Top 10 Finance Angel Investors in Colombia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Finance Angel Investors in Colombia

Investor	Finance Colombia investments
Leonardo Borrero	1
Brian Requarth	1
Michael Reyes	1
Tatiana Kondratieva	1
Blake Irving	1
Fernando Rivera	1
Lev Ekster	1
Carlos Felipe Gutierrez	1
Nick Caldwell	1
Sebastian Noguera Escallón	1

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Leonardo Borrero

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
TuPlaza —

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Michael Reyes

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Flexiplata — FLEXiplata is an online lending platform. We offer loans between USD100 to USD200 in 24 hours and terms from 1 to 3 months throughout the FLEXicash credit line. Compared to our competition, we offer better financial conditions ( monthly fee, late fee, due date extension ) and a more humane approach to our risk model than other fintech companies.

Tatiana Kondratieva

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Flexiplata — FLEXiplata is an online lending platform. We offer loans between USD100 to USD200 in 24 hours and terms from 1 to 3 months throughout the FLEXicash credit line. Compared to our competition, we offer better financial conditions ( monthly fee, late fee, due date extension ) and a more humane approach to our risk model than other fintech companies.

In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: • Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.• Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. • Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
Dondo — Get what you want giving what you have

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and VC. Ex-CTO for ETF.com. Interest in LatAm startups and Fintech.

Investment focus

Apps, Recruiting, Vending and Concessions
Seed, Angel
United States, Brazil, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
Pimes — Mission-Driven, For-Profit, Online Lender to Small Businesses in Developing MarketsPimes is focused on accelerating the success of profitable small businesses led by motivated, capable and ethical entrepreneurs in select developing markets by providing access to innovative and comprehensive debt financing. At the same time, we aim to offer ourinvestors market returns and access to a new asset class.Starting in Colombia, we will offer a hand up to growing companies who need capital to maximize their impact, create employment and open pathways for upward mobility.Learning, and adapting, from recent experiences in developed markets, we are reinventing small business lending in developing markets.Our target customer has 3 to 50 employees and requires a loan of $5,000 to $100,000. This is typically too large for the microfinance model, but too small for traditional banking approaches to be profitable.We will measure our social impact in terms of absolute employment creation, loans to women-owned and impact-focused enterprises, and loans to rural and underserved regions.
VisIC Technologies — VisIC Technologies Ltd. is a GaN power semiconductor device leader in the fast-developing markets of Automotive, Data Centers and Industrial.

Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.
Elroy Air — Expanding the reach of express logistics via aerial cargo systems - safely, efficiently and autonomously.
cadence — The next generation of refillable travel containers for your personal care and toiletries. Patent-pending, leakproof and highly durable capsules made from recycled ocean-bound plastic. Sustainable and easy to use.

Carlos Felipe Gutierrez Camacho is the Co-founder & Managing Partner at Simma Capital and INVX.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

doc-doc — Accede a los mejores especialistas en medicina, cuando y donde quieras.
Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.

Nick Caldwell is a tech exec with more than 20 years of experience, active board member, and venture capital investor. Nick has a passion for social media. He was formerly the General Manager for Core Technologies at Twitter, overseeing a 2,000 person team. He also led Reddit through hyper-scale as the VP of Engineering. Nick is responsible for twoof the most prominent business intelligence platforms in recent years. He spent 13 years at Microsoft, culminating in a role as General Manager of the Power BI product family where he rapidly transformed the company's BI suite. Later, he became Chief Product Officer at Looker which was acquired by Google for $2.6B. Nick's board work includes HubSpot, Bitly, and True.Nick holds a degree in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT, an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas, and has 10 patents related to natural language processing. Nick’s charitable work includes board membership for /dev/color: a non-profit whose mission is to maximize the impact of Black software engineers.