Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2024
Investor | Artificial intelligence LATAM investments |
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Bhavik Bajaj | 4 |
Carlos Rodriguez | 3 |
Wensceslao Casares | 2 |
Milton Seligman | 2 |
Pedro Mariani | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
Carlos Pacheco | 2 |
Justin Mateen | 2 |
Edward Lando | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 2 |
Hugo Barra | 2 |
Caio Maia | 2 |
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez | 2 |
Arash Ferdowsi | 1 |
William Hockey | 1 |
Gokul Rajaram | 1 |
Bob Goodman | 1 |
Leonardo Pedrozo Diaz | 1 |
Alan Rutledge | 1 |
Francisco Coronel | 1 |
MARCELO BARATELLA | 1 |
Henrique Dubugras | 1 |
Alexander Torrenegra | 1 |
Jason Calacanis | 1 |
Luciano Nicora | 1 |
Florian Otto | 1 |
Jeff Horing | 1 |
Juvenilton Bezerra | 1 |
Igor Cruz | 1 |
Javier Lopez | 1 |
Manuel Vila | 1 |
Jorge Shwartzman | 1 |
GT Family | 1 |
JP Duque | 1 |
Leonardo Borrero | 1 |
Esteban Sosnik | 1 |
Robert Stavis | 1 |
Brian Requarth | 1 |
Helio Waszyk | 1 |
Sam K. | 1 |
Ignacio Canals | 1 |
Tomás Peña | 1 |
Pedro Arnt | 1 |
José Augusto Schincariol | 1 |
Sean Behr | 1 |
Miguel Ángel Peña | 1 |
Juanjo Mostazo | 1 |
Geoffrey KALISH | 1 |
Leonardo Pedrozo | 1 |
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Carlos Rodriguez
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Chile, Denmark, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
- Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
- Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.
Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Chile, Brazil, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Tril — Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
- Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).
- Pago Rural —
Milton Seligman
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Grocery, Big Data
- Seed, Series D
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
- Liv Up — Liv Up is a direct to consumer food brand and online grocery store based in Brazil.The company puts together tasteful, natural, and convenient meals and groceries through top notch tech, customer obsession and constant innovation. By using only natural ingredients and partnering with local producers to source only the freshest, their chefs areable to produce naturally healthy and tasteful meals. By using high-end tech and constantly optimizing the processes, the company is able to deliver them broadly and at a good value per money across the biggest metropolitan areas in Brazil.
Pedro Mariani
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Government
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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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.
Angel Investor
IBGC - Certified Board Member
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Investment focus
- Energy, Blockchain, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- FOHAT — FOHAT, an Energy Intelligence company, is changing the energy sector with innovative solutions by allowing integration of distributed energy resources (iDER) and new solutions for energy trading (P2P TE).
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.
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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 naturally charming, vibrant, and socially responsible fashion brand that celebrates your unique individuality.
- 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.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Technology executive & investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Caio Maia
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Government
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez - CIO & Founder @ SmartMining
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- SmartMining — Somos una empresa de tecnologías de la información aplicada al mundo industrial y minero. Llevamos inteligencia a los procesos con el objetivo de optimizar el uso de recursos críticos, generando ahorros y aumento de productividad.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.
- Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
Robert Goodman is a general partner at Goodman served as a director at he joined Bessemer Venture Partners. He has also worked at Goodman holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Formally — Formally is a platform for legal collaboration. We leverage intelligent technology with behavioral science to create a whole new category of legal tech. And it all starts with immigration.
- Tackle — Tackle helps you identify the right buyers, co-sell with your Cloud Partners, and transact through the Marketplaces with a platform built for Cloud GTM success.
- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Leonardo Pedrozo Diaz
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Generative AI
- Pre-Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Coleoptera SAS — Aulas Interactivas 2023
Alan Rutledge
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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.
Francisco Coronel
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Call Center, Virtual Assistant
- Pre-Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- INCEPTIA AI — We provide a PLATFORM and a SERVICE comprised of PRE-TRAINED USE CASES that can drastically reduce the time to set up a new Voice Assistant for various business situations such as Collections, Customer Service, Sales and Appointments that can work in SEVERAL LANGUAGES.
MENTOR
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Investment focus
- B2B, Big Data, Internet
- Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Speedio — Speed IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.
Henrique Dubugras is Founder and Co-CEO of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique soldPagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.
- Portal — One integration opens the entire world of Web3 to your users. DeFi, games, NFTs, and more.
Alexander Torrenegra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torre and a Co-Founder at Tribe Labs. He previously worked at Bunny Studio as the Co-founder and CEO. He attended Florida International University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
- Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
- LaManicurista — LaManicurista is a Colombian start-up that provides on-demand beauty services. Customers are able to make an appointment or also request an immediate service.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Luciano Nicora - Founder @ Asarcob
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Argentina
Florian is Co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform by health systems. Previously, Florian founded a daily deal company in Brazil(ClubeUrbano) that was sold to Groupon. After the acquisition, he became CEO of Groupon Brazil. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds an M.D., D.D.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Brazil, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Guiabolso — Guiabolso is the fintech transforming the Brazilian financial system by pioneering Open Banking, to bring the benefits of open data access and analytics to millions of consumers and a fast-growing number of corporate customers. Launched in 2014, the Guiabolso app has a huge amount of granular financial data about its 6M users, powering consumersolutions of consolidated financial management, an in-app curated product marketplace and instant payment capabilities, while providing product partners access to unique segmenting and scoring capabilities. In addition, Guiabolso is the only company in Brazil with a fully launched and calibrated end-to-end Open Banking solution for B2B clients, going beyond just bank account data aggregation to offer modular value-add solutions such as advanced analytics, a white-label marketplace, and personal financial management features. The company was founded by Thiago Alvarez and Benjamin Gleason, two friends who met at McKinsey and aspired to use innovative technology and a focus on consumer impact to improve the lives of Brazilians and transform the financial system.
- Aware — Aware is a mobile app for evaluating health data and for researching chronic diseases.
- Pipo Saúde — We are a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits (from your healthcare plan to your fitness benefit).
Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Venture Partners since 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, currently investing from a $2.56 billion fund. Jeff's areas of focus include mobile,online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Jeff is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by Cap Gemini), Greenfield Online (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Ltd), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), ProMira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shutterstock (IPO), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus), Solarwinds Inc. (IPO NYSE: SWI), and Xchange (IPO acquired by Amdocs).Jeff is an investor or currently serves on the board of directors of AirWatch (mobile device management), Anaqua (IP asset management), GFI Software (cloud-based services), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Nexon (online gaming), Datacore Software (storage virtualization), New Relic (application performance management), Teamviewer (remote desktop collaboration), WIX (free DIY flash-based websites), Whitney University System (distance learning technology), and Zumba (global fitness and lifestyle brand).Prior to founding Insight, Jeff was a key member of the technology investing team at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Capital Markets group.Jeff holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. Jeff is a regular speaker at Wharton as part of the Distinguished Guest speaker series.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
- Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
- Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care
Juvenilton Bezerra
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Investment focus
- CRM, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Makes.ai — Makes.ai is a Brazilian startup that provides AI solutions to help companies of all sizes increase sales, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Makes' solutions include: - AI Chatbot (NLP Powered) - AI Recsys - AI Forecasting - AI Credit Analysis - AI Powered CRM.
Angel investor with experience in the retail, finance, and technology fields.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Makes.ai — Makes.ai is a Brazilian startup that provides AI solutions to help companies of all sizes increase sales, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Makes' solutions include: - AI Chatbot (NLP Powered) - AI Recsys - AI Forecasting - AI Credit Analysis - AI Powered CRM.
Javier Lopez is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
Manuel Vila is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
Jorge Shwartzman
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Big Data
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Crunch Dna — We help companies to integrate to the world of eCommerce in order to dominate it, managing the complex tasks so that they can enjoy the simple, profits. We created the only proven methodology to guarantee results for your brand in the short, medium and long term. Integrating and positioning your brand and products in all marketplaces, providingtechnology, services and tools that create and impact and differentiation.
GT Family
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Angel
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- KairosAI — AI As a service company
Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing
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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
Leonardo Borrero
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
- Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
- TuPlaza —
Esteban Sosnik is the current Managing Partner of Reach Capital. She previously worked at co.lab as a Founder and Executive Director. Esteban attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Popego — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Innovamat — InnovaMat is a company that aims to revolutionize the learning of mathematics by transforming the classroom and the relationships that occur in it to excite, stimulate and motivate students. The materials put the student at the center of his own teaching-learning process and allows him to develop autonomy and critical thinking: an emotional andexciting process designed to engage the student through positive stimuli. To achieve this, InnovaMat proposes contextualized mathematics, a flexible curriculum, varied activities based on manipulative material and applets, techniques and strategies that facilitate the evaluation and management of the 21st century classroom, the personalization of learning, cooperative learning or gamification .
- Aprende Institute — Aprende Institute is the online education platform for vocational skills training in the US hispanic market and LATAM.
Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
- FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
- Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.
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.
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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).
Multicultural senior executive with 40 years experience built internationally with responsibilities in strategic and operational functionsManaged P&L at country and regional leves in markets/regions of high growth relevance (India, South East Asia)Strategic responsibility for Global Food business with development & implementationof strategies, Innovation pipelines , Brands guardianship & communication, capital expenditure and Talent managementShaped and implemented the Global Nestle R&D and PTC new set-up being today the blueprint to the present operationsProfound exposure on Corporate Governance through Board membershipsRecently has joined IMD Business School as Executive-in-Residence becoming active working with its faculties and programsMulticultural life exposure by living in Brazil USA, France, Switzerland, Israel, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore
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Investment focus
- B2B, B2C, AgTech
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil
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- Ecotrace — Ecotrace FOCUS ON AGRO, founded by entrepreneurs accumulating 14 years of experience in agribusiness, offering an unique end-to-end traceability solution, ensuring reliability, security and transparency throughout the value chain, using a set of technological solutions such as: Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data and Data Science, thus creating aunique traceability platform for its trust and transparency in data through the Ecotrace protocol that uses Blockchain technology.
Sam K.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Nicaragua
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- 8Flow — 8flow.ai - AI and automation for Customer Support Agents.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Ampersand — Ampersand is a company that creates a developer platform to assist SaaS companies in building user-facing integrations for their products. It reduces engineering and customer support time spent on creating and managing deep integrations with your customers' Systems of Record.
Ignacio Canals is a Founder of InstaGIS. He attended Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1994.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Chile, United States
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- Lexgo — Lexgo is the first automated legal service for startups in Latam, enabling founders to complete their legal processes faster and at a fraction of the cost of a lawyer. By automating legal workflows, founders can incorporate their companies, hire their employees and raise funding seamless and in different countries of the region, all from a singleplatform.
- Legria — Legria offers property maintenance, repairs, bill payment, and even cleaning. Their platform allows clients to own their dream homes for a fraction of the price. The company is in charge of searching for properties in vacation destinations, acquiring them, and then taking care of the entire legal process. This allows fractions to be sold, enablingclients to become owners of their second homes.
- Genomawork — Genoma.work is an AI driven platform for better hiring.The platform transforms recruitment through gamification and data science improving efficiency and quality of hiring. Using the best tools of neuroscience and behavioral sciences, we collect data and, through Artificial Intelligence algorithms, we carry out predictive analysis of jobperformance.Our AI-Powered algorithm identifies the critical factors from current top employees and looks for those variables in the candidates. The model compares the fit between the applicants with the ideal profile generating a Fit Score.Additionally, the system looks for important data from applicant’s LinkedIn profiles and their CVs. Finally, the platform incorporates video interviews letting candidates to introduce themselves. As a result, genoma.work increases the quality of hire reduces time to hire and enhances candidate experiences.
Tomas Pena joined The Yield Lab as Managing Director in 2017.
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- AgTech, FinTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Argentina
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- S4 — S4 is a technology service company that provides risk management solutions to ensure food production. It also develops index-based coverage to transfer the agriculture industry's volatilities to the financial markets, through OTC-derivatives contracts. The company offers products and services are used by a broad range of customers includinglarge growers, crop protection and seeds suppliers, crop insurance providers, banking, and commodity exchanges.S4 integrates the harvest information with a planting plan, seed density, and soil analysis. They had developed a decision-making geo-referenced platform for the agricultural producer. They seek to improve the decision-making process in complex environments to collaborate in the global challenge of generating quality food for humanity.S4 was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Pedro Arnt is the current Co-Chief Executive Officer of dLocal. He previously worked at MercadoLibre as a Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Pedro Arnt attended the University of Oxford.
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- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Uruguay, United States
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- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
- 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.
- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
José Augusto Schincariol
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- SaaS, Audio, Video
- Series A
- Brazil
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- Samba Tech — Samba Tech is an online platform that develops videos to help companies better communicate with their audience.Samba Tech is an online video platform in Latin America and helps hundreds of companies to communicate better with their audience, providing tools to stream videos on any device at any time with Samba Videos, a customizable businessintelligence platform. Samba Videos includes an online media management dashboard, with access to every device. The dashboard feeds the user key analytics (e.g., the most popular content, viewer demographics) about their target audience when the content is viewed. The Samba Videos dashboard has customizable categories and the ability to publish and register videos on one user-friendly interface. The platform is integrated with an application program interface (API) that allows for the creation of any application software the user desires.
Sean Behr is CEO of Fountain - the leader in high-volume hourly hiring. Previously, Sean was Co-Founder and CEO of STRATIM and Zirx (acquired by KAR Global), the intelligent logistics platform for mobility companies. Sean also served in leadership roles at Adap.tv (acquired by AOL) and Shopping.com (acquired by Ebay).Sean holds a B.A. in historyand political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Software, Retail, Logistics
- Seed
- United States, Mexico
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- Fountain — Fountain is an easy to use Hiring Software trusted by the world's leading companies. Fully customize your hourly hiring process and automate the rest. Get a free demo today.
- 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.
- LiquiDonate — LiquiDonate is a simple solution for retailers and businesses to match and move excess items to nonprofits or upcyclers, saving time and operational costs, while having a positive social and environmental impact.
Miguel Ángel Peña
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Argentina
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- CUX — CUX is a groundbreaking mental health assistant with immense market potential! With 17K active users already, CUX is a web app that combines the wisdom of 6,000 secrets answered by Connie Ansaldi and mental health protocols from experts. This AI learns, remembers, and proactively connects users to peer support groups. It even offers a marketplacefor institutions and service providers. For businesses, CUX tackles silo issues. PAX, our first client, offers travel-related solutions like fear of flying, cancellation anxiety, and conflicts with companions. Governments benefit from CUX as a primary tool for mental health and penetration. Now, the numbers: 145M people in LatAm and Spain work in companies with 100+ employees, with 56% admitting mental health challenges. Each company invests $8 per employee, creating a market worth $650M. Spain spends $576M (5% of population) monthly on mental health, while LatAm invests $240M (10% of the population). Join the mental health revolution with CUX!
Juanjo Mostazo
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Spain, Colombia
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- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- Mas Leads — Mas Leads Technologies, through its SaaS (Software as a Service), assists B2B firms' Marketing and Sales Departments in obtaining the best real-time data on new potential clients in national and international marketplaces, thereby automating the lead creation process.
Mr. Kalish is a Partner at Aquiline Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. Kalish was also the Founder and Managing Director at Venturion Capital. He has served on the boards of numerous financial services companies in Europe and the US.
He holds a history degree from Columbia and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard.
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- AgTech, Seafood, Biotechnology
- Series A
- Mexico
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- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Leonardo Pedrozo
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Generative AI
- Pre-Seed
- Colombia
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- Coleoptera SAS — Aulas Interactivas 2023
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