# Top 35 ESports Startup Investors in LATAM in June 2026

## Morningstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.

## D1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Powering the Future of Open Economy

## Huobi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

Huobi Ventures is a venture capital firm which focuses on projects related to blockchain technology, crypto assets, and digital currency.

## M. H. Carnegie & Co.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

M.H. Carnegie & Co. was launched by Mark Carnegie in 2010 with total equity commitments of $132 million to capitalise on the post financial crisis environment in the Australian market for smaller alternative investment opportunities. M.H. Carnegie & Co. was launched with a focus and expertise in expansion capital, as well as operating realestate.

## Loren Roosendaal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports, Blockchain, Online Games

Loren Roosendaal is the Founder and Chairman of Knowingo.

## IVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

## ROK Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech

ROK Capital is a multi-strategy hedge fund and accelerator aiming to grow the Korean crypto ecosystem.

## Ghaf Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, eSports, Online Games

Investment, M&A, Equity Capital, Debt Capital, Growth Capital, and VC Advisory Services.



## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## SevenX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

SevenX Ventures is a Research-driven Crypto Venture Capital founded in 2020.

## NXTP Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology

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.

## Myelin VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

Investing in founders with electrifying ideas.

## Genblock Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

## ID345
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Gaming

Bridging opportunities between resources in Silicon Valley and Mexico.

## LVP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

## Everyrealm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

Everyrealm is an immersive media company, specializing in technology and infrastructure that drives social, community-driven gaming experiences and platforms.

## Manutara Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Manutara Ventures was created to become the most relevant actor in the Venture Capital industry in Chile and Latin America, based on a convergence model with a global seal and a strong emphasis on the construction of successful outlets.



## Hotmart
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: eSports, Robotics, Training

Hotmart is a Content Distribution Platform for digital products. With it, you can sell and deliver digital products such as online courses, ebooks, video, software and others. If you don’t have a digital product to sell you can become affiliated to them, helping promote them and earning commissions for it. Hotmart started operating in 2011 and ithas been the market leader in Latin America. Currently, we are expanding our business globally with offices in Spain, Colombia, México and Holland, and preparing to start operations in many other countries, allowing more people, all over the world, to make a living out of their passions.

## Yield Guild Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Quezon, Quezon City, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

## Draper University Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce

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.

## Kieran Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Kieran Warwick Co-Founder at Illuvium

## The Ark Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

## Richard Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.

## Ghaf Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3

GHAF Capital Partners is one of the first locally managed blockchain private investment firm based in Dubai, U.A.E. 

## Santiago Schettini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Mobile

Santiago Schettini - Co-Founder @ Future Leaders World

## Demium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care

Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic

## Marcos Galperin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Marcos Galperin is a co-founder of Mercadolibre, Inc. and has served as its chairman, president and chief executive officer since October 1999. Marcos is a board member of Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit organization that is leading the global movement to catalyze long term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the besthigh impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marcos received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Marcos is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his comprehensive knowledge and experience in the technology industry and experience serving as a director of other companies.

## TheVentureCity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

## Kalei Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Velez Sarsfield, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Logistics

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

## Ascensive Assets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Ascensive Assets is a seed-stage venture firm that invests in blockchain-enabled companies across the full spectrum of web3.

## Eden Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports, Blockchain, Online Games

Eden Holdings operates as a venture capital firm.

## Rodrigo Borges
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology

Rodrigo Borges is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at DOMO Invest.

## Mechanism Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

## Akatsuki Games Inc.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content

Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.

## Arca
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Invest confidently in crypto assets with Arca-- an asset management firm offering institutional-caliber products for sophisticated investors.  

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