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Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024

Investor	Food and Beverage LATAM investments
Bhavik Bajaj	4
Dan Rumennik	3
Manolo Atala	3
Guilherme Bonifacio	3
Simon Borrero	3
Jon Oringer	2
Chris Burch	2
Ricardo Bechara	2
Jon Oringer	2
Kevin Carter	2
Ryan Simonetti	2
Ariel Lambrecht	2
Matias Muchnick	2
Steve Salis	2
Leonardo Borrero	2
Wes Schwalje	2
Juscelino Martins	2
Sebastian Mejia	2
Saurabh Gupta	2
Patrick Sigrist	1
Camilo Clavijo	1
Bob Goodman	1
Robert Stavis	1
Juan Pablo Ortega	1
Francisco Medina	1
Jeff Horing	1
Sebastian Ruales	1
Diego Berdakin	1
Tiago Dalvi	1
Ling Wong	1
Steve Zurcher	1
Andres Bilbao	1
Abhi Ramesh	1
Felipe Villamarin	1
Luis Vital	1
Marcos Salama	1
Geoffrey KALISH	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Ralf Wenzel	1
Isabella Fernández	1
Ryan McDonald	1
Ricardo Natale	1
Alexandre Badolato	1
Jun Hwang	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Mark Gormley	1
Pedro Carvalho	1
Pablo Pla	1
Paulo Santos	1
Alan Rutledge	1

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Bhavik Bajaj

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
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Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Delivery
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cerebral — Cerebral experts offer online mental healthcare and online therapy for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and more. Learn about the care you can get today.
The Coffee — Minimalism | Architecture | Technology | Specialty coffee
Kairos — Go from Web 2.0 to web3 with our creative partnership and comprehensive NFT solutions.

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Christopher Burch is Founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital. Mr. Burch is an active investor in a variety of businesses spanning a wide range of industries and is the co-founder of the luxury fashion brand, Tory Burch. Mr. Burch has always been devoted to the power of branding, and currently applies his keen sense of marketing and sales tobusiness interests spanning apparel, financial services, hospitality, technology and consumer products.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Cerebral — Cerebral experts offer online mental healthcare and online therapy for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and more. Learn about the care you can get today.
Iris Nova — Iris Nova powers the SMS payment technology (conversational commerce), customer service, email marketing, fulfillment, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of the world's best CPG brands.This strategy was first executed with functional beverage brand DIRTY LEMON, which popularized text-messaging based direct-to-consumer sales when itlaunched in 2015. The brand has since scaled to over 200,000 customers, leveraging the data to provide a personalized experience and on-demand deliveries to customers nationwide.Iris Nova was formally launched as an evolution of this success, following a minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The Iris Nova platform enables a seamless, end-to-end solution for beverage brands prioritizing the direct to home channel as a core component of their distribution strategy. This includes same-day deliveries in major markets as well average national shipping speeds faster than Amazon Prime. As the space continues to evolve with new entrants and innovation, we believe this is the future of CPG distribution.
Crush Capital — Groundbreaking series following founders on their capital-raising journey. For the first time, viewers can Click-to-Invest in featured companies.

Ricardo Bechara

Investment focus

Nutrition, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Kevin Carter is the Founder and General Partner of Night Capital. He previously worked at SV Angel as a General Partner. Kevin Carter attended Santa Clara University.

Investment focus

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?

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.

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.

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Sustainability, B2C
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Chile, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
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.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Steve Salis is the Chairman and CEO of SIZZLE Acquisition and founder and CEO of Salis Holdings.

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.

Leonardo Borrero

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
TuPlaza —

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

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.

Juscelino Martins

Investment focus

Retail, Grocery, Delivery
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Shopper — Industry leading NPS, Shopper.com.br is the best replenishment system for Brazilian consumers."Reducing our loss of time and money with repetitive activities" Shopper.com.br is a startup whose mission is to build a more efficient world, where essential products arrive at people's homes as easily as water arrives at the tap. Ourview of "efficiency" is complete: we look at both the waste of resources along the production and distribution chain of products and services (which generate unnecessarily high prices for the final consumer), and the waste of resources and time that end consumers spend to find, buy and enjoy these products and services. Our mission is to build a more efficient world in this direction. A world where people lose less money and time with monotonous, routine, everyday, unnecessary activities. We want to build such a world using innovative technology and business models, always with highly qualified and committed people on the team. Our first challenge is to improve the efficiency of the distribution chain and supply of essential consumer products: cleaning products, personal hygiene and non-perishable food. We do this through our online platform for monthly sales and deliveries of grocery products. Our recurrence model allows us to have no inventory and have high predictability of demand, generating efficiency, which is passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices (~10% cheaper).

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series C, Series D, Seed
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool is the leading hedge fund launch, administration, and investor experience platform for emerging managers. Learn more.
Connectly.ai — Our easy-to-use tools promote meaningful 2-way conversations in the channels your customers use the most. Businesses of all sizes can deliver personalized, automated alerts and notifications, simplifying how you find new customers, sell your products & services, and manage the myriad tasks associated with the customer experience.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth…

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech
Seed, Series C
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Driven Education — Driven Education is an education platform for digital professionals.

Camilo Clavijo

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Ubanku — Tus finanzas simples, organizas y lejos de la inflacion
Ubanku — Enlau is a platform where University Community can order food on-demand in campus colleges in LATAM and get it delivered by students.

Robert Goodman is a general partner at Goodman served as a director at he joined Bessemer Venture Partners. He has also worked at Goodman holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Formally — Formally is a platform for legal collaboration. We leverage intelligent technology with behavioral science to create a whole new category of legal tech. And it all starts with immigration.
Tackle — Tackle helps you identify the right buyers, co-sell with your Cloud Partners, and transact through the Marketplaces with a platform built for Cloud GTM success.
Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.

Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Series A
Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Trully — Trully
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame.

Investment focus

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.

Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Venture Partners since 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, currently investing from a $2.56 billion fund. Jeff's areas of focus include mobile,online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Jeff is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by Cap Gemini), Greenfield Online (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Ltd), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), ProMira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shutterstock (IPO), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus), Solarwinds Inc. (IPO NYSE: SWI), and Xchange (IPO acquired by Amdocs).Jeff is an investor or currently serves on the board of directors of AirWatch (mobile device management), Anaqua (IP asset management), GFI Software (cloud-based services), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Nexon (online gaming), Datacore Software (storage virtualization), New Relic (application performance management), Teamviewer (remote desktop collaboration), WIX (free DIY flash-based websites), Whitney University System (distance learning technology), and Zumba (global fitness and lifestyle brand).Prior to founding Insight, Jeff was a key member of the technology investing team at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Capital Markets group.Jeff holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. Jeff is a regular speaker at Wharton as part of the Distinguished Guest speaker series.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care

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.

Investment focus

Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Colombia, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

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.

Diego Berdakin the founder of several consumer internet companies including BeachMint, the Santa Monica based social commerce company he co-founded in July 2010 with Josh Berman. Beachmint was backed by New Enterprise Associates, Trinity Ventures, Accel, Anthem, Scale & Goldman Sachs. Conde Nast acquired majority ownership of Beachmint in thesummer of 2014. Diego was also a founding partner at FabFitFun, a women’s media an ecommerce company, Re/Done a vertical ecommerce company, iEscrow an online payment processor and escrow company, and Weaving Capital.Prior to this, Diego was the Executive Vice President and co-head of News Corporation’s Slingshot Labs — which was the digital R&D arm of Newscorp. In this role, Diego was co-head of the incubator responsible for product, strategy and marketing. During his tenure at Newscorp he built standalone companies for MySpace, Fox and the Wall Street Journal.He is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California where he has been teaching since 2012. He teaches two classes: CNTV 474 and 499. Both are focused on undergraduate and graduate students across the cinema and business school. In 2015 Diego was a finalist for the Steven J. Sample Teaching Award at USC.Diego is also an investor in several notable companies including: Dropbox, Uber, FlipKart, NastyGal, Munchery, Whisper, GoEuro, Postmates, Ring.com, HackerOne and Represent.com. Diego holds a bachelors of science from Northwestern University in Political Science where his focus was campaigning on the social web.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Peru, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Jinx — Shop Jinx for ready-to-devour premium dog food and dog treats. Free shipping and 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
MegaBite Food — MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations.

Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.

Investment focus

FinTech, Fruit, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Destaxa — Épico provides a financial services marketplace to brick and mortar retailers.
Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers

Dr. Ling Wong is Founder and General Partner of Highbury Group and Sea Lane Ventures. She also serves as Senior Advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners. Highbury Group was founded on the principle to be a true partner and champion to entrepreneurs, using science and technology to build companies that fundamentally transform the world for thebetterment of humanity today, and in the future.Dr. Wong draws from her unique background and experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor to support and bring to market companies that exist at the intersection between health and technology. “I love to partner with mission-oriented founders working on transformational ideas that can have a positive, lasting impact on society – and do so by leveraging technology and science in a financially sustainable manner,” said Dr. Wong.Prior to Highbury, she served at the Gates Foundation where she helped to establish a $1.5B global investment portfolio and created a $200M early stage program to support early stage entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries.As a health and technology investor, Dr. Wong has been involved in some of the market’s most significant investments and exits. She has partnered with over fifteen $1B+ companies, including: Devoted Health, Orca Bio, Collective Health, Color, Apeel, Shape, Stripe, Offer Up, Rappi, Branch Metrics, Notion, Modern Animal, Wheel and Satellite Bio. Notable exits include: Anacor Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer for $5.2B), Genocea Biosciences (NASDAQ: GNCA), Visterra (acquired for $430M), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and recently Singular Genomics (NASDAQ: OMIC).Dr. Wong holds a PhD from Harvard in Engineering Sciences, a BSc in Chemical Engineering and BSc in Biology from MIT. During her time at Harvard, she created the world’s first inhaled TB vaccine. Her scientific training has shaped how she assesses financial opportunities, both to create value and to benefit human health. Dr. Wong has always been passionate about seeking entrepreneurs and partners that are looking to disrupt the status quo in science and technology for the betterment of society.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Satellite Bio — Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases.
Devoted Health — Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.
Shape Therapeutics — Shape Therapeutics (ShapeTX) is a biotechnology company with an end-to-end approach to RNA Gene Therapy, potentially enabling the development of cures in neurodegenerative, metabolic and rare genetic diseases through our breakthrough payload, delivery, and manufacturing platform technologies. Our vision is to facilitate adoption of thesetechnologies throughout the industry to develop effective treatments for as many patients as possible.

Steve Zurcher

Investment focus

Biopharma, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Michroma — Michroma is a biotech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.

Andres Bilbao

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Abhi Ramesh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Misfits Market.

Investment focus

Fruit, Grocery, Food Delivery
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Colombia, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

Luis Vital

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Snack Food, Subscription Service
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

OneMarket — OneMaket is the biggest online platform in Brazil of Healthy Food Subscription, providing access for high-quality products for a price better than specialized stores.Owner of the subscription box brands : GlutenFree Box (www.glutenfreebox.com.br), LacFree Box (www.lacfreebox.com.br), SugarFree Box (www.sugarfreebox.com.br), VeganaBox(www.veganabox) and OrganicaBox (www.organicabox.com.br).In 3 years, we have sent more than 100,000 boxes to all states in Brazil.

Marcos Salama is the Founder and CEO of Inventa. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Health Care, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
TROOP — TROOP es la primera plataforma en Colombia que te permite adquirir participaciones en inmuebles comerciales arrendados a partir de bajos montos.

Mr. Kalish is a Partner at Aquiline Capital Partners. Previously, Mr. Kalish was also the Founder and Managing Director at Venturion Capital. He has served on the boards of numerous financial services companies in Europe and the US. He holds a history degree from Columbia and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard.

Investment focus

AgTech, Seafood, Biotechnology
Series A
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University.

Investment focus

Retail, Grocery, Delivery
Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Isabella Fernández

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.

Ryan McDonald is a Principal and Healthcare Investor at Norwest Venture Partners, an Investor at Elligo Health Research and Petabyte Technology, and a Board Member at Mindful Health Solutions and Kyo. Ryan attended Babson College.

Investment focus

Pet, Finance, Payments
Angel, Series C
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alecrim — Founded in 2015, Alecrim is an application platform that brings together the chefs in São Paulo to deliver healthy meals right on its client's doorstep.
Scratch — Scratchpay provides simple and friendly, payment plans for medical financing. High approvals, no hidden fees, no surprises.

Ricardo Natale

Investment focus

Sales, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

APTK Spirits — APTK Spirits is a retailer of alcohol, cocktails, cups, and other accessories. They provide complements, cups, packaging, foams, drinks, the club, custom bottle kits, kits, and gifts. It is an online e-commerce platform.

Alexandre Badolato

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Snack Food, Subscription Service
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

OneMarket — OneMaket is the biggest online platform in Brazil of Healthy Food Subscription, providing access for high-quality products for a price better than specialized stores.Owner of the subscription box brands : GlutenFree Box (www.glutenfreebox.com.br), LacFree Box (www.lacfreebox.com.br), SugarFree Box (www.sugarfreebox.com.br), VeganaBox(www.veganabox) and OrganicaBox (www.organicabox.com.br).In 3 years, we have sent more than 100,000 boxes to all states in Brazil.

Ex-Tesla head of product (solar), engineering manager. Ex-Google, Apple and Disney.

Investment focus

Energy, Restaurants, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

Mark K. Gormley is a Partner at Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity in 2006, Mr. Gormley was a Partner at Capital Z Financial Services Partners (“CZFS”), a leading financial services private equity firm, where he played a leading role in the operations and investment activities of the $1.85 billion fund. Mr. Gormley co-founded CZFS in1998 and shared responsibility for the oversight of all of the firm's investment and monitoring activities. Prior to founding CZFS, Mr. Gormley served as a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), specializing in the insurance and asset management industries. While at DLJ, Mr. Gormley worked on corporate finance and merger and acquisition assignments, as well as on principal related activities on behalf of DLJ Merchant Banking. Prior to joining DLJ in 1989, he was a founding member of the Insurance Group at Merrill Lynch in 1985. Mr. Gormley serves or has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, including The Edelman Financial Group, Skopos Financial Group, Captive Resources, Carlile Bancshares, PDR Network, MidCap Financial, Universal American, Permanent General, NewStar Financial, British Marine Holdings, Catlin Group, Bank Handlowy, Ceska Sporitelna, NACOLAH among others. Mr. Gormley received a B.S.B.A. cum laude in Finance and Economics from the University of Denver and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Investment focus

Service Industry, Insurance, AgTech
Series A, Private Equity, Secondary Market
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

McLarens — McLarens is an insurance industry leader providing claims management, loss adjusting and risk mitigation services to clients around the world.
Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Simplicity Group Holdings — Simplicity is the leading partner for advisors, financial institutions, and consumers by delivering the best combination of wealth accumulation and financial protection products that meet the needs of a consumer-oriented holistic financial plan.

Pedro Carvalho is the Co-Founder at Cayena.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Health Care
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health

Pablo Pla is the Chief Executive Officer of San Miguel. He Previously worked at Ingredion Incorporated as a President and General Manager. Pablo Pla attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Biopharma, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Michroma — Michroma is a biotech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.

Paulo Santos is the co-founder and managing partner at WiseNext.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile Apps, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.
Ubanku — Enlau is a platform where University Community can order food on-demand in campus colleges in LATAM and get it delivered by students.

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
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.

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