Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Colombia in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Colombia in December 2024

Investor	Education Colombia investments
Austen Allred	1
Andres Barreto	1
Vikas Raj	1
Brian Requarth	1
Caribou Honig	1
Felipe Villamarin	1
Eduardo Mufarej	1
Jeronimo Uribe	1
Deepak Chugani	1
Tim Draper	1

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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

RxDiet — We engage the most vulnerable patients with medically tailored, fresh ingredient delivery and behavioral & dietary guidance. Cost-Controlled. Distributed Anywhere.
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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.

Andres Barreto is the Managing Director of Techstars. He previously worked at ENTER.CO as an Investor and Board Member. Andres Barreto attended the University of Florida.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

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.
TestSprite — AI powered fully automated end-to-end testing solutions to help enterprises launch their products faster.
Swipecast — The Discovery and Booking Platform for Today's Image Makers.

Vikas Raj - Managing Director, Accion Venture Lab @ Accion Venture Lab

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Colombia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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.
Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.

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, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman and co-founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact oftechnology on the workplace, and insurAPI.io, a catalog of insurance-related APIs. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.
BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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).