Top 15 Angel Investors in Nicaragua in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in startups based in Nicaragua. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Nicaragua. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Angel Investors in Nicaragua in January 2026
| Investor | Nicaragua investments |
|---|---|
| Juan Pablo Tejela | 3 |
| Adrian Ferrero | 2 |
| Juan Carlos Celaya | 2 |
| Mathieu Carenzo | 2 |
| Ashwin Ramachandran | 1 |
| Sarah Meyohas | 1 |
| Neel Somani | 1 |
| Do Kwon | 1 |
| Jayendra Jog | 1 |
| Victor Juarez | 1 |
| Joe Morrissey | 1 |
| Andrej Karpathy | 1 |
| Chris Re | 1 |
| Alireza Masrour | 1 |
| Maghnus Mareneck | 1 |
Juan Pablo Tejela is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Metricool.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Hotel
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Spain, Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Kuikads — Kuikads enables businesses to create and distribute personalized marketing videos via API using user data across messaging.
- Mumbler — Launch your subscription podcast
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
Adrián Ferrero Fernandez is a dynamic person committed to his environment and society. He accumulate wide knowledge on innovation ecosystem, financial markets, business management and entrepeneurial skills.
He founded four start-ups (Biome Makers Inc., AC-Gen Reading Life S.L., InnoEconomy and PREVEMA Gestión Integrada).
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Design, Information Technology
- Seed
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
Juan Carlos Celaya is the CEO of Factoría Digital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Design, Information Technology
- Seed
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
I am a seasoned entrepreneur and dynamic Business Angel with current investments in scale-ups such as Glovo or Bizaway and promising start-ups such as Trioteca, Daysk, Vasquiat and many others. I keep a portfolio of 10/12 start-up investment at any given moment.I focus my investments in (but not limited to) SAAS and Marketplaces with B2B andB2B2C business model.I currently teach in the MBA and the GEMBA of IESE Business School and have extensive experience teaching programs in 3 different languages (English, Spanish and French) and 4 continents.
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Investment focus
- Funerals, Software, InsurTech
- Seed
- Spain, Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Funos — Rastreador de Funerarias. Comparador de precios de funerarias. 50% de descuento en las mejores funerarias. Te ayudamos en todo.
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- Liquid — Liquid is a decentralized trading platform that offers non-custodial crypto trading options.
- INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook
Sarah Meyohas
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence
- Series A
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Adept AI — Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.
Neel Somani is the founder of Eclipse.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- DFlow — The Trading API powering tens of billions in transacted value on Solana. For traders, applications, and financial institutions.
- Essential — Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.
- Stride Labs — A protocol for multichain liquid staking in the Cosmos ecosystem
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse — Treehouse is the decentralized fixed income layer, building yield solutions and unifying on-chain interest rates through its products, tAssets and DOR.
Jayendra Jog is the Co-Founder of Sei Labs. He previously worked at Robinhood as a Software Engineer. Jayendra Jog attended UCLA.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Mevvy Network — Mevvy Network enables seamless MEV on any chain, reducing the barrier of entry for searchers.
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
Victor Juarez is CEO at Mi Tienda de Arte.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Design, Information Technology
- Seed
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
Joe Morrissey is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Additionally, Joe Morrissey has had 6 past jobs including CRO at Segment.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Statsig — Statsig is your modern product development platform, with an integrated toolkit for experimentation, feature management, product analytics, session replays, and much more. Trusted by thousands of companies, from OpenAI to series A startups.
- Opal Security — Trusted by world-class companies, Opal enables companies to accelerate approval workflows, automate least privilege without custom code, and make SOC-2 a breeze!
- Adept AI — Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.
Andrej Karpathy was the Sr. Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot. He attended the University of Toronto and had his Master's degree at the University of British Columbia.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- /dev/agents — /dev/agents platform will work on new UI patterns that make it easier to build AI agents in a new cloud-based operating system.
- 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.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Chris Re
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, PaaS, Software
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- Eudia — Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform designed to enhance the efficiency of legal teams. The platform integrates artificial intelligence tools that streamline legal processes, enabling teams to transition from traditional bottlenecks to more productive business drivers. Eudia provides features such as document analysis, contract review,and workflow automation, which assist legal professionals in managing their workload effectively. By leveraging AI technology, Eudia supports legal teams in making informed decisions and improving overall operational efficiency.
- Artera — Discover the power of Personalized Precision Medicine & AI Cancer Therapy with Artera. Transforming cancer therapy through innovation.
- Mercor — Find top-tier, remote, AI roles for your expertise. Available only on Mercor.
Alireza is General Partner at Plug & Play Investment Arm a place where he led more than 100 investments for the firm since 2008.• Plug & Play representative and works closely with the management teams as advisor or investor
• Founding Partner of Plug and Play Startup Camp
Founding General Partner of PnP Scale Fund
. ““AlirezaMasrour is the General Partner at Plug & Play. He has led more than 200 investments out of thousands of startups for the firm since 2008. Some unicorn investments led by him at Plug and Play are CloudWalk (first check), Flyr ( first check) , FiscalNote (first check), Shippo (first check ) and Trulioo to new afew. Some of portfolio exits are HealthPocket which acquired by Health Insurance Innovations, Matcha which acquired by Apple, PasswordBox which acquired by McAfee/Intel, TrustGo which acquired by Baidu, GNS3 which was acquired by Solarwind, Kustomer (unicorn) which was acquired by Facebook, and TrueBill (Unicorn) acquired by RocketCo. Alireza has been selected as a Silicon Valley 40 under 40 in 2018 as well as recognized by BusinessInsider as a 100 rising-star VC who represent the future of venture capital, and has had 13 unicorns portfolio so far.
.Prior to Plug and Play, he was Founder and CEO at NekaTel, one of the largest Internet Airtime Distribution Networks, with over 800 retailers and millions of subscribers. Alireza grew NekaTel’s revenue from $0 to over $45M in less than 2 years. He was also Founder of VidaTel, offering mobile airtime distribution technology and sold the technology in 2007. He has prior Engineering and Management background. Alireza published “Crossing the Digital Divide: What’s Next” in Information Technologies and International Development Journal published by Harvard Business School for UN’s World Summit on the Information Society.”
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ashare — A seamless platform to attract and retain high-quality talent with benefits that really matter.
- Stride — Compiify is a compensation intelligence platform that helps businesses attract and retain employees by enabling them to make data-driven and equitable pay decisions.
- Mercurial AI Inc. — CarePilot is your 24/7 companion, offering personalized AI-powered health insights, symptom tracking, and information to empower you in your fight against cancer.
Maghnus Mareneck is the Co-Founder of Skip. He previously worked at Atlassian as an Associate Product Manager, Confluence Everywhere. Maghnus Mareneck attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nicaragua, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DFlow — The Trading API powering tens of billions in transacted value on Solana. For traders, applications, and financial institutions.
- ego.tech — Ego is a protocol that seeks to transform personal data found on the Internet into a financial asset.
- Agent — Agent can assist users in navigating DeFi's complexities more efficiently and flexibly, by offering easy creation and management of multiple sub-accounts.
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