Top 5 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Uruguay in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Uruguay. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Uruguay. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Uruguay in April 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Uruguay investments
Canary	1
Matt Fichtner	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
Brad Flora	1

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Investor list

Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.
Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

Investment focus

Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Flock Safety — From creating safer neighborhoods to protecting employees and property, we help you deter and solve crime with tools customized and scaled to your needs.
Rune Technologies — Rune Technologies' objective is to consistently deliver innovative logistics technology to support the free world's enduring values, enable quick triumphs, and maintain peace through strength.
Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.