Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in LATAM in January 2026

Investor	EdTech LATAM investments
Leonardo Teixeira	6
Mario Letelier	4
Mario Letelier	4
Brian Requarth	4
David Vélez	3
Guilherme Stocco Filho	3
Matias Woloski	2
Rodrigo Dantas	2
Eduardo Mufarej	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
Dan Rosensweig	2
Patricio Jutard	2
Nicolas Gautier	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Austen Allred	2
Pablo Garfinkel	2
Ben Hamner	1
Mike Mahlkow	1
Eduardo della Maggiora	1
Ryan Hoover	1
Bernardo de Barros Franco	1
Matheus Detzel Bernert	1
Justin Waldron	1
João Del Valle	1
Rafael Saccol Bagolin	1
Igor Mascarenhas	1
Joaquim Palhares	1
Vinicius Dornela	1
Edward Lando	1
Marc Sacal	1
Mariana Foresti	1
Guillermo Rauch	1
Armínio Fraga	1
Carol Paiffer	1
Rafael Duton	1
Claudio Barahona	1
Helisson Lemos	1
Alejandro Zárate	1
Hugo Barra	1
Santiago Schettini	1
Pierpaolo Barbieri	1
André Boaventura	1
Jose Calderon	1
Guilherme Kudiess	1
Diego Stevens	1
Shane Neman	1
Marcos Galperin	1
Fabio Dutra	1
Craig Earnshaw	1

I am one of the partners of Iporanga Ventures running our Pre-Seed Stage fund. Prior to That I spent 6 years investing my own money in tech startups as an angel investor.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
Consulta do Bem — Consulta do Bem seeks to promote universal access to health by offering an innovative way to schedule and get consultations online. Using technology and science, the company connects doctors and patients instantaneously, optimizing the health professionals' agenda and allowing them to offer their services at more affordable prices to thepopulation.Consulta do Bem was founded in 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Back4app — Harness the power of a low-code cloud platform to rapidly launch apps and seamlessly scale to millions of users. Unlock AI-powered tools and out-of-the-box components for blazing-fast development.

Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Linte — Linte helps companies to lower expenses with lawsuits using document assembly and marketplace tools. Linte offers a cloud-based solution that automates repetitive tasks, quickly, cheaply and safely, with the best practices of usability and design. Users can handle contracts, processes, and documents in an efficient and smart way.Linte was foundedon 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Prontmed — Prontmed organizes and integrates health information with an intuitive Electronic Medical Record. It develops the technologies that facilitates the day-to-day medical and hospital procedures. The main function of electronic medical records is to facilitate and support the care of patients. Therefore, the company focuses on optimizing the time ofdoctors, ensures high availability of the system, and assists in maintaining the quality of care. The features of the product are automatic configuration, security and reliability, simplified navigation, excellence support, and smart prescription.Prontmed is a Brazil-based company that was founded in 1996 by Wang Feng.
Qual Canal — Qual Canal provides social TV analytics for advertisers and TV stations willing to know more about their audiences. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

QMagico — Somos o mesmo grupo de pessoas, mas temos um novo nome: Eduqo.
Prontmed — Prontmed organizes and integrates health information with an intuitive Electronic Medical Record. It develops the technologies that facilitates the day-to-day medical and hospital procedures. The main function of electronic medical records is to facilitate and support the care of patients. Therefore, the company focuses on optimizing the time ofdoctors, ensures high availability of the system, and assists in maintaining the quality of care. The features of the product are automatic configuration, security and reliability, simplified navigation, excellence support, and smart prescription.Prontmed is a Brazil-based company that was founded in 1996 by Wang Feng.
Qual Canal — Qual Canal provides social TV analytics for advertisers and TV stations willing to know more about their audiences. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.
Academlo — Academlo is an online programming school offering courses without down payment. Students only pay a percentage of their salary when they get a job.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Guga Stocco has more than 20 years of experience in building up digital business and leading corporate transformation.He is responsible for carrying out successful projects concerning digital banking (Banco Original); startup investments (Domo Invest); mobile and e-commerce (Buscapé); internet platforms (Microsoft); and advertising (TeRespondo).Nowadays, he is a member of the Management Board at Falconi Holdings, Totvs, Vinci Partners and Banco Original. He is also the co-founder of Futurum.Capital and founder of FPass. As a speaker, he delivers talks about Tendencies and Innovation, and spoke in more than 120 events in Brazil, LATAM, Canada, the United States, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. His education background includes a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP (1997); an MBA in Management from Insper (2010); a post-graduation degree in Marketing Management from FAAP (2007); and a Marketing Certificate from Berkeley, University of California (1996).Main contributions: Managing digital businesses; innovative viewpoint towards technology; entrepreneurship-driven attitude.

Investment focus

Education, Web Design, Web Development
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

FPass — Solução de plataforma de educação no modelo white label para educação corporativa.

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, United States, Spain

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.
Keycard — Build and deploy secure AI agents with Keycard. Our unified identity infrastructure delivers real-time access control, compliance, and trust for the agent-native world.
Luzid — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.

Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kiro — Kiro is a non-alcoholic beverage brand for adults.
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.
Cardeal.app — Cardeal, a proptech that aims to unleash the potential of distressed real estate assets, managing all the complexities and simplifying access to ownership, whether for investment or residential purposes.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Dan Rosensweig is the Executive Chairman of Chegg. He previously worked at Yahoo! as a Chief Operating Officer. Dan Rosensweig attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Investment focus

Recruiting, EdTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.

Patricio Jutard is a Co-founder of MURAL, based in Buenos Aires. He is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with deep experience in software design, architecture, and development as well as team leadership and project management. Previously, he co-founded the video game studio Three Melons with Mariano Suarez-Battan and served as its CTO before it wasacquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney. Patricio also runs the angel fund Inspirit Angels, which has invested in over 20 startups based primarily in Latin America but targeting global markets. In 2015, he was honored with the Innovators under 35 Award by MIT Technology Review.

Investment focus

Retail Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Wimet — Wimet is the platform that helps companies manage workspaces in a flexible way, allowing people to work from anywhere. - Booking desks and rooms in the office. - Access to workspaces on-demand - Data insights and reports. Easy. Simple. Flexible!
HENRY — Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.
Intuitivo — Infrastructure for the future of Retail

Nic is the founder of EDUKO and ran the group as CEO from 2015 until late 2018 before becoming group chairman. Nic is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has built and invested in numerous businesses across many sectors and continents. Nic is the father of two young boys.

Investment focus

MOOC, EdTech, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Brazil, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Veduca — Veduca is a Brazilian online education platform that believes that people's lives can be transformed through high quality content, produced and distributed in a sustainable and collaborative way. The company was founded in March 2012 by Carlos Souza, Eduardo Zancul, Marcelo Mejlachowicz and Andre Tachian. Over the last 5 years Veduca has grownto be one of the most relevant educational portals in Brazil. The platform was fully relaunched in December 2016. Since then we have 500k new students that can have access to content for free and can chose to apply for a certificate by paying R$49,00. Veduca is a social business, with the commitment to re-invest profits into better platform and new content. Over these 5 years, Veduca has been profiled by many of the main media vehicles in Brazil, such as TV Globo, SBT, TV Band, Veja, Valor Econômico, Brasil Econômico, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, Galileu, among others, and thousands of websites. Abroad, Veduca has also been highlighted as one of the key players in the ed-tech world by the Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo Finance, The Chronicle of Higher Education, El Universal (Mexico), and others.
easyOwn.it — easyOwn is the Personal Shopping Basket (independent from single webshops) where you can highlight, comment and share products. You can put items on a wish list, select and buy them later, where you have your online shopping history irrespective where and from whom you have selected/chosen/bought the product and independently of theunderlaying webshop.easyOwn is a revolutionary eCommerce Cloud Web-Service with magnificent advantages for Merchants, Consumer & Manufacturer...easyOwn is not only streamlining the checkout process by adopting the easiness of buying a chocolate bar at a kiosk. No, it also expands the shopping reach for each associated Online Merchant to make their offers/products purchasable through Ads, eMail Campaigns, … Thus merchants are able to place and sell there products where their target customers are with a unique one-stop-shopping experience. With the easyOwn-shopping basket functionality for the first time merchants will get direct orders from multiple virtual chainstores into their inventory systems. directly back-channels oby providing direct back channels to make products additional sales channels offering alternative sales.

Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.

Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, B2B
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
Argentina, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
Wisboo — Our mission is to become the platform of choice for Content Creators & Education SMBs that want to grow, empowering them to teach millions at scale while monetizing their knowledge.We provide an out-of-the-box software stack for easily creating digital courses and start selling them on their own websites, while handling payments &back-office operations: i. Professionally designed templates, ready to go. White-labeled & 100% customizable ii. Content digitization & course creation made simple, using DIY Tools iii. Multi-Device Course Delivery, with the modern experience users expect. iv. Payment processing, Reporting & fully-hosted Back-office.We enable Content Creators & Education SMBs reuse their existing contents and add a digital distribution channel for their business, therefore allowing them to reach more customers and generate new revenue streams, which results in maximized business margins thanks to the minimum investment required.
Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ben Hamner was the Co-founder and CTO of Kaggle. He attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.
Predibase — Unleash AI with confidence on the first enterprise platform to monitor, govern, and rewind every agent action.
Marimo — Marimo is an open-source reactive platform for developers working on Python.

Mike Mahlkow

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.

Eduardo della Maggiora is the Founder & CEO of Betterfly.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Software
Series A, Pre-Seed
Chile, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

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.
Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
HENRY — Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.

Ryan Hoover is the founder of As a writer, Hoover has contributed to Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by features for Hoover graduated from

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.
Splash — Splash is doing this again in the pool care market, and I understand what it takes to establish a successful, category-defining business in this space. We'd love to join you on this trip.
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.

Bernardo de Barros Franco is a Serial entrepreneur and angel investor on the IT sector. Bernardo previously worked at u.sit as a Co-founder and CEO. He attended Harvard Business School. Ibmec, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

Investment focus

CRM, SMS, SaaS
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

u.sit — U.sit is a digital intelligence system that operates as an interface between bars, restaurants, and their customers. The system has four modules: a waitlist management system module that manages the restaurant’s waitlist and notifies customers through SMS when their table is ready, a reservation management module that allows restaurants to controltheir reservations and notify customers of pending reservations, an analytics module that provides detailed information on the restaurant’s wait and reservation operation, and a CRM module that delivers collected customer information.U.sit is based in Brazil.
Aulalivre — The Aulalivre Project is a preparatory course for entrance exams and Enem, distributed free of charge through the internet. Its objective is to bring to the greatest number of Brazilians the knowledge necessary to reach a university position, giving equal chances to those who do not have the time and / or money to invest in their owneducation.

Matheus Detzel Bernert

Investment focus

Training, Education, Customer Service
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

How Bootcamps — How Bootcamps provides training and coaching to build career and new skills through live , practical and short -term bootcamps.

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Chile

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Proof of Play — Proof of Play helps you create high-performance, serverless apps and games that can be extended or remixed by anyone.
Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.

Joao Del Valle is the Founder and CEO of EBANX. He previously worked at Grupo Polvo as CTO. Joao Del Valle attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Sales, Security, Software
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MeetRox — Callrox allows customer-facing teams to centralize their knowledge repositories, keep them up-to-date and access them from anywhere, using the tools they already love such as Slack, Chrome, or Salesforce. With our white label platform, companies can easily build their knowledge into gamified learning trails to improve the onboarding and upskilling experience of employees and customers.
Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

Lawyer by training. An entrepreneur by vocation. Passionate about the business world and used my technical knowledge and professional experience to found Jusfy.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

Igor Mascarenhas

Investment focus

Education, InsurTech, E-Learning
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

Joaquim Palhares is the Founder at Stealth Startup. Joaquim is an entrepreneur and investor. He is also a Limited Partner at EquityRio, a venture capital seed fund based in Rio de Janeiro and backed by some of the best investors in Brazil. He is serial founder, active angel investor and advisor to startups. Joaquim graduated from the ESPM with abachelor's degree in Management and Marketing.

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Curseria — Curseria is an online learning platform that offers courses taught by experts in various fields. The company's education and inspiration platform aim to make distance learning more accessible to everyone. The company's platform works with celebrities and renowned professionals in each field as teachers, allowing students to learn in a funformat through their idols.
Central da Visão — Central da Visão is a social impact healthtech. We connect people without health insurance to partner clinics that provide more affordable eye surgery.

Entrepreneur and Tech addicted. Co-founder and COO at ApontaOfertas, Regrupe and Cuponomia.

Investment focus

Education, Information Technology
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Dinâmica Group — We are a school focused on complementary education that seeks to delivery what isn't learned in traditional institutions

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

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

Marc Sacal is the COO at Arcus. Marc Sacal is CEO at Astropay. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs in the IBD and attended Tufts University.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Mobile Payments
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PayMon — PayMon integrates an ERP software with a user-friendly digital wallet for seamless payment processing, top-ups, and much more.

Mariana Foresti is a partner at Honey Island Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MeetRox — Callrox allows customer-facing teams to centralize their knowledge repositories, keep them up-to-date and access them from anywhere, using the tools they already love such as Slack, Chrome, or Salesforce. With our white label platform, companies can easily build their knowledge into gamified learning trails to improve the onboarding and upskilling experience of employees and customers.
Tecnofit — SaaS that fitness clubs and studios better manage customer access, schedules, trainings and payments
Teva Indices — Teva Indices is a provider of indices for the Brazilian ETF market.

Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Roboflow — With just a few dozen example images, you can train a working, state-of-the-art computer vision model in less than 24 hours
New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
Applied Labs AI — Best-in-class AI automation for growing businesses, global enterprises, and everyone in between

Armínio Fraga

Investment focus

Recruiting, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Carol Paiffer

Investment focus

Training, Education, E-Commerce
Angel, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Yapuana — Yapuana merges olfactory tech and sustainability, delivering calm on demand with an app-controlled censer.
Bits Academy — Bits Academy is a digital transformation school that provides training and consulting services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in São Paulo.
Hub Home Box — Hub Home Box is an online subscription club that helps to compare, boost and increase sales of products.

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile. Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hash — Hash allows B2B companies to provide financial, payments, and banking solutions to their merchant partners. With a fully customizable product, its platform enables clients to absorb financial transaction flows from all their buyers.The company was certified by the Great Place to Work and is on PEGN Magazine's "100 Startups toWatch" list. Earlier this year, it also made the “Top Fintech Companies in Brazil 2021” list, by the British magazine Daily Finance. Recently, Hash was selected by StartupCity magazine for the "Top Startups in Brazil 2021" list, and also made it to “The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Companies Of 2021”, by CB Insights.João Miranda founded the company in 2017.
JurisHand — Top 1 Legal Vade Mecum App in Brazil.
180° Insurance — Uma nova forma de distribuir e consumir seguros no Brasil.

Claudio Barahona is a Venture Capital and Innovation leader with over a decade of experience investing in and supporting high-growth startups across Latin America. He founded his first startup at the age of 18, which he successfully exited six years later. A Civil Industrial Engineer from Universidad de Chile, he has devoted much of his career topromoting innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile and the broader LATAM region.As Managing Partner at Alaya Capital, he led the fundraising and deployment of a $30M early-stage fund, building a portfolio of 20+ tech-driven companies and managing a team of nine professionals.Previously, Claudio spearheaded Telefónica’s Corporate Venture Capital strategy in Chile, investing in 45 startups and generating strategic and financial returns for the corporation—including $4M in new revenue through startup-corporate integrations in a single year.He is also the founder of ComoLevantarCapital.com, a fundraising platform that has empowered over 1,000 entrepreneurs across Latin America, and is an active angel investor and startup mentor.Deeply committed to ecosystem development, Claudio served on the board of the Chilean Venture Capital Association (ACVC) and founded the Corporate Venturing Latam Report to map and analyze CVC trends throughout the region.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Chile, United States, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
Carttera — Verso is a media revolution that launches, manages, and monetizes content for business. Founded in 2022, Verso is based in Zapopan, Mexico.
uPlanner — u-planner is an international technology solutions company for higher education. We seek to improve education by incorporating Data Science concepts such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence that help optimize and improve the educational system, improving the quality of education that students obtain and their final results. u-planner’smission is to empower HEI with innovative technological solutions that allows them to achieve high performance in the execution of their strategic plans. Nowadays, there is a disconnection from what is needed by students, teachers and management. Today we work in three main product lines which represent some of the biggest needs of HEI, Planning, Assessment and Student Success, in which we can, for example, score students based on their dropout probability with a 95% accuracy. This has represented a huge opportunity, and we are using these and other analytical algorithms to empower education systems with new innovative technology solutions. We have led HEIs to step out of their comfort zone, from outdated Oracle data bases and legacy systems, to analytical business tools, replacing manual processes and intuition, with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms that extract information from raw data; this has allowed institutions to avoid specific investments, leaving the architecture and implementations complexities to the provider as a first approach to a cloud based environment; changing education driving impact and insights for institutions to help students in classrooms of today to create the future of tomorrow.

Brazilian business developer professional with strong track record of managing e-commerce projects, leading teams, and developing long-term relationships in different countries. Solid experience in e-commerce market. Deep knowledge of organizational and human behavior complementing a technical background in Marketing and Sales.As a CountryManager, is responsible for MercadoLivre.com, the brazilian operation of MercadoLibre Inc (Nasdaq: MeLi).

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Wealth Management
Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Poupa Certo — Poupa Certo is a mobile application that provides solutions for more savings of their pocket for financial health. It also facilitates and manages low-income users to improve their life through smart technologies, financial education, and behavioral theory.The application specializing in payments, virtual mobile wallet, credit risk assessment,savings, machine learning, financial literacy, and wealth management.Poupa Certo was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
GoPublic — GoPublic is an ecosystem of B2B financial solutions such as credit as service and debt as service.

Alejandro Zárate is the Founder & CEO at BiiU Inc

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Social Network
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

BiiU — BiiU is a Learning Professional Network designed to centralize the learning and work experience for everyone, creating a hub where people can learn, connect, and collaborate—at school, at work, and beyond.

Technology executive & investor

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

Santiago Schettini - Co-Founder @ Future Leaders World

Investment focus

EdTech, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round
Argentina, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
TinyBytes Games — Best iOS & Android Action Mobile Game Developer and Publisher.
Wormhole — They are the creators of the first "Live Learning" platform in the market, focused on increasing and improving interaction between people to create the most effective virtual environments for distance learning.They firmly believe that online education is much more that simply looking at static content on a website, that is why theyprovide the best products to manage educational programs, create virtual campuses and improve the teacher-student relation through live online classes, from any computer or mobile device. Their team works with passion, because they love technology and they believe that they can use it to change the world.Nowadays thousands of companies, academic institutions and professional associations in over 10 countries use their platform to improve their education and training programs, saving time and money while increasing their reach. They currently have presence in the USA, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia from where they lead their international expansion and work everyday with the mission to revolutionize the way in which people teach, learn and collaborate online.

Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

André Boaventura

Investment focus

Training, Education, Customer Service
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

How Bootcamps — How Bootcamps provides training and coaching to build career and new skills through live , practical and short -term bootcamps.

Jose Calderon

Investment focus

E-Learning
Angel, Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Academlo — Academlo is an online programming school offering courses without down payment. Students only pay a percentage of their salary when they get a job.
Waraire Boswell Industries —

Guilherme Kudiess - COO @ VENTIUR

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, CleanTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

ESG Now — We are a SaaS company that provides a all ESG Management on a single platform. ESG Now concentrates the functionalities necessary for the implementation, operationalization and monitoring of a 360° ESG strategy, making your company's management more agile, effective and integrated.
Payer — Payer specializes in helping choosing and connecting the best payment methods and digital services for businesses.
FORME — FORME - Financial Education is a socio-emotional financial education curriculum designed to train primary school kids to be financially conscious. The company is a teaching system with technology and special materials matched with the BNCC, based on behavioral economic psychology, with practical content that pertains to students' real-lifesituations, hence promoting learning.

Diego Stevens

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, B2C
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

LarnU — LarnU is a mobile app that makes coding learning easy, fun, and accessible to all by enabling a gamified and bite-sized learning experience of 5-minutes a day. Within days, you'll be able to see improvements in your coding skills.
Wallstate — WallState is a diverse portfolio of tokenized properties investing platform that allows users to withdraw anytime they want with no minimums or fine print. Their goal is to make the real estate market more accessible to newcomers. They allow their users to invest in properties from all around the world using tokenized properties as a foundation.
Watermelon — Highlight a piece of code to see its historical context. Go beyond Git blame to understand your code better. Watermelon makes the experience of developing software as a team easier.

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Endiatx — Endiatx is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in developing a series of pill-sized robots to perform remote diagnosis. Its unique propulsion system which allows our pill robots to actively navigate the entire length of the GI tract is approximately 30 minutes with real-time video control.It was founded in 2019 andheadquartered in Redwood City, California.
Nara Organics — Introducing a whole new standard for infant formula. Nara Organics is built on the healthy fats in organic whole milk.
SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

Marcos Galperin is a co-founder of Mercadolibre, Inc. and has served as its chairman, president and chief executive officer since October 1999. Marcos is a board member of Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit organization that is leading the global movement to catalyze long term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the besthigh impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marcos received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Marcos is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his comprehensive knowledge and experience in the technology industry and experience serving as a director of other companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Argentina, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
SenseiNode — We drive the decentralization of the blockchain ecosystem in Latin America with a simple, scalable and secure node management platform.
NotCo — We are reinventing the foods we love to eat! Same great flavor, but made from plants. Meet the future of food. Why not?

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.

Craig Earnshaw - Board of Directors @ Screenie

Investment focus

News, EdTech, Sports
Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nivati — Employee mental health programs for stress management. Increase morale, engagement, and wellbeing through on-demand therapy, massage, yoga, and more.
Torcedores.com — Torcedores.com is a EdTech platform focused on producing high-quality digital sports content to millions of fans. The site was founded in Brazil, early 2014 and today has over 21,000 contributor writers, a 30 person team in Sao Paulo and reaches an audience of more than 30 million people multiplatform each month.