Top 25 CleanTech Startup Investors in LATAM in December 2024
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 CleanTech Startup Investors in LATAM in December 2024
Investor | CleanTech LATAM investments |
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NXTP Ventures | 3 |
NXTP Ventures | 3 |
CVENTURES | 3 |
The Yield Lab LATAM | 2 |
CRP Companhia de Participações | 2 |
CapTable | 2 |
DGF Investimentos | 2 |
Bossa Invest | 2 |
Alaya Capital | 2 |
Xperiment | 1 |
The Yield Lab | 1 |
William McDonough | 1 |
William McDonough | 1 |
Green Rock | 1 |
Innova Memphis | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
Global Environment Fund Management | 1 |
iThink Investment Inc. | 1 |
Wayra | 1 |
Ideas Impact VC | 1 |
Kamay Ventures | 1 |
Salkantay Ventures | 1 |
Emerald Technology Ventures | 1 |
Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures | 1 |
Orbit Startups | 1 |
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Our mission is to develop these ventures from capital assets, networking and mentoring in reference to innovation environments in the country, such as universities, research institutes, incubators and technology parks.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Hariken — Every second a website produces thousands of information about each visitor such as, pages accessed, interests, purchases made, origin, time, among others. With this information collected and targeted, Hariken can generate profiles and organize them by creating a strategic big date. In addition, Hariken allows this data to be used in the mainactivation tools: CRMs, Email Marketing, Yahoo / Oath / Doubleclick, Appnexus, and even Facebook and Instagram. Hariken not only collects and organizes information but also works so that the manager has full control of all the data generated in the company and the freedom to access them whenever they want. Hariken is a data hub and the possibilities are endless. Some cross data online with Offline, others exchange data with partner companies; lease data from non-competing companies to strengthen their campaigns, etc. Anyway, the data is yours and the decision on how best to take advantage of them as well.
- Sensorweb — Sensorweb is a technology company that develops solutions with the Internet of Things for Health, connecting environments, devices, and people. Sensorweb helps institutions in their journey of success, through innovation and excellence of its services.
- Wevo — Wevo is the first iPaaS in Latin America, a SaaS platform for APIs, systems and data integrations, with pre-built connectors to connect different kinds of softwares like Magento, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Zendesk, VTEX, Rakuten, Mercado Livre, among other applications, with customers in 10 countries.
We are the AgriFoodTech Venture Capital firm with the largest presence and experience across Latin America.Founded in 2017 and with offices in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, our team is investing in companies based in Latin America in the whole food and agriculture innovation spectrum, from farm to fork.The Yield Lab Latam is part of The YieldLab, a global network of Venture Capital funds, which initiated activities in 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri. Now has regional operations across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- umgrauemeio — We developed a methodology to tackle wildfires in their early stages by providing specific and proper technology to assist the main 5 operational pillars of wildfire combat and turned it into a tangible cycle that monitors and provides real-time solutions to act on prevention, detection, communication, mobilization, and fire combat planning.
CRP Companhia de Participações is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-ups, early stage, PIPES, industry consolidation, growth capital and mezzanine financing in emerging companies. It invests across a wide range of sectors, specially information technology, biotechnology, and Internet. The firm prefers to invest inBrazil with a focus on state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the southern and southeastern regions of Brazil. It typically invests between $1.4 million and $35.3 million in its portfolio companies with enterprise values upto $70.68 million. The firm prefers to invest in companies with a sales value between R$3 million ($1.65 million) and R$150 million ($82.32 million). The firm typically prefers to hold a minority stake in its portfolio companies. It seeks to exit its investments between four to eight years. The firm also offers financial services with a focus on fund raising, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring for both its portfolio companies and third party businesses. CRP Companhia de Participações was founded on December 22, 1981 and is based in Porto Alegre, Brazil with an additional office in Florianopolis, Brazil.
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- Software, Computer, CleanTech
- Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- uMov.me — UMov.me is a mobile application platform for building enterprise mobile applications without programming.Launched in January 2011, uMov.me pioneered the technology platforms of corporate mobility in the cloud segment, serving more than 10,000 users in more than one hundred clients, as Allis, Claro, DIPAM, Filtralub, City Hall canoes, InterCity,Nissin, Stemac and Top Target, surpassing in 2012 the milestone of 1 million and 600 000 field operations and having more than 50 partners in Brazil and five other countries.
- ALavadeira — A lavanderia por assinatura para toda a sua roupa.
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.
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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.
DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
- Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.
- Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- escala — la plataforma todo en uno de marketing y venta.
- Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Water, Farming, Software
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Agrired — Agrired is a an ag-inputs e-trading market based on a B2B concept. In Argentina, it has been operating since 2017, where hundreds of companies raised billions of dollars per year. In 2021, Agrired opened a branch in Brazil, the second biggest market for ag-inputs in the world. Its desembarkation was under the name of “AgriAcordo”. One of its majoradded values is that demands orders are upload to the platform (instead of offer intentions), and are announced to all the users by alerts. The platform uses a system of "dutch auction" to carry out buyers needs and matches orders between offers and demands. All the transactions are recorded by a software inhouse developed and analyse by Business Intelligence to elaborate metrics and statistics of orders, offers, demands, prices and volumes of agro supplies. This information is display real time in the platform. Agrired provides boost and create business opportunities for agro providers. This is why Agrired is an electronic market not an agro Marketplace.
The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M.
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- Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Seedz — Seedz - Home - Empresas
- Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
- NanobOx — We use a low-voltage electric field to generate nanobubbles directly in water; significantly reducing the energy cost compared to conventional methods.
William McDonough is the Co-Founder of MBDC.
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- CleanTech, Environmental Consulting
- Funding Round
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Triciclos — We generate capabilities , spaces and procedures to take charge of our waste responsibly providing materials that can be recycled in the domestic market . We create opportunities to change the way we view and treat our waste . Everyone can be a part , just enough to want to participate!
William McDonough is the Co-Founder of MBDC.
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- CleanTech, Environmental Consulting
- Funding Round
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Triciclos — We generate capabilities , spaces and procedures to take charge of our waste responsibly providing materials that can be recycled in the domestic market . We create opportunities to change the way we view and treat our waste . Everyone can be a part , just enough to want to participate!
Our family mission is to protect and perpetuate family values through investments that ensure a solid future for future generations and guarantee that they understand the responsibility of their heritage.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Omens — Omens is a telehealth company dedicated to men's healthcare.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
- Sanar — 26K Followers, 709 Following, 489 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sanar (@sanar)
Founded in 2007 by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Innova is a pre-seed, seed and early-stage investor focused on starting and funding high-growth companies in the Biosciences, Technology and AgBio fields across the state of Tennessee. Innova links capital with great ideas to create groundbreaking products and services.At Innova we invest instart-up companies, help them grow, and then assist them in linking with established corporations for licensing, buy-outs or further investments. We provide the synergy of experienced management, market expertise and venture capital to accelerate the development of new products and services into viable business units that can stand on their own and then take their place with a mature market leader, if desired.Whether an innovation is still on the drawing board or stalled in the market place the Innova staff has the expertise, skills, and experience to envision and create a functioning business unit that is prepared to thrive in the market place. Technical know-how, market-proven staffing, and "just-right" funding assure the greatest chance possible for success.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Argentina, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rantizo — Fly more acres, deliver better service. The equipment, tools, and expertise you need to be the grower's first call for drone spray services.
- iYOTAH Solutions — Take your dairy operation to the next level. Our state of the art platform helps you save time, increase efficiencies and profits and unlock new opportunities.
- Glanris — Glanris developed a completely green, non-toxic, filtration media for water purification from an agriculture by-product. This agricultural product is grown around the world, is plentiful, and can be used locally to ensure clean drinking water in developing countries. It also gives local farmers a significant additional income source for a productthat today they are throwing away.This media has been independently tested over the last two years of development and is ready for production.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Global Environment Fund (GEF) is a global alternative asset manager established in 1990 to invest in high-growth clean energy, energy and resource efficiency, environmental, and sustainable natural resource management industries throughout the world. Our investments finance innovative businesses that deploy proven technologies, products and services that incrementally make the world economy run with less energy,
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Investment focus
- Energy, Forestry, Renewable Energy
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- OPTIMOZ — OPTIMOZ is a digital transformation company that enables enterprises and federal agencies to accelerate development and delivery of applications that engage customers and drive revenue. Our mission is simple - Empower customers to increase their delivery capabilities with the effective and efficient use of the technology. OPTIMOZ specializes in allaspects of Cloud Computing, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and Application Development leveraging on microservices and API architecture. OPTIMOZ has successfully helped its customers refactor and migrate applications to Amazon AWS Cloud and Container platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift. We have setup state of the art Agile DevSecOps development processes including CI/CD that allow our customers to deploy application releases on a zero downtime bases. OPTIMOZ is also an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner - https://aws.amazon.com/partners/find/partnerdetails/?n=Optimoz%2C%20Inc&id=001E000000gL4GhIAK
- Luminae Energia — Luminae has been in the market for 10 years and has established itself as an absolute reference in the national lighting and energy efficiency sector. Luminae has grown from 70% to 80% per year over these 10 years and today is the largest lighting company for Retail in Brazil, also having great performance in other segments such as Industrial,Logistics Sheds, Educational Establishments, Pharmacies, among others. many others. It was a pioneer in the implementation of a LED lamp factory in Brazil in 2014 with 100% of its own investment, bringing automated machines from Japan and having the advice of the largest LED manufacturer in the world, the Japanese company NICHIA, which is also the creator of LED technology.
- ESDS Software Solution Limited — ESDS, a premier cloud service provider in India, offers managed and datacenter services, ensuring seamless, secure, and scalable solutions for businesses of all
iThink Investment is an investment company based in Vancouver, BC.
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Investment focus
- Water, Farming, Software
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
- Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Ideas Impact VC
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Investment focus
- Water, Farming, Software
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
Kamay Ventures is the first corporate venture capital fund open to multiple corporations.
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- FinTech, Lending, Restaurants
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
We Invest in the best teams leveraging technology to solve the most pressing challenges in Latin America
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Education, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Peru, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
Emerald Technology Ventures specializes in clean technology venture capital. Founded in 2000, Emerald focuses on the areas of energy, water, and materials. From offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada, Emerald manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Germany, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
- Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
- Keto Software — Strategic portfolio management to steer you through your strategic initiatives in business. Our product Keto AI+ Platform helps you to manage all your OKRs, strategies and Programmes & project portfolios.
ALIVE Ventures is an impact investing fund manager that seeks to transform the lives of low-income communities across Latin America.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Machine Learning
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Peru, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BeeReaders — ## Build Setup
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- HYBRICO Energy Technologies Ltd. — HYBRICO was born to solve the three main challenges of the telecom industry in emerging markets worldwide: cost of energy, site availability and carbon footprint. We deliver the only end-to-end energy-as-a-service solution for both off-grid and bad-grid telecom sites. Through our leading-edge hybrid technology and our proprietary cloud-basemonitoring and control software we lower your OPEX, increase your cash flow, maximize your energy uptime (99.95% guaranteed) and reduce your carbon emissions all with zero initial investment. All your energy needs: infrastructure, fuelling, monthly utility bill and maintenance in a long-term fixed-price contract that allows you to better manage your operating costs. Run by experts with decades of field experience in designing high-uptime infrastructures and providing O&M services to thousands of telecom sites. We are cleantech and we are obsessed with achieving the lowest levelized cost of energy in the market. Through technology we make it profitable for you to reduce carbon emissions, increase connectivity and help save the planet. Lets welcome a greener, more connected future. HYBRICO: Green Uptime for Telecom Sites!
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
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