# Top 35 Education Startup Investors in Colombia in June 2026 ## The Ark Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Kalei Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Velez Sarsfield, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Logistics Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region. ## GE32 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy. ## FJ Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups. ## VentureFriends - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy. ## AVP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lima, Lima, Peru - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Human Resources Partnering with relentless founders as they build solutions to real problems in Latin America ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services 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. ## Felipe Villamarin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi. ## Newtopia VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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 ## Vikas Raj - Type: Angel - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Education Vikas Raj - Managing Director, Accion Venture Lab @ Accion Ventures ## Javier Lopez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence Javier Lopez is an angel investor. ## Accion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management. ## Deepak Chugani - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, EdTech, Banking Deepak Chugani ## Condor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Fitness Condor is a venture capital investment fund. ## C3 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Transportation C3 Ventures invests in and advises early stage ventures. ## Cometa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services 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 ## Austen Allred - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO. ## INVX - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: E-Commerce, Sales, FinTech Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America ## Estarte.Me - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, EdTech, Mobile 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. ## Tim Draper - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Juanjo Mostazo - Type: Angel - Location: Málaga, Andalucia, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, B2B Juanjo Mostazo ## Owl Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning 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. ## Eduardo Mufarej - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C - Focus: EdTech, Biotechnology, Fuel 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). ## Ventura Family Office - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Logistics, Employment 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. ## Village Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs. ## MatterScale Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders. ## Hard Yaka - Type: VC Fund - Location: Crystal Bay, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain It's your identity, your data, and your money ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS 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. ## Jeronimo Uribe - Type: Angel - Location: Colombia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Software, Coworking Jeronimo Uribe ## EWA Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care EWA Capital (recently rebranded from Mountain Nazca Colombia) is a management company that invests in early-stage companies with disruptive models. It targets investments in companies with a minimum viable product, a proven market fit, a recurring and steep growing customer base, and sustainable unit economics.The company is committed to obtaininghigh returns and shaping social change by backing entrepreneurs under a hands-on methodology. EWA Capital has a complementary approach towards value creation in portfolio companies, leveraging each others’ strengths and experiences as former institutional investors, entrepreneurs, and experienced fund managers. EWA Capital was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. ## Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, EdTech, Employment ALIVE Ventures is an impact investing fund manager that seeks to transform the lives of low-income communities across Latin America. ## Latitud - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Build good sh*t with Latitud ## Wayra - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Threshold - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile 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. ## ENFOCA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Perú, Valle del Cauca, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Education Enfoca is a private equity fund manager focused on investments in sectors exposed to the growth of the Peruvian middle‐class & economy.