Top 10 Financial Services Startup Investors in Ecuador in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Financial services startups based in Ecuador. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Ecuador. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Financial Services Startup Investors in Ecuador in November 2024

Investor	Financial Services Ecuador investments
BuenTrip Ventures	3
Magma Partners	2
Clocktower Technology Ventures	1
Conexo Ventures	1
Kaszek	1
5 Eyes Ventures	1
DILA Capital	1
devlabs	1
AMK Investment Office	1
Function Investments	1

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BuenTrip Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Quito, Ecuador, that leverages its position as one of the leading ecosystem builders in Latin America to identify, mentor, and invest in software-based startups that are transforming the region’s economy.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Ecuador, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
BucksApp — BucksApp is a SaaS company that provides business intelligence solutions to financial institutions through our in-house-developed API
Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.

Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.
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.

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Portugal, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Erudit — ERUDIT AI is a SaaS-powered platform that transforms daily data into actionable people insights. The data generated by the text and voice of employees when using corporate communication tools such as Email, Slack, Teams, Zoom, among others, will give insights into the employees' burnout risk, engagement levels, and frictions across alldepartments and individuals in the organization. These real-time insights will be very useful for the HR department or business unit directors. Moreover, Erudit shows the subjects that are most common among employees related to these metrics, known as topics. This will allow clients to identify where their time and resources are most valuable and to impact the organization's business outcomes.
Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
Enthec Solutions — Enthec Solutions offers products on security monitoring, DevSecOps, and cloud.

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Winnin — Cultural Relevance powered by AI. Winnin AI transforms cross-platform video behavioral data into game-changing predictive insights

5 Eyes is the best syndicate in the world investing in early stage startups from day 1

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Music
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
Autority.io — Owning a car is amazing, but administering it is a hustle. Owners are overwhelmed with the amount of services that need to keep up: insurance, parkings, tolls, fines, maintenance, tires, registration, gas, among others, and everything is done independently and decentralized.At Autority, we’ve built an App were we centralize services and benefitsrelated to a vehicle. We’ve built a network of AAA carshops were users have access to free perks and discounts, we’ve integrated parking lots to make users entry and exit cashless, we give users alerts on fines they’ve received, we inform users on their use of tolls preventing them getting fined, we are able to display their insurance information and benefits, we leverage discounts on gas, and the best, we keep a digital track of everything guaranteeing our client a better resale price of his car.

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.

We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).