Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in Colombia in January 2026
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in Colombia in January 2026
| Investor | Automotive Colombia investments |
|---|---|
| Philippe Teixeira da Mota | 1 |
| Julian Torres | 1 |
| QAPU Ventures | 1 |
| Haven Ventures | 1 |
| INVX | 1 |
| Western Investments Capital | 1 |
| Canary | 1 |
| Wayra | 1 |
| DILA Capital | 1 |
| 10X Capital | 1 |
| Vertical Venture Partners | 1 |
| Newtopia VC | 1 |
| VU Venture Partners | 1 |
| Martin Schrimpff | 1 |
| Proeza Ventures | 1 |
| Cometa | 1 |
| Andeo Capital | 1 |
| Bullpen Capital | 1 |
| Cometa | 1 |
| Amarena | 1 |
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Co-founder at Ontop (getontop.com) YCW21. We empower you to think big. We help companies do remote hiring and payouts, all the way from contract creation, to compliance documentation and easy money transfers.Founder at Fitpal (www.fitpal.co), one of the most important fitness and wellness apps in the region. 500 startups Miami batch 2018.Forbescontributor. https://forbes.co/author/julian-torres/Best selling author of La Estupidez Colectiva. Published by Penguin Random House (2019) www.laestupidezcolectiva.comEntrepreneur in Residence at InQlab (www.inqlab.co), a VC fund, venture builder and startup incubator.Lived in Beijing, China for 1 year (2012-2013).Founder of 6 startups in Colombia.Bachelor’s degree in Business from Universidad de los Andes. Fluent in Spanish and English. Basic knowledge of Mandarin.
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- Logistics, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia
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- Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
- Alfred — Because owning a vehicle is a huge pain for a lot of people, Alfred is a platform that uses technology to connect customers, a network of certified allied shops and drivers to make owning a vehicle easier. Thanks to notifications and integrations with insurance companies and car buying and selling companies, Alfred is every car-owner'scompanion during the entire lifecycle of the vehicle: since they buy their car, during the ownership and until the customer sells it.
QAPU is a micro-VC fund operator and advisory firm that invests in the Latin American startup ecosystem. Mainly through it's unique angel fund, which invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups from Latam, or by advising startups with their fundraising and scaling needs, or by connecting entrepreneurs and co-founding their ventures, QAPU isdeeply invested in this wave of innovation that is disrupting every industry in the region.
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- Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
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- Avify — Avify es el CRM para WhatsApp que conecta todo tu negocio a tus conversaciones y automatiza ventas.
- Nudos — B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico.
- Almaya Life — Safely record, save, and share anecdotes, advice, and life lessons forever. Future generations will be able to access this treasure and contribute to it as well.
A Place of Safety or Refuge; a Sanctuary. The first check in category defining digital financial services at the earliest stages. We target the infrastructure paradigms that will define the future of finance.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that is the easiest way in the world to earn interest (yield) on your crypto. With Sock, you can send crypto, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
- Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.
- Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America
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- E-Commerce, Sales, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
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- Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.
Western Tech is a venture capital firm focused on restructuring debt.
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- Mobile, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Allegrix — Allegrix assists software developers to develop their applications with ASP enable for hosting. Allegrix was acquired by Progress in June 2001. Allegrix was founded in 2000 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
- CrowdMob — Our cutting-edge platform will help you monetize and acquire users for your game or app.
- Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.
Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cado — Cado turns the headache of client onboarding into a revenue-generating engine.
- Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
- Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
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- Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
- Omnix Corp — Omnix connects to all customer systems, managing their information and triggering actions when there are operational failures. Currently our clients are large companies in the Retail and Telco sector, where our solution allows complete visibility and traceability of inventory.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
- Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
- Futura Labs — Futura Labs is a digital dental lab modernizing clinics with tech-driven orthodontics and prosthetics across Latin America.
10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
- Portal — Don't Transfect, Just Deliver!
- CEA Industries — CEA Industries is an agriculture company that offers indoor cultivation services.
Vertical Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise technology companies that target vertical markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Spain, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Zuub — Zuub is an all-in-one dental revenue cycle management platform that streamlines processes and boosts revenue through automated insurance verification, and more.
- Opkey — The codeless Test Automation Platform for enterprise continuous testing accelerates release cycles , reduces costs, and decreases risk out of software releases
- Alida Biosciences — Alida Biosciences is a biotech company creating RNA analysis tools to improve human health. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
Our purpose is to share knowledge, channel smart money, and enhance experiences for early-stage startups, so we can help them unleash a new wave of Latin
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Inner AI — Inner is an AI-Native workspace to organize your thoughts, be more creative, and accomplish your tasks faster.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
- Roxom Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
- Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
- JumpStart Fertility — Jumpstart Fertility is investigating novel techniques to aid patients in starting or continuing to increase their families, including approaches that address the effects of biological aging on assisted reproduction. We want to increase IVF success rates so that patients need fewer cycles to get a healthy pregnancy. Our research focuses onenhancing egg quality and embryo development in IVF cycles in later age groups, where IVF success rates tend to drop, necessitating repeated rounds under existing standards of care.
Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.
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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.
Largest mobility focused fund in Latam
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Automotive, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Germany
Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
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- Simetrik — Automate repetitive data reconciliation processes without any coding knowledge
- Simetrik — Simetrik offer big data solutions for financial control and automation services for corporate companies.
- numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.
ANDEO Capital is an Angel Smart Capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with great qualities, a global mindset, and an early growth stage company.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Colombia, Peru
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- Escappy Travel — ESCAPPY TRAVEL es una Travel Tech que por medio de experiencias 100% personalizadas (Automatizados), Virtuales (Realidad Virtual) y viajes Sorpresa (Travel to Surprise) hacemos el match perfecto entre deseos y el mejor plan/experiencia. Por medio de tecnología y analítica de datos se logra entender, analizar y conectar con aliados, generandovalor en el Match realizado. Pionera en Latam con este modelo de negocio disruptivo y escalable.
- Enterapia — Enterapia transform the way Latino Spanish-speaking contributors live, ensuring that companies obtain the ideal potential of the members of the organization, achieving an increase in productivity rates and optimizing investment in human talent.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- Starcity — Starcity is a San Francisco-based owner and operator of Coliving communities. As of early 2020, Starcity has just under 500 beds in operation across San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with a current committed development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units.Their 45-person team spans multiple disciplines including real estate, technology,design, and hospitality with employees from companies like Airbnb, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Fairmont Hotels, FivePoint, Google, Tesla, Lyft, SoulCycle, The Standard, and Uber. They are urban housing enthusiasts on a mission to make great cities accessible to everyone.Starcity’s approach is different from other groups in the Coliving space. They are set up as both a General Partner and Operator with full-stack real estate development, design, and management capabilities. They love working on all aspects of design to maintain a keen focus on project details, and they enjoy having skin in the game when the opportunity presents itself.
- Ciphero AI — Ciphero is the first AI Verification Layer that collects, verifies, and governs all corporate AI interactions, promoting safe and ethical AI use across all enterprises.
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
- numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Amarena is a family investment office.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Chile, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Floid — Open Finance para conectar de forma segura con los datos financieros de tus clientes
- FarmaLoop — FarmaLoop is an online pharmacy which is easy to use platform and innovative prices as per customers requirement.
- AgroUrbana — Agrourbana is the Vertical Agriculture company. It produce the best vegetables by applying advanced technology and responsible processes with the environment and people.
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