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Top 25 Angel Investors in Uruguay

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors that invest in startups based in Uruguay. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Uruguay. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Angel Investors in Uruguay

Investor	Uruguay investments
Marcos Vercelli-Forster	2
Sergio Oberlander	2
Paulo Piccini	2
Mariano Garcia-Valino	2
Diego Dzodan	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Maarten Van Horenbeeck	1
Federico Colella	1
Mario Sanchez	1
Mariano De Larrobla	1
Sergio Fogel	1
Atlas Benjelloun	1
Ariel Arrieta	1
Brad Flora	1
Diego Ponzio	1
Kobi Samboursky	1
Matt Fichtner	1
Sebastian Mejia	1
Arik Kleinstein	1
Andres Bilbao	1
Santiago Pinto Escalier	1
Gerhard Eschelbeck	1
Guido Grinbaum	1
Zohar Alon	1
Adam Hirsch	1

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Marcos Vercelli-Forster

Investment focus

Marketplace, B2B, Retail
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.

Sergio Oberlander

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Content
Seed, Pre-Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
befit — Our goal is to inspire people to have a healthier life&style. We understood we could do it democratizing access to quality workout content. We structured befit’s streaming on-demand platform with exclusive content classified across different categories such as yoga, pilates, functional, dancing, barre, and abs, among others. Sessions have beenrun by well-regarded Latin American trainers with users being able to narrow and filter workout sessions by intensity level, time duration, coach preference, and equipment needed. By offering a diverse set of workouts, users’ are able to personalize their exercise routines as they move towards their respective fitness goals.

Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Mariano Garcia-Valino

Investment focus

Medical, Hospital, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Axenya — Axenya is a digital health platform company.

Diego became CEO of Facily in October 2018, having been an early investor and Board Member since the company's startup. In his role, he is focused on delivering on Facily's mission of making the world more convenient while creating opportunities for everyone. Previously, as Vice-President for Facebook Latin America for more than threeyears, Diego led the team to a position of regional and global relevance. His other roles include President for Latin America and several country leadership positions at German software maker SAP. He was also co-founder and CEO of Certant, a Software Developer startup in Argentina. Diego holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated in Accounting at Universidad de Belgrano. He is a part-time teacher in Organisational Behaviour at Universidsd Torcuato DiTella.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.

Maarten Van Horenbeeck is the SVP, Chief Security Officer of Adobe. He previously worked at Zendesk as an SVP and Chief Trust Officer. Maarten Van attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Security, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
Seed
Israel, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

devOcean Security — devOcean Technology Ltd is a Vancouver Island-based oceanographic tech support company.
Eureka Security — Eureka is an Israeli startup offering holistic security across cloud data stores. The Eureka Cloud Data Security Posture Management platform enables security teams to successfully navigate the ongoing and often chaotic expansion and growth of cloud data.
Valence Security — Valence Security is the first Business Application Mesh security company focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity.

Owner & CEO, OCASA

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.

Senior Level Manager More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them. With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Android
Pre-Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions.  POP Material implementation.  Products expiring date.  Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.

Founder & President, Bantotal

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

Investment focus

Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Tuvis — Tuvis enables companies to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with business interactions over unofficial channels like WhatsApp and iMessage.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Argentina, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

dCustody — 2PI is a two sided transactional platforms that connects DeFi with Fintechs
GetGloby — GetGloby is an AI-powered platform that allows you to automatically localize your ads in minutes and manage all your translations effortlessly.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance is building a seamless global banking solution for Startups, beginning in LatAm. We help Startups bring funding into local operations with a better, cheaper and faster alternative.

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..
Wallets Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

Egresó como Contador Público en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadística de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (FCEyE – U.NR) en el año 2004. Completó su formación estudiando la Maestría en Finanzas en la misma universidad. También realizó el curso de Asesor Idóneo en Mercado de Capitales en la Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario. Se desarrollacomo asesor financiero y corporativo. Docente de grado y posgrado (U.N.R., U.A.I., U.T.N.). Conferencista y expositor en Universidades, Organizaciones, Cámaras, y en el Consejo Profesional de Ciencias Económicas de Santa Fé. Entre sus actividades profesionales más recientes se destacan las siguientes:Director de Diego Ponzio & Asociados. Consultor y Asesor de Empresas sobre Finanzas y Gestión Corporativa. Gerente de Administración y Finanzas en Grumaq SRL y Simach SRL. Director Asociado en Tu Cuota Online SA, Uruguay Síndico Societario en Atenas Ventilación SA Valuador de distintas empresas de la región Expositor y conferencista de temas de su especialidad. Docente de Finanzas en Universidades Públicas y Privadas. Tutor de Tesis en la Universidad Abierta Interamericana y la Universidad Austral. Experto PyME, a través del Ministerio de Producción de la República Argentina.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Personal Finance
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.

Kobi Samboursky is a Founder, Managing partner at Glilot Capital Partners.Kobi Samboursky, co-founder of Glilot Capital Partner established the VC on grounds of his vast and varied professional experience. He has held several high level positions in various companies and is a serial entrepreneur with experience founding, managing, andsuccessfully exiting his companies. Some of the companies in which he has ‘earned his stripes’ include: iWeb Technologies Ltd. (acquired by Softbank), Infogear Technology (Israel) Ltd. (acquired by Cisco), Lamda Communication Networks (Acquired by NICE Systems), and Menta Networks Ltd.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, SaaS
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

devOcean Security — devOcean Technology Ltd is a Vancouver Island-based oceanographic tech support company.
Sweet Security — Sweet is the first cloud runtime security suite. We help security teams focus on the cloud risks that matter, as they unfold.
Refine Intelligence — Improve Anti-Money Laundering Software performance with Refine. Reveal the human context behind transaction monitoring alerts and reduce false positives effectively.

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

Investment focus

Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.

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

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
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.

Arik is a co-founder and managing partner at Glilot Capital Partners. He has vast experience in the investment, financial and operational aspects of start-ups, including raising venture capital and turning companies public.Some of Arik’s past experience includes work at Jerusalem Global, a technology investment bank and venture capital firm, aswell as financial leadership positions with Bank Hamizrachi, ECTel, VideoCodes Inc. (acquired by Thomson), and Intercure. Arik served in an R&D unit of the IDF Intelligence Corps and has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Security, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

devOcean Security — devOcean Technology Ltd is a Vancouver Island-based oceanographic tech support company.
Entitle — Control access to your organizational cloud resources without creating bottlenecks or friction while creating a seamless experience for employees.
Cider Security — Dreaming about a world without application security vulnerabilities? Wake up to Cider Security's world-first AppSec operating system - learn more details here!

Andres Bilbao

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Santiago Pinto Escalier is the Coach - Strategic Advisor at Finanflix.

Investment focus

Geospatial
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Satellogic — Making Earth Observation imagery accessible and affordable to solve the world's most pressing problems

Gerhard Eschelbeck

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Software, Cloud Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

devOcean Security — devOcean Technology Ltd is a Vancouver Island-based oceanographic tech support company.
Sweet Security — Sweet is the first cloud runtime security suite. We help security teams focus on the cloud risks that matter, as they unfold.
Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)

Guido Grinbaum - Co Founder @ Zonacitas.com

Investment focus

Internet
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Block Academy — Internet Marketplace Platforms

Zohar Alon is the Chairman at Firefly Infrastructure-as-Code pioneers, Tamnoon Cloud Security and BlindSpot Security. Founded and led Dome9 Security to a successful exit to Check Point in 2018. He attended Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Consulting, Marine Technology
Seed, Series A
Israel, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

devOcean Security — devOcean Technology Ltd is a Vancouver Island-based oceanographic tech support company.
Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.

As a global leader in Information Security, I establish the vision, strategy, and solutions to protect information assets at high growth, global organizations. I have diverse business experience managing teams in Technology, Retail, Financial Services, and Professional Services industries.Ability to implement strategies necessary to respond tochanging business conditions and accommodate rapid growth. Energetic, flexible, and hands-on leader with a diverse background with 20+ years of experience in fast-paced environmentsI actively promote information security collaboration at the industry level by serving on the Board of Directors of the Retail & Hospitality ISAC. I also serve as an investment advisor to Glillot Capital while serving on their Board of Excellence.

Investment focus