Top 5 Beauty Angel Investors in Chile (September 2026)

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 28
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9M; Pre-Seed $935k–$2M; Series A $3.7M–$100M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — HoyTrabajas is an HR-Tech solution designed to assist companies in Latin America facing high turnover rates in swiftly attracting and retaining low-skilled talent within a timeframe of fewer than 48 hours.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

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Marc Sorli is the founder of Fancybox.

Investment focus

Industry: Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media
Stage:Seed
Geography: Chile

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com

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Diego Noriega is currently the managing partner of Newtopia, an investment fund for seed and pre-seed stage startups. Before becoming an investor, Diego co-founded more than 23 successful companies, including AlaMaula, which eBay acquired. Drawing on his strong business development skills and knowledge, he has mentored more than 1200 startups,evaluated more than 2000 companies for investment, and delivered about 250 conferences on business development and entrepreneurship.In his current role as Managing Partner at Newtopia, he is responsible for building the Newtopia community and supporting the teams through extensive mentoring programs. The goal of Newtopia is to fund the most outstanding Latin American entrepreneurial talent and guide them on their path to global markets.In his own words: "My purpose in life is to change Latin America. Supporting entrepreneurs is the best tool I know, and that’s why I want to impact +1,000,000 entrepreneurs in the next ten years".

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, SaaS
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Chile, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Botin — Digital Broker App of U.S Securities for Latin Americans
Creditop — Creditop orchestrates loans by providing a multi-lender payment method that enables merchants to efficiently sell by credit.
FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com

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Stephanie Truan Saxton is based out of Chile, South America and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Market People. Stephanie previously worked at BAST Marketing Lab as a Investments & Financial Strategy Lead. Stephanie Truan Saxton attended Harvard Extension School.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Beauty, Software
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Chile

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

ADD SKIN — We are a Chilean startup born in 2021 to support you, give you knowledge and make skincare a ritual of self-love and time for you. We believe in the importance of loving you as you are and how taking care of yourself is a fundamental part of that love.We are obsessed with making you happy and everything that implies. That's why we careabout sharing knowledge with you, to then advise you so that together we can create your skincare routine.We care about having the best national and international brands; and that your routine arrives at your house and it is quite an experience to open it and then apply it (holy) to your skin.

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