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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in LATAM in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Education startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Startup Investors in LATAM in February 2025

Investor	Education LATAM investments
Bossa Invest	12
CORFO	9
Canary	8
Igah Ventures	6
Alaya Capital	6
DOMO.VC	6
Leonardo Teixeira	6
DILA Capital	5
Niu Ventures	5
Reach Capital	5
Nazca Ventures	4
NXTP Ventures	4
TM3 Capital	4
Winnipeg Capital	4
Owl Ventures	4
The Ark Fund	4
Gvangels	4
Brian Requarth	4
Invest Tech	4
Valor Capital Group	4
Mario Letelier	4
Global Founders Capital	3
Stella Maris Partners	3
West Quad Ventures	3
MAYA Capital	3
Astella	3
HOWZAT Partners	3
Guilherme Stocco Filho	3
Acumen	3
MrPink VC	3
Kalei Ventures	3
Anjos do Brasil	3
Positive Ventures	3
Draper University Ventures	3
David Vélez	3
GE32 Capital	3
Crescera Investimentos (f/k/a Bozano Investimentos)	3
Elevar Equity	2
Accion Venture Lab	2
Fuse Capital	2
G2 Momentum Capital	2
Cedro Capital	2
Par Equity	2
Globant	2
Estarte.Me	2
Eduardo Mufarej	2
Pablo Garfinkel	2
Nicolas Gautier	2
Redpoint eventures	2
Xuntos Capital	2

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Somos Bossa Invest

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

EPOC Tech — OZ Technology is a provider of innovative solutions and technology for foodservice and entertainment that transform customer service. Oz Technology offers a wide range of products that cater to the evolving needs of the gastrobar segment. OZ Technology ensures efficiency, information control, increased profitability, and fast service at any timefor companies in various sectors. We are pioneers in the digital transformation of the food service and entertainment marketrevolutionizing the guest experience with top-tier technology and innovative solutions. Market leader of intelligent sales and customer relationship systems for bars, restaurants and nightclubs, that scale the revenue and business to higher levels. A OZ Technology delivers a series of integrated softwares that adapt to the ever evolving necessities of the food & beverages market, with a single goal: We empower the bar and restaurant community to amaze their guests, do what they were born to do and reach their true potential, while we handle all the rest.
Datta Büsiness — Datta Büsiness is a service-based company that offers marketing solutions for small and medium-sized companies.
Lightmatter — Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.Untethered from the limits of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, they’ve rewritten the rules of processor performance scaling by combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next-generation computing platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence.Lightmatter is building the engines that will power discoveries, drive progress, and reduce our impact on the planet.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Chile, Argentina, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Mywacc — We are a fintech that offers valuation services to provide start-ups and small businesses with accurate, reliable, and affordable financial valuations (leveraged in AI), as well as access to capital and additional services that could help them make better financial decisions and improve their chances of success. Funded by Corfo Chile. Partnershipfrom UDD Ventures. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
Audibots — Otro sitio de WordPress
Remote Waters — Remote Waters provide water purification systems with low O&M and fast installation for remote communities with limited access to potable water.

Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources

Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm that was born from the union of forces of two successful investment platforms (e.bricks ventures and Joa Investimentos). We have a unique and complementary team of partners and an extremely qualified and experienced team.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CRMBonus — CRM & BÔNUS is a CRM consultancy and Giftback platforms.
Liqi Digital Assets — Liqi Digital Assets is an investment model, which transforms assets so that anyone can become an investor.

About Us We invest in the next generation of Latin American digital entrepreneurs who will impact the world. Invest in FUTURE + TALENT + TECH + LATAM with Positive Impact Funds Invested Startups Exits Investors Portfolio Meet the founders that are building a new

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Argentina, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

escala — la plataforma todo en uno de marketing y venta.
Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
Loads — Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers.Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to+20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.

DOMO.VC is a Brazilian Venture Capital Firm that invests in technology startups across LatAm, particularly focusing on disruptive and innovative founders. We

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Caccao — Caccao is a technology infrastructure that connects social media users to the best financial market solutions through finfluencers.
Basemaker — Hey, what's up? We are Basemaker, the world's first 1st-party data creator marketplace. Creatively designed by creators, strategically targeted for advertisers.Our platform allows advertisers to accurately achieve their marketing objectives through data provided by the creators. With this, audience hypersegmentation in digital adcampaigns will make your company send the message to the right person much faster and more efficiently!Influencer marketing raised to the square: create campaigns with influencers and boost them using the creator's engaged audience: more reach, more significant results, and highly qualified audiences.We exist to create new paths in the digital universe and invest in digital tools to transmit and share what we believe with more people, creating microcosms of hyper-connected communities.Welcome to the new world of first-party data in advertising!Create your next campaign with us and explore the power of the Creators community worldwide.contato@basemaker.co#creatoreconomy #creators #ads #firstpartydataTranslated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

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.

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.

Niu Ventures is a pre-seed VC that connects early-stage Brazilian startups with the Silicon Valley growth mindset.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Vidia — Vidia is a digital marketplace that allows the purchase of surgeries by individuals without access to health plans.
Coodesh — Hiring coders is a pain in the ass for traditional HR. Save time and money by tracking the best coders with a complete Tech Recruitment Platform that evaluates coders to connect with your company. We provide on the platform a set of tools for talent acquisition, interview priority algorithm, behavioral mapping, and different ways to techchallenges.
LogShare — LogShare develops and provides collaboration solutions between shipper and carrier companies. It manages an online platform that tracks asset sharing of companies for a sustainable process. LogShare is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Apoia — Apoia is a platform providing free, expert-led personalized courses for accessible and impactful learning.
Tenor — Tenor is an AI designed to assist leaders in practicing important dialogues.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vambe — Our AI platform allows you to efficiently manage your WhatsApp and Instagram interactions, providing an exceptional experience to your customers while reducing costs and increasing your sales.
Desteia — Revolutionize your supply chain operations with cutting-edge technology. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance visibility, optimize your logistics, and fuel your growth plan.
minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

TM3 Capital is an asset management company that specializes in technology companies. The company specializes in technology investments, and it looks to fund businesses with strong growth prospects and/or scalable hardware and/or software solutions. Its investment vehicles benefit from the synergies and experience that TM3 Capital, a teamwith a long history in the technology industry, brings to the table.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Speedio — Speed IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.
Spotlar — Proptrech; Real Estate
Conducco — With several systems in place for subscription management, B2B companies demand an iPaaS solution that supports an automated and intelligent way to manage the opportunity-to-cash process, and we are laying the infrastructure to make it happen in Latin America

Winnipeg Capital (WC) is an investment and financial services firm that helps connect high potential companies and startups with growth opportunities through customized financial services, strategy advisory and smart capital.We believe Latin American offers a powerful platform to develop and scale solutions to fundamental problems that affect thebase of the pyramid . For this reason at our WC Startup Fund we invest in and support the best Latin American entrepreneurs to launch and scale regionally. Winnipeg invests across a variety of industries and sectors, including EdTech, AgTech and SaaS.

Investment focus

Education, Software, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Peru, Colombia, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

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.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jotit — Jotit is a cutting-edge educational technology startup that uses handwriting tools to help kids, instructors, and parents stay organized.
Smalt — Smalt recruits and trains young tradespeople in our innovative hybrid academies. Our B2B customers can also take advantage of our world-class, digitised installation services. Our highly skilled staff are outfitted with cutting-edge technology to provide high-quality installations for our partners.
Starbridge — Prioritize accounts, scale personalized outbound and automate proposal writing. Fueled by data on historical purchases, competitor contracts & planned spend.

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.

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.

GVAngels is a network of angel investors founded by former students of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Brasil in 2017. The GVAngels network invests in technology startups that aim to solve inefficiencies in large markets.In these 4 years of operation, investments have already been made in 40 startups and checks have averaged from R$800,000 to R$2million. We currently have more than 300 associates with a personal interest in investing in startups and adding knowledge with their expertise and experience through smart money to our investees.GVAngels has its roots in the School of Business Administration at FGV, where most of the associated angel investors graduated. For 11 consecutive years, the university has been considered the best think tank in Latin America and has been ranked among the best institutions in the world since 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Movêu — Movêu is an online custom furniture brand that enables customers to design the furniture of their choice. It utilizes an intuitive 3D customization platform to customize the furniture.
HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
Emite Aí — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.

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.
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.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Invest Tech is an independent investment firm focused on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The firm’s team has over 20 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions and fund raising transactions and in investing and managing IT and Telecommunication companies. As of September, 2020, the company managed more than R$ 466 million, raised frominstitutional investors from Brazil, Latin America, United States and Europe.The Company was founded in 2004, with a focus on M&A, strategic investment and capitalization transactions for Brazilian IT companies. Its main goal is to create unique solutions that generate value for all stakeholders of the advised companies. Since then, we have concluded more than 30 successful transactions involving major local and international institutions.In 2008, Invest Tech raised its initial investment fund, with a focus to invest in innovative B2B companies in the knowledge based industries. With top-notch local and international investors, CT I invested in 6 companies, having completed 6 exits.In 2014, Invest Tech raised its second investment fund with aggregate commitments of R$209 million (US$110 million at the time). This vehicle invested in 8 high profile companies that operate in unique industries. As of Sept, 2020, it had also sold 2 of those companies. The Manager’s portfolio as of June, 2021 has 13 companies, with an aggregate gross IRR of 23.4% per year since 2008.In 2016, its capital structure was strengthened through a strategic transaction with Tesalia do Brasil, an investment vehicle held by Santiago Valbuena, prior CEO of Telefonica Latam for 3 years and Global CFO of the Telefonica Group for 9 years, and Gilmar Camurra, CFO of Telefonica Vivo for 14 years. Through its partnership, Invest Tech has expanded its approach to international players in the Latin America and European regions.Invest Tech’s work is based on the deep understanding of the companies we invest in and the support for the development of the portfolios, active participation in the creation of the growth strategy, evaluation of opportunities and support to financial planning, combining such actions with fundraising or merger and acquisition transactions. We proud ourselves of the close work and relationship with our invested companies and long term approach to our investment process.Our key strengths are:• Strong local presence • Uniquely qualified and complementary team • Focus and experience in the portfolio sectors’ • Entrepreneurial experience • Financial and M&A capabilities • Strong and active investor base

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Cloud Computing
Private Equity, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Uello — Uello uses technology to solve a very difficult problem that is still old fashioned approached - The Urban Logistics market. We provide guidance and smart logistics decisions to a huge workforce of independent resources.Different from peer-to-peer on demand solutions, we provide drivers with optimized routes and a more attractive compensation,making the last mile cheaper for customers and operationally sustainable.We focus on small & medium size companies whose access to great carriers are limited or non-existent. We want to improve the logistics experience and to empower small companies with a first class logistics service at an affordable price.
Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.
Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

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.
Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Terradot — The Earth Regeneration Company

Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Pre-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.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.

Stella Maris Partners are a venture capital fund focused on investing in newly created companies, which have a great potential and a strong desire to move to Mexico and the world.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
Leemons Edtech Solutions — Open Source & SaaS collaborative learning platform to communicate, organise, plan, create content, manage knowledge and evaluate.

West Quad Ventures invest in startups that aspire to be leaders in their respective category, teams we believe in with an emphasis on what’s good for the world!

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

katch — AI call assistant designed to make your calls purposeful and efficient.
Ding Dong — Ding Dong is an online supermarket. They offer products ranging from fresh fruits and veggies to drinks, and all come in only 10 minutes to your door.
StayTuned — At Staytuned, we specialize in Shopify apps that drive sales and growth for top brands.

An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
Lerian — Lerian is a next-gen core banking platform built on top of an open source ledger.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Traive — Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers.
Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
Gabriel — Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond.

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.
Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
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.

Future of Work, Education, and Food, powered by technology

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Peru, Colombia, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Commet — Commet is a platform that centralizes your entire commission calculation, communication, and payment process to sales teams.
NeverGiveUp — NeverGiveUp is a podcast platform that provides AI-generated motivational podcasts and new audio for athletes' motivation.
Sin Intermediarios — Low cost high quality wellness products

Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region.

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.

Anjos do Brasil is a angel investor network dedicated to foster angel investment for supporting inovative entrepreneurs in Brazil. It was founded by Cassio Spina, a entrepreneur and a angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry (see more at http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cassio-spina-3) .Receivingsupport of major brazilian institutions related to entrepreneurship and investments, such as Endeavor Brasil, ABVCAP, BM&F BOVESPA, FIESP/CJE, Brazil Innovators, etc., Anjos do Brasil is commited to connect investors with entrepreneurs in order to help growing new business in Brazil.We do also keep relationship with major VC investment funds, in order to exchange investment opportunities between our members and them. Anjos do Brasil is advised by a seasoned board of advisors, that support our strategic actions for promoting our vision.We promote events between our members and some also for entrepreneurs, for both educating the community and connecting people, to empower their relationsIf you wish to contact us, please, visit our site at www.anjosdobrasil.net and leave a message.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Basemaker — Hey, what's up? We are Basemaker, the world's first 1st-party data creator marketplace. Creatively designed by creators, strategically targeted for advertisers.Our platform allows advertisers to accurately achieve their marketing objectives through data provided by the creators. With this, audience hypersegmentation in digital adcampaigns will make your company send the message to the right person much faster and more efficiently!Influencer marketing raised to the square: create campaigns with influencers and boost them using the creator's engaged audience: more reach, more significant results, and highly qualified audiences.We exist to create new paths in the digital universe and invest in digital tools to transmit and share what we believe with more people, creating microcosms of hyper-connected communities.Welcome to the new world of first-party data in advertising!Create your next campaign with us and explore the power of the Creators community worldwide.contato@basemaker.co#creatoreconomy #creators #ads #firstpartydataTranslated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
Juros Baixos — We are a counselor of credit and financing, and we have the mission to make life easier for those who want a loan. On our page the ordinary citizen can simulate loans at various banks, financials and online credit fintechs, even getting loans from partners from our page. We aim to innovate in the financial market by promoting transparency andcompetition in the credit market, as well as showing rich, relevant and free content on credit and finances for our users. We want to uncomplicate the banks. In addition to serving as a tool for comparison and transparency in personal loans, we support financial education initiatives, bringing together good people who want to impact the financial awareness of Brazilians.

investimos nas tecnologias do futuro para resolver os maiores desafios da sociedade e planeta no presente.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
Yuna — Yuna develops an AI-driven platform that provides personalized, interactive, and free children's stories.
Pathways Technologies, Inc. — Pathways is a full stack sustainability platform for the construction industry.

Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

paydece — Paydece is a decentralized P2P platform that enables users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Fiat without intermediaries, offering privacy, and security, and always preserving decentralization, in other words, Paydece is a decentralized Fiat On/Off ramp.
LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.

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, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
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.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.

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.

Crescera Investimentos is an alternative asset management firm created by the merger of the Bozano Group with three leading and complementary investment firms, BR Investimentos, Mercatto Gestão de Recursos and Trapezus Asset Management, resulting in a unique platform for investors, clients and partners. Structured as a partnership, CresceraInvestimentos is able to attract, retain and develop the best talents in each specialty.Our investment philosophy builds on trust and knowledge. We offer to our clients, investors and investees companies consistent and distinguished returns through diversified financial products and strategies. Founded with approximately R$ 4 billion in AUM, Bozano Investimentos aims to become the most successful alternative investment management firm in Latin America.BR Investimentos` private equity business combines industry knowledge and specialized teams in well-defined circles of competence to successfully invest in privately held Brazilian growth companies. Mercatto Gestão de Recursos has been delivering solid returns through its managed public equities and fixed income portfolios based on strictly fundamental analysis. Lastly, Trapezus Asset Management offers innovative and high alpha quantitative strategies, based on academic research and development.Crescera Investimentos also benefits from the vision of Mr. Julio Bozano - founder of the Bozano Group. Through Banco Bozano, Simonsen, the Bozano Group was recognized as one of the most important investment banking organizations in Brazil for more than 40 years with a very successful track record in long-term proprietary investments. The Group`s expertise in aligning clients` interests with outstanding performance drives the basis of Bozano Investimentos` activities.Our goal is to offer solutions that create long-standing value for our investors, the society at large and the companies we invest in and to perpetuate Bozano Group`s legacy. Crescera Investimentos has a team of over 70 executives, employees, consultants, and senior advisors, including more than 40 partners in offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Private Equity, Funding Round
Brazil, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Vitru — Vitru offers distance learning education group in the postsecondary digital education market in Brazil based on the number of enrolled undergraduate students.
Letrus — Letrus connects linguistic, pedagogical, and digital intelligence, proposing a more effective way of learning and teaching how to write.
Semantix — Semantix is a software platform company that specializes in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. We deliver a one-stop-shop platform to helps customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering provides a Truly unified Data Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering andlines of business to build data products without friction and simply.

Elevar Equity fuels the economic resilience and vibrancy of underserved customers and low income communities by investing early growth capital in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of inclusivity, affordability and massive scale. Led by an entrepreneurial emerging markets team passionate about addressing issues of access and inequity, Elevar invests in businesses that demonstrate a direct correlation between high impact and returns. So far in its 15-year journey, the Elevar Method of investing has democratized essential products and services for over 45 million households and catalyzed billions of dollars of capital into 40+ companies across India and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series C
India, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

Fuse Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage tech opportunities.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

VAAS — VAAS is an AML and Compliance platform that offers on-chain and off-chain data integration for crime and suspicious activity prevention.
Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.

G2 Momentum Capital is a private investment fund that focuses on early-stage and growing startups. It aims to find passionate and talented partners with innovative and disruptive business offerings. It synergizes and joins efforts with the best entrepreneurs in Mexico with the purpose of scaling and consolidating their companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Mexico, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
techreo — techreo is a digital platform that offers integral financial services for the underbanked in LATAM. Through a partnership with Regulated financial institutions, techreo focuses on customer acquisition for the Financial institutions, offers its technology and the customer journey for customers to buy financial products and services.

Cedro Capital is an independent asset management firm located in Brasília-DF with a geographical focus in the Central region of Brazil. Cedro Capital is the leading asset manager firm in the Center-West, connecting companies and projects in the region with qualified institutional investors through alternative investment funds. Cedro Capital isformed by professionals with strong track record and proven experience within the Brazilian capital market.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Prosas — Prosas is a digital platform that facilitates the access of entrepreneurs to diverse opportunities of fundraising and projects feasibility. It aims to bring efficiency and transparency in the process and execution of social investment.
trampay — Trampay provides financial services. They deliver products and services that serve both providers and companies. They offer services for doctor's offices, laboratories, restaurants, entertainment, and education.
SolarView — SolarView engages in monitoring services for the production and consumption of electrical energy from photovoltaic systems.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Little Journey — Little Journey supports children and their families before, during and after healthcare interactions, reducing anxiety and improving health outcomes
Watercycle Technologies — Watercycle Technologies specialized in the development of high-yield, low-cost mineral extraction, and water treatment systems. Its core technology, capable of treating highly concentrated water, is an end-to-end solution encompassing mineral extraction, concentration, and crystallization.

We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Argentina, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
ping — messageLOUD is a patented app that automatically reads text messages, emails, WhatsApp, Slack and all other message types out LOUD without any action from the user.Think about your daily commute. Focused on safety, productivity and convenience, the service reads all major message types out loud when touching your phone is unsafe, inconvenient orillegal.Distracted Driving costs $129 billion per year and 11 lives per day. messageLOUD not only saves lives, but also enhances productivity. There are more than 800 million app users of streaming audio services, running, cycling and other activity-based apps where users would prefer to hear their texts and emails read out LOUD rather than checking their phones.

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.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Mobile
Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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.

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Housi — Housi is an online living-as-a-service on-demand housing platform.
StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.

Xuntos Capital is a multi-family investment office.

Investment focus

E-Learning
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
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.

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