Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Uruguay in November 2024

Investor	Enterprise Uruguay investments
IC Ventures	4
Olist	3
Caravela Capital	3
Quona Capital	2
Paulo Piccini	2
Endeavor Catalyst	2
DGF Investimentos	2
Broadhaven Capital Partners	2
Latitud	2
Canary	2
ANII	2
Angel Ventures	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Marcos Vercelli-Forster	2
Mouro Capital	2
Wollef Ventures	1
Globant Ventures	1
Pedro Arnt	1
Federico Colella	1
Cisneros Group	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
Ariel Arrieta	1
Starlight Ventures	1
Eduardo Mangarelli	1
Auria Capital	1
Martin Naor	1
NXTP Ventures	1
Elevar Equity	1
The Rise Fund	1
Tencent	1
FJ Labs	1
Grupo Axo	1
Orok Ventures	1
Emblue Latam	1
VentureFriends	1
Sergio Fogel	1
Matt Fichtner	1
ThredUp	1
Draco Capital	1
Greyhound Capital	1
Globant	1
Luxor Capital Group	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Dalus Capital	1
Mario Sanchez	1
Asenza Capital	1
Valor Capital Group	1
Pitanga Fund	1
Santiago Pinto Escalier	1
Kube VC	1

IC Ventures selects startups with potential for disruption, scaling, and value generation in technology applied to financial services (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).ICV members have acquired extensive experience in providing effective and relevant support to entrepreneurs that reduces or neutralizes some of the most frequent risksthat lead to the failure of entrepreneurs and allows them to make the most of the opportunities that are they present them both for business and for securing financing.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Polyhedra Network — Polyhedra is bringing interoperability and scalability to Web3 with the fastest zero-knowledge proof systems.

Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Brazilian Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage companies in Latam

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
SuaQuadra — Quadra is a commercial real estate marketplace. Major technology and real estate investors' support, including Kaszek, Canary, ONEVC, and the Cyrela family.

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
Broom — Broom ID memberikan pelayanan terbaik untuk pengalaman Jual Beli Mobil Bekas Anda, banyak pilihan Variasi merek dan tipe Mobil Bekas yang berlimpah
Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.

Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

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.
Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
First Circle — First Circle is an award-winning FinTech company that has been supporting SMEs since 2016. We help businesses increase sales, fund projects, manage payments, and ultimately overcome the biggest barriers to their growth.

DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Broadhaven is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Brinta — Tax Compliance Solution for Latin America. Calculate, report and file your taxes in real-time with Brinta
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Bondaval — Bondaval secures receivables for the world's best credit teams, so they can extend more credit, win more business and get better financing terms.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.
Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling

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

Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
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.

The National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) is a government agency that promotes research and application of new knowledge to productive and social reality of the country. ANII available to the public funding for research projects, scholarships national and international graduate programs and incentive programs for innovativeentrepreneurship and culture, both in the private and public sectors.ANII developed the National Research System, a program of national economic researchers categorized based on a strict evaluation system incentives. He also created the Portal Timbo, which allows free access to all kinds of scientific publications worldwide for all Uruguayans.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Uruguay, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Boki — We are a team that has excelled in software, pedagogy, video games, the publishing world, and very motivated to positively impact the lives of millions of children. We have created Boki, a tool that is improving the learning experience in schools in Uruguay, Chile, and México, returning the natural enthusiasm to learn of thousands of schoolchildren. Boki can be understood as a “Netflix” with educational content, which includes challenging and really fun activities and exercises that help children learn while enjoying, in a playful and interactive way. Boki helps teachers to prepare the class, it is compatible with multiple platforms and easily adapts to national curricula.
TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.

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!

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.
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.

Marcos Vercelli-Forster

Investment focus

Marketplace, B2B, Retail
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.

Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Remofirst — All-in-one platform to hire anyone from anywhere with one click. Same-day onboarding. Available in 150+ countries
Skyflow — Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in.

Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Argentina, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
Vioo — Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace for companies on demand. The solution automates the creation of visual content.
Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.

We invest in visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent business through the lens of AI, Blockchain, and Future of Work technologies. Our DNA is that of our founders, and our venture fund targets investment from Seed stage to Series B, while bringing to bear the expertise, scale, and passion of our global network.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Argentina, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Fivvy — In the dynamic world of financial technology, Fivvy stands at the forefront, enabling banks to surpass the competition by leveraging cutting-edge, data-driven models and tailored customer engagement strategies. Fivvy’s innovative solutions unlock the immense value hidden within financial data, propelling banks of all sizes toward unparalleledcustomer experiences. With Fivvy's streamlined implementation process, banks can quickly turn into data driven and customer centric organizations in as little as 3 months. Overall, Fivvy empowers banks to offer a more customer-centric approach, while unlocking the full value of their data.
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LinkedAI — Image Labeling platform and annotation services to accelerate the creation highest quality training data for your Computer Vision development

Pedro Arnt is the current Co-Chief Executive Officer of dLocal. He previously worked at MercadoLibre as a Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Pedro Arnt attended the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Series A
Mexico, Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.

Owner & CEO, OCASA

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.

The Cisneros Group is a global media and entertainment leader focused on the vibrant and fast-growing Hispanic market. The Cisneros Group produce and distribute some of the world’s most popular Spanish-language programming, reaching 550 million viewers in more than 100 countries.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Social Media Marketing
Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
Brazil, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

FLUVIP — Fluvip is an influencer marketing company in Latin America and the United States. It offers a technology platform that allows advertisers to identify the right social content influencers for their campaigns based on artificial intelligence systems; and brands to connect with social content influencers in the world through multi-channels, such asTwitter, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and Blogs. Fluvip measures the reactions and behaviors of users in social networks to obtain segmentation results and to achieve effective campaigns. Sebastian Jasminoy founded it on July 10, 2013, with its headquarters in Bogotá in Colombia.
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.
AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Infinitus Systems — Infinitus Systems offers Voice Robotic Process Automation (VoiceRPA) software for businesses in the healthcare industry.
Valon Technologies — Valon Mortgage is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved, tech-enabled residential mortgage servicer. The company’s mission is to champion homeowners on their financial journey as the partner they trust with their home and their future.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Argentina, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

GetGloby — GetGloby is an AI-powered platform that allows you to automatically localize your ads in minutes and manage all your translations effortlessly.
Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.

Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Finland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.
Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.

Eduardo Mangarelli - Founder @ Qool

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Shipping
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tryolabs —
MonkeyLearn — MonkeyLearn provides a simple graphical interface where users can create customized text classification and extraction analysis by training machine learning models such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, keyword extraction, and more. MonkeyLearn can be integrated with hundreds of other applications through its direct integrations and open API.All of that without the need of roping in developers or data scientists!
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.

Auria Capital is a venture firm focused on real estate development and direct investments in Mexican companies.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Internet
Series A, Seed
Mexico, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Carrot — Carrot is Mexico’s first car sharing service that provides fuel-efficient automobile reservations to members, billable by the hour or day. Carrot members pay a monthly membership fee in addition to car reservation charges which include gas and insurance. Carrot’s service is the first of its kind in Mexico, giving rise to an agreement with theMexico City government for special parking permits and access to electric cars. At the end of 2015, Carrot had a fleet of 82 cars in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Puebla.
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.
Inventive Power — Inventive Power develops innovative technologies in generation and efficient use of energy, aimed to maximize the reduction of energy costs in the commercial and industrial sector. Their IP technology is a solar concentrator that generates useful thermal energy in industrial or commercial applications where large amounts of hot water, steam or heatinput are required; at a much lower cost to generate it with fossil fuels and with a significant reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases.

Martin Naor - Founder and CEO @ Bankingly

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Shipping
Pre-Seed, Series A
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

MonkeyLearn — MonkeyLearn provides a simple graphical interface where users can create customized text classification and extraction analysis by training machine learning models such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, keyword extraction, and more. MonkeyLearn can be integrated with hundreds of other applications through its direct integrations and open API.All of that without the need of roping in developers or data scientists!
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.

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.

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.

The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change.The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is bothachievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information, and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Software
Series C, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with BillEase and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
Hayden AI — Artificial intelligence is already impacting almost every aspect of our lives. But cities still rely on outdated technologies that are too expensive to scale and unable to deliver on their promise. As a result, streets are becoming unsafe, and cities are becoming unmanageable. Hayden AI was founded on the belief that by combining mobile sensorswith artificial intelligence, we can help governments bridge the innovation gap while making traffic flow less dangerous and more efficient. Led by a team of experts in machine learning, data science, transportation, and government technology, we’ve developed the world’s first autonomous traffic management platform — simultaneously serving citizens and multi-agency missions to help cities become safer and more sustainable.
Eruditus Executive Education — Eruditus Executive Education offers the best executive education programmes from world's top Business Schools - Columbia, INSEAD, Harvard, MIT Sloan, Wharton and more.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
Insighta — Insighta is an early cancer detection company that focuses on developing tests and clinical trials for additional cancer types using technological advancements. It is a joint venture between Prenetics and scientist, Prof. Dennis Lo.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LoopUp — LoopUp exists to provide multinational businesses with one global telephony provider, simplifying and centralizing telephony management and support, and delivering economies of scale. LoopUp is the world leader in global coverage for Microsoft's certified Operator Connect program.
StruxHub — Construction Management Software. Best project management software for construction, Jobsite Management. Scheduling Software for Construction Field Teams.
Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.

Grupo Axo is a leading multi-brand company in Mexico for apparel, footwear, beauty, accessories and home furniture. Today the company is a reference and a reliable resource for brands that want to build a successful platform within Latin America. With a solid retail and wholesale experience for over 23 years, its expertise comes from representing,elevating equity, distributing and operating brands through a multi-channel approach. As of 2017, Grupo Axo operates more than 3,100 points of sale within major department stores and over 500 retail points of sale in both Mexico and Chile, and solid and successful e-commerce platforms in both mono-brand and multi-brand formats.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
Corporate Round
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.

Orok Ventures is investing on tech, VCs, PEs, among other asset classes.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Information Technology
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.

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Investment focus

Analytics, E-Commerce, Data Integration
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA

Investment focus

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

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.
Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.
Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

Investment focus

Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Tuvis — Tuvis enables companies to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with business interactions over unofficial channels like WhatsApp and iMessage.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

Investment focus

Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.

thredUP is an online consignment and thrift store where you can buy and sell high-quality secondhand clothes. Find your favorite brands at up to 90% off.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
Corporate Round
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.

DRACO CAPITAL is a Latin American independent Investment Manager. Our management team has over 30 years of experience.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

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.

Global growth equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled businesses improving everyday lives

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Series B, Series D
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Greadamy — Greadamy is an educational technology company that revolutionizes how students learn by offering a comprehensive AI-driven platform. The platform provides personalized learning experiences through adaptive quizzes, AI-generated flashcards, and a Notion-style editor for structured note-taking. Greadamy is designed to support efficient self-study,human and AI tutoring based on fine-tuned LLM, and a collaborative learning community. Backed by regional investors and leading education technology partners, Greadamy aims to empower students globally by making learning more personalized, efficient, and accessible.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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.

Luxor Capital Group is a hedge fund that offers equity and fixed income investments. It also provides its customers with investment advisory services. Luxor Capital Group was founded by Christian Leone and is based in New York.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Logistics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
Volta Trucks — Electric trucks for sustainable cities, with people at the heart of everything we do.
VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.

Investing in innovation & growth in Latin America

Investment focus

Information Technology, Analytics, Logistics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

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.
Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.

Senior Level Manager More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them. With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Android
Pre-Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions.  POP Material implementation.  Products expiring date.  Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.

Asenza Capital is a family office based in Monterrey, Mexico that invests in real estate, public markets and private equity.

Investment focus

SaaS, Medical, Internet
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Chile, Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Webdox — Webdox is a SaaS CLM focused on large and medium companies in LATAM and the US. Webdox control automates and optimizes the entire contract lifecycle for all kinds of contract types with different features for the whole contract lifecycle, including contract request, contract drafting, validation, e-signature, contract execution, contract changemanagement, contract repository, and reports.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Region Metropolitana, Chile.
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.
Onko Solutions — Onko Solutions is committed to the development of accurate and innovative solutions that contribute to the detection, prevention and treatment of cancer in underserved communities.

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

Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
XP Health — XP Health is a health tech startup introducing a new kind of vision benefit for employees leveraging machine learning.Founded in 2019 by Antonio Moraes and James Wong, XP Health is an AI-powered vision benefits platform for employees and their families to get frames from the world’s leading designers like Tom Ford, Ray-Ban, Armani, Gucci, Coach.Its proprietary deep learning model uses facial recognition technology that recommends the best frames based on facial dimensions with 98% accuracy. The company is working with companies like Chegg, Zenefits, and Sequoia Consulting Group.
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The Pitanga Fund invests in innovative companies with high growth potential.The fund's goal is to work with early stage start-ups and to help entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to build their business.The innovation that the firm wishes to support involves innovative business models or the development and deployment of newtechnologies.Pitanga looks for businesses that aim to address large markets and can capture a significant fraction of these markets in a short time. To achieve these goals the companies must deploy a set of innovations capable of generating a wide competitive advantage.If these conditions are met, Pitanga is prepared to provide the capital necessary to develop and implement new technologies or business models.The firm contributes the necessary capital and is prepared to provide assistance by participating on the board of directors.Pitanga Fund has no limitations regarding sectors or geographies. However, prefers to invest in Brazilian companies or companies that have a significant presence in Brazil.Over the next four years Pitanga intends to invest in a limited number of companies, these will be chosen via a rigorous selection process.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Geospatial
Seed, Series A, Series C
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Collokia — Collokia uses Artificial Intelligence to expose your Knowledge Management Content to the right people at the right time and boosts your knowledge management system ROI.
Satellogic — Making Earth Observation imagery accessible and affordable to solve the world's most pressing problems

Santiago Pinto Escalier is the Coach - Strategic Advisor at Finanflix.

Investment focus

Geospatial
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Satellogic — Making Earth Observation imagery accessible and affordable to solve the world's most pressing problems

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.
Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development