Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in LATAM in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in LATAM in April 2025
Investor | Cryptocurrency LATAM investments |
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Sebastian Serrano | 2 |
Ariel Arrieta | 2 |
Loren Roosendaal | 2 |
Neel Somani | 1 |
Jeffrey Zirlin | 1 |
Vasiliy Shapovalov | 1 |
Philippe Teixeira da Mota | 1 |
Marc Bejarano | 1 |
Weikeng Chen | 1 |
Mauricio Feldman | 1 |
David Marcus | 1 |
Nicholas Vale | 1 |
Rushi Manche | 1 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 1 |
Jaime Gutierrez | 1 |
Peter Fittin | 1 |
Daniel Lubarov | 1 |
Anurag Arjun | 1 |
Asif Ramji | 1 |
Michael van Paesschen | 1 |
Vaibhav Chellani | 1 |
Blake Irving | 1 |
Bernardo Faria | 1 |
Nick Pai | 1 |
Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 1 |
Jayendra Jog | 1 |
Danish Chaudhry | 1 |
Peter Stroeve | 1 |
Henri Stern | 1 |
Pedro Gomes | 1 |
Charles St.Louis | 1 |
Sina Habibian | 1 |
Philipp Zentner | 1 |
Gonzalo Ferradas | 1 |
Richard Ma | 1 |
David J. Namdar | 1 |
Marcelo Sampaio | 1 |
Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 1 |
Kieran Warwick | 1 |
Sebastien Borget | 1 |
George Burke | 1 |
Scott Wood | 1 |
Santiago Ardisonne | 1 |
Dan Rumennik | 1 |
Oliver Jung | 1 |
Sep Kamvar | 1 |
Alec Oxenford | 1 |
Matias Woloski | 1 |
Sam Nodeguardians | 1 |
Paulo Silveira | 1 |
Sebastian Serrano is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ripio. Starting as a skillful developer at a very early age and then leading a succesful web and mobile development startup, Sebastian played major roles in several fintech startups such as PayMentez, MetaTiendas and Moni.Serrano and his team founded BitPagos in 2013. A year later, they launchedRipio, one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets in Argentina. People use Ripio to buy, save and sell bitcoins and now they can also apply for Ripio Credit: a blockchain-based feature that allows users to pay in installments in local currency. Ripio is the first Bitcoin wallet in the World to offer this kind of service.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Cryptocurrency, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, United States
Portfolio highlights
- paydece — Paydece is a decentralized P2P platform that enables users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Fiat without intermediaries, offering privacy, and security, and always preserving decentralization, in other words, Paydece is a decentralized Fiat On/Off ramp.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- Intuitivo — Infrastructure for the future of Retail
Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- GetGloby — GetGloby is an AI-powered platform that allows you to automatically localize your ads in minutes and manage all your translations effortlessly.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- 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.
Loren Roosendaal is the Founder and Chairman of Knowingo.
Investment focus
- eSports, Blockchain, Online Games
- Seed, Funding Round
- Panama
Portfolio highlights
- Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!
Neel Somani is the founder of Eclipse.
Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- DFlow — DFlow is a decentralized order flow marketplace platform.
- Essential — Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.
- Stride Labs — A protocol for multichain liquid staking in the Cosmos ecosystem
Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Play AI — The Orchestration Layer for Consumer Intelligence
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Storygrounds — Strider is a Web 3 platform based on the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain that lets creators use DAOs, the DAO spreads membership and ownership of the project across both creators and the users.
Vasiliy Shapovalov
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Pre-Seed
Portfolio highlights
- Drop — Drop provides liquid staking protocol for Interchain assets. It is an inaugural member of the Lido Alliance. It removes the specified protocol from a database.
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
- Hedgehog Protocol — Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol.
Partner at Hedosophia
Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- Repool — Hedge fund services expertise meets modern software. Repool provides award-winning hedge fund launch, administration, and backoffice services.
- Vega — The operating system for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
Marc Bejarano
Investment focus
- Banking, Payments, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Puerto Rico
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperion — Join the Hyperion waitlist today to access the only bank account your business will ever need.
Weikeng Chen
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Aligned Layer — Aligned proof verification connects everything in the ZK Modular Ecosystem together.
Co-founder & CEO at Volanty
Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Sports
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Quansa — Changing the way workers access financial services.
- Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
- Rough Diamonds — Rough Diamonds is a platform which unites Web3 and the sports universe.
David Marcus is the co-founder and CEO of Lightspark. Previously he was the Head of F2 (Facebook Financial) & Board Member of Diem Association.
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
- Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Nicholas Vale
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- BAYZ — NFT Gaming Startup | Esports & Content Community HUB | #PlayToEarn
Rushi Manche
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Aligned Layer — Aligned proof verification connects everything in the ZK Modular Ecosystem together.
Bhavik Bajaj
Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- 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
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Jaime Gutierrez
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
Peter Fittin
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Aligned Layer — Aligned proof verification connects everything in the ZK Modular Ecosystem together.
Daniel Lubarov is the Co-Founder at Mir Protocol. Daniel Lubarov attended Harvey Mudd College.
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Internet, Web3
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Argentina, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.
Anurag Arjun is the Founder of Avail. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology. He previously worked at Polygon Technology as a Co-Founder. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Web3, Network Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
- Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.
Asif Ramji, Paymetric’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned payments executive, with over 15 years experience directing companies within the software and payment transaction processing industries.Most recently, Ramji served as Chief Revenue Officer for Paymetric and led ten consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth.Ramji joined Paymetric in 2009 and was responsible for sales, marketing, business development and product strategy.Prior to joining Paymetric, Ramji was Senior Vice President and GM for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s RBS WorldPay Card Services and ATM Divisions. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the largest payment transaction processors in the world and manages the largest off-premise ATM transaction processing businesses in North America. Ramji was responsible for the strategic double-digit growth of the respective divisions.Mr. Ramji has also held other positions including, North American Vice President of Sales with Ernex, the prepaid and loyalty card division of Moneris Solutions Corporation, a Bank of Montreal-Royal Bank of Canada joint venture, and one of North America’s largest electronic transaction processors. Ramji was instrumental in leading the growth of Ernex which led to the acquisition by Moneris Solutions Corporation.Ramji also successfully led the unprecedented growth of GiftCertificates.ca, a premier consumer and employee incentive marketing business and was CEO and founder of eCardSolution Inc.Ramji commenced his formal business education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and holds an MTIS certification from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Leading Teams for Innovation and Success. Ramji also attended Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts and holds an executive leadership certification on Strategic Negotiation.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Software
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Private Equity
- Colombia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
- Paymetric — Paymetric, Inc. is the standard in secure and integrated payments. Our innovative payment acceptance solutions expedite and secure the order-to-cash process, improve ePayment acceptance rates, and reduce the scope and financial burden of PCI compliance. Leading global brands rely on Paymetric for the only fully integrated, processor-agnostictokenization solution, supported by dedicated customer service. Paymetric is a nationally award-winning industry leader recognized for continual innovation, SAP partnership and world-class support since 1998. For more information, visit www.paymetric.com.
- Modulr — Modulr offers Payments-as-a-Service which automates payment flows, embeds payments in other platforms and enables customers to launch entirely new services.
Michael van Paesschen
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A
- Taiwan, Bahamas
Portfolio highlights
- WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
- Orderly Network — Orderly is the omnichain liquidity layer with robust SDK for Web3 DeFi builders, while enhancing spot & derivatives trading in DeFi.
Vaibhav Chellani is a Founder&CEO of Socket.tech.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Service Industry
- Seed
Portfolio highlights
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: • Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.• Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. • Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
- Dondo — Get what you want giving what you have
Bernardo Faria
Investment focus
- Apps, EdTech, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Foxbit — Aprenda como investir em criptomoedas com a Foxbit, uma das maiores exchanges de criptoativos do Brasil! Pare de adiar sua liberdade financeira, vem pra Foxbit!
- Papumba — Papumba is a developer and publisher of Educational Games for mobile devices, designed for infants and preschool children to develop cognitively while playing with interactive applications all by themselves. Their vision is that children can learn through play and they encourage their imagination from colorful and immersive experiences. WithPapumba parents can share fun experiences with their children, but also have the peace of mind that if his child plays alone, will not be interrupted by disturbing ads, and will not need an adult guidance.
Nick Pai
Investment focus
- Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Angel
- Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
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.
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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.
Jayendra Jog is the Co-Founder of Sei Labs. He previously worked at Robinhood as a Software Engineer. Jayendra Jog attended UCLA.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IT Infrastructure
- Seed
- Nicaragua
Portfolio highlights
- DFlow — DFlow is a decentralized order flow marketplace platform.
- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
Danish Chaudhry is a GP & Co-Founder at Paper Ventures.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Term Labs — Fixed rate lending for everyone
- Nexio — Nexio is a bitcoin scaling solution platform that helps to improve cryptocurrency's scalability by using parallelizing Bitcoin rollouts.
- Hedgehog Protocol — Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol.
Peter Stroeve is a Partner at Evolution Ventures.
Investment focus
- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
Henri Stern is the Co-Founder and CEO of Privy. He previously worked at Protocol Labs as a Research Scientist. Henri Stern attended Stanford University.
Investment focus
- Apps, iOS, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Cayman Islands, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Inco — Inco is the final layer of the blockchain stack, empowering smart contracts with confidentiality to unlock use cases and enable widespread web3 adoption.
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
- Trendies — Trendies is a provider of the Base Ecosystem Token Launch Platform, which is primarily designed for token holders.
Pedro Gomes is the Co-Founder of Walletconnect.
Investment focus
- Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Angel
- Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
Charles St.Louis - CEO @ DELV
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
- Oasis Pro Markets — Alternative Trading System
Sina Habibian
Investment focus
- Finance, Lending, Software
- Seed, Angel
Portfolio highlights
- Timeswap — Timeswap is both a lending and borrowing platform and an automated market maker. Its key features include flexible interest rates and collateral factors, giving users the freedom to choose their risk-return profile, as well as the ability to create any Ethereum-based ERC20 token pool by providing the necessary liquidity.
- Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
Founder & CEO of LI.FI
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Gonzalo Ferradas
Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Peach Worlds — No-Code Builder for 3D WebGL Website Experiences.
David J. Namdar is the Co-Founder of NFT.com. Attended at University of Southern California.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Funding Round, Angel, Seed
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
- Provable — Welcome to Aleo. The first platform for fully private applications. Write, run, and host private applications on Aleo. The ultimate toolkit for building private applications is finally here.
- Badger DAO — BadgerDAO is a decentralized collective of builders supporting community driven growth for Bitcoin across DeFi.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Kieran Warwick Co-Founder at Illuvium
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Panama
Portfolio highlights
- Fjord Foundry — Fjord enables teams the ability to openly and fairly generate liquidity by connecting inspired projects with passionate supporters via Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools.
- Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
- Layer Social Labs — A home for global companionship and endless entertainment. Post More, Play More, Earn More.
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- KILT Protocol — KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.KILT provides Internet Data Sovereignty and puts users in control of their data, allowing them to choose which data to share, when, with whom, and why. It's a blockchain protocol that creates a distributed onlinetrust market to help people manage their online trust connections.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Berlin.
- Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
- Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.
Scott Wood is Founder & COO at Simpleview.
Investment focus
- Gaming, PC Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Santiago Ardisonne
Investment focus
- AgTech, FinTech, Agriculture
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Agrotoken — Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable.Agrotoken isfocused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.
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.
Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Peakflo — Streamline your finance process with Peakflo's AP & AR automation software. Automate bill payments & invoice collections for better cashflow. Get a demo now!
- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Simpol — We make Simpol to everyone in LATAM buy, hold and sell stable coins and access to DeFi benefits to get better yielding than traditional financial system.
- Shalder — Shalder is a flexible work community, allowing businesses across LATAM access the workforce they need, on-demand, to achieve their business goals. No bidding, prize competition, powered by IA.
- Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.
Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School.
He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School.
Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- DRIC — DRIC is a data privacy and storage platform developer. Their platform is based on two-dimensional code that provides a revolution in the transmission, preservation, storage, and privacy of data, making it accessible and instantaneous.
- 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.
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
- Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
- Num Finance — Mint fully backed tokenized Real World Assets on-chain. Explore Stocks, Commodities and Fixed Income, with the highest security and compliance standards.
Sam Nodeguardians
Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Aligned Layer — Aligned proof verification connects everything in the ZK Modular Ecosystem together.
CEO and founder at Caelum Alura
Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
- Trace Finance — Trace Finance is building a seamless global banking solution for Startups, beginning in LatAm. We help Startups bring funding into local operations with a better, cheaper and faster alternative.
- Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.
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