Top 45 Education Startup Investors in Mexico in December 2024

Investor	Education Mexico investments
DILA Capital	3
Stella Maris Partners	3
Alter Global	2
IGNIA	2
Antler	2
G2 Momentum Capital	2
Xuntos Capital	2
Salsa Ventures	2
Blue Zone Ventures	2
Advenio Capital Management	1
BlueBox Ventures	1
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	1
Eric Perez-Grovas	1
Vander Capital Partners	1
Reach Capital	1
Zoma Capital	1
NXTP Ventures	1
Angel Ventures	1
DVC	1
VilCap Investments	1
Bossa Invest	1
Draper University Ventures	1
Daedalus Ventures	1
Be Curious Partners	1
Learn Capital	1
The Ark Fund	1
Access Ventures	1
NXTP Ventures	1
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	1
Cemex Ventures	1
Capital Invent	1
Jose Calderon	1
Shane Neman	1
Elevar Equity	1
FEMSA	1
Fenway Summer Ventures	1
K50 Ventures	1
Nido Ventures	1
MGV Capital	1
Endeavor Catalyst	1
ARK FUND	1
Alta Growth Capital	1
Gaja Capital	1
Pi Campus	1
IFC	1

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.

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.

Alter Global is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups within emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Since 2015, we’ve partnered with more than 40 exceptional ventures across 18 countries. We believe in the theory of individual change, supporting high-character founders who are buildingnot only their companies, but their communities and countries as well. We match our founders with talent, expertise, and investments from around the world.We're on a mission to create an unprecedented global network of the world's best tech founders - #ventureboldly and join us.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Aidatify — Aidatify uses proprietary AI model training technology to capture and accurately analyze data, with a focus on the blockchain sector.Its objective is to give traders with precise and sophisticated data analysis.
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

escala — la plataforma todo en uno de marketing y venta.
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.
Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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.

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.

Salsa Ventures is a Syndicate focused on developing the Latin American startup ecosystem.

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.

As Blue Zone Ventures we invest in Healthcare, Fintech and Edtech LATAM startups.

Investment focus

EdTech, Retail, Fashion
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
Ozaru.io — Unlocking the power of your company's knowledge thought our powerful AI assistant
DataRebelsMX — DataRebelsMX offers data literacy content & data project management software to improve data project adoption.

Advenio Capital Management is a long/short equity investment partnership specializing in fundamental, valuation driven stock picking globally. Founded in 2015 by Principals Nigel Hart and Jeremy Brook, it is based in Greenwich, CT.

Investment focus

Apps, EdTech, Children
Convertible Note
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!

Bluebox is the largest corporate venturing firm in Latin America, connecting startups and corporations in a powerful ecosystem.

Investment focus

Real Estate, FinTech, Home Renovation
Seed, Pre-Seed
Mexico, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Wimet — Wimet is the platform that helps companies manage workspaces in a flexible way, allowing people to work from anywhere. - Booking desks and rooms in the office. - Access to workspaces on-demand - Data insights and reports. Easy. Simple. Flexible!
Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
Collective Academy — Collective Academy is a neo-university that identifies learners and connects them to the collective knowledge to re-invent the future together. They achieve this through their Master’s in Business Technology, a degree that accelerates the professional talent of Latin America. In addition, our innovation experts deliver internal Corporate Learningprograms for companies to help their key decision makers to be prepared for the future.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Eric Perez-Grovas is a co-founder and general partner at Wollef Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

mmhmm — The best way to present and record yourself. Virtual backgrounds, screen recorder, present with a friend. Works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Webex.
Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.

VCP is an investment management firm focused in two sectors: early stage and real assets. The main interest in early stage investments is in technology and innovation in real estate also known as CRETech or PropTech. Real assets investments are limited to real estate and mining. VCP has performed several early stage investments both in the USand Mexico through Vander Angel. It is also part of the GP of Mexico Ventures. Mexico Ventures has three separate investment strategies: a VC fund of funds, a VC arm and a mezzanine initiative.Vander has performed several investments in real estate through Vander Properties that include being an LP at Veritas Investments (the largest multifamily for rent owner operator in the Bay Area) a GP in Latin Americas first multifamily for rent fund as well as other single asset investments in Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. Vander Properties has also provided consulting services to the Government of Peru, some development banks and private clients and publicly traded companies in Mexico.The company invests in mining through Vander Mining. Its currently strategy is focused on acquiring distressed gold projects or mines in Mexico and list them under one company in Canada's TSX.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
Seed, Series A
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nebia — Transform your daily shower experience. 10x more immersive for you. 65% more sustainable for the planet.
Starcity — Starcity is a San Francisco-based owner and operator of Coliving communities. As of early 2020, Starcity has just under 500 beds in operation across San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with a current committed development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units.Their 45-person team spans multiple disciplines including real estate, technology,design, and hospitality with employees from companies like Airbnb, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Fairmont Hotels, FivePoint, Google, Tesla, Lyft, SoulCycle, The Standard, and Uber. They are urban housing enthusiasts on a mission to make great cities accessible to everyone.Starcity’s approach is different from other groups in the Coliving space. They are set up as both a General Partner and Operator with full-stack real estate development, design, and management capabilities. They love working on all aspects of design to maintain a keen focus on project details, and they enjoy having skin in the game when the opportunity presents itself.
Homie — Busca un inmueble para rentar sin necesidad de aval en las mejores colonias de la CDMX o renta tu inmueble de manera segura y busca al mejor inquilino.

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.
Cometa — Cometa provides technological and financial tools to increase access to quality education in Mexico and Latin America. Take off with the most recent developments in school administration. Maintain complete control over your reconciliation, billing, and operations.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Zoma Capital invests in a wide range of market-based sustainable solutions addressing environmental and social challenge. It invests in a broad range of market-based sustainable solutions advancing energy, water, and regional economic resiliency in Chile and Colorado. Its global investment portfolio spans multiple asset classes and sectors withan emphasis on addressing environmental and social challenges.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Energy
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Chile, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
ConnectDER — ConnectDER adapters let anyone connect solar panels or EV chargers to their home at a fraction of the typical time and cost....
Urbint — Urbint uses artificial intelligence to predict threats to workers and critical infrastructure and stop incidents before they happen.

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.
Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
Occosoft LLC — At Occosoft, we unlock infinite opportunities for entrepreneurship by tackling the power of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions. We collaborate with diverse clients across industries to transform their advanced experiences and enable them to reach new heights.Our Services: Managed AI Solutions: Use ourexpertise to consistently integrate AI into your operations. We handle updates, security, and framework checks, guaranteeing a smooth and secure experience.Custom Software Development with AI: Our custom software solutions are custom-fitted to your unique needs and consistently integrated with advanced AI functionalities.AI Web Development: Build a global presence with secure, universal web applications powered by AI. Access everything and work from anywhere with our intelligent online solutions.AI-Powered Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Outsmart the competition and get noticed! Our AI strategies get you to the top of search engine results organically, attracting more customers and moving your business growth.Social Media Optimization: We help you use the control of social media to manage your online profile, connect with modern clients, and build brand awareness.Features:Smart Report Processing: Automate data extraction and eliminate manual information entry tasks. Focus on what truly matters and discover the power of intelligent document processing.AI-Powered Security: Occosoft's AI security learns and adapts, creating an intelligent shield that safeguards your data from advanced attacks.Customized User Access: Our framework simplifies security while engaging your team for success. Experience streamlined collaboration without compromising information integrity.Connect us on our mission to open the genuine potential of your business with AI!

DVC is the collective umbrella of specialized syndicates that invest in companies from pre-seed through pre-IPO. Our investment team comes from diverse backgrounds and are founders and operators.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blingg — Blingg is a subscription-based privileges platform for Brand partners and Corporate clients that curates the best brands, exclusive offers, rewards, and trials.
Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Emitter — 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.
Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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.

Daedalus Venture is a firm focused in Latin America early stage startups We invest in Fitech & SAAS

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Chile, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.

Be Curious Partners is a venture capital fund investing in companies that want to reinvent parenthood.

Investment focus

Children, E-Commerce, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Caribu — Caribu is a family video calling and reading platform that provides an engaging long-distance communication experience for kids. It integrates children’s picture books into a simple, child-friendly video calling app. It also brings together interactivity and education to create a communication tool for the modern family.Caribu was founded in 2016and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
GoodBuy Gear — The safest curated online marketplace to buy and sell baby & kid stuff. We keep quality second hand baby gear in circulation longer.

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, andservices are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Feeling Great — Feeling Great is a mental wellness app that offers a revolutionary AI-powered chatbot and interactive learning program, which have been developed based on the groundbreaking work of David Burns, MD and his T.E.A.M. approach to cognitive behavioral therapy.
Emergence — Emergence is technology company that advances science and development of AI agent systems for enterprise.

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.

Access Ventures is a private operating foundation that is working to initiate systemic change in communities that results in an inclusive and creative economy an economy that functions for all people, and in which everyone is valued. It works every day alongside its partners to consciously construct a dynamic portfolio.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, South Korea, China

Portfolio highlights

COOLMATE — Coolmate is an online shopping mall committed to providing a complete shopping experience for Vietnamese male customers. It allows users to order up to 10 items like t-shirts and socks for under US$20. The company is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
RADICL Defense — RADICL cyber threat and compliance virtual SOC gives small-to-mediuam sized businesses access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity.

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, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Cemex Ventures is the corporate venture capital of Cemex. With a global focus, we invest in, accelerate, and partner with innovative startups to drive the construction revolution.

Investment focus

Construction, Software, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

ObraLink — Sidcodx is a tool that collects and digitalizes data automatically in the job site to speed up critical construction processes such as progress control and the formwork stage.
KC8 Capture Technologies — KC8 Capture Technologies is an Australian based carbon capture utilisation and storage start up. We are working towards a greener global future
Vizcab — COMBO develops breakthrough digital solutions using data sciences to support the energy transition of the building: - VIZCAB: a tool and a method for designers and builders to foster creativity around qualified and shared energy and carbon objectives - B-Human: an energy programming tool that places people at the heart of design processes They arealso carry out studies, consultancy services and research assignments with leading industrialists, majors and designers in the construction industry. environmental assessment, energy efficiency and big data.

Mexican-based early stage VC investing in consumer internet startups

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Odetta — Odetta is a digital platform that enables individuals to buy and sell used cars safely and at a fair price, from the comfort of their homes.
Parkimovil — We're a platform that smartly manages and processes interactions and payments with different mobility nodes.
HAMOC — HAMOC uses cutting-edge tech to provide unparalleled Lease Underwriting & Management Services to make our customers feel both supported and relaxed, the HAMOC way .

Jose Calderon

Investment focus

E-Learning
Angel, Pre-Seed
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.
Waraire Boswell Industries —

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
CG Oncology — CG Oncology is an oncolytic immunotherapy company that is intensely focused on developing bladder saving therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer.
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

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 B
India, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.
TapFin — TapFin makes EV financing and leasing simple, helping fleet operators and DCOs save money and switch to electric vehicles easily.
Cloudphysician — Cloudphysician provides a cloud-based health diagnosis platform intended to monitor health conditions of neonatal and emergency ward infants. Its cloud-based platform combines artificial intelligence, IoT, and predictive analytics to integrate real-time clinical data from connected devices within the laboratory with bedside observational data andrecords and monitors the immunization schedule, health, growth, and developmental profile of a newborn from birth to the age of 12 years, enabling doctors to reduce neonatal infant mortality rate through early stage diagnosis of critical diseases in neonates.

FEMSA is a brewing company and bottler of Coco-Cola products.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Real Estate, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CoreZero — Turning less into more
DataRebelsMX — DataRebelsMX offers data literacy content & data project management software to improve data project adoption.
Cargamos.com — Cargamos is a cloud-based logistics platform allowing businesses of any size to store and fulfill their inventory ultra-fast from a nationwide of independent distribution centers, all at a ridiculously low price.The supply chain is a fragmented industry with hundreds of independent companies and mini-bodegas that rely on analog systems tocompete. Cargamos provides these companies with a single platform that increases their competitiveness and ability to deliver the next-gen of supply chain.In other words, Cargamos blend the physical and digital worlds to create a delighted shipping experience

Venture firm backing companies tackling challenges at the intersection of finance & technology.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parlay — Discover Parlay Finance's cutting-edge platform designed for community banks and credit unions. Elevate your loan processing with tailored analytics, efficient underwriting, and seamless SBA lending integration. Join our mission to transform financial experiences with technology-driven services that boost conversion rates and foster growth.
Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.

K50 Ventures is a purpose-driven, early-stage venture capital firm. We are the first institutional check and long-term partner to founders who believe technology has the potential to unlock access and affordability for the world’s working class across health, finance, and work. Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 150 companies that have generatedtop-decile venture returns for our investors and material impact for millions of people and small businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i

Nido Ventures is a tech focused VC Fund that invests in Pre Seed and Seed companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Health Care, Medical
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
Maqui — Maqui is a business-to-business platform helps garment brands in improving supply chain management by reducing manufacturing waste.
Mika Health — Streamline the boring, focus on the extraordinary

We are a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in fintech, consumer internet, and enterprise software.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
Foccuz — Foccuzz offers software that automates all operations by connecting multiple data sources, allowing for real-time visibility, increased efficiency, more revenue, and faster data-driven decision-making.
Frank Innovations — A simpler and cheaper way to get a car. Order your car subscription online in minutes from GO. Save ...

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
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.
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.

Capital call Syndicate fund

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Rocketfy — Rocketfy is an e-commerce that offers solution to sell online.
Top-E University — Tope University aims to democratize higher education. We develop masters programs that are taught by the best entrepreneurs and business leaders instead of academics. Our methodology is based on microlearning and focuses on highly practical and key educational concepts. Our students learn as if they were watching Netflix. They only need 20 minutesa day over a period of 10 months. Also, they can boost their networking trough events and workshops within their region.
DitoBanx — Our main objective is to enable Bitcoin Financial Services for medium size business and big size corporations. Our services include Bitcoin Merchant tools, Bitcoin Savings Accounts, Bitcoin loans, Crypto Debit card and more.

Alta Growth Capital manages a private equity fund focused on investments in middle market companies in Mexico. There private equity, transactional, and operational experience, both in Mexico and internationally, makes them well-positioned to provide attractive returns for our investors and help our portfolio companies achieve success.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Internet
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Grupo Turistore — Turistore is the leading souvenir retail chain in Mexico’s top tourist locations. Turistore currently operates more than 16,000 m2 of retail floor space spread across the Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta, and Los Cabos, concentrated in tourist avenues, cruise docks, and shopping centers. The stores operate under diverse brands and sell handicrafts,souvenirs, clothing, pharmacy, totaling over 27,000 SKUs.
Mexarrend — Docuformas has grown to be the second-largest independent leasing company. The company is offering financing solutions to rapidly-growing and underserved small and medium-sized enterprises for the acquisition of productive assets and equipment to support growth. Docuformas provides reliable and competitive funding sources through its six mainbusiness lines capital leasing, operating leases, transportation services, factoring, cash financing, and equipment financing.
Lottus Education — Lottus Education is a higher education provider in mexico.

Gaja Capital is as an India focussed Private Equity firm that invests exclusively in Indian, typically in mid-market companies. Gaja invests in emerging sectors such as Education, Financial Services and Consumer.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Banking
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
India, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Signzy — Signzy offers Online Identity Verification Service and Customer Onboarding Platform, enabling businesses to securely and efficiently verify identities and onboard customers with ease.
LeadSquared — Complete Marketing Automation and CRM software for businesses. Organize your lead capture, lead management, sales management & analytics in one platform.
Kinara Capital — Kinara Capital offers Unsecured Business Loans for MSMEs. Get MSME loans from Rs. 1-30 lakhs; machinery loans/financing

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
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.
Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.

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Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Collaborative Consumption
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Mexico, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
BlaBlaCar — BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can evenspecify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers.Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers.BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries.
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