Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in LATAM

Investor	Beauty LATAM investments
Antai Ventures	5
CapTable	4
Fen Ventures	4
Canary	3
Kayyak Ventures	2
NXTP Ventures	2
TMT Investments	2
Alpha4 Ventures	2
Kaszek	2
Astella	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Cabiedes & Partners	2
Amador Holdings	2
ESADE BAN	1
la Caixa	1
2048 Ventures	1
Harvard Management Company	1
Cometa	1
Diego Noriega	1
Stephanie Truan	1
Act One Ventures	1
SCM Advisors	1
Redpoint eventures	1
JP Duque	1
Lolita Taub	1
Cathexis Ventures	1
ChileGlobal Angels	1
FEA Angels	1
James Park	1
Guilherme Bonifacio	1
Max Valdés	1
Jon Oringer	1
APEX Partners	1
AcNext Capital	1
Chile Ventures	1
Federico Casas Alatriste	1
Meesho	1
BR Angels	1
INSEADAlum Ventures	1
Prasanna Srikhanta	1
Henkel Ventures	1
Edward Lando	1
Jon Oringer	1
Helena Polyblank	1
Nina Khosla	1
Ennovva	1
Finaves	1
Jon Oringer	1
Pareto Holdings	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, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Kunzapp — Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año.
Destácame — Destacame is the first behavior-based credit score in Latin America.
Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.

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

Portfolio highlights

Robbin — Robbin is leading a revolution to change how 21 million SMBs fund $2.5 trillions in B2B Payments. Employing an innovative underwriting approach, Robbin leverages BRL 3 trillion in card receivables as collateral to underwrite a one-of-a-kind business credit card for underserved entrepreneurs.
Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
Loads — Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers.Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to+20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.

Venture Capital and Impact Investing company with a focus on Seed and Series A investments mainly based in Latin America.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Chile, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
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.
HealthAtom — HealthAtom is a healthcare software platform that design innovative healthcare solutions that allow the clinical industry to advance in the use of administrative technologies. They dentalink and medilink software for better healthcare services for patients.

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.

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

Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Brinta — Tax Compliance Solution for Latin America. Calculate, report and file your taxes in real-time with Brinta
GOPASS — GOPASS is a Mobility SuperApp
Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.

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

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.
Purple Metrics — Purple Metrics é o software de mensuração recorrente de branding para times de marketing visualizarem os resultados da sua marca.
Movens — Movens is a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce brands. We deeply understand the business to support entrepreneurs in their growth journey, solving working capital issues and cash flow fluctuations with affordable, flexible funding and insights with data intelligence.

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, Mobile
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.

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

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

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 MAKE ATTAINABLE LUXURY. TO BOOST SELF-ESTEEMS. TO INSPIRE WOMEN TO TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM. A CONCEPT WORTH TRYING. HANDMADE IN EUROPE. FROM BARCELONA TO THE WORLD.
Shalion — Shalion provides eCommerce data solutions to help global brands like Heineken, Kellogg's, AB Inveb, ISDIN, Revlon, Wella or Hasbro.Beyond traditional Digital Shelf analytics, Shalion has started a true revolution with an integrated solution that helps brands measure the success of their overall online Visibility and eRetail Media. This toolhelps to monitor all types of retail Ads, Search results (organic or paid), their share of shelf, and promotional activity across the top retailer sites worldwide. The experienced team allows Shalion to adapt fast to the evolving eCommerce landscape and that’s why innovative solutions to monitor Q-Commerce Apps and our Amazon Market Share solution have been also launched recently.
Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

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, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Colombia, Mexico, Chile

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.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
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.

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.

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.We are systemsthinkers, 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. If you are a mission-driven team, with strong founder market-fit and a vision for what the future should look like, then we would love to meet you. We love serial founders, but we are also very excited about being the first to believe in underdogs, immigrants, and diverse founders who are going on their first founder journey.2048 Ventures is the earliest stage venture capital firm. They are a team of founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. They provide capital and hands-on help for founders at the earliest stage.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Caravel Bio —
Neobe Therapeutics — Neobe Therapeutics provides immunotherapies, clinical trials, research, and tumor-colonizing bacteria engineering services.
TwoStep Therapeutics —

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

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.

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

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.

Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that focuses on investing in business software. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds. The team is made up of founders who understand the journey of building companies having founded and taken a company public.Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton formed the fund in Los Angeles, California in2016.Act One Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.Focus areas include e-commerce infrastructure software, Vertical SaaS and Fintech

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Heard Technologies — Heard combines smart software with real humans to handle accounting, payroll and taxes. We act as a trusted financial advisor for your private practice.

SCM Advisors (UK) Limited is a member of SCM Group, Ukraine’s leading financial and industrial group

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aggero — Uncover what consumers say about your brand and products by using our AI-video listening tool. Now, you can understand why your influencer video marketing is effective and you can truly optimize it
SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
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.

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.

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

Lolita Taub is a General Partner and Founder of Ganas Ventures, a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an Enterprise Fund Investment Partner at Portfolia.Lolita is also a Co-Founder of the Startup-Investor Matching Tool, a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and an LP at Operators Collective. Forbes and Inc Magazine have featuredher as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders.She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.

Investment focus

Software, Beauty, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

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
Boostly — Boostly automatically collects & analyzes customer data for restaurants from a variety of sources (including POS, in-store kiosks, online ordering, loyalty programs, 3rd party delivery orders, WiFi, and QR codes) and then leverages text messaging to drive incremental visits from those customers. Boostly then brings new customers to therestaurant and generates high quality reviews & feedback.Boostly's platform is completely automated & learns from the engagement of consumers to have smarter targeting on a weekly basis.
BlueCargo — BlueCargo is a predictive algorithm platform that brings visibility to optimize operations in seaport terminals. Their proprietary predictive algorithms streamline container management to increase terminal’s productivity while reducing operational costs and enhancing the quality of the service.

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

SaaS, Beauty, Consumer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

bnyou — bnyou offers beauty services like home care. They serve massage, hair, beard, manicure, makeup, waxing, skin cleaning, and others. They provide beauty delivery services via the app. Scheduling is done through their app in a few clicks. Their purpose is to provide autonomy, freedom, and acknowledgment to beauty professionals while providing comfort,convenience, and quality services to clients.
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.
Tindin Educação Financeira — The Tindin platform is a digital educational electronic allowance portfolio that enables parents and caregivers to set up assignments and assignments to reward children in a child-friendly environment. Within the platform the child is presented on a continuous basis to the good practices of personal and family financial management, developing theirfinancial proficiency.

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

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

Max Valdés

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.

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

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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, Home Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MyDoor — MyDoor is a proptech startup building the practice of co-owning a Vacation Home with full hospitality services.
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.

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.

Admiramos a los fundadores

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nutrix — The future of glucose monitoring
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.

Federico Casas Alatriste - Partner @ 0BS

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Mobile
Angel
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

STYLERZ — There are different marketplaces for beauty salons online but still 99% of bookings are done by phone because nobody has realized that the real problem is not finding a salon but finding the right stylist. What’s unique about our platform is that you can find and book with each stylist, because they are the star attraction of the salon, and you canactually see the salon profile, ranking, examples of their work with pictures of their customers, and you can look for the best stylist in every salon near you. The salon owner can add their team and show their talent to attract new clients.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Inspectral — Inspectral offers environmental consulting solutions with technology via data intelligence, monitoring, analysis, and integrated technology.
Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
EPIC Digitais — EPIC Digitais is a corporate transmedia projects.

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

Prasanna Srikhanta

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer, Security
Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Hakimo — Hakimo automatically resolves false alarms so that your existing GSOC operators can handle more alarms as your company grows.

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.

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Taclia — We help companies manage all their repair and maintenance
Apartool — housing supplier with accommodation for staff
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

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 — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
POSH — Event marketing made easy.
Malla — Malla concentrates on overprescribed band-aid remedies and symptoms. When we look at things in silos, we get locked in a revolving door of doctor appointments and feel misunderstood. Functional medicine looks at the whole person to optimize your health and treat the core reason, or why, behind your symptoms.