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Top 50 Climate Angel Investors in LATAM in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Climate startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Climate Angel Investors in LATAM in November 2024

Investor	Climate LATAM investments
Bhavik Bajaj	4
Matias Muchnick	3
Carlos Pacheco	2
Carlos Rodriguez	2
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez	2
Tarek Alaruri	1
Tiago Dalvi	1
Javier Cueto Soto	1
Sebastian Mejia	1
Kyle Lui	1
Rodrigo Rodrigues	1
Wolfgang Schuch	1
Fabian Gomez Gutierrez	1
Camila Farani	1
Jun Hwang	1
William McDonough	1
William McDonough	1
Simon Borrero	1
Abhi Ramesh	1
Edward Lando	1
Stefan florea	1
Ignacio Smith	1
Landon Ainge	1
Matias de Tezanos	1
Eduardo Mufarej	1
Tom Chi	1
Parker Treacy	1
Leonardo Borrero	1
Jon Oringer	1
Juan David Jaramillo	1
Fabricio Bloisi	1
Nathan Lustig	1
Mauricio Pretto	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Pablo Castaño	1
Sharon Paskin	1
Kevin Efrusy	1
Fernando Pontaza	1
Paulo Alexandre Lopes	1
Jon Oringer	1
Felipe Villamarin	1
Immad Akhund	1
Hamish Shephard	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Michael Lehmann	1
Fabio Dutra	1
Eduardo Nadelman	1
Bruno Rebouças	1
Jose Jair Bonilla	1
Cácio Packer	1

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Bhavik Bajaj

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
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Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Sustainability, B2C
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Chile, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Angel Investor IBGC - Certified Board Member

Investment focus

Energy, Blockchain, Renewable Energy
Seed, Debt Financing
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

FOHAT — FOHAT, an Energy Intelligence company, is changing the energy sector with innovative solutions by allowing integration of distributed energy resources (iDER) and new solutions for energy trading (P2P TE).

Carlos Rodriguez

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile, Denmark, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

Carlos Carrillo Alvarez - CIO & Founder @ SmartMining

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

SmartMining — Somos una empresa de tecnologías de la información aplicada al mundo industrial y minero. Llevamos inteligencia a los procesos con el objetivo de optimizar el uso de recursos críticos, generando ahorros y aumento de productividad.

Tarek Alaruri is the CEO and Co-Founder at Stuut. Former Co-Founder at COO at Fairmarkit

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Chile, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atopile — Atopile develops tools for crafting electronic circuit board designs using code. By replacing the traditional point-and-click schematic interface with code, they bring software development methodologies such as reuse, validation, and automation into the realm of electronics.
TollBit — The platform for AI content licensing at scale. TollBit helps you monitor AI traffic, manage licensing deals & monetize your content in the AI era.
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.

Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.

Investment focus

FinTech, Fruit, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Destaxa — Épico provides a financial services marketplace to brick and mortar retailers.
Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers

Javier Cueto Soto is the CEO of Imagine Lab and Director of Latam Ventures Club & AcelerAP.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Beeok — Beeok is a GreenTech Company that develops Software Solutions for Sustainability. Beeok is a B2B SaaS software for environmental, health and safety law compliance and other corporate sustainability solutions.
Wenu Work — Wenu Work developed IoT technology in order to help companies become more productive and sustainable, through energy efficiency. With easy-to-install sensors and user-friendly platforms, Wenu Work provides valuable tools in order to enable better decision making within companies in terms of energy efficiency, operational efficiency of criticalassets, energy cost allocation throughout the business units across a company, communication to stakeholders regarding sustainability, etc.
BioPub-WriteWise — WriteWise is a software that will help you write, analyze, and edit your next paper with intelligent feedback. By scientists for scientists, free Abstract demo.

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce

Kyle Lui has 2 current jobs as General Partner at Bling Capital and Investor at Chia Network. Additionally, Kyle Lui has had 6 past jobs including Series B Investor at Amber Group. He attended Harvard Business School and the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Series C
United States, Mexico, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Calii — Calii is the #1 rated grocery delivery app in LATAM: ultra-fresh produce and thousands of grocery and convenience items delivered on-demand at below-retail prices.How? We connect directly to local producers -- bypassing 5-7 layers of middlemen -- and automate away inefficiencies in the supply chain. We fulfill via our network of dark-stores andaggregate demand via social, gamified deals.
Elemy — Elemy is the nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare. Every child is different. At Elemy, we believe care should never be one-size-fits-all. Chat with us about in-home, personalized care for your child.
All Day Kitchens — Virtual Kitchen operates as a platform that empowers restaurants to take full advantage of the delivery opportunity. Its delivery-optimized kitchens and technology unlock delivery coverage with minimal upfront investment. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rodrigo Rodrigues

Investment focus

Waste Management
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

B4Waste — B4Waste is a food waste management company.

Wolfgang Schuch

Investment focus

Farming, Chemical, Agriculture
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Botanical Solutions — BSI produces plant-based biofungicides for sustainable agriculture & advanced botanical materials for the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21

Founder & CEO of Frubana. Former Rappi Expansion Leader. Former McKinsey consultant.

Investment focus

Information Technology, B2B, Beauty
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Camila Farani

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Education
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
Um Bom App — Um Bom App is a technology solution providing company that helps to reduce wastage of food.
Sirius Education — Sirius Education is an training institute that provide training on developing softs skills.

Ex-Tesla head of product (solar), engineering manager. Ex-Google, Apple and Disney.

Investment focus

Energy, Restaurants, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

William McDonough is the Co-Founder of MBDC.

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

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!

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

Abhi Ramesh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Misfits Market.

Investment focus

Fruit, Grocery, Food Delivery
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

Investment focus

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

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.

Stefan florea is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Valoreo. Attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Energy, Sustainability, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Ignacio Smith

Investment focus

Farming, Chemical, Agriculture
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Botanical Solutions — BSI produces plant-based biofungicides for sustainable agriculture & advanced botanical materials for the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21

Landon Ainge is the Managing Director at Assure Syndicates.

Investment focus

Internet, Industrial, Manufacturing
Series A
Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacon — Bacon is a temp agency alternative for all your temp hiring needs. Find local temp workers near you all in a simple online app. Bacon has on-demand workers for several different industries.
Solubag — Solubag is a packaging products manufacturing company.

Matias de Tezanos is the Investor & Board Director at Getaround.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Advertising, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series E
United States, Guatemala, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
AutoWeb — AutoWeb operates as an automotive marketing services company that helps automotive retail dealers and manufacturers that sell new and used vehicles through its Internet lead referral and online advertising programs. The company's lead programs include new vehicle lead program that allows consumers to submit requests for pricing andavailability of specific makes and models, used vehicle lead program, which allows consumers to search for used vehicles according to specific search parameters, such as the price, make, model, mileage, year, and location of the vehicle; and finance lead program designed to provide consumers opportunity to obtain vehicle financing and other services. Its consumer-facing automotive Web sites, which include Autobytel.com, Autoweb.com, AutoSite.com, Car.com, CarSmart.com, CarTV.com, and MyRide.com, provide consumers the information and tools to aid them in their automotive purchase decisions, and the opportunity to submit lead requests. The company was formerly known as autobytel.com Inc.AutoWeb was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
Orionis Biosciences — Orionis Biosciences is a life sciences company pioneering technological innovation in genome-scale drug discovery and tunable molecular design of novel therapeutic drug modalities.

Eduardo Mufarej built his career in private equity and education as an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of Tarpon Investimentos, one of Brazil’s largest independent investment managers. He served on several boards and was Chairman of Somos Educação and Omega Energia Renovável. From 2014 until 2018 Eduardo led the largest k-12company in Latin America, Abril Educação, which he managed until the sale of the company to Kroton Educacional in October 2018. After the sale, Eduardo created Renova, a project focused on selecting and training a new generation of leaders in Brazilian politics. Since its creation, the program has supported and trained over 2000 individuals in Brazil, helping to elect 176 of its students. This effort awarded Eduardo the prize Brazilian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. In early 2020, Eduardo co-founded Galena, a company that supports and trains individuals for their first jobs. Eduardo is a member of the advisory board of the Wilson Institute, in Washington, DC, of the Yale University SOM Council of Global Advisors and a fellow at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author of the book Jornada Improvável (Unlikely Journey, 2021).

Investment focus

EdTech, Genetics, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Alicerce — Alicerce is a social impact platform designed to support middle-class education. It offers an educational solution, focused on what is most important and promotes the social ascension of Brazilian families.The company is driven by a mission to provide a successful opportunity for all young Brazilians through quality education.Alicerce wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Tom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. Tom is a co-creator of OK/Cancel, and has published over200 comic strips about user experience in a variety of online and printed publications.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Analytics, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ignite Holding Company Inc. — Kingo provides decentralized solar energy services to families and businesses in off-grid villages across the world; turning their lives ON towards a better future.
Coral Vita — Coral Vita works to restore our world's dying and damaged reefs. By growing diverse and resilient corals and transplanting them into threatened reefs, we help preserve the ocean's biodiversity while protecting the health and prosperity of communities, nations, and industries, and nations that depend on reefs for coastal protection, food, and income.
UPSIDE Foods — Growing real meat directly from animal cells.

Founder at Cobli.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling

Leonardo Borrero

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
TuPlaza —

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

13 + years of experience in real estate development. He was part of the management team in one of the most important construction companies in Colombia that had more than US$250M annual sales. Early Stage Investor in several of the most important startups in Latin America (Rappi, Chiper, Torre).

Investment focus

Energy, Sustainability, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Movile's Founder & CEO, Fabricio Bloisi turned Movile from a startup in a garage in Brazil into a global player in mobile marketplaces. Currently, Movile has over 1600 employees, 15 offices – based in 6 different countries – and serves monthly more than 150 million mobile customers worldwide. Bloisi majored in Computer Science at theState University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and concluded a Master degree in Business Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP) – his thesis gathers High-Growth startups, Innovations and Strategy. Bloisi has also concluded the Executive Program for Growing Companies, Strategy, Finance, Leadership for companies in the growth phase at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His dream is to create a company that make's 1 billion lives better through Movile’s mobile businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
Brazil, Colombia, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
BioLinker — BioLinker is a production of synthetic biology, protein synthesis kits, and protein.
Mercadoni — Mercadoni operates an online shopping platform that allows customers to purchase from stores and supermarkets from their homes. It sells groceries, alcoholic beverages, and more. Antonio Nunes, Pedro Freire, Margarita Freitas, Francesco Lanzi and Nicolas Fernández Talice founded Mercadoni in 2015. It has its headquarters in Bogota in Colombia.

Nathan Lustig is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund based in US, Latin America and China that invests in fintech, insurtech and blockchain startups in Latin America and global startups with Latin American tech teams that target the US market. Originally from the US, he is a two-time entrepreneur withtwo exits and participated in the pilot round of Start-Up Chile, which brought him to Chile in 2010. Magma Partners has invested US$4M+ in 38 companies in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico Peru, and Argentina alongside partners from Chile, the US, and China.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Comrad — Energizing compression socks for women and men. Boost circulation with 15-25mmHg graduated compression. More energy and comfort. Prevent swelling, varicose veins, and pain. 30-Day Risk Free. Free Shipping and Exchanges. Wearable wellness that works.
S-Save — Be smart, be sustainable
FounderList — FounderList is an online platform to invest in high impact Latin American startups.

Mauricio Pretto, a visionary entrepreneur, angel investor, writer, traveler, explorer, and restless spirit, is affectionately referred to by his clients and friends as the Sales Jedi.Pretto has a 25-year trajectory in the market, marked by a solid reputation for delivering exceptional results in highly competitive markets. He possesses a uniquecombination of strategic thinking, operational excellence, and people leadership skills that enable him to build and lead high-performance teams that consistently exceed goals. Pretto has a unique ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve their objectives.Recognized as a Top Voice on LinkedIn on the subject of commercial management, he regularly writes on his profile on the network, where he shares valuable content on topics such as sales strategies, leadership, artificial intelligence, and business growth. His approaches are always with a vision of leadership focused on results and collaborative approach.He is the author of the innovative book in the Brazilian market, "Nobody Wants to Buy from You, Now What?", which introduces for the first time a methodology and a sales framework focused on high-impact growth in the Brazilian market. After 25 years of many "nos", Pretto shared his journey and knowledge so that others can achieve results like his, which today has already sold over 1 billion dollars.Pretto is curious, adventurous, and passionate. He has visited the 7 continents of our mother planet, explored more than 100 countries where he seeks to capture moments through his passion for photography and understand how human relations in different places in the world can impact personal and professional relationships. On his travels, he is always accompanied by his wife, Cira Helena, and whenever possible, by his dogs, Pretta and Bartô.

Investment focus

FinTech, Apps, SaaS
Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Setfin — Setfin specializes in offering financial solutions for micro and small entrepreneurs.
Volters — At Volters, our primary commitment is to democratize access to clean energy. We've devised a simple concept where anyone can participate as a generator, consumer, or investor in clean energy, contributing to a sustainable transition. Our scalable approach aims to positively impact the energy landscape, expanding opportunities for all.Interms of our business model, Volters introduces an innovative and scalable approach, bringing everyone into the clean energy arena. We champion the democratization of clean energy, leveraging state-of-the-art cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning infrastructure. This places our product at the forefront of technological advancement.To simplify our financial operations, consumers' payments are directed to generators, who may also be investors. Upon receiving funds, these generators or investors are automatically presented with another opportunity to invest in sustainability. This cycle ensures that profits consistently drive green initiatives. Essentially, Volters is not just a bank; it's a fintech wholly dedicated to impact investments and committed to sustainability.In summary, Volters is on a mission to make clean energy accessible and inclusive. Our innovative business model, coupled with cutting-edge technology, positions us as a pioneering force in the clean energy transition. The simplicity of our financial operations ensures a continuous cycle of investment in sustainability, solidifying our commitment to a greener future for all.
Fluence — Close sales faster with personalized outreach & targeted messaging powered by AI. Fluence helps you resonate with customers and convert leads quicker. Tailored sales communication for maximum impact.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

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.
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.

Pablo Castaño

Investment focus

Industrial, Real Estate, Construction
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

WAS Company — WAS Company started in June 2019, focuses on the development of new sustainable building materials, with negative carbon and circular economy, based the transformation of plastic, construction and mining waste. Satisfying the environmental objectives of the mining and cement industries, providing low- emission materials, with better properties andat a competitive price.Science-based company for the development of solutions for the construction industry. MISSION: WAS Co focuses on the development of new sustainable building materials from the transformation of plastic, construction, and mining waste. VISION: Become a worldwide reference of excellence in the use of industrial waste for the creation of sustainable construction materials.

Sharon Paskin

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Hardware
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

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.
Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Fernando Pontaza is a Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Invariantes Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ecuador, Guatemala

Portfolio highlights

Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Picker — On-demand delivery gateway.
Atom Computing — Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California.

Paulo Alexandre Lopes is the Managing Director at oddsgate. Paulo Alexandre Lopes attended IPAM.

Investment focus

SaaS, Boating, Gambling
Pre-Seed
Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

ODDSGATE — With an open, API based platform and built in a modular way, allowing for stability, scalability, and flexibility. Our founding team with more than 15 years of experience in out-of-the-box solutions, or products like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), we are stepping into the Igaming industry with the goal to deliver a cutting edge and competitiveiGaming platform, focused on the regulated markets.
Espadarte Group — Espadarte is working on a new product that will transform the Brazilian nautical market. It is founded in 2021 and the Yachts yard is based in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.

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 — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Colombia, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

RxDiet — We engage the most vulnerable patients with medically tailored, fresh ingredient delivery and behavioral & dietary guidance. Cost-Controlled. Distributed Anywhere.
Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Substrate — We're building a unified API for open-source ML models – elegant abstractions, powered by fast, reliable, affordable systems. Explore infinite possibilities at the frontier of applied ML with dozens of lines of code, not hundreds or thousands.

Hamish Shephard is the Co-Founder of HelloFresh and Bridebook.

Investment focus

Fruit, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Convertible Note
Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Collective Equity Ownership — Collective Equity allows founders of high-growth tech companies to pool equity with each other, enabling them to share in each other's success and diversify some of their risk.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Michael Lehmann

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Hardware
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.

Fabio Dutra

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klavi — Klavi specializes in data analytics and open data connectivity that receives data securely, quickly, and scalable through a single API.
Mobilitee — Mobilitee is a corporate platform for managing and optimizing expenses with taxi and private services.Mobilitee is an early stage startup based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, focused on smart urban mobility. It is a B2B SaaS solution that comprises a mobile app for company employees, which works as a kind of "Trivago" of taxis and ride-hailingcorporte services, and a web dashboard for the company managers.
CarambolaTech — Platform of technological solutions and team training using agile methodology, inclusion and diversity.

Eduardo Nadelman

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Hardware
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.

Bruno Rebouças is a former Google employee and a former executive at Media.Monks, part of the S4 Capital Group.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cruze — Cruze is a solar energy company.

Jose Jair Bonilla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chiper.

Investment focus

B2B, Energy, Cooking
Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.