — Wemerang is a creator economy designed to help everyday heroes who like to lead their own grassroots actions to help the planet, people, and animals mobilize and monetize.Wemerang helps you: easily create, co-create, join, share & complete your own challenges and workshops, find and mobilize fellow everyday heroes to help, earn points,visibility, status and recognition, receive donations/subscriptions from friends, fans, and supporters, charge entry fees to your challenges/workshops, get sponsored by brands.

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.

As CEO of Foursquare, David Shim is responsible for driving the company mission and vision as the world's most trusted and independent location technology platform.David joined Foursquare in June 2019 as president of the company. Prior to joining Foursquare, David was the Founder and CEO of Placed, the leader in ad to in-store attribution.Founded in 2011, Placed worked with 430+ partners enabling over 500 advertisers to measure media's impact on store visits. Placed was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 and Foursquare in 2019.David has also held leadership roles across product and operations at Farecast (acquired by Microsoft), WebTrends, Quantcast, and Snapchat.

Investment focus

Brand Marketing, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

MikMak — MikMak provides eCommerce marketing analytics and eCommerce enablement software to accelerate online sales for brands.
Hola Cash — Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience.
SparkPlug — Award-winning platform specializing in sales gamification for retailers, brands, and restaurants.

Jared Schrieber - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Numerator

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Hospitality
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Hungary, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Ramani — Ramani is an application for salespeople to track their inventory, register their customers and record their sales transactions.
Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
Giggle — Giggle is an hourly workforce marketplace serving the flexible needs of the modern labour market. Via instant matchmaking technology, quality assurance system and staffing support, Giggle eases the full staffing, recruiting and employment lifecycle of low skilled workers. The instant and short term matchmaking process provides better schedulingand budgeting opportunities for students, gig workers and employees alike.The company primarily serves hospitality, logistics and retail businesses facing post-covid workforce problems, bridging the demand between rigid operating hours and flexible individual needs.Founded in 2022 in Budapest, Giggle is currently seeking partners, investors and talent to scale across various European markets.

Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

Growth Marketing Expert 10+ Years, Founder & Entrepreneur, & Angel Investor

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Credit
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Arda — Bridging DeFi & TradFi
GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).

Laks Srini is the Co-founder and CTO at Zerodown.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Software, SEO
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Runa — Runa is a human resources software solution designed for small to medium-sized companies. It offers a cloud-based software solution to change the way they pay payroll and human resources management. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Polanco, Mexico.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Powder — AI Agents for precise document analysis

Alexis Patjane is a Co Founder/CEO at 99minutos.com. He attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Spot2 — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.
Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.

Angel investor

Investment focus

B2B, Banking, Payments
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Heru — Heru builds the community of gig-economy workers and has a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.Heru was founded in 2019 by MateoJaramillo and Stiven Rodriguez Sanchez and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Vivanta — The API to access digital biomarkers

Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Reservamos — We are a multi-modal booking engine for travel based in Mexico. We cover over 90,000 routes and 3700 destinations. Reservamos is the best way to compare and book buses, flights, and ride sharing options anywhere in Mexico + US with one search.
Mediasmart — mediasmart Mobile is the first Spanish company focusing on the real time optimization of mobile advertising (both on smartphones and tablets) using its proprietary technology platform.mediasmart Mobile was one of the first movers into the mobile programmatic ecosystem, having launched in Jan 2012. It gives access to global mobile inventory -both in mobile apps and web - from more than twenty seven ad exchanges/SSPs, and it has successfully proven throughout the years that its algorithms can effectively manage big data to deliver results. A proven and scalable technology, currently handling more than 800,000 ad requests per second, mediasmart can be used directly by clients on a self-serve basis or via APIs, and it handles both RTB and programmatic direct buys.Mediasmart has offices in Madrid, London and Paris.
Giant Swarm — Implement and manage your Kubernetes infrastructure with Giant Swarm. We will guide you along the Kubernetes learning curve. Get your containers in production.

Kevin Carter is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined the firm upon launch in 2009. At SV Angel, Kevin originated investments in Snapchat, Pinterest, and GroupMe (acquired by Skype), and works particularly close with Sunrise, Inbox, FlightCar, FarmLogs and Optimizely. He was included in Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 in 2012 and 2013. Heis also on the Engineering Advisory Board at Santa Clara University (EAB). Prior to SV Angel, he worked in the Private Equity Group at Silicon Valley Bank. At SVB he was a part of the Entrepreneur Services and Venture Capital Relationship Management Groups and helped with diligence and cross platform relationship efforts. Before SVB, Kevin worked at Affinity Circles, Inc. where he performed sales and client account management. Kevin graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Finance. While at SCU, he worked closely with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and was awarded "Outstanding Student Entrepreneur".

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?

Oso Trava

Investment focus

Apps, Audio, Credit
Seed, Series A
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.

Professional soccer player.

Investment focus

Video, Soccer, Sports
Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.