Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Colombia in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Colombia in January 2025
Investor | Food and Beverage Colombia investments |
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MGM Innova Group | 4 |
Kayyak Ventures | 4 |
monashees | 4 |
Palm Drive Capital | 4 |
Innogen Venture Capital | 3 |
Flucas Ventures | 3 |
Wollef Ventures | 3 |
Semillero Partners | 2 |
FJ Labs | 2 |
Saurabh Gupta | 2 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 2 |
Copernion | 2 |
Amador Holdings | 2 |
Newtopia VC | 2 |
Jaguar Path Ventures | 2 |
Chris Burch | 2 |
TMT Investments | 2 |
Base Partners | 2 |
Blue like an Orange | 2 |
ZX Ventures | 2 |
Network VC Syndicate Fund | 2 |
INVX | 2 |
Leonardo Borrero | 2 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
United States Agency for International Development | 1 |
Irie VC | 1 |
Vast Ventures | 1 |
Grão | 1 |
John Sung Kim | 1 |
Carolina Garcia | 1 |
Juan Pablo Ortega | 1 |
H20 Capital Innovation | 1 |
Latin Leap | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Sebastian Ruales | 1 |
AngelHub VC | 1 |
Cometa | 1 |
Reshape | 1 |
Camilo Clavijo | 1 |
Reshape Ventures | 1 |
Isabella Fernández | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Chimera Investment | 1 |
Minerva Capital Group | 1 |
Tahseen Consulting | 1 |
Juan Luis Londoño Arias | 1 |
Carlos Garcia | 1 |
Julián Núñez | 1 |
Tantauco Ventures | 1 |
Simma Capital | 1 |
MGM Innova Group is a private equity and venture capital investment firm that integrates technical, financial, and environmental solutions contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation, and sustainable development. The firm focuses its investments in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean-tech, innovation, andsustainable natural resource management in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Retail Technology
- Series A, Series C, Funding Round
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- RobinFood — RobinFood is the leader in cloud-restaurants in Latin America with presence in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. RobinFood was founded in 2018
- Merqueo — Merqueo specializes in delivering groceries and home essentials using its own dark-store infrastructure. Merqueo users can order from a selection of 2,000 to 10,000 products, which include fresh fruits and vegetables, imported products, liquor, household items, personal care, and packaged goods.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquarteredin Bogotá, Colombia.
- MUNCHER — Muncher is an end-to end platform that partners with restaurant brands globally to help them succeed at off-premise dining.
We invest in daring entrepreneurs from Seed to Series B from Latin America to the world.
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- SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Chile, Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Fracttal — Fracttal offers intelligent maintenance and asset management software (CMMS/GMAO/EAM), that is 100% mobile and cloud-based. These tools allow companies to manage their maintenance in a more sustainable, secure, and efficient way that guarantees the integrity and continuity of their operations, as well as the safety of workers.Demonstrated improvements include reducing asset failures by over 25%, improving maintenance costs by at least 15% and increasing productivity by more than 35%, while also reducing accidents and operational risks. Fracttal, which counts companies such Acciona, Unilever, Iberostar, Veolia and FedEx, among its almost 1000 customers, directs its solutions to large multinationals and SMEs in various industry sectors, including manufacturing, facility management, energy, and transport in which it already has a significant presence.With its main solution, Fracttal One, companies can remotely manage all maintenance operations from any device and for any type of asset, including equipment, vehicles, machinery, and facilities. This intelligent tool, a leader in several of the world's most prestigious rankings, facilitates real-time collaborative work between different work teams and integrates with any ERP. Fracttal One improves decision making, maximizes efficiency and extends the useful life of physical assets, while reducing incidents and unplanned downtime that can lead to delays, lost profitability, and accidents. Fracttal has also developed Predictto, an AI enabled predictive maintenance solution that allows companies to anticipate failure conditions with a high percentage of certainty. To do so, Predictto applies Machine Learning to bigdata, identifying the behavior of assets based on proprietary reliability and degradation models.
- Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
- Pulsar — Pulsar brings real-time productivity monitoring and analytics to small and mid-size manufacturers.Pulsar's unique technology of plug-and-play wireless sensors and proprietary AI algorithms, automatically builds production indicators to the specific requirements/operations of each machine and factory, drastically reducing industrialmonitoring & analysis costs and implementation time.
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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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
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- 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.
- Vambe — Vambe is a multi-channel AI sales representative who handles customer interactions at all stages of the sales process. Vambe interfaces with sales tools and CRMs, generates extensive customer profiles from chat habits, and recommends items based on customer requirements.
- 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.
We’ve partnered with entrepreneurs globally who have created technology firms with over one trillion dollars of combined market cap to help you grow your business.
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Colombia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
- MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Innogen Capital is a LATAM venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth companies. It focuses on proven business models, including companies with a social impact mission, Innogen Capital also seeks to provide its partners with expertise and exposure via a network of professionals in diverse fields.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Mexico, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
- Koibanx — Koibanx is a blockchain solutions company that offers payment infrastructure, transactional core, Web3 integration, and crypto capabilities.
- Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.
Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nexu — Nexu is a financing platform used by car dealerships to offer to finance to more car buyers in a 100% digital and real-time experience. Nexu's platform uses AI, statistical algorithms, and technology automation.
- Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
- 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.
Semillero Ventures is an early and growth stage venture capital fund focused on food, beverage, ag tech, wellness, and the circular economy. We build genuine and trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs in overlooked and underserved markets around the world to increase the sustainable value for all stakeholders.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- RobinFood — RobinFood is the leader in cloud-restaurants in Latin America with presence in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. RobinFood was founded in 2018
- PRoduce — Delivery de alimentos frescos y productos locales a 76 municipios de Puerto Rico. Ordena a tu casa, oficina o Airbnb y consume lo que la isla PRoduce
- Afia — Afia Falafel and Kibbeh are made from our family recipes and are prepared in the traditional way, with only simple ingredients, and no preservatives. Available frozen, Afia products fit a range of dietary needs, including gluten-free, halal, vegetarian and vegan options.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
- Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Buk — Software de Recursos Humanos para atender todas las necesidades de tus colaboradores. Desde el pago de sus remuneraciones hasta su desarrollo profesional.
- 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.
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
investing in high-potential and fast growing technology startups
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Food Delivery, Retail Technology
- Series A
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- MUNCHER — Muncher is an end-to end platform that partners with restaurant brands globally to help them succeed at off-premise dining.
Amador Holdings is an investment holding company providing growth capital and support to small and medium-sized businesses serving the urban middle classes.
It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Panama, Colombia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Colombia, Mexico, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Moonflow — Mejora tus procesos de cobranzas y ahorra hasta un 75%. Software de Gestion de Cobranzas para Empresas,
- 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.
- Karrot — Karrot is a cloud-based software suite solutions that provides omnichannel retail solutions.
Our purpose is to share knowledge, channel smart money, and enhance experiences for early-stage startups, so we can help them unleash a new wave of Latin
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Inner AI — Inner is an AI-Native workspace to organize your thoughts, be more creative, and accomplish your tasks faster.
- 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.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Jaguar is an investment vehicle that seeks opportunities in fast-growing companies that can generate a positive impact in the world.Our vision as investors is to support the world's positive entrepreneurs building disruptive solutions.
Our mission as company builders a is to build fast-scalable businesses with global presence and exit themin a 2-3 years horizon.
Our purpose as Real Estate managers and investors is to develop long-term valuable and sustainable real estate assets that can provide return while they mature.We are sector-agnostics and our principles rely on technology, innovation and impact investing.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Series A
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Cerebral — Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients.
- 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.
TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
- Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
- Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.
we invest globally in private technology companies and help them win in Latin America, Brazil first.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series C, Series E
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
- Liquido — Liquido is an online payment platform developer that provides turn-key mobile payment solutions. The platform of company provides instant transactions, cross-border technical support, and pay-in and pay-out solutions, allowing clients to make payments with ease.
- Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital seeks to invest in opportunities in a diversified set of emerging market companies that deliver both strong risk adjusted returns and social impact aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Mobile, Travel, Internet
- Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Spain, Colombia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RobinFood — RobinFood is the leader in cloud-restaurants in Latin America with presence in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. RobinFood was founded in 2018
- Cabify — Cabify is a ride-sharing company that operates in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. At Cabify, they make sure their customers - passengers and drivers - enjoy the ride. Charging a fair price, improving your door-to-door journey, making transport accessible to all are just some of the things they think are important. Why? Because they believethat by making transport better, they can make their cities and communities better.Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Selina — Embrace idyllic island life at Selina Serenity Rawai Phuket, our beautiful beachfront destination in Rawai.
Global investment for ventures meeting the needs of tomorrow. With the resources of AB InBev, we empower and support entrepreneurs to unlock exponential growth.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- The Duchess — The Duchess offers non-alcoholic gin, tonic and other beverages
- Planetarians — Why: When the alternative meat consumption grows from the current 2% to a projected 23%, where will the industry get proteins? Isolation, fermentation, cultured… all of them require it’s own ingredients for proteins. They might be not so readily available in the food system on the Earth…What: PLANETARIANS developed a new platform to makealternative meats from animal feed (Sunflower, Corn DDGS, Pulses). Skipping protein isolation it uses just 0.5:1 water (no chemicals). Product prototypes have umami taste, improved protein quality and lower costs than meats made from isolates and concentrates.How: Solid-state fermentation converts carbs in the ingredients into extra protein in addition to inherent one and improves PDCAAS. Wet extrusion works as a kill step and creates a meat-like texture.
- Appbar — Appbar is a mobile application through which it delivers different types of beer, distillates, wine and snacks.
Seed Investments for Startups that are going to relocate to the USA or are already based here
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
- NameCoach — NameCoach is a platform for cultural and gender inclusion, which empowers organizations to easily collect audio name recordings, gender identity, and other identity-related info via customized links or widgets - and embed this critical info in online systems through a web application, API, and 3rd party integrations.It was founded in 2014 and isbased in Stanford, California.
- Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
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.
Leonardo Borrero
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- 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 —
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
- Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
- Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to people overseas struggling to make a better life. It is a history that both advances U.S. foreign policy interests as well as reflects the American people's compassion and support of human dignity. USAID extends help from the American people to achieve results for the poorestand most vulnerable around the world. That assistance does not represent a Democratic value or a Republican value, but an American value; as beneficiaries of peace and prosperity, Americans have a responsibility to assist those less fortunate so we see the day when assistance is no longer necessary.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Nigeria, India
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop Aero — Transforming how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless.
- Regen Organics — Regen Organics decarbonizes the production of food, feed, and fuel by locally manufacturing regenerative products. Explore more here.
- Decentral Energy — Decentral develops, owns, and manages clean energy assets in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. We offer risk-free and fully financed solar energy solutions for our clients.
Irie is an investment vehicle (intelligent capital) in companies from various sectors in Colombia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Vast Ventures they invest in consumer brands, AI and cloud software, and more.
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- Health Care, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Base — Base is a membership organization that brings together outstanding minds such as innovators, artists, and eccentrics from all backgrounds and industries for personalized social activities.
- Juno Medical — Juno Medical offers comprehensive, modern healthcare services for the whole family. Transparent pricing, inclusive and welcoming atmosphere. Learn more.
- Fabric — Gain capacity to care. Maximize clinical capacity, reduce administrative burden, expand access, and increase patient satisfaction.
A venture capital firm, backed by a family office, which invests in early stage startups in Brazil and VC funds from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Lexter.ai — Lexter.ai is the first SaaS platform that helps legal teams in Brazil gain efficiency by automating documents' analysis and revision using AI. Lexter's technology is capable of automatically reviewing contracts based on each client's strategy and is already being used by companies such as Gerdau, Votorantim Cimentos and Suzano.
- 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.
- 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.
John Sung Kim is a chief executive who created the software companies Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN), DoctorBase (acquired by Kareo), and JetBridge (current). He's an early angel investor in: SpaceX, Rappi, LVL5 (acquired by DoorDash), Credy, Maximus Health, Panther, Siempre Tequila and Juice Labs. Occasionally he writes for TechCrunch, Forbes and hisblog JohnSungKim.com (NSFW).
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Colombia
Carolina Garcia is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Chiper.
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- Software, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Colombia
Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.
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- Financial Services, Banking, Restaurants
- Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
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- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
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- NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
H20 Capital Innovation is a cross border early-stage venture capital fund with operations in the USA and Latin America. We actively invest in entrepreneurs that are using technology to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones in the B2B Marketplace and B2B Enterprise IT sectors.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
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- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- Morado. — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
- Spot² — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.
Latin Leap is a Venture Capital Studio (VC Studio) that was established to create a unique impact 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 humanand financial commitment and contributes to quality education by fostering knowledge-intensive businesses in the region.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Peru, Spain
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- 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.
- Treggo — Build for the age of eCommerce. We are empowering sellers to successfully compete & grow in the booming e-commerce market.
- Talently — Talently offers an intensive program that helps software developers get a better job in the technology industry, anywhere in the world. It is the accelerator of the careers of Latin American tech talent.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
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.
Angel Hub is a club of angel investors that empowers entrepreneurs and businessmen with innovative and scalable projects with global reach. Angel Hub invests in projects in Latinamerica, which offers access to important investment opportunities in high-potential startups.
Angel Hub is based in San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico.
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- Software, Marketplace, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
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- 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.
- TrackChain — TrackChain reinventing old-fashioned logistics processes by digitizing and automating freight procurement & shipments management, rates, carrier compliance, financial systems, route planning, and cargo visibility, an end-to-end logistics solution in one place.Join us and be part of the journey to taking logistics in a new direction bybuilding the most efficient, simplest, and low-carbon digital freight network in North America
- Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.
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, United States
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- Zenfi — Zenfi is an online application that allows its users to track information along with renders alerts and tips to improve credit scores.
- 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.
- Hero Guest — Hero Guest is a digital platform focused on evolving restaurants’ experiences. It improves business profitability through empowered staff, engaged customers, and strategic data. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico.
Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Singapore
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- Koppiku — Our CoffeeYour Way Our CoffeeYour Way Discover your new fave drinks From full-bodied coffees, to refreshing coolers View Menu View Menu koppiku latte (Hot/Iced) Cereal latte (Iced) koppiku milk tea (Iced) snow black (Iced) Americano (Hot/Iced) latte (Hot/Iced) cappuccino (Hot/Iced) Koppiku coconut latte (Hot/Iced) There is no Koppiku without You
- MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
- Good Weird — A new genderless approach to beauty. Be you, it's good
Camilo Clavijo
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- Food and Beverage, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Colombia
Reshape Ventures is an early stage investment firm that focuses on proptech, retail & e-commerce, and healthcare.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Isabella Fernández
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- 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.
Private investment firm managing a diversified portfolio of listed and unlisted equities on both local and regional markets.
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- Transportation, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
- Series C, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, India, Egypt
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- AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
- Elwood Technologies — Elwood provides comprehensive solutions for institutional digital asset traders and investors. Our offerings include tools for trading, portfolio management, risk management and collateral management.
Minerva Capital Group is a female-led, diverse, and international team with work experience in over 40 countries. As a purpose-driven investment fund, we focus on growth companies in spaces that have the potential to propel us into the future and change the world for the better.
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- Restaurants, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Colombia
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- RobinFood — RobinFood is the leader in cloud-restaurants in Latin America with presence in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. RobinFood was founded in 2018
We're a boutique firm bridging consulting, government relations, and international development committed to transformational change in the Middle East and North Africa +
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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Pakistan, Peru
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- BusCaro — Comfort, Reliability Consistency. Your one-stop solution for hassle-free commute. Commute Made Easier About BusCaro Innovative approach towards mobility for organizations across Pakistan. BusCaro is a tech-based startup providing solutions aimed at simplifying commute. Paired with a reliable technology stack, and the mission to drive a positive change in the mobility sector, BusCaro is a seamless
- OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
- Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
Juan Luis Londoño Arias, known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age and began recording songs at age sixteen.
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- Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Series A
- Colombia
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- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005.
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- B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Spain, Colombia
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Julián Núñez is a co-founder at Yuno, a payments company based in Latam. Before founding Yuno in 2022, he was an early employee at Rappi, where he led the E-Commerce business unit and built Rappi’s one-click checkout solution.
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- Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Colombia
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- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Daedalus Venture is a firm focused in Latin America early stage startups
We invest in Fitech & SAAS
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Chile, Mexico, United States
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- CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Venezuela
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- 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.
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