Top 10 Climate Startup Investors in Guatemala in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Climate startups based in Guatemala. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Guatemala. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Climate Startup Investors in Guatemala in November 2024

Investor	Climate Guatemala investments
PeopleFund	2
FMO	2
Tom Chi	1
Matias de Tezanos	1
Opes Impact Fund	1
Proparco	1
Wayra	1
Oikocredit International	1
Fernando Pontaza	1
E10	1

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PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companieswith the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com

Investment focus

Internet, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Guatemala, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kaptyn — Transforming the Las Vegas ride service experience for good by building a platform of sustainable vehicles and professional drivers.
Sostengo — Sostengo provides an application for insurance services.
Menlo Micro — Since 2016, Menlo Micro combines the strengths of the relay with the merits of the transistor, our revolutionary technology is smaller, faster, & more powerful.

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, The Netherlands, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Trans-Oil Group of Companies — Trans-Oil Group of Companies deals in vegetable oil, oilseeds crushing, grain storage, handling, commodities trading, and logistics.

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.

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.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, Finance
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Sonatel — The Sonatel group offers global telecommunications solutions in the fields of fixed, mobile, Internet, television and data serving individuals and businesses. Leader in Senegal, present in Mali since 2002, in Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau since 2007, Sonatel is the global and sub-regional operator of reference.Sonatel has built a modernnetwork, fully digitized by transmission loops and international connections using high-speed optical fiber submarine cables. Sonatel has one of Africa's largest Internet bandwidths of 6.5 Gbps.Sonatel is a structuring company for the economy of his country and has made Senegal a hub of traffic and a major player in the development of telecommunications in Africa and in the world.Through its Orange brand, the Sonatel Group provides its millions of consumers with the best opportunities for convergence between mobile, internet and television technologies.
Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.

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.

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.

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.