# Top 20 Education Startup Investors in Chile in June 2026

## CORFO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

CORFO is an executing agency of government policy in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, through tools and instruments compatible with the central tendencies of a social market economy, creating the conditions to achieve building a society of opportunities.

## Nazca Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech

Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.

## Diego Stevens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, B2C

Diego Stevens

## Investo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Lovable Generated Project

## Dadneo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Service Industry

Dadneo enhances the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation by connecting early-stage startups with the venture capital LatAm industry. Through their investment model using Smart Capital, they offer their entrepreneurs disposition of their network and all necessary measures to contribute to the success of their project tools.Dadneo wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## Invexor Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vitacura, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Water, FinTech

Since the very beginning, Invexor Venture Partners has developed a unique understanding of what it takes for a start-up to become a global success. We are all fully committed to supporting our Founders and their companies at every stage of their journey, from Chile to the World.

## Harvard Management Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Harvard Management Company is an organization that manages the financial investments of the Harvard University.

## Manutara Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Manutara Ventures was created to become the most relevant actor in the Venture Capital industry in Chile and Latin America, based on a convergence model with a global seal and a strong emphasis on the construction of successful outlets.



## Austen Allred
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Magma Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.

## Claudio Barahona
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, EdTech

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.

## Fen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Fen Ventures is an early stage VC fund investing in tech-enabled companies that are building a better future for Latam

## Ibtikar Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramallah, West Bank, Palestinian Territory
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software

Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.

## Scale Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Machine Learning

Scale Capital is a Mid Market Growth and Private Equity firm exclusively dedicated to investments in Telecommunications, Media and Technology in Latin America and Spain

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

## Taram Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Taram Capital administra el fondo de capital de riesgo  B2B Venture Growth

## Doug Chertok
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Pet, Sales

Doug Chertok is the Managing Partner and Founder of Vast Ventures. Vast Ventures is a venture fund investing in disruptive companies with global impact.  Investments include: ASAPP, Bark & Co, ClassPass, Clover, Diamond Foundry, Ginkgo Bioworks, Moat (acq'd by Oracle), Ripple, SweetGreen, Tala, ZocDoc.Vast Ventures Manifesto:
Improveworld-wide health and happiness;
Promote resource sustainability for future generations;
Increase human potential and productivity;
Increase knowledge, empathy and connectedness;
Disrupt industries that resist these goals.

## Roy Chung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Education

Roy Chung works at Flow Research Collective. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

## CLIN
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, AgTech, PaaS

CLIN, Private Investment Fund, is a venture capital fund,

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