# Top 10 Hardware Angel Investors in Colombia in June 2026 ## Leonardo Borrero - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food Delivery Leonardo Borrero ## Sebastian Ruales - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Santiago Gomez Gonzalez - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Retail Technology, Small and Medium Businesses Santiago Gomez Gonzalez is a Co-Founder and COO/CPO at Simetrik. ## Fabian Carrillo - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Retail Technology, Small and Medium Businesses Fabian Carrillo is the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Cluvi. ## Brian York - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: News, Publishing, Marketplace Investor & entrepreneur ## Justin Mateen - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Pierpaolo Barbieri - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech 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. ## Matias Muchnick - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Information Technology, Sustainability, B2C Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo. ## Matt Brown - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, VoIP, Computer 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. ## John Freddy Vega - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Network Security, Telecommunications Freddy Vega is the CEO and Founder of Platzi.