Top 5 Hardware Angel Investors in Colombia in September 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Hardware Angel Investors in Colombia in September 2025
Investor | Hardware Colombia investments |
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Sebastian Ruales | 2 |
Leonardo Borrero | 2 |
Matt Brown | 1 |
Pierpaolo Barbieri | 1 |
Justin Mateen | 1 |
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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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.
Leonardo Borrero
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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 — We are a technology startup developing and trading small farm production to urban centers for households, restaurants, and groceries looking for healthy and sustainable fresh goods.TuPlaza ensures market access and technical support for small farmers, assuring fair value for their products and supporting what, how, and when to crop, whileconsumers can access and check product origin, farmer they are contributing for, and healthy and certified fresh products.
Matt Brown is an entrepreneur and angel investor. As the VP of Product at Voxbone, he launched and scaled their Enterprise Communications platform in 38 countries with over 900 customers in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In October 2020 Voxbone was acquired by Bandwidth for $519.4 million.Matt was also the co-founder and CEO ofTengo Inc., a fintech platform serving the unbanked in ascending economies, and VP of Product at Prove, a digital identity platform trusted by 1000+ Enterprises and 500+ Financial Institutions globally.As an angel investor Matt has invested in tech startups across the globe, with portfolio companies in North America, South America, and Europe.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, VoIP, Computer
- Seed
- Chile, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Treggo — Build for the age of eCommerce. We are empowering sellers to successfully compete & grow in the booming e-commerce market.
- 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.
- Reversso — Platform that maximizes exchanges over returns
Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
- Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
- 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.
Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
- Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
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