Top 15 Gaming Startup Investors in Costa Rica in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Gaming startups based in Costa rica. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Costa rica. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Gaming Startup Investors in Costa Rica in April 2025

Investor	Gaming Costa Rica investments
Carao Ventures	2
Nazca Ventures	2
Marc van der Chijs	1
AU21 Capital	1
Collab+Currency	1
Jonathan Lee	1
GEM Digital	1
Cluster Capital	1
Dean Thomas	1
Ethan Yau	1
Metaverse Ventures	1
Hardbank	1
Mooncat ‎‏‏‎ ‎	1
Richard Ma	1
Joseph Cheong	1

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They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Costa Rica, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

WeKall — WeKall Cloud based corporate telephony service simplifies the operation to only one provider saving up to 60% of the monthly spend in telephony operation.
FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
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.

Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vambe — Our AI platform allows you to efficiently manage your WhatsApp and Instagram interactions, providing an exceptional experience to your customers while reducing costs and increasing your sales.
Desteia — Revolutionize your supply chain operations with cutting-edge technology. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance visibility, optimize your logistics, and fuel your growth plan.
minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.

Marc van der Chijs is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of First Block Capital. He Previously worked at Care Protocol as a Co-Founder and Director. Marc van der Chijs attended Maastricht University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow the peer-to-peer sports prediction market. Set custom odds, compete with other users directly, and win - all without a house advantage.
Blade — The last-mile solution to enable broad merchant acceptance of virtual currencies, built by payments experts.
PeerReach — Peerreach is an Amsterdam-based social media startup that provides an influence metric that measures your influence within different areas of expertise. The Peerreach algorithm is similar to the pagerank algorithm that Google uses to identify influential websites.

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Today — Today is a Web3 social simulation game, offering interactions with GenAI backed NPCs, and no-code tools for virtual world development.
Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

Jonathan Lee

Investment focus

Sports, Gambling, PC Games
Seed
Costa Rica, United States

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow the peer-to-peer sports prediction market. Set custom odds, compete with other users directly, and win - all without a house advantage.
Million on Mars — Play, Build and Own with Million on Mars An MMO open sandbox city builder where you decide on your homestead's location, and build out your settlement on the highest-fidelity in-game Mars terrain! Painstakingly created from NASA/JPL topographical data, your location is as close to reality as you can get.

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