Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in LATAM in April 2025

Investor	Beauty LATAM investments
Antai Ventures	5
CapTable	4
Fen Ventures	4
NXTP Ventures	3
Canary	3
Global Founders Capital	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Act One Ventures	2
Alpha4 Ventures	2
Astella	2
Kayyak Ventures	2
Cabiedes & Partners	2
TMT Investments	2
Kaszek	2
Amador Holdings	2
Chile Ventures	1
2048 Ventures	1
Leo Capital	1
APEX Partners	1
INSEADAlum Ventures	1
Helena Polyblank	1
Cathexis Ventures	1
Jon Oringer	1
Leonid Gluzman	1
Henkel Ventures	1
Anjos do Brasil	1
Stephanie Truan	1
Finaves	1
ESADE BAN	1
Harvard Management Company	1
Spice Capital	1
Sung Ho Choi	1
JP Duque	1
Ennovva	1
ChileGlobal Angels	1
Meesho	1
BR Angels	1
Donato Ramos	1
Jon Oringer	1
Edward Lando	1
Diego Rivera	1
AcNext Capital	1
James Park	1
Diego Noriega	1
la Caixa	1
Emanuel Pleitez	1
FEA Angels	1
DVC	1
Nina Khosla	1
Redpoint eventures	1

We back incredible people and help them build disrupting products with the potential of changing the lives of millions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Shopping, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Chile, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Piper — Piper is an AI-based software tool that offers CRM data to keep flawless records of customer interactions, and relations.

Captable is a startup investment platform that operates transactions through crowdfunding. They exist to simplify and make startup investments viable, as well as to connect the entire ecosystem, by leveraging business growth with high return potential for investors who want to contribute to the growth of startups. It makes connections at variouslevels for various agents in the innovation market with the goal of encouraging entrepreneurship through investment in startups. CapTable was founded in 2018 by Guilherme Enck and Paulo Deitos Filho.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Veggi — Veggi is the first vegan delivery platform in Brazil.
CowMed — CowMed is an agricultural service company of technological solutions for health, nutrition, and reproduction for milk cattle. It also develops animal monitoring products for precision livestock, generating value, and ensuring the sustainability of the business.The company was named 2018 - NEOVIA's Future Farm, 2017 - Ideas for Milk andAcceleration Criatec 3, and 2017 & 2016 Tecnova Notice SEBRAE.CowMed was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
E-Comprei — E-Comprei is a company that buys and sells beauty and hygiene products for small shop keeper.

Fen Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Latin America that finances seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Chile, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bioeutectics — Revolutionazing the solvents industry turning it into a natural, biodegradable and sustainable one.
Augmental — The future of human-computer interaction
Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Capim — Capim is a Vertical SaaS for dental clinics with embedded financial solutions, including Payments and Credit in the POS for patients
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.
Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows

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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Act One Ventures is a community focused, early stage venture capital firm leading pre-seed and seed rounds in compliance, vertical SaaS, service-as-software, and fintech.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Latii — Latii is a producer and supplier of building materials. They provide products that include windows and doors, structural steel, metal, casting, and fastening. They offer services for the construction industry.
Kriptos — Kriptos uses AI to ensure accurate classification for your company. Kriptos helps businesses locate their most critical information and prevent data leakage through software that analyzes, classifies, and labels documents automatically.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is the fastest growing on-demand delivery management software for restaurants and beyond. We help businesses to launch a delivery program in-house or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure.

Alpha4 Ventures GP LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, early stage and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in the technology sector among the spheres of e-commerce, fintech, marketplaces/saas and high tech. The firm invests in Latin America.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Colombia, Mexico, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
Instaleap LLC — SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently
Katapult Studios — Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Traive — Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers.
Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
Gabriel — Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond.

We invest in daring entrepreneurs from Seed to Series B from Latin America to the world.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Chile, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Fracttal — Fracttal offers intelligent maintenance and asset management software (CMMS/GMAO/EAM), that is 100% mobile and cloud-based. These tools allow companies to manage their maintenance in a more sustainable, secure, and efficient way that guarantees the integrity and continuity of their operations, as well as the safety of workers.Demonstrated improvements include reducing asset failures by over 25%, improving maintenance costs by at least 15% and increasing productivity by more than 35%, while also reducing accidents and operational risks. Fracttal, which counts companies such Acciona, Unilever, Iberostar, Veolia and FedEx, among its almost 1000 customers, directs its solutions to large multinationals and SMEs in various industry sectors, including manufacturing, facility management, energy, and transport in which it already has a significant presence.With its main solution, Fracttal One, companies can remotely manage all maintenance operations from any device and for any type of asset, including equipment, vehicles, machinery, and facilities. This intelligent tool, a leader in several of the world's most prestigious rankings, facilitates real-time collaborative work between different work teams and integrates with any ERP. Fracttal One improves decision making, maximizes efficiency and extends the useful life of physical assets, while reducing incidents and unplanned downtime that can lead to delays, lost profitability, and accidents. Fracttal has also developed Predictto, an AI enabled predictive maintenance solution that allows companies to anticipate failure conditions with a high percentage of certainty. To do so, Predictto applies Machine Learning to bigdata, identifying the behavior of assets based on proprietary reliability and degradation models.
Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
Pulsar — Pulsar brings real-time productivity monitoring and analytics to small and mid-size manufacturers.Pulsar's unique technology of plug-and-play wireless sensors and proprietary AI algorithms, automatically builds production indicators to the specific requirements/operations of each machine and factory, drastically reducing industrialmonitoring & analysis costs and implementation time.

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services. Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laagam — We craft attainable high fashion for your everyday special occasions. Bold fashion for dazzling people. Discover our collection. Drops every Wednesday. Instant shipping.
Shalion — Shalion enables ambitious brands to navigate their journey to digital shelf excellence with a unique, unified digital shelf & retail media insights solution.
Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
Global Work — We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform.
Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Zatlas — The next-generation finance platform for hotels
Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service

Amador Holdings is an investment holding company providing growth capital and support to small and medium-sized businesses serving the urban middle classes. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Panama, Colombia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Colombia, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Moonflow — Mejora tus procesos de cobranzas y ahorra hasta un 75%. Software de Gestion de Cobranzas para Empresas,
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.
Karrot — Karrot is a cloud-based software suite solutions that provides omnichannel retail solutions.

Admiramos a los fundadores

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Chile, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nutrix — Nutrix award-winning Swiss health-tech innovator that combines the power of AI with wearables and human care to provide cost-effective prevention and healthcare programs that work.
Leasity — Leasity is an online platform to manage properties online. They are the main data in the rental contract, and they automate it. They receive rental payments and stay updated at all times about properties.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

We back visionary founders who are building technologies of the future.2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven earliest stage venture capital firm. We are founders, experienced operators, nerds and dreamers obsessed with the future. We've backed over 200 startups and have the experience and conviction to lead your pre-seed or seed round.We getyou and your vision before others.We are systems thinkers, engineers, and product junkies. We think about the future non-stop and are ready to understand and back you before anyone else. When we decide to invest, we write you a check and then help you close the rest of the round. We lead rounds with high conviction, and write $500K - $2M checks.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Frate — First-of-its-kind automated peer-to-peer returns solution. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability while also saving money on every return.
Impilo — Vertically integrated logistics and data solutions for digital health and remote patient monitoring. Start scaling your program today with Impilo.
TwoStep Therapeutics — TwoStep Therapeutics is developing novel tumor-targeting therapeutics for solid tumors.

Leo Capital is a venture capital fund investing in early-stage and technology-centric opportunities. The venture capital fund was founded in 2018 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
TradingLeagues — Register now to play the top four skill-based fantasy crypto games and stock market trading games that offer real money prizes!
RAIN Platforms — Rain Platforms builds technologies that help to remove barriers between people and the financial world.

APEX Partners is a platform for alternative investments and financial services, specialized in resource management and corporate finance, based on strong values and guided by the objective of developing the financial market in the state of Espírito Santo.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bankme — Bankme is a fintech that creates and operates mini banks for companies.
ATW Delivery Brands — A pioneering group, specialized in developing restaurants to work only in our dark kitchens. Over 850 digital restaurants in 160 cities.
Univale Transportes — Univale Transportes is a company that provides public transport, charter, tourism and logistics services.

Global seed funding for INSEAD startups. For Alumni. By Alumni.

Investment focus

Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Visto.bio — Visto.bio desenvolve tecnologias, produtos e serviços para uma relação mais equilibrada entre pessoas e planeta
VResorts — Virtual Reality solutions for resort bookings

Helena Polyblank is the Co-Founder & CPO Mendel from 2021.

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer, Wellness
Funding Round
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.

Cathexis Ventures is the venture arm of Cathexis Holdings, a single-family office based in Houston Texas. Minimum check size $100k, max $10M for seed stage companies. Typically $250k checks.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BBy — BBy connects nursing mothers with couples who can't produce or do not produce enough breast milk to feed their child
Careerist — Careerist is the connecting bridge between people without tech or coding background and the U.S. tech industry. We quickly train and apply our students for simple well-paid jobs like software testing, while helping them grow into more advanced roles.
Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
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.

Leonid Gluzman

Investment focus

Beauty, FinTech, Consumer
Funding Round
Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

Henkel Ventures is Henkel’s corporate venture capital engagement, combining all venture activities across the company’s three business units (Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care). Henkel Ventures actively evaluates and manages equity investments and joint development projects with start-up companies to explore newtechnologies, applications and business models in areas of strategic interest for Henkel.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani) — LoveLocal (formerly known as m.Paani) is the only app you need for all your daily needs fulfilled by your trusted local shops online. Now enjoy the convenience of online ordering, Fast home delivery, digital payments - all at a tap of a button. Shop anytime, anywhere from a vast range of products including fresh fruits, vegetables, groceries, OTCMedicines, Home and Personal Care Products, snacks, and much more. So LoveLocal!
Feelit — Feelit Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli based Industry 4.0 company operating in the field of Predictive Maintenance. The Company has developed and provides a unique nanomaterials ink-based sensing technology, combining a printed sticker sensor and proprietary analytics, that can detect parameter changes and predict upcoming failures in industrial and process systems. Feelit enables real-time insights, empowering manufacturers to transform the way they manage their critical assets, providing value to users through improved uptime, as well as reduced asset cost of ownership, and safety risks.The patented end-to-end agile, IIoT sensing and analytics solutions can be deployed and scaled across a diversity of environments for sustainable manufacturing.
Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.

Anjos do Brasil is a angel investor network dedicated to foster angel investment for supporting inovative entrepreneurs in Brazil. It was founded by Cassio Spina, a entrepreneur and a angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry (see more at http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cassio-spina-3) .Receivingsupport of major brazilian institutions related to entrepreneurship and investments, such as Endeavor Brasil, ABVCAP, BM&F BOVESPA, FIESP/CJE, Brazil Innovators, etc., Anjos do Brasil is commited to connect investors with entrepreneurs in order to help growing new business in Brazil.We do also keep relationship with major VC investment funds, in order to exchange investment opportunities between our members and them. Anjos do Brasil is advised by a seasoned board of advisors, that support our strategic actions for promoting our vision.We promote events between our members and some also for entrepreneurs, for both educating the community and connecting people, to empower their relationsIf you wish to contact us, please, visit our site at www.anjosdobrasil.net and leave a message.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Re Petit — Re Petit is an e-commerce company that offers children's items such as clothing, accessories, shoes, toys, and utensils. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Sao Paulo.
Prol Educa — Proleduca is an educational inclusion program that provides student with access to partial scholarships. It was created with the objective of giving an opportunity for students who can not afford the full amount of tuition. Approved candidates are being directed to the institution with the possibility of receiving a benefit that can reach a 100%discount in the value of the monthly payments.Proleduca was founded in 2015 and is based in Pernambuco, Brazil.
Kor Solutions — KOR Solutions is an IT company that offers software through B2B models to facilitate bureaucratic and legal data processing for companies.

Stephanie Truan

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Software
Pre-Seed
Chile

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.

Finaves brings together IESE expertise, investors and entrepreneurs to foster new enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Recruiting
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, Argentina, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

BusUp — BusUp is a mobility service provider that specializes in efficient and flexible corporate commuting services, and is the first company in the world to offer shared corporate shuttle services. Established in 2016, BusUp is already a global company that is currently fully operational in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America for large corporations suchas Accenture, Roche, Siemens, Cognizant, Nestlé, DXC Technologies, Louis Vuitton, etc. Thanks to its technology and its innovative business model BusUp has disrupted a very traditional and low digitized sector, bringing efficiency and convenience to all its stakeholders: passengers, clients, operators, and public administration. Since its inception, BusUp has partnered with more than 150 operators and attended more than 100 clients, exceeding 500,000 passengers worldwide. To learn more about BusUp, visit www.busup.com.
Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
Clevergy — We unlock energy insights to everyone through energy retailers

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, Chile, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kuorum — Kuorum provides solutions for electronic voting. Our clients organize telematic shareholders meetings, assemblies, elections and other secure and legal processes since 2013. Kuorum complies with the European Regulation of Electronic Identification (REU 910/2014), with the National Security Scheme according to RD 3/2010, ISO/IEC27001/2014 audited by AENOR. Our technology is the result of more than five years of research and development in the field of security and usability. And we provide custom support, paying attention to the particularities of each client and advising their teams in technological, as well as legal and strategic aspects.
Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

Harvard Management Company is an organization that manages the financial investments of the Harvard University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.
Source — Discover SOURCE Water, a renewable, clean drinking water solution made possible by the power of Hydropanels

Spice Capital is funding businesses solving problems for the next generation of internet-native consumers.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.
Symphony — Symphony is the easiest way to grow your views, streams, and subscribers. Smart automated marketing, all on-the-go.
HOPE Hydration — Refill Your Next Adventure. HOPE Hydration reimagines the drinking water fountain experience to bring free, filtered water to events, cities, venues + more.

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
Estimated Inc. — A new world for artists

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

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

e-NNOVVA designs and develops media advertising campaigns. They offers web development, mobile application, and online marketing strategy services.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Funding Round
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Almashopping — Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.

ChileGlobal Angels is an international angel investor network based in Chile. They look for early stage startups in a broad range of industries. They have invested in internet, energy and biotech companies in Chile and US.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Big Data, Market Research
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Relif — Using Open Finance & AI, we enable individuals to refinance their consumer credits with various institutions in a few clicks by consolidating information, structuring a solution, and then integrating with banks for them to deliver it. Combining this with financial education, we reduce their financial burden, generate a real impact on theirfinances, and improve their quality of life.
Snuuper — Snuuper is a tech platform that provides companies and brands valuable information, nationwide (Latin America), from any of their physical point of sales (or their competitors). Snuuper uses its community of more than 250,000 real shoppers to crowdsource the data gathering process. Shoppers use Snuuper mobile app to visit stores, answer questionsor provide shopper feedback for its clients in exchange for cash rewards. Clients have access to a cloud-based dashboard with the results (pictures, geolocation, and all the answers) in real time. Snuuper uses algorithms, bots, and a team to verify all results to ensure the information quality. Crowdsourcing the data gathering process is faster, cheaper, and 100% cloud-based, unlike traditional options. The solutions and services include Mystery Shopper, Price Track, Store Checks, Below the Line (BTL) Audit, and Advertising Monitoring, among others.
BePretty — Bepretty is an online guide that enables women to search, discover, and book beauty appointments. It also allows professionals to expand their businesses by promoting and managing them online. Bepretty was launched in April 2015 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
Series A
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Elenas — Elenas is Latin America's top social commerce platform. Our platform has empowered tens of thousands of women across Colombia to launch online businesses and earn extra income by selling products on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. Currently, 11 million women across Latin America sell consumer good products through direct salescatalogs and door-to-door sales. Elenas provides a digital solution for them to start an online store, manage clients, and grow their business from home, without having to worry about product sourcing, delivery, or payment collection.

BR Angels is a private non-profit association, made up of a limited number of members, individuals, and companies that focus on promoting the development of startups. It specializes in the fields of investment management, financial services, and finance. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

The Men's — The Men's offers scientifically proven products aimed at improving men's well-being. Their product range addresses common issues such as hair loss, beard patchiness, and skin wrinkles. The company's approach is to provide solutions that not only tackle these problems but also enhance overall wellness. Customers can easily reach outto the company for any queries or concerns, ensuring a smooth and satisfactory experience.
MinusSugar — MinusSugar uses biotechnology to remove sugars from beverages, creating healthier options without changing taste or quality.
Novvo Bem Estar — Novvo is a natural pre-drink that aids recovery and helps you stay productive after celebrations.

Donato Ramos

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Private Equity
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

B4A — B4A is redefining the beauty industry in Brazil, the world's 4th largest beauty market. We operate several business units, both B2C and B2B, such as Glambox, the largest beauty subscription service of LATAM, and Men's Market, the largest male-focused beauty e-commerce of Brazil.
Anna Pegova — Anna Pegova is a specialist in treating skins and the balance and stability of the concentrated and high-performance assets ensure immediate and prolonged action, which makes a reference in dermo-cosmetics with results in the country. They provide products for skin care, skin types, face, eyes, lips, and more.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

Diego Rivera

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Software
Pre-Seed
Chile

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.

We invest in private companies in developing stages, both in Brazil and abroad, which hold a high growth potential leveraged by technology and innovation. We focus on minority investments, are agnostic in our investment thesis and aim at businesses that have validated product fit, proven go-to-market strategy and are already generating revenue.Welook for outstanding entrepreneurs that are interested to capitalize on our experience and network.

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer, Hardware
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Labenu_ — Labenu_ offers an online web programming course that focuses on employability.
B4A — B4A is redefining the beauty industry in Brazil, the world's 4th largest beauty market. We operate several business units, both B2C and B2B, such as Glambox, the largest beauty subscription service of LATAM, and Men's Market, the largest male-focused beauty e-commerce of Brazil.
Rentbrella — Rentbrella makes your relationship with the weather and city easier. A sharing ecosystem in the places with most movement.

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

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

Diego Noriega

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media
Angel
Chile

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

The Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, "la Caixa", is the result of the merger, in 1990, of the Caja de Pensiones, founded in 1904, and the Caja de Barcelona, founded in 1844. Since its beginnings, "la Caixa" was primarily dedicated to family saving and to offer all its clients an insurance for old age, when this type ofwelfare service still did not exist in Spain.Thus, since its origins, "la Caixa" has been characterised by a strong social commitment and a vocation to work in favour of the general interest, both through its financial activity and its Welfare Projects, which finance and maintain activities of a social, cultural and scientific nature.This vocation to serve has been maintained and consolidated throughout this period. Thus "la Caixa" is currently the leading savings bank in Spain and the third largest financial entity in the country. With a large network of more than 5,300 offices, almost 8,000 automatic cashpoint machines, a staff of more than 27,000 employees and more than 10,5 million clients, â€la Caixaâ€ has positioned itself as a leading entity and referent within the Spanish financial sector.The activity of the "la Caixa" Group is focused on a model of universal banking based on the strategy of multi-channel operations that enables it to efficiently combine the use of cutting-edge technologies and qualifications of the employees to provide the best and most complete service to the greatest number of clients.The "la Caixa" Group operated a total turnover of banking business of more than 415,000 million euros, on 31 December 2009, with total resources of clients of more than 231,000 million euros.With the aim of diversifying income and with the desire to take part in the development of companies that offer basic services to society, for many years now "la Caixa" has backed a strategy of investing in company holdings. The "la Caixa" Group currently has a large portfolio of industrial holdings in companies involved in the infrastructures, energy and communications sectors, among others, , through Criteria CaixaCorp.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, CAD, SaaS
Angel, Seed, Series B
Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

CL3VER — Award winning Barcelona startup, CL3VER is a cloud based platform that allows engineers, architects, and other design professionals to create interactive 3D presentations to engage clients and prospects throughout the complete sales and marketing cycle. CL3VER presentations offer an engaging way to explore design projects or products from anyangle and evaluate design alternatives. CL3VER presentations require no 3rd plugins to work on any device, thereby providing a ubiquitous experience for their customers in viral campaigns, online marketing, POS and Product configuration/personalization. In essence their technology is a WebGL and HTML5 based 3D engine. Interactive presentations created with CL3VER work in all browsers so the content can be shared via a link through emails, social media or they can be embedded on a website via iFrame. By importing 3D models from most common modeling software, CL3VER allow real-time 3D rendering in the cloud. The scene can be edited using highly realistic materials and by changing environment, lighting and cameras to create realistic scenes. Using the CL3VER API the scene become more interactive allowing the inclusion of animated annotations so the CL3VER scene itself contains all the useful information for the target user.
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
ChicPlace — ChicPlace is the online marketplace of the most chic boutiques. ChicPlace.com offers the opportunity to go shopping around different cities without moving from home and find a selection of unique products from small, stylish boutiques."How many times you didn’t know what to buy as a gift for a birthday and you ended up buying a typical scarffrom the typical department store that everyone is wearing? At ChicPlace you find inspiration and you have the possibility to buy for example an exclusive handmade foulard from a stylish boutique in Paris at good price and directly delivered to your home."At the same time ChicPlace offers small shops an easy and affordable platform to sell online and reach an international customers. Our business model is very simple, they keep a commission on every sale. They have other revenue streams thanks to other services they provide to shops, like online marketing and pop-up stores. How does it work? They have a very powerful in-house developed platform, totally integrated with shops and logistic partners, the the products go directly from the shops to the customers, they do not store or manage stocks and they have a positive cash flow. They Launched 2 years ago in April 2013 and they already have exclusivity contracts with 600 shops in Spain, France, Italy and other European countries. They are growing very fast, achieving great results and improving our KPI's. After the success in Europe, they e are testing the model in Colombia before expanding into Latin America.

Emanuel is a founding partner of East Los Capital, a technology-enabled private equity firm. Prior to East Los Capital, he invested at Sunstone Partners focusing on cloud, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, internet, and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he was a Commissioner for Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions.Emanuel's early career experiences include stints at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. Emanuel’s public sector experiences include serving in the U.S. Army and as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.Current investments of East Los Capital team: 66Degrees (66degrees.com), BeTheBeast (bethebeast.com), Breadware (breadware.com), Bump by Ownors (usebump.com), Caylent (caylent.com), DiDi (didiglobal.com), dotstudioPRO (dotstudiopro.com), Everyset (everyset.com), Fernish (fernish.com), Finix (finix.com), FLYR (flyrlabs.com), Functional Finance (functionalfi.com), Glitzi (glitzi.com.mx), Lorals (mylorals.com) Lynx Biosciences (lynx.bio), MagicLinks (magiclinks.com), myLAB Box (mylabbox.com), Nadine West (nadinewest.com), Nevados Engineering (nevados.co), Orca Inventory (orcainventory.com), Ordermark (ordermark.com), RealKey (realkey.com), Repurpose (repurpose.com), Revry (revry.tv), Rosalind Bio (rosalind.bio), Sabio (sabio.la), Signalwire (signalwire.com), Synctera (synctera.com), Tampon Tribe (tampontribe.com), Tradewell (tradewell.app), TRM Labs (trmlabs.com), ZenHub (zenhub.com)Team exited investments: Basepaws (Zoetis acq), Capillary Biomedical (Tandem Diabetes Care acq), IKizmet (ClubReady acq), Passfolio (SproutFi acq), Pasturebird (Perdue Farms acq)

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Collaboration
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

ZenHub — ZenHub helps your teams get more done faster with time-saving agile automations, fewer meetings, and more visibility in GitHub.
Sabio.la — Sabio coding bootcamp will prepare you to be an industry-ready software engineer so that you can transition to a successful career in tech.
Nextbite — No more tablets! All online orders, one printer. Generate More Orders & Revenue For Your Restaurant! $0 To Startup / Free Setup / $0 Hardware/month / Risk-Free / 24/7 Support / No Commitments.

FEA Angels is a venture capital and private equity firm and its acts as a bridge between investors and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gryfo — We provide our Face Recognition Platform to integrate on your technological solution, efficiently and economically, through Artificial Intelligence applied to Computer Vision, in a practical way to drive innovation in your business.
Kultua — Somos a Kultua, uma startup B2B focada em Gestão de Pessoas, Cultura & People Analytics.Nossa missão é transformar as relações e experiências de trabalho, potencializando culturas que aproximem colaboradores e empresas, promovendo um ambiente corporativo integrado, colaborativo e focado em resultados.Desde então, temos modelado, testado,validado e aprimorado nossa solução, uma plataforma de engajamento de colaboradores e reforço à cultura meta da empresa. Estamos nos sendo lançados pelo Founder Institute, em nov/20.
Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.

DVC is the collective umbrella of specialized syndicates that invest in companies from pre-seed through pre-IPO. Our investment team comes from diverse backgrounds and are founders and operators.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blingg — Blingg is a subscription-based privileges platform for Brand partners and Corporate clients that curates the best brands, exclusive offers, rewards, and trials.
Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.

Nina Khosla

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer, Wellness
Funding Round
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Nobli — Nobli is a fintech that helps investors use their financial assets to secure special terms credit.
CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.