Top 10 Automotive Startup Investors in Mexico (June 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Mexico, Colombia, Chile

Investor stats

Total investments: 16
Round size: Seed $300k–$10M; Series A $1M–$10M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

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Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Mexico, Chile, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 127
Round size: Seed $300k–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$26M
Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.5M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
Crehana — Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to makeeveryone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.
Desteia — Desteia turns fragmented trade data into clean, validated information - and automates the workflows that keep freight moving, compliance airtight, and teams aligned.

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Early stage venture capital fund that invests in unique teams building extraordinary companies which, with the use of technology, innovate to deliver efficient and cost-effective products and services for the wider population.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Transportation
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

Total investments: 48
Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $325k–$700k; Series A $900k–$7.9M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

Flexza —
Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
Two To Tango — Two to Tango is a multinational company that provides tailor made business connections to the world.Founded by visionary awarded Colombians, genius in networking, they blended their innovative and business minds to connect the world. Adding data from all continents to a behind the scenes algorithm, they deliver an EASY tool to find businessallies ANYWHERE.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 180
Round size: Seed $580k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$24M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Mein —
Vault Wealth — Discover the range of private wealth management services with personalized wealth planning from Vault, a certified private wealth advisor in Dubai & UAE. A secure digital wealth platform trusted by professionals.
Mobile Healthcare Solutions — At-Home Wellness Tracker

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J.D. Power is a global marketing information services company providing customer satisfaction research, market research, social media research, and performance improvement programs.In 1968, J.D. "Dave" Power III established J.D. Power from his kitchen table, with a primary focus in the automotive industry. Since that time, the companyhas successfully influenced the everyday lives of consumers and industries worldwide, and has expanded to include offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.J.D. Power is a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial. J.D. Power conducts work for a wide spectrum of industries including automotive, financial services, insurance, energy, telecommunications, travel and leisure, and healthcare to name a few.J.D. Power includes more than 750 professional analysts, statisticians, economists, consultants, experts in demographics and consumer behavior, and administrative support personnel. Headquartered in Westlake Village, California, a suburb north of Los Angeles, J.D. Power has seven U.S. locations and international offices serving Canada, Europe, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Finbarr O'Neill is the president and J.D. Power III is the founder.

Investment focus

Industry: Automotive, E-Commerce, Online Portals
Stage:Seed
Geography: Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.

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Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 51
Round size: Seed $110k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$28M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
TrueHome — TrueHome is a Mexican real estate company that aims to improve the real estate services in the country by providing the best selling experience for homeowners and taking care of the process from end to end. They offer their clients transparent processes about procedures and details that can be confusing, boring, and long. Their legal advisorsensure that the process is in order from documents and paperwork, to the contract and the credit process.TrueHome was founded in 2017 by Raúl Villarreal and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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Mexican-based early stage VC investing in consumer internet startups

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Mexico, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $300k–$2M; Series A $675k–$7.5M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

Odetta — Odetta is a digital platform that enables individuals to buy and sell used cars safely and at a fair price, from the comfort of their homes.
Parkimovil — We're a platform that smartly manages and processes interactions and payments with different mobility nodes.
HAMOC — HAMOC uses cutting-edge tech to provide unparalleled Lease Underwriting & Management Services to make our customers feel both supported and relaxed, the HAMOC way .

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

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 824
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
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.
Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 90
Round size: Seed $2M–$7.7M; Series A $4M–$23M; Series B $18M–$126M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Terraline — Solo AVT engages in revolutionizing the heavy truck industry.
Zoomo — Check our reliable electric bikes and enjoy flexible lease plans in Australia, US, UK, France and more soon!
Gas Pos — Fastest-growing POS for gas stations & truck stops. Receive new EMV fuel dispensers. Free upfront. 10 Year Parts/Labor Warranty. Free 24/7 helpdesk. Gas Pos includes OTR (over-the-road) fleet card acceptance for your truck stop or diesel lane.

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