Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Mexico
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Fintech startups based in Mexico. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Mexico. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Mexico
Investor | FinTech Mexico investments |
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Ricardo Weder | 7 |
JP Duque | 4 |
Martin Schrimpff | 3 |
David Vélez | 3 |
Travis Foxhall | 3 |
Manolo Atala | 3 |
Sebastian Mejia | 3 |
Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D | 3 |
Federico Ranero | 3 |
Carlos Julio Garcia | 2 |
Carlos Salinas | 2 |
Steve Salis | 2 |
Ariel Lambrecht | 2 |
Daniel Bi | 2 |
Antonia Rojas Eing | 2 |
Sergio Furio | 2 |
Bill Clerico | 2 |
Brendan Dickinson | 2 |
Eric Rea | 2 |
Howard Han | 2 |
David Shim | 2 |
Arash Ferdowsi | 2 |
Gokul Rajaram | 2 |
Scott Belsky | 2 |
Ryan Simonetti | 2 |
Wes Schwalje | 2 |
Pierpaolo Barbieri | 2 |
Kevin Carter | 2 |
Guilherme Bonifacio | 2 |
Brian Requarth | 2 |
Scott Sandell | 2 |
Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 1 |
Alan Rutledge | 1 |
Andrew Vigneault | 1 |
Michael Sidgmore | 1 |
Otto Graff Navarro | 1 |
Gert Findel | 1 |
Chris Thomas | 1 |
Sebastian Castro | 1 |
Luis X. Barrios | 1 |
Jose Shabot Cherem | 1 |
Zac Bookman | 1 |
David Geisen | 1 |
Michael Levinthal | 1 |
Bootstrapped Debt Financing | 1 |
Cyril Berdugo | 1 |
Carolina Huaranca | 1 |
Julie McDermott | 1 |
Alec Dickinson | 1 |
Francisco Medina | 1 |
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, Colombia, Chile
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.
Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Mexico, Colombia, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
- Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
- Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com
Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- Colombia, Mexico, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Zinobe — Zinobe has operated in Colombia since 2012 and develops online financial products for the consumer and small business sectors. The company is focused on using technology to provide the highest level of customer experience and has developed a data centric credit model to help target underserved markets in Colombia. Zinobe is backed by firms such asQED Investors, a U.S. based venture capital firm specializing in disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.zinobe.com, www.lineru.com.
- Atrato — Atrato is a leading buy now pay later company for omnichannel merchants in Mexico
- Grin Scooters — Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nubank, a Brazilian financial technology company. Before founding Nubank in 2013, David was a Partner at Sequoia Capital in charge of the firm’s Latin American investments. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. David has a BSin Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
Travis Foxhall is a Vice President on the Investment Team at Point72 Ventures, responsible for evaluating and executing investments in the fintech space. Before joining Point72 Ventures, Travis was Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digital bank in Brazil, where he worked with senior management on corporate strategy, business development, andfundraising initiatives. Prior to that, he was a venture investor with Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorgan Chase and Thomson Reuters.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Banking, Real Estate
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Casai — Uncover exclusive holiday home deals on Casai.com. Compare rates from reputable travel platforms to secure the best offer on luxury homes. Your dream getaway is just a booking away.
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- 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.
Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Colombia, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- 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.
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
- Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
- 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.
Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Mexico, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
- Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
- My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!
Federico Ranero COO at Kavak
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Rental
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
- Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
- Hola Cash — Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience.
Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
- 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.
- Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.
Carlos Salinas is the Co-Founder and CEO of ZeBrands. He previously worked at Rocket Internet SE as an Entrepreneur in Residence - Linio. Carlos Salinas attended the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Debt Financing
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Steve Salis is the Chairman and CEO of SIZZLE Acquisition and founder and CEO of Salis Holdings.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Financial Services, Retail
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 75 & Sunny — 75 & Sunny is Spencer Rascoff's investment firm and startup lab. In 2020, 75 & Sunny Ventures invested in 39 companies, 25 of which are based in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, 75 & Sunny Labs launched two startups: dot.LA and Pacaso. In 2021, 75 & Sunny Ventures is on track to invest in more than 25 startups, and 75 & Sunny Labswill launch two new companies. Spencer — who co-founded Hotwire and Zillow, and who was CEO of Zillow for more than a decade — started 75 & Sunny to support and mentor startups and their leaders in LA and beyond. Its team provides 75 & Sunny companies with a broad range of support, including leadership coaching; marketing and PR advice; brand amplification; product strategy; recruiting; access to our broad network of partners that include top venture capital and private equity firms; overall mentorship; and help with subsequent fundraising. Spencer is an investor in over 55 venture capital funds, many of which use 75 & Sunny for informal deal-sourcing at the earlier stage.
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
- Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.
Ariel Lambrecht
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, Chile
Daniel Bi
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
- Neivor — Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities.
Antonia is a partner in Manutara Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital fund from Chile, focused on highly scalable tech ventures that want to expand across Latinamerica and the U.S. Previously, she worked as head of investment at Trigono S.A, where she oversaw the real estate and private equity division, and opened the Venture Capital verticalof the company.
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Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, B2B, Payments
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Melonn — Melonn enables any retailer to offer Amazon Prime-like deliveries with its e-commerce fulfillment & back-end technology services
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- 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.
Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Payments, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Bill Clerico is the Founder and Managing Partner at Convective Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Payments, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Release — Release Environments streamline the development process, with Environments as a Service: fast, shareable, scalable, managed, and easy to reproduce at every step, driven by Kubernetes.
- Coris — Coris helps Financial Services companies better manage small business risk by providing alternate credit quality data on merchants and constantly monitor businesses for changes in business quality
- Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
Brendan Dickinson is a General Partner at Canaan.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- Marvin. — marvin. is a company that facilitate the credit and payment flow between suppliers and retailers.
- 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.
Eric Rea is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Podium.
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Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, FinTech, Productivity Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
- Zonos — Zonos, decoding cross border by simplifying international e-commerce, landed cost and shipping with duty and tax software, apps, plugins and APIs. Zonos provides merchants with the tools to create the perfect international shopping experience for global customers.
- OneSchema — Empower your data migration team in onboarding customers quickly and effectively. OneSchema's data cleansing and collaboration tools will help your team scale.
Howard Han
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Investment focus
- B2B, Payments, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Kumospace — Kumospace is the go-to virtual office and event hosting platform. Remote teams can communicate, collaborate, and meet online in our virtual workspace.
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- 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.
As CEO of Foursquare, David Shim is responsible for driving the company mission and vision as the world's most trusted and independent location technology platform.David joined Foursquare in June 2019 as president of the company. Prior to joining Foursquare, David was the Founder and CEO of Placed, the leader in ad to in-store attribution.Founded in 2011, Placed worked with 430+ partners enabling over 500 advertisers to measure media's impact on store visits. Placed was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 and Foursquare in 2019.David has also held leadership roles across product and operations at Farecast (acquired by Microsoft), WebTrends, Quantcast, and Snapchat.
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Investment focus
- Brand Marketing, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- MikMak — MikMak provides eCommerce marketing analytics and eCommerce enablement software to accelerate online sales for brands.
- Hola Cash — Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience.
- SparkPlug — Award-winning platform specializing in sales gamification for retailers, brands, and restaurants.
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, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
- Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
- PawCo Foods — The new generation of healthy and delicious dog food made from plant-based meat. Support earth, animal welfare, and your dog's health!
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
- GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
- Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
- Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
- Lutra AI — Lutra AI is to simplify complex tasks that specializes in workflows, created by the platform.
- Knock — Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.
Ryan Simonetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Convene. He previously worked at Gramercy Capital Corp as a Vice President. Ryan attended Villanova University.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
- Branch — Branch sells premium office furniture for teams of all sizes. Standing desks, workstations, ergonomic chairs and filing cabinets, sold direct to save you money. Space planning, delivery and assembly come standard.
- Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
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.
Kevin Carter is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined the firm upon launch in 2009. At SV Angel, Kevin originated investments in Snapchat, Pinterest, and GroupMe (acquired by Skype), and works particularly close with Sunrise, Inbox, FlightCar, FarmLogs and Optimizely. He was included in Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 in 2012 and 2013. Heis also on the Engineering Advisory Board at Santa Clara University (EAB). Prior to SV Angel, he worked in the Private Equity Group at Silicon Valley Bank. At SVB he was a part of the Entrepreneur Services and Venture Capital Relationship Management Groups and helped with diligence and cross platform relationship efforts. Before SVB, Kevin worked at Affinity Circles, Inc. where he performed sales and client account management. Kevin graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Finance. While at SCU, he worked closely with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and was awarded "Outstanding Student Entrepreneur".
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- Software, Apps, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, France
Portfolio highlights
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
- Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
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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- 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.
- Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
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.
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- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
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- 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).
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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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Germany, China
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Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Vaas — Software
- Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
Alan Rutledge
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Andrew is a successful entrepreneur as well as investor and advisor to more than 100 early-stage startups across enterprise SaaS and fintech. He founded and served as CEO of ClearGraph (acquired by Tableau (NYSE: DATA)). Andrew is a top .5% contributor to Stanford StartX (2k+ entrepreneurs). Earlier in his career, he served multiple roles inventure and investment banking, and holds a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the Gabelli School of Business.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Nav.it — Uniting behavioral science and health tracking, Nav.it's financial app is the first of its kind to create daily financial habits that reduce financial stress and create lasting behavioral change, using the power of prescriptive analytics.
- Helicone — The easiest way to build your LLM-application at scale.
- Synthpop — Use AI to improve speed and accuracy, without compromising security. Synthpop supports patient-centered care with fine-tuned GPT language models, enhancing and streamlining your clinical workflows.
Michael Sidgmore is a Co-founder and Partner at Broadhaven Ventures.
Michael holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.
- Climb Credit — Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb identifies programs and schools with ademonstrated ability to improve the earnings of their graduates. Then they provide learners with financing options that are priced and structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career elevation and increased earning power.Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of an economy in rapid change, Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to pilot training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. While some colleges are struggling to meet the real-world needs of their students, Climb and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that brings real career results as individuals Own Their Next chapter.
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
CEO at Acid Labs. He has extensive experience leading all aspects of technology operations and a wealth of experience in the management, development and scaling of enterprise and start-up software organisations and corporate IT groups.He has significant experience delivering custom solutions directly to clients with a strategic business focus,specially in the industries of retail and finances.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Lending, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Crecy — Crecy is an alternative lending app that leverages Open Banking & Gig Platforms APIs to deliver formal credit products to 100M+ people in LatAm. Crecy offers to its customers revolving credit lines of up to $100/month they can access by simply linking their bank and/or gig account to the app.
Chris Thomas is a co-founder and partner of Assembly Ventures.Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Previous to this, Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While atFontinalis he served as a Board Member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a Board Observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis Chris served in the U.S. Army as a Communications Officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an Investment Banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a Senior Advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a Co-Owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously advised a number of mobility startups around the globe; served as the Chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States; and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems.
Chris earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Economics and International Relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the City of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Automotive
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
- Kall Morris — Kall Morris Inc orbital debris research and development, consulting experts.
- Buddy's Pizza — Buddy's Pizza is a widely recognized as the originator of detroit-style pizza.
Professional Goals:Develop exciting technologies, services, and products that bridges the gap between online experiences and the offline worldContinue to acquire a detailed understanding of technology and energy infrastructure global markets, particularly in Latin AmericaPromote greater investment in renewable and sustainable technologiesalong with traditional energy sources for profitable ventures, specifically as an intermediary between technical project specifications and its strategic implementation within the larger context of successful company operations
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- B2B, Banking, Payments
- Series A
- Mexico, United States
Luis X Barrios is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of ArkAngeles.co. He also founded TheArkFund in 2016 and is one of the founders of The Pool in 2013.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Photography, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InstaFit — INSTAFIT is an online fitness startup based in Mexico City and co-founded by international entrepreneurs Oswaldo Trava and Natalia Amaya. We make it exciting to work out from home by offering on-demand audio & video fitness classes that combine the guidance of a professional trainer, intelligent programming and fun social interactions to createa truly engaging experience for our users.We make it possible to get professional fitness training from top coaches without leaving your home for less than half the price of the cheapest gym. We produce awesome long format workouts led by the world’s best trainers from yoga to functional training to treadmill workouts, with new content published every week and available offline for unparalleled flexibilityThe InstaFit app was launched in late 2016 and has paying users in 37 countries. It has a 4.4 star rating, is the #1 ranked health and fitness app in 15 countries, and was selected as best of 2016 by Apple. The company attacks the region´s most important health issue, obesity, through the use of world class technology, creative marketing and lean startup practices in an internet market with a 5 year CAGR of over 30%.
- DitoBanx — Our main objective is to enable Bitcoin Financial Services for medium size business and big size corporations. Our services include Bitcoin Merchant tools, Bitcoin Savings Accounts, Bitcoin loans, Crypto Debit card and more.
- The Pool - Entrepreneurship Club — The Pool is an entrepreneurial environment that provides its clients with coworking spaces. It serves as a business center as well as providing coworking spaces and offices for startups and companies in growth potential. The Pool was founded in 2013 by Luis X. Barrios and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
Jose Shabot Cherem
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Investment focus
- Credit, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.
Zac is the CEO of OpenGov, the "GovTech" cloud software leader. OpenGov has raised $200 million in capital from Andreessen Horowitz and other venture funds and powers more than 1000 cities, counties, and state agencies across the United States. Before co-founding OpenGov, Zac served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on theAnti‑Corruption Task Force at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He previously practiced trial litigation at Keker, Van Nest & Peters in San Francisco, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Zac studied corruption in Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow and has taught American Government at San Quentin Prison. He holds a JD from the Yale Law School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated valedictorian from the University of Maryland. Zac serves on the board of and as advisor to various technology companies and funds, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the YPO. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and San Francisco and Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 under 40.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.
- Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
David leads as VP Marketplace the country operation of Mercado Libre Mexico, the largest e-commerce and fintech company in Latin America and Mexico.
Besides his role at Mercado Libre, David is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in various tech companies in Europe, Latin America and the US. With his ample experience in e-commerce and scalingup businesses, he also serves as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs both nationally and internationally. David co-founded and led the Mexican E-Commerce Chamber (AMVO) and initiated the largest Mexican annual online sales event: Hot Sale. Currently, he is actively involved as a member of the association’s supervisory board, representing the interests of 400+ e-tailers in Mexico. Before initiating AMVO, David co-founded and was the CEO of two Mexican e-commerce Startups, clickOnero and Dafiti. David started his career at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division in London. Prior to joining Mercado Libre, he developed the omnichannel strategy for Europe’s largest consumer electronics retailer, Media Markt, for the Iberian market (Spain & Portugal). David invests as Limited Partner in VC funds in the US, Europe and Mexico. He also participates as an investment committee member at two venture capital funds: Latin Leap and Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund II.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
- Agrizon — Agrizon mission is to become the global leader e-platform in Agribusiness, as a AgTech digital company, focus on food sustainability, connecting farmers with their favorite Ag brands. Agrizon.com empower merchants to grow their businesses by offering on-demand delivery, providing delightful experiences from door to door, by building the last-miledelivery in agribusiness, we are bringing communities closer, to farmers.
- 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.
Michael Levinthal is the Managing Partner at Levinthal Capital and currently lives in Park City, Utah.
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- Social Media, Mobile, Credit Cards
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, Mexico
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- Alysio — The leading Sales Performance Management platform that enables teams to track and visualize their employee's daily performance metrics.
- 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.
- Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Cyril Berdugo is the founder of Landis, the company he founded to fulfill the mission of helping Americans reach homeownership. He is a graduate of Emory University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
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- Real Estate, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Mexico
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- Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
- A.Team — A.Team is where growing companies discover, build & manage elite tech teams, on-demand.
- Beem Energy — Beem Energy is a manufacturer of home energy efficiency and energy management systems such as solar kits.
Carolina Huaranca - Scout @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
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- Sales, FinTech, Training
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, United States
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- Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
- AlwaysHired — AlwaysHired is an immersive sales training program that helps companies hire the best talent.
Early Stage Tech Investor; LP; Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, FinTech
- Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Brandefy — Dupe Alert | The app helping beauty enthusiasts find affordable alternatives to cult-favorite products through extensive comparative reviews.
- Matriark Foods — Matriark Foods is a social enterprise business that captures surplus produce and upcycled fresh-cut remnants within local food systems and creates nutritious and affordable value-added products for food service businesses, schools and hospitals.
- Kernal Biologics — Kernal biologics is an onco-selective mRNA therapeutics company located in Cambridge, MA
Alec Dickinson - Founder & CEO @ AmberAds
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- FinTech, Lending, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Crecy — Crecy is an alternative lending app that leverages Open Banking & Gig Platforms APIs to deliver formal credit products to 100M+ people in LatAm. Crecy offers to its customers revolving credit lines of up to $100/month they can access by simply linking their bank and/or gig account to the app.
Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame.
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- SaaS, Retail, Payments
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
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