Top 5 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Chile

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Chile. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Chile. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Chile

Investor	Food and Beverage Chile investments
Greg Gretsch	1
Manolo Atala	1
Alexander Torrenegra	1
Mike Hennessey	1
Wensceslao Casares	1

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Greg is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jackson Square Ventures. He investments in potentially category-leading companies in SaaS, sales & marketing, consumer, and marketplaces. His investments include Upwork (second largest shareholder at IPO - UPWK), Responsys (IPO - acquired by Oracle), Strava, Toutapp (acquired by Marketo),Equallogic (acquired by Dell), Jellyvision, Jackbox Games, Doxo, and Talking Blocks (acquired by HP).Prior to entering venture, Greg was a serial entrepreneur, founding three companies, including Connectify, which was acquired by Kana Communications (now Kana Software). A graduate of the University of Georgia, Greg lives in San Francisco with his wife and four sons.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

doxo — Doxo is an all-in-one bill pay service that facilitates secure payment to any biller with any payment method on any device. It currently serves over 7 million users who make payments to 120k local and national businesses, making doxo the largest bill pay directory in the nation. Billers on the network get paid directly and consumers have completebills pay independence over when and how they pay their bills. The company more than doubled its customer base in 2018 and is expanding its team to further accelerate growth and change the bill pay landscape to focus on the customer. doxo investors include MDV, Sigma Partners, and Bezos Expeditions.
Zenput — Elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators use Zenput in 60,000 locations across 100 countries. Schedule a demo.
Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).

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.

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.

Alexander Torrenegra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torre and a Co-Founder at Tribe Labs. He previously worked at Bunny Studio as the Co-founder and CEO. He attended Florida International University.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Colombia, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
LaManicurista — LaManicurista is a Colombian start-up that provides on-demand beauty services. Customers are able to make an appointment or also request an immediate service.

Mike Hennessey

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Chile, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Orchata — Te presentamos orchata, tu super en 15 minutos. Te regalamos 100 pesos en tu primer pedido.
Wareclouds — Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.
DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. — DBM Cloud Systems is a provider of an Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine ("AIRE") which is a scalable, software-only platform for replicating object data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.