Top 40 Education Startup Investors in Colombia in May 2025
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 40 Education Startup Investors in Colombia in May 2025
Investor | Education Colombia investments |
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Kalei Ventures | 3 |
The Ark Fund | 3 |
GE32 Capital | 2 |
VentureFriends | 2 |
Owl Ventures | 1 |
C3 Ventures | 1 |
Threshold | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
MatterScale Ventures | 1 |
ENFOCA | 1 |
Caribou Honig | 1 |
Tim Draper | 1 |
Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures | 1 |
Vikas Raj | 1 |
Newtopia VC | 1 |
Hard Yaka | 1 |
Juanjo Mostazo | 1 |
Andres Barreto | 1 |
Cometa | 1 |
Latitud | 1 |
Javier Lopez | 1 |
Eduardo Mufarej | 1 |
Jeronimo Uribe | 1 |
AVP Ventures | 1 |
Village Global | 1 |
Austen Allred | 1 |
Wayra | 1 |
INVX | 1 |
Acumen | 1 |
EWA Capital | 1 |
Deepak Chugani | 1 |
Felipe Villamarin | 1 |
Ventura Family Office | 1 |
Brian Requarth | 1 |
Manuel Vila | 1 |
Condor | 1 |
Mindset Global | 1 |
Cometa | 1 |
Estarte.Me | 1 |
Accion Venture Lab | 1 |
Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Logistics, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, 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.
- 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.
- BrainLogic AI — We are a #ConsumerAI company that creates massive-scale, GenAI-first products designed to positively impact emerging markets.
The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nudos — B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico.
- GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
- Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.
GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
- Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unosecur — Unosecur is a cloud security platform that helps organizations detect, quantify, remediate and centrally manage identity and access risks across multi-clouds at all times.
- Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- Linus — The fun, free, and effective way to study for the SAT.
- Complement 1 — Complement 1 is a health technology company dedicated to transforming cancer care through lifestyle medicine. Founded in 2024, Complement 1 has developed the first clinically validated, tech-enabled lifestyle program with daily 1:1 coaching for cancer patients, survivors, and those at high risk. By combining personalized coaching withevidence-based interventions in exercise, nutrition, and somatic practices, Complement 1 helps patients improve their projected quality of life. Backed by leading oncologists and scientific research, Complement 1’s platform integrates seamlessly with conventional oncology care to deliver better outcomes and empower patients in their healing journey. The company is headquartered in the U.S. with a mission to make effective, holistic cancer care accessible to all. For more information, visit complement1.com.
C3 Ventures invests in and advises early stage ventures.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Advanced Materials, Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Sable — Their US banking partner ensures that you can send & receive US domestic transfers without worry. All merchants (think Netflix, Amazon or Apple) will see you as an American customer. They know how important a good credit score is to your professional success in the US. But how can you start building credit, if you can’t open an account - andhow can you open a credit account without a good credit history? Sable solves this.
- VenoStent — VenoStent is a clinical-stage tissue engineering company that’s developed tunable, bioabsorbable smart polymer wraps in order to fundamentally transform the 5 million vascular surgeries performed each year.
- TômTex Co — 100% naturally bio-based material made from food waste
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Numa — Turns BDCs and Advisors into world-class communicators, using visibility + accountability + a healthy dose of AI superpowers
- Numa — Leverage modern Generative-AI to autonomously capture every RO, schedule service appointments, and deliver service updates in real time.
- VideaHealth — Transforming Dentistry Through AI. By applying AI to X-ray analysis, we unlock insights, experiences, and efficiencies that drive breakthroughs in clinical outcomes and economics for dentists and insurers.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
- Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
- Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Argentina, 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.
- Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
- numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Enfoca is a private equity fund manager focused on investments in sectors exposed to the growth of the Peruvian middle‐class & economy.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Wellness, Education
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Peru, Colombia
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.
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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.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- QurieGen — QurieGen is a biotechnology company that accelerates drug discovery and development.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Aetherflux — Abundant and renewable energy, delivered virtually anywhere
ALIVE Ventures is an impact investing fund manager that seeks to transform the lives of low-income communities across Latin America.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Machine Learning
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Peru, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
- GoodSAM — GoodSAM is a food and beverages company that offers snack and food products made with natural ingredients.
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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.
Our purpose is to share knowledge, channel smart money, and enhance experiences for early-stage startups, so we can help them unleash a new wave of Latin
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Inner AI — Inner is an AI-Native workspace to organize your thoughts, be more creative, and accomplish your tasks faster.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
It's your identity, your data, and your money
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
- Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
- Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future
Juanjo Mostazo
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Spain, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- WATIF — WATIF is the media that investigates how current trends can impact tomorrow's world. It focused on culture, work, science, and technology.
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- Tu Trámite Fácil — Tu Trámite Fácil is a startup designed to simplify access to public grants, subsidies, and financial aid for individuals and businesses
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.
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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.
Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
- numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Build good sh*t with Latitud
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altis — ALTIS is a digital platform that acts as a banking correspondent to facilitate the loan contracting process.
- Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
Javier Lopez is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
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).
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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.
Jeronimo Uribe
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Software, Coworking
- Pre-Seed
- 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.
- Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
Partnering with relentless founders as they build solutions to real problems in Latin America
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Peru, United States, Mexico
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.
- deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- 1Fort — Get peace of mind from digital threats with combined cyber insurance and security. All in a few clicks - no tech expertise needed.
- P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
- Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.
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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.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wise CX — Wise CX specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction for businesses and institutions. The company offers solutions that are designed to improve customer experiences through personalized attention and smart solutions. Wise CX's services include the development of chatbots and conversationalchannels, aiming to make customer interactions more efficient and effective. With a focus on compliance with current data protection regulations, Wise CX ensures that its solutions adhere to legal standards, providing a secure environment for customer data. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the needs of professional services, aiming to transform customer service into a more engaging and responsive experience.
- Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
- Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.
Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sales, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wami Agro — Wami Agro is an agri-tech company involved in partnering with smallholder farmers to grow, aggregate, and sell diverse agricultural produce on the Ghanaian and international markets. We achieve this by providing tech-enabled interventions for smallholder farmers and ensuring easy access to credit and markets for farmers. Today, the Companyaggregates rice, maize, soya bean, and cassava from over 10,000 smallholder farmers and sells them to poultry farmers, FMCGs, distributors, and food service businesses within Ghana.
- BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
- Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
In EWA Capital, we prioritize impact investing with a gender lens, focusing on smart money and transformative partnerships to drive gender equity.
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Investment focus
- Education, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Samay — Respira Labs is developing the first wearable device to measure “trapped air,” an early marker of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). No reliable and validated methods currently exist to detect COPD exacerbations in time for early intervention and prevention. By leveraging the power of non-invasive acoustic sensors, audio signalprocessing, machine learning and Acoustic Resonance Index Analysis (ARIA), our device will fundamentally revolutionize COPD management by predicting and preventing attacks at the patient’s home, significantly improving health outcomes and patient quality of life while dramatically lowering health care costs.
Deepak Chugani
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- B2B, EdTech, Banking
- Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Mexico, Singapore
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- 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.
- Mono — Mono is on its way to become the 'bankingless bank' of Latin American SMBs, starting with Colombia.
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.
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- Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, United States, Brazil
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- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- C4c7us — Platform that helps startup founders and IT professionals to get IT infrastructure faster and save money by automating operation processes.
- Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
Ventura Family Office operates as a family office.Ventura Family Office invests in startups in the sectors where we have more than 40 years of experience because we firmly believe that they are the great generators of new opportunities to achieve accelerated growth in developing countries.
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- EdTech, Logistics, Employment
- Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States
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- Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
- InvestBPO — Turnkey managed solutions for financial analysis, engineering, cybersecurity, planning, research and corporate support for private equity, venture capital and the middle market.
- Protalento — Accelerated online post secondary programs, co-developed with employers, combining top bootcamps with proprietary life skills training.
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.
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- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
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- Taxflow — Taxflow is an AI agent for US tax and accounting firms and eliminate tedious tasks and reduce manual errors. Our AI agent automates data collection, client communications, transaction categorization and other end to-end tax preparation tasks.
- Jumpstart — We use AI to improve approval chances for visa and green card applications. Green cards for $12.5K, payable in up to 21 installments. 50% refund policy.
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Manuel Vila is an individual investor.
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- EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Colombia
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- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
Condor is a venture capital investment fund.
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- Mobile, FinTech, Fitness
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Colombia
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- Peiky - vendoporchat.com — Peiky empowers the social commerce and provides the tools to manage and optimize the social sales cycle.
- Fitpal — Los mejores gimnasios y centros fitness
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
We incubate, accelerate, and globalize education technology companies
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- EdTech, Employment, Higher Education
- Seed
- Colombia
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- Protalento — Accelerated online post secondary programs, co-developed with employers, combining top bootcamps with proprietary life skills training.
Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, Spain
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- Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
- Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
- Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
Estarte.Me believes in the potential of ideas and newly created projects, even before the market believe. With a focus on digital area, Estarte.me is coordinated by Mauricio Centeno, professional management area in technology with extensive experience in large corporations and also own ventures. Here they reveal potential entrepreneurs and prepareto face the business world with confidence, professionalism and chances of success.
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- Education, EdTech, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Colombia
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- YupiPlay — This domain is for sale! Fast and easy shopping. Trusted and secure since 2005.
- Tarefa.co — Tarefa.co the is academic support platform that is revolutionizing learning math in Latin America, connecting students unable to solve math questions with teachers able to help them in just minutes, 24/7 in English, Spanish and Portuguese. With more than 5 thousand users and more than 1 thousand customers in 11 countries have solved morethan 18 thousand math questions, recently haved launched operations in Brazil and is going to lanch Android and iOS app.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
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- Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.
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