# Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in LATAM in June 2026

## Bossa Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

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## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## MONASHEES
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. With a human-values-first approach, monashees helps founders challenge the statusquo and improve people’s lives through technology. The monashees community includes over 150 companies and 300+ founders.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Kaszek
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

## Cometa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## DOMO.VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services

DOMO.VC is a leading venture capital firm in Brazil that invests in best in class entrepreneurs. We back early-stage technology startups, helping them grow faster and establish themselves in competitive markets.We started from the collective desire of our founding partners to contribute to the success of the next generation of Brazilianentrepreneurs. DOMO’s multi-disciplinary team is supported by its Advisory Board who’s members have solid and proven track-record in creating, investing, advising and financing tech startups of all sizes.Our GPs have thrived as entrepreneurs, having founded companies such as Buscapé in Brazil. The team was also an early investor in well renowned start-ups such as Loggi, Gympass, Hotmart, among others.

## ONEVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology

ONEVC is a venture capital firm, focused on seed-stage investments in Latam.

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments.
We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

## Quona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

## Lumia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Lumia is an expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth. Lumia employs a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies throughexpansion-stage challenges and opportunities.It prefers to invest in internet and software companies with a focus on SaaS, mobile, cloud computing, infrastructure, and big data. It typically invests between $3 million and $30 million in companies with greater than $10 million annualized net sales. Lumia also invests in select early stage opportunities via its "Telescope" program. The company focuses on investing in primary and secondary transactions and in common and preferred shares. Lumia Capital was founded by Martin Gedalin in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

## Manolo Atala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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

## Proeza Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Transportation, Automotive, Software

Largest mobility focused fund in Latam

## Matheus Santoro Pitanga
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Retail

Matheus Santoro Pitanga

## Airborne Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

We help companies go Airborne preparing them in advance so that they can be flying stabilized, helping them to avoid crashing after taking off.

## Oskar Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP.  He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech

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

## MAYA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America. 

## Canary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

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.

## Niu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Niu Ventures is a pre-seed VC that connects early-stage Brazilian startups with the Silicon Valley growth mindset.

## Hummingbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

## Igah Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm that was born from the union of forces of two successful investment platforms (e.bricks ventures and Joa Investimentos). We have a unique and complementary team of partners and an extremely qualified and experienced team.

## Redpoint eventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

## Astella
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.

## BuenTrip Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

BuenTrip Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Quito, Ecuador, that leverages its position as one of the leading ecosystem builders in Latin America to identify, mentor, and invest in software-based startups that are transforming the region’s economy.

## Simile Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.For more information, visit:www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)

## Latitud
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Build good sh*t with Latitud

## Maniv Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

## Crivo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Marketing

we're looking for bold, ambitious founders who share our vision for a better future in latin america. #venturecapital #latam

## Nazca Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech

Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.

## Grão
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

A venture capital firm, backed by a family office, which invests in early stage startups in Brazil and VC funds from around the world.

## NXTP Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

## Norte Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology

Norte is a founder's fund created and invested by entrepreneurs

## Bullpen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies.

## güil Mobility Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Automotive

güil mobility ventures is a CVC that focuses on developing and co-creating extraordinary mobility startups in Latin America.

## Tekton Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech

We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.

## Rise Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

## Construct Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Supply Chain Management

Construct Capital is an early stage venture capital firm, investing in founders who are reimagining the foundational industries of our economy.

## Dalus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Analytics, Logistics

Dalus Capital invests in bold entrepreneurs building impactful tech startups in Latin America

## Dadneo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Service Industry, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Dadneo enhances the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation by connecting early-stage startups with the venture capital LatAm industry. Through their investment model using Smart Capital, they offer their entrepreneurs disposition of their network and all necessary measures to contribute to the success of their project tools.Dadneo wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

## Fifth Wall
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Venice, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

The largest asset manager investing at the intersection of real estate and technology.

## Ariel Arrieta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain

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.

## 183 Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sweden, South Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Classifieds

183 Invest is a Swedish investment firm .

## INVX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Human Resources, Sales

Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America

## Banco Bradesco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osasco, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Bradesco is one of the biggest banking and financial services company in Brazil. Bradesco was the largest private bank in Brazil until Banco Itaú and Unibanco merged in 2009. Bradesco is headquartered in Osasco (SP), has 4,686 branches, 3,781 Service Branches and 59.307 “Bradesco Expresso” Units, the correspondent bank through of partnershipswith supermarkets, drugstores, department stores and other retail chains. Currently is the third largest Brazilian bank by total assets.
Bradesco customers can also use 34.859 “Bradesco Dia&Noite” Automatic Teller Machines and 12,975 ATMs of the Banco24Horas, one Brazilian third-party ATM network.

## Rebel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders

## Philippe Teixeira da Mota
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

## Confrapar
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Internet

Confrapar invests in technology companies through four Brazilian regulated (CVM) funds with a diverse range of limited partners, including family offices, pension funds, banks and development agencies from Brazil and abroad. Confrapar invests up to $20 million USD in each company. We currently have 10 companies in our portfolio and offices inSão Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.Confrapar relies on the background and expertise of its more than 100 Market Partners in key market sectors. These relationships create unique opportunities for the portfolio companies to grow their businesses.

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