Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Colombia in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Colombia in December 2024
Investor | FinTech Colombia investments |
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Magma Partners | 10 |
Global Founders Capital | 8 |
monashees | 7 |
Soma Capital | 6 |
Kaszek | 5 |
Simma Capital | 5 |
First Check Ventures | 5 |
GRUPO BANCOLOMBIA | 5 |
Unpopular Ventures | 5 |
Oikocredit International | 5 |
INVX | 4 |
Mercado Libre Fund | 4 |
B Venture Capital | 4 |
Symbiotics Group | 4 |
Canary | 4 |
ONEVC | 4 |
Clocktower Technology Ventures | 4 |
Quona Capital | 4 |
K50 Ventures | 4 |
Incofin Investment Management | 4 |
Accion Venture Lab | 3 |
MAYA Capital | 3 |
Nazca Ventures | 3 |
Cometa | 3 |
Mercy Corps Ventures | 3 |
Wayra | 3 |
Tiger Global Management | 3 |
99 Startups | 3 |
INCA VENTURES | 3 |
Flybridge | 3 |
Atlantico | 3 |
Nitesh Banta | 3 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 3 |
Cometa | 3 |
Far Out Ventures | 3 |
Bancóldex | 3 |
Arrebol Capital | 3 |
Rhombuz VC | 2 |
Zigg Capital | 2 |
Carao Ventures | 2 |
Two Culture Capital | 2 |
Eric Kwan | 2 |
Goodwater Capital | 2 |
Irie VC | 2 |
Latin Leap | 2 |
Alpha4 Ventures | 2 |
Flori Ventures | 2 |
TheVentureCity | 2 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 2 |
Sebastian Ruales | 2 |
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.
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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.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. With a human-values-first approach, monashees helps founders challenge the statusquo and improve people’s lives through technology. The monashees community includes over 150 companies and 300+ founders.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
- Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns)
It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
- PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
- Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.
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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
- Cometa — Cometa provides technological and financial tools to increase access to quality education in Mexico and Latin America. Take off with the most recent developments in school administration. Maintain complete control over your reconciliation, billing, and operations.
We invest in early and growth-stage companies that are cofounded by outstanding teams, are scalable, have solid unit economics, and are connected with Colombia and the rest of Latin America
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- Morado — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
- Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
- smartBeemo — smartBeemo is an online education platform focused on reducing the knowledge gap of modern skills, in the Spanish speaking communities. We created an online education platform that seeks to solve this problem through-out exceptional online programs, corporate trainings and events, developed by professionals in the industry who are entrepreneurs,influencers, marketing agency leaders, technology developers and educators.
First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
- Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
- Veikul — Veikul is a marketplace that connects ride-hailing and delivery platforms with gig workers and provides them with a vehicle to do their jobs. It provides both the vehicles and the gasoline required, allowing drivers and couriers to make additional revenue.
Bancolombia SA is a Colombia-based financial institution primarily engaged, together with its subsidiaries, in the banking sector. The Company provides a range of financial products and services to individual and corporate customers, which include stock brokerage, investment banking, leasing, factoring, consumer finance, fiduciary and trustservices, asset management, and insurance, among others. The Company is a parent of Grupo Bancolombia, a group present in Central America, with El Salvador's bank, Banagricola SA, off-shore banking subsidiaries in Panama, Cayman and Puerto Rico, as well as an agency in Miami. In April 2014, the Company acquired assets, liabilities and contracts of Factoring Bancolombia; as a result the Company holds 99.99% stake in Factoring Bancolombia.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Lending
- Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- trii — Trii partnered with prominent financial institutions to develop Colombia's first trading app. Trii is a mobile platform that allows retail investors to buy both US and local equities in LatAm.
- RappiPay — RappiPay is a financial service that provides near-field communication-based prepaid cards and wallets for consumers.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
- Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sales, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
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.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.
Mercado Libre Fund is the Corporate Venture Capital Fund of Mercado Libre.They support innovation and the development of companies that boost the e-commerce and tech ecosystem in Latin America:
Investing smart money in seed, early and growth stage companies with great teams
Accompanying entrepreneurs in the scaling process of their businessAdding value as strategic partner: fostering synergies between their portfolio companies and MELIWhat they invest on
They differentiate their investments into two funds which differ in scope, stage and investment criteriaTheir Business Development Fund invests in seed stage companies that provide a great product and have a clear potential impact on MELI´s ecosystem
Their Opportunities Fund invests in early and growth stage companies that have developed innovative solutions through the use of technology. They seek tech companies with great teams and outstanding execution capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
- Cilia — Cilia is a software firm that designs and develops budgeting, workshop regulation and claims management software.
- Elenas — Elenas is Latin America's top social commerce platform. Our platform has empowered tens of thousands of women across Colombia to launch online businesses and earn extra income by selling products on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. Currently, 11 million women across Latin America sell consumer good products through direct salescatalogs and door-to-door sales. Elenas provides a digital solution for them to start an online store, manage clients, and grow their business from home, without having to worry about product sourcing, delivery, or payment collection.
BVC is a venture capital fund investing in Latin American startups at the seed and pre-seed stages. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs to build world-changing companies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Brazil, Colombia, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
- DORA — Everything you need to know about the future of financial inclusion through rental property management. We solve the iconic Edgar Vivar character Señor Barriga in El Chavo del 8 Show main problem: -Rent collection.
- Creditares — Creditares is a phygital hybrid model where we combine local presence with a tech infrastructure to bridge the gap between investors and borrowers in agribusiness. This combination provides the answer to the most challenging question in the industry. Connecting locally with farmers and suppliers, digitizing their credit journey and gatheringreliable information for financial agents. Opportunities to engage on our ecosystem extends from insurance, crowdfunding, carbon credit commercialization to numerous financial services that can be structured digitally and distributed locally.
Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- India, Kenya, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
- Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
- AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.
Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- 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.
ONEVC is a venture capital firm, focused on seed-stage investments in Latam.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- Tako — Tako is an incredibly automated payroll and HR Software.
- Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
- 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.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Brazil, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.
- Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
K50 Ventures is a purpose-driven, early-stage venture capital firm. We are the first institutional check and long-term partner to founders who believe technology has the potential to unlock access and affordability for the world’s working class across health, finance, and work. Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 150 companies that have generatedtop-decile venture returns for our investors and material impact for millions of people and small businesses.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
- Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i
Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people wholive in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- Namdev Finvest — Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector.
- Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
- Saggraha Management Services — SaGgraha Management Services is a Bottom of the Pyramid financial services provider with a mission to contribute to the country's financial inclusion effort. The company is promoted by a team of professionals with banking, microfinance and financial services experience. The company believes at maintaining highest ethical and professionalstandards, governance and transparency.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- TransBnk — Transbnk | Revolutionizing 'Global Transaction Banking' for Enhanced Business Agility, Security, and Resilience
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.
An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Lerian — Lerian is a next-gen core banking platform built on top of an open source ledger.
- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
- 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.
Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
- Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
- Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
- Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
- Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
- Checkmate — Integrate over 100 ordering platforms directly to your restaurant POS system and manage all your ordering platform menus in one place.
Startups, Inversion, Latam, Fintech, Venture capital, Fundadores
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
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- Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions
- Palomma — Palomma is a tech company that saves merchants in the community money on card fees by allowing customers to pay directly from their bank at checkout. It enables users to make secure payments with their bank account with a single click and earn rewards in affiliated businesses. With secure, one-click bank payments, merchants can reduce processingcosts while increasing conversion.
- Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
INCA Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Lima, Peru. We invest in early stage fintech startups in Peru and across Latin America.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Peru
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- 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.
- Monet — Monet is an application that allows employees to advance their salaries through their mobile phones. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States.
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
Flybridge is an early-stage venture capital fund with 20+ years of investing experience and over $1B under management. Flybridge has offices in New York and Boston.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- Agtonomy — Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles.
- Noetica AI — Instant benchmarking for the terms of your next deal. Leveraging the industry's largest knowledge graph of corporate debt, securities, and M&A transaction terms.
- ForceMetrics — ForceMetrics keeps communities safe by providing first responders and city leaders with the critical context they need.
Atlantico is a venture capital firm.
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- SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, Argentina, United States
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- Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
- Fudo — Fudo is a web-based management system for restaurants, bars and cafes, which allows operation from anywhere, at any time. It is present in Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina serving more than 8.000 customers.
- Worky — At Worky, we are revolutionizing the way HR is managed at Small and Medium Companies. We want to disrupt the way these firms communicate with their employees, and these employees’ financial health
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
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- Protege — Protege is the platform for AI Training Data. Protege works with data holders and model builders to empower them to share training data for AI model development.
- Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
- Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- HappyRobot — Happyrobot is the AI that extracts quantitative data from geospatial imagery with English queries
- Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.
Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, Spain
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- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- 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.
- R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
We are an equity investor at the pre-seed and seed stages at the intersection of: Enterprise Vertical Software and FinTech
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- FlexPoint — LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold.
- Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
- Supra — Supra is a company that seeks to revolutionize cross-border payments for companies.
Banco de Desarrollo Empresarial de Colombia
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Debt Financing
- Colombia
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- Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
- Finsocial — Finsocial provides credit solutions including payroll loan for teachers and pensioners.
Born in Colombia. Envisioned in Silicon Valley and Switzerland. Deployed in Latin America.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Mexico
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- Monto — Monto is a mobile application that offers staff the flexibility to collect their already worked salary before the company's payday. Monto reduces financial stress and improves the quality of life of employees. Monto improves satisfaction, productivity, and retention in the workforce.
- goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
Rhombuz VC is a venture capital platform backed by international senior executives.
The firm participates in seed rounds of tech startups in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Give us a shout if you're building something amazing to disrupt Healthcare, Financial Services, Media or Consumer Industries.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
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- Koywe — The On and Off ramp for crypto in LATAM.
- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- YoCripto — YoCripto is a digital platform serving the needs of Latin Americans who are working to create a better future for themselves. Our mission is to enable members to change their lives by creating better financial outcomes. Leveraging the best technology, we deliver the benefits of the crypto ecosystem without the complexity. Together, we will moveforward in a world of increasing digitization and complexity.We are launching the first credit card that offers Bitcoin Rewards with every purchase.
Zigg Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York and was founded in 2018. The firm invests in companies operating in the technology sector.
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- Real Estate, Software, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- Rainbow — Rainbow Insurance offers flexible coverage that's 100% tailored for restaurants. Connect with a trusted advisor and get better coverage at the right price.
- Lightyear — Configure, quote, and procure IT infrastructure (internet, WAN, colocation, voice) in Lightyear's platform. Manage your IT network from a single pane of glass.
They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.
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- Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, United States, Chile
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- WeKall — WeKall Cloud based corporate telephony service simplifies the operation to only one provider saving up to 60% of the monthly spend in telephony operation.
- FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
The art and science of entrepreneurship
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
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- Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
- Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
- Operant — Operant.AI is an intelligence platform for collection agents and customer success teams.
Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures
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- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
- Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
- Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.
Irie is an investment vehicle (intelligent capital) in companies from various sectors in Colombia.
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- FinTech, Insurance, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Colombia, Mexico
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- Ubanku — Tus finanzas simples, organizas y lejos de la inflacion
- DORA — Everything you need to know about the future of financial inclusion through rental property management. We solve the iconic Edgar Vivar character Señor Barriga in El Chavo del 8 Show main problem: -Rent collection.
- Ubanku — Enlau is a platform where University Community can order food on-demand in campus colleges in LATAM and get it delivered by students.
Latin Leap is a Venture Capital Studio (VC Studio) established to create a unique investment platform to soft-land purpose-driven tech companies in Latin America and provide market access for international scale-ups to deploy in the region. The VC Studio also supports the Latin American entrepreneurship ecosystem with global human and financialcommitment and contributes to quality education and mindset change by fostering knowledge-intensive businesses in the region.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Spain
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- Dapta — Our SaaS platform offers a no-code solution for building APIs and aggregating databases. Save time and resources by streamlining your backend development process. Try it now!
- Cubo — Cubo is a developer of a payment services platform. They offer small and medium businesses, starting with the point-of-sale systems that make payment accessible for merchants.
- Magneto Global — Magneto Global is a SAAS company that offers a software to help companies in talent acquisition.
Alpha4 Ventures GP LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, early stage and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in the technology sector among the spheres of e-commerce, fintech, marketplaces/saas and high tech. The firm invests in Latin America.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Colombia, Mexico, Argentina
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- Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
- Instaleap LLC — SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently
- Katapult Studios — Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.
- Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Brazil
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- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
- BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!
Sebastian is Co-Founder and CEO of Bia.Energy, company aiming to empower LatAm with cheap, sustainable and smart energy, through a consumer centric technology platform.He is founding team member of LatAm´s SuperApp Rappi -YC 16’, Sequoia, SoftBank, DST, T.RowePrice - Where he built from scratch and developed the Monetization model of the company,Business Development and New Businesses. He additionally served as an independent consultant to several StartUps in the region, advising on product and commercial strategy. He is advisor to 8VC, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Opera Ventures, and VP of MatterScale Ventures. He is also Speaker -Including TEDTalks. Prior to tech and VC, he had marketing and commercial strategy roles in the CPG industry, where he worked for L´Oreal, Quala and Johnson & Johnson.Sebastian has an MBA from Tulane University and an EP from Singularity University.
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- Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Chile
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- Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
- Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
- Grupo Central — Grupo Central is a pioneers in Chile in the development of the Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores model.
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