Top 50 Community Angel Investors in LATAM in April 2025

Investor	Community LATAM investments
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	3
Justin Mateen	2
Jon Oringer	2
Jon Oringer	2
Edward Lando	2
Jon Oringer	2
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	2
Eduardo Steiner	2
Jason Evans	1
Roger Lee	1
Marcelo Sampaio	1
Claude Ricci	1
Rodrigo Vieira	1
Sergio Salfatis	1
Alejandro Ponce	1
Jose Inacio Ferreira de Souza	1
Chris Schroeder	1
Eneko Knorr	1
Leonardo Borrero	1
Andrea S.Viejo	1
Sergio Fogel	1
Teresa Gutierrez	1
Ian Faria	1
Nicolas Girard	1
Lukas Keindl	1
Alejandro Galvez	1
Fabian Gomez Gutierrez	1
Matt Fichtner	1
Brad Flora	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Felipe Villamarin	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Elie Horn	1
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	1
Sujay Tyle	1
Jose Marin	1
Jose Marin	1
Justin Kan	1
Fabio Dutra	1
Cassio Spina	1
Michael Kleindl	1
Florian Hagenbuch	1
Israel Salmen	1
Peter Fernandez	1
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde	1
Hans Tung	1
Federico Casas Alatriste	1
Dan Rumennik	1
Huey Lin	1
Daniel Kan	1

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

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

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Eduardo Steiner is Regional CFO at Publicis Worldwide.

Investment focus

Mobile, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Fridom — Fridom is a digital marketing agency.

Jason Evans is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at OXIO.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Communities
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Heru — Heru builds the community of gig-economy workers and has a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.Heru was founded in 2019 by MateoJaramillo and Stiven Rodriguez Sanchez and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Roger Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Human Interest, a modern, paperless 401(k) provider with automated investment advice built in. Businesses of any size can set up a 401(k) plan entirely online in a matter of minutes, and ongoing administration is completely automated.Previously, Roger was the co-founder and president of Thunder, a startupthat automates and scales online advertising across devices, formats, and volume. Thunder works with over 100 media companies and agencies and has been used to design over 100,000 ads to date. The company was named one of the Forbes' 100 Most Promising Companies in America and was described as "An Ad Engine to Put Mad Men Out of Business" by the New York Times.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Asset Management
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Salsa — We sell Payroll infrastructure to SaaS businesses that want to embed multi-country Payroll in their products, through APIs and UI components.

There are the well-traveled and then there are the travelers. Born in Brazil and raised in France, Marcelo has been jumping between the developing and developed worlds his entire life, which explains his innate understanding of the two. Name a country and it’s likely that Marcelo has been there. He has traveled and worked in over 50 countries likeMozambique, China, Peru, Latvia, and Korea.Marcelo has more than a decade of experience in channel and direct sales for both private and public sectors. He graduated from PUC-Rio in Production Engineering, and discovered his passion for business and technology at Microsoft. From there he transitioned to Oracle where he became head of Sales for Brazil, winning sales awards each year he was there as one of the best global performers in management and execution. He also happened to be Oracle’s youngest sales manager in the world.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Linker — Linker is a digital platform that refers to a variety of payment and financial services as digital banking.
Cloud Humans — Cloud Humans is a platform that connects professionals to employers for outsourcing business.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.

Claude Ricci

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Visto.bio — Visto.bio desenvolve tecnologias, produtos e serviços para uma relação mais equilibrada entre pessoas e planeta
Wedy — Organize seu casamento com facilidade usando nosso aplicativo gratuito, repleto de recursos que abrangem todos os aspectos do seu dia especial
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Rodrigo Vieira is the partner at Caravela Capital. He attended Northeastern University

Investment focus

Pet, Retail, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
Amigo Edu — Amigo Edu offers digital fundraising and scholarships by facilitating digital examinations to eligible merits for higher education.

Sergio Salfatis

Investment focus

Apps, Wedding, E-Commerce
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Wedy — Organize seu casamento com facilidade usando nosso aplicativo gratuito, repleto de recursos que abrangem todos os aspectos do seu dia especial

Alejandro Ponce is the Founder - CEO at Favo.He attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Bquate — Bquate is a full-stack premium music platform that helps established artists, songwriters, managers, labels and publishers take control of their music, content, data and most importantly, their money
Legria — Legria offers property maintenance, repairs, bill payment, and even cleaning. Their platform allows clients to own their dream homes for a fraction of the price. The company is in charge of searching for properties in vacation destinations, acquiring them, and then taking care of the entire legal process. This allows fractions to be sold, enablingclients to become owners of their second homes.
Mi Media Manzana — Mi Media Manzana is one of the leading online dating platforms in Latin America, & is seeking to accelerate its growth and strengthen its operations.Mi Media Manzana has been operating since 2014 and has since become the most downloaded mobile application on the Google Play Store in Latin America on the “Dating” in Colombia, Chile, Peru andMexico amongst many other countries in Latin America.Their platform (Android and Web based) focuses on adults over 35 years old looking for a long-term relationship. Mi Media Manzana is built on three main pillars: 1) COMPATIBILITY. They present their users, people who share their interests and passions, not just random pictures. 2) REAL PEOPLE. They work really hard to avoid fake users, fake data. This is not a mere statement, is a profound belief that has guided the building of their product for more than 5 years. 3) ONLY SINGLE USERS: They truly believe they can make people happier if they help them find a meaningful couple. This is why they legally ban and expell from their platform any user that is currently in any type of onngoing relationship. They believe in fidelity and monogamic relationships.

Jose Inacio Ferreira de Souza is the CEO of ADAPTA BANK.

Investment focus

Elderly, Online Portals, Professional Services
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vida60mais — Vida60mais offers professional services and online marketplace services for individuals of age above 60 years.

Christopher M. Schroeder is a Washington D.C. and New York City based internet entrepreneur and venture investor. He was formerly co‐founder and CEO of HealthCentral, one of the largest social and content platforms in health and wellness in the US, sold in January 2012. Previously he was CEO of washingonpost.newsweek interactive, and ceo ofLegiSlate.com.Schroeder has been an active supporter of, writer and speaker on start‐ups in the United States and emerging growth markets ‐‐ with particular focus on the Middle East. He advises and invests a series of US internet start‐ups and venture capital funds, and sits on the board of advisors of The American University of Cairo School of Business, the Jordanian incubator Oasis500 and Middle East online entrepreneur network Wamda. He is writing a book on start‐ups in the Arab World: “StartUp Rising ‐‐ The Entrepreneurial Revolution That’s Remaking the Middle East” ‐‐ published by MacMillan/Palgrave in August 2013.

Investment focus

Music, Video, Parenting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
ReelGenie — ReelGenie is bringing the power of video storytelling to businesses. Their innovative technology enables customers to transform their photos and stories into videos that can be shared with the world. By empowering people to tell their stories through video, ReelGenie's easy-to-integrate solutions pave the way to better brand engagement andbrand new revenues.

Eneko Knorr is the Managing Partner at Woonkly Labs. He attended IE Business School from 2006 to 2006.

Investment focus

Apps, Lifestyle, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Badi — Badi is an AI-powered online room rental platform that allows anyone to publish, find, and securely book rooms from anywhere in the world. Badi has created a trusted community that can easily and securely list and book unique rooms. By facilitating bookings and online safe payments through the platform.The company was founded in September 2015 byCarlos Pierre Trias de Bes, and is currently headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.

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 — We are a technology startup developing and trading small farm production to urban centers for households, restaurants, and groceries looking for healthy and sustainable fresh goods.TuPlaza ensures market access and technical support for small farmers, assuring fair value for their products and supporting what, how, and when to crop, whileconsumers can access and check product origin, farmer they are contributing for, and healthy and certified fresh products.

Andrea S. Viejo is a General Manager of Laika Mexico.

Investment focus

Pet, Veterinary, Service Industry
Funding Round
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

Experienced Latin American internet entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO, Astropay LLP. Organizer, Punta Tech Meetup. Sergio Fogel is one of the most recognized internet entrepreneurs in Uruguay and in Latin America in general. He founded several companies, among them Astropay (the leading alternative payments processor in Latam), Uniotel (LongDistance Carrier in Uruguay) and JetNumbers.com. Sergio is also the original founder and organizer of Punta Tech Meetup, a gathering of tech entrepreneurs held every January in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Sergio holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master's degree in computer science from the Technion. He previously worked as reseracher in IBM's Haifa Research Labs, as well as in sales for Oracle Corp.

Investment focus

Pet, Veterinary, Therapeutics
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

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.
Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market

Teresa Gutierrez is a Regional General Manager of Rappi.

Investment focus

Pet, Veterinary, Service Industry
Funding Round
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

Ian Faria is COO at iVoy.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Social Shopping
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs

CEO / Founder @ OXIO - 3rd time entrepreneur - Innovator in Mobile Communication - Past life as network security experts for gov agencies. Top Secret Security Clearance

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Communities
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Heru — Heru builds the community of gig-economy workers and has a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.Heru was founded in 2019 by MateoJaramillo and Stiven Rodriguez Sanchez and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Lukas Keindl is an Investor based in NYC. He co-founded Bond Vet and Veho Technologies.

Investment focus

Veterinary, Health Care, Pet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
Bond Vet — We offer compassionate, thorough, & friendly pet care in a warm, comfortable environment. Walk in or book online.
Great Many — Explore non-surgical PRP hair restoration and hair loss treatments at Great Many. Shop hair growth products or book a consultation at our NYC clinic.

Angel investor

Investment focus

B2B, Banking, Payments
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Heru — Heru builds the community of gig-economy workers and has a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.Heru was founded in 2019 by MateoJaramillo and Stiven Rodriguez Sanchez and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Vivanta — The API to access digital biomarkers

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.

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

Investment focus

Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset 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.
C4c7us — Platform that helps startup founders and IT professionals to get IT infrastructure faster and save money by automating operation processes.
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

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

Elie Horn

Investment focus

Children, Education, Publishing
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Estante Mágica — Estante Mágica is a children's book provider that aims to develop the full capacity of reading and writing among children and enable them to explore their talents. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Nova Friburgo, Brazil.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He previously worked at Justin. tv as a Founder. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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.

Cassio Spina is an entrepreneur and an angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry.He founded and started-up his first business when he was 19 years-old which was a data communications software development company and after successful growth of his business, after completing his graduation in Electronics Engineering, he startedhis second business, Trellis, a computer networking hardware manufacturer.He developed Trellis as a major player in Brazil in computer networking industry, acquiring and merging other companies and receiving investment from VCs. After 18 years, he completed this entrepreneur cycle selling it and started-up investing in new companies as angel investor and founded Anjos do Brasil (www.anjosdobrasil.net), an angel network focused on fostering angel investment for supporting innovative entrepreneurs.Cassio is also the co-founder and responsible for the strategy of ZoeMob, the global mobile family assistant service with a cloud-based platform back-end for providing protection, interaction, and organization for/between parents, kids and care givers.He is also the author of the book "Investidor-Anjo - Guia Prático para Empreendedores e Investidores" (transl. "Angel-Investor - Pratical Guide for Entrepreneur and Investors").

Investment focus

iOS, Software, Location Based Services
Seed, Angel
Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Startupi — Startupi is a knowledge base on the Brazilian innovation, business, entrepreneurship and technology market. Founded in December 2008, it collaborated to build the Brazilian startups ecosystem, informing and educating the market about what these startups were and how they would become so important. Over the years, Startupi has collaborated with themost diverse initiatives and programs to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in Brazil, as well as aggregate key knowledge and inspire everyone with an innovative spirit. In March / 15 it was acquired by BEATS Brasil and will continue to be an independent and important channel for information, relationships and business generation between Startups-Investors-Customers-Government-Media-Market. We reinforce our commitment to transparency, collaboration. We want to raise the name of STARTUPI to a new level - the best communication vehicle in the country for the Startups ecosystem. Count on us because we count on you, let's go!
Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
ZoeMob — ZoeMob provides a mobile family safety service based on tablets and smartphones designed for parents who wish to ensure their children and family members are protected and safe anytime, anywhere, and personal users looking for a reliable mobile device service for protect their personal data and privacy.ZoeMob was founded by Daniel Avizu and HelioFreitas. They are two experienced Internet software enginner and Internet business professional who met at AOL Latin America joint venture and later they have worked in other big technology and media companies for more than 10 years.ZoeMob main features: - Symbian, Android, IOS and Blackberry* compatibiliy - Full localization and tracking monitor - Driving safety features (alerts and actions) - Geo fence (alerts and actions) - Callback - Full Remote control - Direct Message broadcasting - Facebook integration - Device content monitoring - Security features (lock, wipe, alarm, panic buttom)

Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Reservamos — We are a multi-modal booking engine for travel based in Mexico. We cover over 90,000 routes and 3700 destinations. Reservamos is the best way to compare and book buses, flights, and ride sharing options anywhere in Mexico + US with one search.
Mediasmart — mediasmart Mobile is the first Spanish company focusing on the real time optimization of mobile advertising (both on smartphones and tablets) using its proprietary technology platform.mediasmart Mobile was one of the first movers into the mobile programmatic ecosystem, having launched in Jan 2012. It gives access to global mobile inventory -both in mobile apps and web - from more than twenty seven ad exchanges/SSPs, and it has successfully proven throughout the years that its algorithms can effectively manage big data to deliver results. A proven and scalable technology, currently handling more than 800,000 ad requests per second, mediasmart can be used directly by clients on a self-serve basis or via APIs, and it handles both RTB and programmatic direct buys.Mediasmart has offices in Madrid, London and Paris.
Giant Swarm — Implement and manage your Kubernetes infrastructure with Giant Swarm. We will guide you along the Kubernetes learning curve. Get your containers in production.

Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Flyway — Owning a pied-à-terre in a city you regularly visit is unnecessarily difficult. You end up wasting money on rentals and hotels, since buying a whole property is simply not affordable. We created Flyway to change that.You can now co-own a second home, in your favorite city, at a fraction of the price.A share of 1/12 gives you up to 30 daysof stay annually in your city home. Want more? You can buy more shares! You own the asset, not a block of time. Flyway deals with all the hassle of ownership, so that you simply land and enjoy your city getaway.HOW WE DO IT BEHIND THE SCENESWe identify top-notch properties, in top locations that we can supercharge with smart features. We then set up an LTD (Limited Liability Company) that acquires the property. That LTD is split into 12 equal shares, and each share costs 1/12 of the total house price. A buyer can buy up to half of the property (6 shares). WHAT YOU GETYou get ownership of a second home suited to your budget and needs. Whether you use it for leisure, work or you simply believe in the property’s potential as an investment, you have the rights to the asset. You can use and resell your share when you want. Meanwhile, you get to enjoy upscale, smart living in very prime properties, downtown, without any of the headaches of maintenance, cleaning and bill handling. Flyway acts as the Property Manager, taking all the hassle of ownership away from you, so that you simply land and enjoy your home.
Muni Tienda — Muni Tienda is the first community group buying platform in Latin America, the system aims to provide convenience and savings to the region's middle class households.

Méliuz is a Brazilian web platform that enables users to earn cash-back when shopping online. Unlike traditional rewards programs that offer collective points with questionable value or miles that expire, Méliuz gives users something they can appreciate: cash-back in their bank accounts with every purchase in major Brazilian online stores.Retailers increase their sales volume, get recurring customers and acquire new ones due to the added incentive of a reward. Méliuz has a large retailer base of over 1,600 stores including giants like Walmart and Amazon and is building a user base that is expected to increase to one million active users this year.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Lastlink — Lastlink is an application which helps to monetize private and Telegram groups through subscription.
Marvin. — marvin. is a company that facilitate the credit and payment flow between suppliers and retailers.
Prota Games — Prota Games is the most popular eSports learning platform of Brazil with League of Legends and Fortnite Classes

Peter Fernandez

Investment focus

B2B, Mobile, Fashion
Angel, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Printi — Printi is a B2B e-commerce company that aims on breaking the lack of transparency and efficiency in printed products.. Printi is disrupting the inefficient US & Latin American printing market. Utilizing sophisticated technology and the scale of the internet, Printi offers lowest prices, high quality, and a broad product portfolio tocorporations of all sizes.Printi was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
Fridom — Fridom is a digital marketing agency.

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital. Francisco co-heads the Firm and has built the Riverwood Capital franchise and been involved in the scalability journey of several of Riverwood’s portfolio companies since its inception in 2008.Prior to establishing Riverwood Capital, Francisco was an investmentexecutive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where he focused on private equity investments in the technology industry and other sectors, and with Eton Park and Goldman Sachs & Co.During his career, Francisco has led investments in or been actively involved in the development, operations, and growth of several successful businesses across North America, Latin America, and other geographies. He earned a Licentiate (Honors) in Economics from San Andres University, Argentina including an exchange program at the Wharton School.Francisco is a Director of Globant (NYSE: GLOB), GoIntegro, Greenhouse, Shiphero, and VTEX (NYSE: VTEX), and an investor, Board Advisor and/or former Director of several other companies, including 99, Alog Data Centers do Brasil, Billtrust (Nasdaq: BTRS), CloudBlue, Dock, Industrious, Insider, LAVCA, Mandic, MotionPoint, Navent, Nium, Pixeon, RD Station, Sensedia, SecurityScorecard, Suma, Technisys, among others. He is also active in non-profit initiatives related to education and a Global Ambassador for Endeavor.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Funding Round, Series C, Series D
Brazil, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cognosos — Cognosos equips enterprises with the real-time location and tracking intelligence needed to boost utilization of assets and accelerate inventory through supply chains. Its lightweight platform deploys quickly both indoors and outdoors, delivering an unparalleled combination of price and performance that is now tracking over 100,000 assets acrossmultiple industries including automotive, logistics and healthcare.
Aument — Aument is the must have app to grow your Shopify store. Convert visitors into life-long customers through plug & play email and SMS marketing.
Turismocity — Turismocity is a travel search engine for Latin America and other Spanish speaking countries. Turismocity searches in hundreds of travel websites including hotels, airlines and online travel agents.The company was founded in 2013 by the same founders as Descuentocity a website that is visited by more than 4.5 million visitors per month.Turismocity is focused on local markets in countries such as Brazil, México, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú and Spain.

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Ximkart — Everything you need to import raw materials. minus the headache! For manufacturers and businesses of every scale. With Ximkart, cross border trade is as easy as buying from your local supplier. We are currently dealing with Metals, Minerals, Chemicals with having a large list of QC tested products like Silicon, Titanium, Calcium Carbonate, Styrene, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Ingots, Magnesium, Mixed Xylene, Butyl Acetate, Scrap, Alloy Wheel, MTO, GTO, Pine Oil, Rutile, 2196+, KMML, Doguide, RJ916, CPCL, BPCL, HPCL, 553, 441, 3303, DBM and many more.
Fazz — Fazz offers an online business account to help your company grow faster, by providing access to credit, payment, corporate cards, savings and more.
Prisms VR — The new paradigm for math education. Learn math through movement, experience, and meaningful discovery.

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.

Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Delivery
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cerebral — Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients.
The Coffee — Minimalism | Architecture | Technology | Specialty coffee
Kairos — Go from Web 2.0 to web3 with our creative partnership and comprehensive NFT solutions.

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Singapore, Chile

Portfolio highlights

CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
Bluebook — self-driving accounting
Bluebook — Bluebook's AI agents help accounting firms scale their capacity from 20 to 200 clients per professional by automating research, reconciliations, and monthly closings. Our technology already saves accountants 30% of their time on research alone, enabling them to focus on strategic advisory work.

Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise. He was formerly head of business development at customer-service startup UserVoice and will be running hiring and operations at Exec.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Goods, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Greece, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.
Delian Alliance Industries — Building the digital backbone for the age of autonomous warfare.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.