Top 5 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Costa Rica (October 2026)

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• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• 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.
• Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

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• School Food Matters — School Food Matters teach children about food and improve their access to healthy, sustainable food during their time at school. The company provides fully-funded food education programs to schools, such as cooking, growing, farm visits, and more. Delivering these programs informs and strengthens the organizations' campaigns, bringing thevoices of children, parents, and teachers to government policy. School Food Matters was founded in 2007 and is based in London.
• Sustainable Food Center — 501(c)(3) Sustainable Food Center transforms the food system to nourish our health, land, and livelihood.
• Agricultural Institute of Marin — Agricultural Institute of Marin is an educational non-profit organization. They support local farmers, strengthen local economies, increase food access, and improve public health.

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• ClearLeaf — ClearLeaf uses patent-pending technology, organic certified in the EU and Japan, to provide a line of nox-toxic fungicides and bactericides for agricultural use. ClearLeaf currently has pre and post-harvest solutions for coffee, banana, pineapple, multiple vegetables, tubers, sugar cane, melons, papaya, coconut, strawberries, flowers, and manymore. GotaBlanca® is currently sold in Costa Rica and ClearLeaf expects to start commercializing its products in Central America no later than the end of 2021. ClearLeaf recently secured an exclusive commercial agreement with Colono Agropecuario, the biggest agrochemical distributor in the Central American Region. Since going to market thru this new distribution partner two months ago, ClearLeaf has been able to sell over USD 50,000 worth of products.
• H3 Zoom.AI — H3 Zoom is an AI-powered inspection intelligence platform focused on the built environment, helping organizations assess and manage buildings and critical infrastructure. It processes visual and sensor data from drones, 360° cameras, robotics, and other capture tools to generate structured inspection insights. The platform uses AI to detect,classify, and localize defects while assigning severity levels based on engineering and regulatory standards. It produces audit-ready reports and remediation recommendations designed to support maintenance planning and compliance workflows.
• Clearbot — Efficient, AI-powered,self driving boats with zero green house emissions - our boat act as intellegent tools to automate marine services.

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• ClearLeaf — ClearLeaf uses patent-pending technology, organic certified in the EU and Japan, to provide a line of nox-toxic fungicides and bactericides for agricultural use. ClearLeaf currently has pre and post-harvest solutions for coffee, banana, pineapple, multiple vegetables, tubers, sugar cane, melons, papaya, coconut, strawberries, flowers, and manymore. GotaBlanca® is currently sold in Costa Rica and ClearLeaf expects to start commercializing its products in Central America no later than the end of 2021. ClearLeaf recently secured an exclusive commercial agreement with Colono Agropecuario, the biggest agrochemical distributor in the Central American Region. Since going to market thru this new distribution partner two months ago, ClearLeaf has been able to sell over USD 50,000 worth of products.
• Hippo Harvest — Hippo Harvest grows food that is good for you and good for the planet.

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• GoPato — GoPato is a hyperlocal food delivery platform powered by drone technology. Founded in 2015, the company is transforming the way to order food around a city with autonomous delivery drones under 30 minutes. Currently GoPato get the authorization to start commercial operation BVLOS in the urban area of San José Costa Rica with a partnership withMcdonald's.Awarded by Forbes Central America as one of 30 business promises and mentioned by all national newspapers and media, GoPato is in charge of being your right hand.