Top 20 Finance Angel Investors in Mexico in January 2025
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Mexico. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Mexico. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Finance Angel Investors in Mexico in January 2025
Investor | Finance Mexico investments |
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David Vélez | 2 |
Arash Ferdowsi | 2 |
Ricardo Weder | 2 |
Scott Sandell | 2 |
Pierpaolo Barbieri | 2 |
Guilherme Bonifacio | 2 |
Gokul Rajaram | 1 |
Travis Foxhall | 1 |
Alexis Patjane | 1 |
David Rusenko | 1 |
Angel Cisneros | 1 |
Harsh Sinha | 1 |
JaMes Sowers | 1 |
Bootstrapped Debt Financing | 1 |
Ron Pragides | 1 |
Felipe Capella | 1 |
Craig Fuller | 1 |
Sebastian Mejia | 1 |
David de Picciotto | 1 |
Cynthia Chen | 1 |
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
- Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
- CodeCrafters — Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.
Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Chile, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner at NEA. A General Partner since 2000, and Co-Managing General Partner from 2015 - 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments inindustry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.Scott is currently a director of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and a number of private companies including Automation Anywhere, Branch, Cloudflare, Coursera, Enigma, Expanse (fka Qadium), Hello Alfred, One Concern, Robinhood, Sentons, Transfix, and WaterBit. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Germany, China
Portfolio highlights
Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
- Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
- Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Atlas — Atlas is an invite-only charge card that unlocks access to exclusive dining and travel experiences.
- New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
- Innovartan Learning Solutions — Innovartan empowering schools for excellence, students success and IIT JEE & NEET preparation. Bridging the gap between coaching and school education.
Travis Foxhall oversees the finance function at Clara, the leading corporate credit card and spend management solution for Latin America. Before joining Clara, he was an early-stage investor with Point72 Ventures and Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis was also Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digitalbank in Brazil, where he worked for the CEO on special projects. He began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorganChase and Thomson Reuters. Travis is also an active angel investor, with a focus on seed-stage opportunities in the United States and Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Banking, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
- Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.
Alexis Patjane is a Co Founder/CEO at 99minutos.com. He attended Y Combinator.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Series B
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Spot2 — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- 99 Minutos — 99 minutos is a last-mile logistics disruptor for LatAm's burgeoning e-commerce space. The company enables enterprise e-commerce clients to reliably same-day deliver products at low cost - a first for the region. Currently operating in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.The company was founded in 2014 by Alexis Patjane and is headquartered inMexico City, Mexico.
David Rusenko is the general manager of e-commerce at Square. He was the founder and CEO of Weebly.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Phil — Phil is an affordable, next-generation market access platform delivering unprecedented outcomes for patients, prescribers, manufacturers and all other stakeholders.
- Huckleberry — At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracyand take weeks to complete.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Angel is and entrepreneur and co-founder of Quiubas Mobile where he serves as CEO. He has also founded companies in the software development and transportation sector. Angel has also started acting a seed investor on tech based companies.In 2007 Angel developed www.quiubas.com, serving as one of the only 2 free Mexico SMS networks.As anentrepreneur Angel Cisneros has been invited to present lectures and conferences for Software Related Business and Entrepreneurship in the most recognized universities in Mexico.Angel has interacted with world-recognized and defining leaders in the political, software and economical fields.Quiubas Mobile is the Mexico's leading SMS messaging provider. The main focus is A2P messaging, which now include delivering SMS to Colombia and Ecuador.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Finance, Telecommunications
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Pig.gi — Farrow Ventures offers Pig.gi, an app where users win Pig.gi Coins in exchange for engaging with brands and sharing their consumer data. Coins are exchangeable for airtime from any mobile operator. The app was launched in June 2016 in Mexico. Later that year it was launched in Colombia.
Harsh Sinha is Chief Technology Officer at TransferWise - the international money transfer platform enabling people to send, receive and manage money across borders cheaply and easily. Prior to TransferWise, he was Director of Product at PayPal. During his tenure at PayPal and eBay prior to that, Harsh built various global product experiences andteams including PayPal mobile, eBay Motors, eBay Local and Milo (an eBay acquisition).Harsh is also an angel investor and advises early stage start up on product market fit and team scaling problems.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Energy, Banking
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- tem. — In a few simple steps we can manage your renewable energy needs forever.
- Tracebit — Tracebit generates and maintains bespoke decoy resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps beyond stock protection without time- and cost-intensive detection engineering
- Lightyear — Investing with an edge. Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest in stocks and ETFs without unnecessary barriers and fees.
James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
- United States, Switzerland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- BitPay — BitPay is the best crypto app to pay with crypto and accept crypto payments. Create a wallet to buy, store, swap and spend securely. Register as a merchant to accept crypto payments lightning fast.
- Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
- Yield Guild 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.
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.TRUSTLY - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards. CARTA - Vice President of Engineering responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team ofEngineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo.APPDIRECT - Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.BIGCOMMERCE - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin.TWITTER - Director of Engineering thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.SALESFORCE: Joined pre-IPO Salesforce when Engineering team was ~36 individuals. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MetaMap — Metamaps are customisable trust workflows that empower service providers to reach more customers.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.
Felipe Capella is the Co-Founder and CEO of Loadsmart.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Craig Fuller is the CEO and founder of FreightWaves,
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- SmartHop — SmartHop is a business-in-a-box platform that empowers small trucking companies and owner-operators to earn more while doing less. By using artificial intelligence to deliver smart load recommendations, full-service back-office support, and low-cost operational services, SmartHop enables customers to operate with better capabilities than theleading carriers. It transforms the way drivers make a living through the nation’s largest network for truckers.Founded in 2018, SmartHop is backed by Equal Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Greycroft, RyderVentures, and Las Olas VC. It is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- ConverSight — ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customerreport generation costs by over 50%.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis.
Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vaas — Software
- Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
- Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
David de Picciotto - Co-Founder & CEO @ Pledge
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Quansa — Changing the way workers access financial services.
- Sundayapp — Our solution is the world's fastest and easiest way to pay at restaurants. Your customers scan a QR code and pay in 10 seconds
- FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.
FinTech entrepreneur, VC investor and advisor
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Figure — See how a Home Equity Line of Credit with Figure can help you plan a home renovation project, consolidate high-interest debt, or fund your dream vacation!
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
- Stori — Stori Card is a digital financial platform provider focused on serving the underserved customers The company focused on promoting financial inclusion in Mexico by providing middle- and emerging middle-class customers with access to a credit card as well as other financial products
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