Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in LATAM in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in LATAM in September 2025
Investor | Hardware LATAM investments |
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Kevin Efrusy | 3 |
Romero Rodrigues | 3 |
Daniel Curran | 2 |
Rei Carvalho | 2 |
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez | 2 |
Parker Treacy | 2 |
Matt Brown | 2 |
Romero Rodrigues | 2 |
Yves Nogueira | 2 |
Guilherme Bonifacio | 2 |
Américo Pereira Filho | 2 |
Hans Tung | 2 |
Sebastian Ruales | 2 |
Eduardo Castro Wright | 2 |
Leonardo Borrero | 2 |
Thorsten Schroeder | 2 |
Alec Oxenford | 2 |
Andréa Nogueira, CFA | 1 |
Brian Requarth | 1 |
Angel Cisneros | 1 |
Eduardo Baer | 1 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
Juan Manuel Collado | 1 |
Tim Draper | 1 |
Tiago Dalvi | 1 |
David Mes | 1 |
Tomas Pando | 1 |
Camila Farani | 1 |
Alan Weschler | 1 |
John Freddy Vega | 1 |
Cassio Jose Krupinsk | 1 |
JaMes Sowers | 1 |
Rudy Tarasantchi | 1 |
Mario Sanchez | 1 |
William Sahlman | 1 |
Justin Mateen | 1 |
Ricardo Morikio | 1 |
Marcos Galperin | 1 |
Wensceslao Casares | 1 |
Fabian Carrillo | 1 |
Thomas Eisenmann | 1 |
Ariel Lambrecht | 1 |
Katrina Lake | 1 |
Alexander Theuma | 1 |
James Cash | 1 |
Bernardo de Barros Franco | 1 |
Florian Hagenbuch | 1 |
Arash Ferdowsi | 1 |
Erhan Bilici | 1 |
Meyer Malka | 1 |
Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.
Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
- Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Rei Carvalho is a computer scientist and stands out as the visionary founder and CEO of Emailage , a world-leading online fraud prevention company acquired by RELX/Lexis in March 2020. Rei's entrepreneurial journey further includes the founding of Wealth Inc (wealth.com) in 2020. With a track record as a serial entrepreneur, Rei nowchannels his expertise and passion as an investor through Bela Juju Ventures, his esteemed VC arm. Through Bela Juju Ventures, Rei offers invaluable insights, resources, and unwavering support to founders and fellow investors alike, driving innovation and success in the startup ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Sales Automation, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Burrow — Meet Burrow. We make clever, uncompromising furniture and other nice things fit for modern life at home. From our comfortable, customizable sofas, sectionals, loveseats, and armchairs to our fashionable, functional rugs and tables, and five unique collections of decorative pillows and throw blankets, Burrow is the perfect place to start when shopping for your home.
- YellowBird — YellowBird connects the best experts in Environmental Health and Safety with business and government entities, on-demand.
- Turbi — Turbi is a digital shared mobility company that makes car rental experience practical, cheaper and unique
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez - CIO & Founder @ SmartMining
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- SmartMining — Somos una empresa de tecnologías de la información aplicada al mundo industrial y minero. Llevamos inteligencia a los procesos con el objetivo de optimizar el uso de recursos críticos, generando ahorros y aumento de productividad.
Founder at Cobli.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
- BeConfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling
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
Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
- Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Yves Nogueira
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Investment focus
- Software, Computer, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Américo Pereira Filho
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Kangu — Kangu is a vertically integrated network of drop-off and pick-up points for e-commerce logistics. Kangu solves an important infrastructure problem by connecting small online sellers, e commerce companies, transporters and 3rd party logistics providers, and consumers in an integrated platform to handle the drop-off, return/pick-up, andtransport of packages sold online.
- Infleet — Infleet provides transparency and agility through an integrative hub involving the main verticals of logistics and equipment management.
- HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Brazil, India
Portfolio highlights
- Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
- Ximkart — Everything you need to import raw materials. minus the headache! For manufacturers and businesses of every scale. With Ximkart, cross border trade is as easy as buying from your local supplier. We are currently dealing with Metals, Minerals, Chemicals with having a large list of QC tested products like Silicon, Titanium, Calcium Carbonate, Styrene, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Ingots, Magnesium, Mixed Xylene, Butyl Acetate, Scrap, Alloy Wheel, MTO, GTO, Pine Oil, Rutile, 2196+, KMML, Doguide, RJ916, CPCL, BPCL, HPCL, 553, 441, 3303, DBM and many more.
- Fazz — Fazz offers an online business account to help your company grow faster, by providing access to credit, payment, corporate cards, savings and more.
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.
Eduardo Castro-Wright is a private investor. He was the former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and president and CEO of Global e-Commerce and Global Sourcing. Prior to this, Eduardo was president and CEO of Walmart U.S., where he led the transformation of stores, improvements in the customer experience, and the development of a strongleadership team. Before joining Walmart, Eduardo was president and CEO of Honeywell Transportation and Power Systems Worldwide and prior to that he was President and CEO of Nabisco Asia-Pacific. He holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- COR — AI-powered Management Software for Advertising Agencies. Gain visibility, track time automatically and make smart decisions. Start Now!
- Instaleap LLC — SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently
- Home Delivery Service (HDS Global) — We’re on a mission to transform eCommerce – end-to-end – starting with fresh groceries and other home essentials. Powered by the latest in AI and advanced robotics, our patented automated fulfillment system, RoboFS, enables quick, touchless order fulfillment, bringing fresher-than-store goods, direct to your door. Our shopping experience isalso built around each customer’s dietary needs, preferences, and brand favorites. Gone are the days of filtering and scrolling through irrelevant inventory. With HDS, you’ll only ever see products that match your exact criteria. HDS also offers: • Made-to-order meats and prepared foods, customized to your exact specs • Free home delivery with no subscription /delivery / service fees or tips • Tri-temperature-controlled vans, so frozen items arrive fully frozen • Retail-level customer service and easy at-home returns, right at your doorstep • Sustainable delivery totes, eliminating nearly all cardboard and plastic waste
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.
Thorsten Schroeder
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Investment focus
- Electronics, Children, Life Science
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Storypod — The screen-free, educational audio toy that engages children independently & makes learning fun. Storypod delights toddlers, preschoolers, 1st, & 2nd graders with music, stories, songs, audiobooks, & podcasts. The Storypod audio player features recording from any phone, bedtime nightlight, sound machine, & white noise.
- TROCAFONE — Trocafone is the first end-to-end e-commerce marketplace of LATAM that enable people to buy and sell used electronics hassle free, focused on smartphones in Brazil. At Trocafone they improve the selling and buying experience by acquiring the devices from sellers, refurbishing and re-selling them as pre-owned certified. Buyers enjoy the greatdeals of a peer-to-peer marketplace combined with the service, convenience, and safety of a retail store. Sellers enjoy a streamlined experience since It takes seconds to sell an item, and shipping is effortless with Trocafone's pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.
- 4D Lifetec — 4D Lifetec is a biotechnology company promoting and developing screening and test systems for molecular diagnostics. It also offers a unique solution for DNA defect and repair based screening programs and is, therefore, the diagnostic method of the first choice. The company profits from different networks in science and healthcare.4D Lifetecprovides kits, reagents, download center, 4D life tanks, and service packages. They also offer cost savings for healthcare provider by its outstanding precision and a high degree of standardization both leading to a reduction of false positive results.4D Lifetec was founded by Dr. Arne Faisst and Nick Mijnssen in 2014 and is headquartered in Cham, Zug.
Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School.
He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- DRIC — DRIC is a data privacy and storage platform developer. Their platform is based on two-dimensional code that provides a revolution in the transmission, preservation, storage, and privacy of data, making it accessible and instantaneous.
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Advertising, Apps
- Seed
- Brazil, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SmartMEI — SmartMEI Estamos construindo um novo site | Smart Mei
- StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
- Back4app — Back4app is the cloud platform for building, deploying and scaling applications. Our AI-powered solution, increases developer productivity, eliminates DevOps and accelerates time-to-market.
Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
- Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Angel is and entrepreneur and co-founder of Quiubas Mobile where he serves as CEO. He has also founded companies in the software development and transportation sector. Angel has also started acting a seed investor on tech based companies.In 2007 Angel developed www.quiubas.com, serving as one of the only 2 free Mexico SMS networks.As anentrepreneur Angel Cisneros has been invited to present lectures and conferences for Software Related Business and Entrepreneurship in the most recognized universities in Mexico.Angel has interacted with world-recognized and defining leaders in the political, software and economical fields.Quiubas Mobile is the Mexico's leading SMS messaging provider. The main focus is A2P messaging, which now include delivering SMS to Colombia and Ecuador.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Finance, Telecommunications
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Pig.gi — Farrow Ventures offers Pig.gi, an app where users win Pig.gi Coins in exchange for engaging with brands and sharing their consumer data. Coins are exchangeable for airtime from any mobile operator. The app was launched in June 2016 in Mexico. Later that year it was launched in Colombia.
Eduardo Baer is the Chief Operating Officer of Nomad.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Juan Manuel Collado - Co-Founder & Director @ Tapebicua group
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Aivo — Aivo Conversational AI. Automate outstanding customer experiences with omnichannel tools and live agent solutions.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Fruit, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Destaxa — Épico provides a financial services marketplace to brick and mortar retailers.
- Diferente — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
David is a Founder and Managing Partner at Off The Grid Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm. Off The Grid Ventures backs "off the grid entrepreneurs", i.e. women and foreign/immigrant entrepreneurs, in the B2B Tech and Fintech arenas. These entrepreneurs are underserved when it comes to early-stage funding, andyet the diversity of their teams lead them to reach great heights. Prior to founding Off The Grid Ventures, David was a Managing Partner at Arc Venture Partners and a Senior Principal at Cipio Partners, both secondary direct venture capital firms. In these capacities, he led and managed investments in successful companies such as Airtight Networks, Broadbus (acquired by Motorola), Continuous Computing (acquired by Radisys), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), DisplayLink, Fortemedia, Impinj (NASDAQ: PI), Polychromix (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), PSS Systems (acquired by IBM), Tropos Networks (acquired by ABB), Verimatrix, and Voltage Security (acquired by Hewlett Packard).Previously, David was an investment manager at the NESBIC CTE Fund, a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm where he notably led the firm’s investments in Outsystems and Oxxio (acquired by Centrica). Before becoming a venture capitalist, David started his career as an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in London and Banque Paribas in Sao Paulo.David holds an MBA from Wharton, a Masters in Applied Economics from the IEP de Paris, a BA in Business Law from Sorbonne University and a BA in Political Sciences from the IEP de Paris.
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- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- BaseVenture — We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
- Swarm Vision — Swarm Vision is the innovation system that drives rapid growth with your current workforce. Read on to see how you can get started today!
- otto-js — Stop hackers from exploiting your third-party tools and protect your web applications from Magecart, data skimming, malware, trojans, phishing, malvertising, fraud, adware, revenue skimming, customer hijacking, and spell-jacking.
Tomas Pando - Co-Founder @ Master Me Up
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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Aivo — Aivo Conversational AI. Automate outstanding customer experiences with omnichannel tools and live agent solutions.
Camila Farani
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- Computer, Software, Education
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil
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- Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
- Um Bom App — Friendly and helpful customer support that goes above and beyond. We help you get the perfect domain name.
- Sirius Education — Sirius Education is an training institute that provide training on developing softs skills.
Alan Weschler
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- Computer, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Chile
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- Reversso — Platform that maximizes exchanges over returns
Freddy Vega is the CEO and Founder of Platzi.
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- Internet, Network Security, Telecommunications
- Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Cassio J. Krupinsk is the Founder and CEO of Blockbr Digital Assets. Cassio J. Krupinsk attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Corporate Round
- Brazil
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- BLOCKBR — BLOCKBR Asset Tokenization Improves your Company's Fund Raising with Structured and Super Structured Tokens!
- Web Invest Group - WI Group — We are experts in Social Network enable Marketplaces
- Camargo Corrêa Desenvolvimento Imobiliário S / A. — Camargo Corrêa Desenvolvimento Imobiliário is a real estate firm that mainly deals in commercial real estate & property management services.
James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
- United States, Switzerland, Singapore
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- BitPay — BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
- Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
- Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
Rudy Tarasantchi
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- Finance, Software, Accounting
- Angel
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.
Senior Level Manager
More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them.
With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities
Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives.
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Investment focus
- iOS, SaaS, Android
- Pre-Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions. POP Material implementation. Products expiring date. Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.
Lead Entrepreneurship Professor and Dean of External Relations, Harvard Business SchoolWilliam Salhman is an advisor to HST Solar where he guides the firm on strategy. He is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff – Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The d’Arbeloff Chair was established in 1986 to support teachingand research on the entrepreneurial process. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Sahlman has written numerous articles and two textbooks on topics including entrepreneurial management, venture capital, private equity, deal structuring, incentives, commercializing science, and the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy.In April 2011, the National Venture Capital Association gave Sahlman The American Spirit Award, which was created in 1999 to recognize individuals who have shown outstanding leadership by applying business skills, knowledge, expertise and resources to make a meaningful contribution to society. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard.
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- Internet, Mobile Apps, Ride Sharing
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
- Truepic — From real to synthetic, Truepic ensures authenticity of online content for enterprise. Securely add, verify, and view C2PA Content Credentials on all media.
- pop.in — Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text andimages to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in.Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California.
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. 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. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, India
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- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
- Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Ricardo has 10+ years of experience helping clients with strategy and implementation in global consulting houses, such as L.E.K. and Monitor Group. He was also a co-founder of different ventures with Rocket Internet and a consultant to early stage startups. Ricardo graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering from ITA and holds an MBA from theKellogg School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Accounting, Information Technology
- Series B, Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.
- Contabilizei — Contabilizei offers an online accounting service for small and micro enterprises. The company positively impacted the lives of thousands of micro and small businesses by implementing cost-effective, intelligent online accounting. Fábio Bacarin and Vitor Torres founded it in January 2014, with its headquarters in Curitiba in Brazil.
- Back4app — Harness the power of a low-code cloud platform to rapidly launch apps and seamlessly scale to millions of users. Unlock AI-powered tools and out-of-the-box components for blazing-fast development.
Marcos Galperin is a co-founder of Mercadolibre, Inc. and has served as its chairman, president and chief executive officer since October 1999. Marcos is a board member of Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit organization that is leading the global movement to catalyze long term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the besthigh impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marcos received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Marcos is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his comprehensive knowledge and experience in the technology industry and experience serving as a director of other companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
- SenseiNode — We drive the decentralization of the blockchain ecosystem in Latin America with a simple, scalable and secure node management platform.
- NotCo — We are reinventing the foods we love to eat! Same great flavor, but made from plants. Meet the future of food. Why not?
Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Chile, Brazil, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Tril — Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
- Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).
- Pago Rural —
Fabian Carrillo is the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Cluvi.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Retail Technology, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed
- Colombia
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.
Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Lifestyle, Retail Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Mark43 — Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to effortlessly collect, manage, analyze, and share information. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology anddata-driven insights to public safety.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.
- Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
- Quincy Apparel — No professional woman should be stuck wearing mass market boxy clothing or spending a month's rent on designer clothes just so she can feel like herself at work. A modern brand for young, ambitious women, Quincy harnesses the power of mass customization and disrupts traditional clothing sizes, allowing women to shop by body shape instead ofdress size. Made in NYC and sold exclusively online.
Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, Chile
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- Zarv — Zarv protects your fleet against default, fraud, theft and robbery. Our technology tracks your fleet in real time, even without a GPS tracker.
- Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
- CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Katrina Lake is the Interim CEO of Stitch Fix. She previously worked at Polyvore as a Marketing / Blogger Outreach. Katrina Lake attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Cambly — Cambly gives English learners on-demand access to native English speaking tutors over video chat.
- Pavilion — Search for cooperative contracts from national and regional purchasing cooperatives, GSA, states, and local governments - all in one place, for free.
- MiLa — XCJ delivers authentic Chinese Street Food to you. Steam soup dumplings at home in just 10 minutes. Enjoy xiao long bao in pork, pork & shrimp, or chicken.
Alexander Theuma is the Founder of SaaStock. He previously worked at SaaScribe and attended the University of Westminster.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Events, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- YOOGA — Yooga provide assistance to small and micro businesses.
- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
- Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
While on the faculty of Harvard Business School from 1976 to 2003, James served as the senior associate dean and chairman of HBS Publishing, as well as the chairman of the MBA Program. At HBS, his research focused on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector, specifically the development of a performance measurement systemfor large information technology organizations. He earned an advanced degree in accounting and has been published extensively in accounting and information technology journals.Currently, he provides management development and consulting services through The Cash Catalyst, LLC, which he formed in 2009. He is also a director of The Chubb Corporation, where he began serving in 1996, and General Electric Company, where he began serving in 1997. James has been a director of a number of other public companies, including Phase Forward Incorporated from 2003 to 2009, and Microsoft Corporation from 2001 to 2009. He has also served on the audit committees of several public companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Haddy — Haddy is a 3D printed furniture manufacturer that specializes in sustainable and recyclable materials. Visit us today to learn more.
- Wabbi — Secure DevOps (SecDevOps) Infrastructure Platform
- CLIPr — CLIPr uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to create searchable recorded meeting recaps and actionable insights enabling you to search, skim and find what you need to learn better and drive desired outcomes in a fraction of the time.
Bernardo de Barros Franco is a Serial entrepreneur and angel investor on the IT sector. Bernardo previously worked at u.sit as a Co-founder and CEO. He attended Harvard Business School. Ibmec, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
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Investment focus
- CRM, SMS, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- u.sit — U.sit is a digital intelligence system that operates as an interface between bars, restaurants, and their customers. The system has four modules: a waitlist management system module that manages the restaurant’s waitlist and notifies customers through SMS when their table is ready, a reservation management module that allows restaurants to controltheir reservations and notify customers of pending reservations, an analytics module that provides detailed information on the restaurant’s wait and reservation operation, and a CRM module that delivers collected customer information.U.sit is based in Brazil.
- Aulalivre — The Aulalivre Project is a preparatory course for entrance exams and Enem, distributed free of charge through the internet. Its objective is to bring to the greatest number of Brazilians the knowledge necessary to reach a university position, giving equal chances to those who do not have the time and / or money to invest in their owneducation.
Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.
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- Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Colombia
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- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Flyway — Owning a pied-à-terre in a city you regularly visit is unnecessarily difficult. You end up wasting money on rentals and hotels, since buying a whole property is simply not affordable. We created Flyway to change that.You can now co-own a second home, in your favorite city, at a fraction of the price.A share of 1/12 gives you up to 30 daysof stay annually in your city home. Want more? You can buy more shares! You own the asset, not a block of time. Flyway deals with all the hassle of ownership, so that you simply land and enjoy your city getaway.HOW WE DO IT BEHIND THE SCENESWe identify top-notch properties, in top locations that we can supercharge with smart features. We then set up an LTD (Limited Liability Company) that acquires the property. That LTD is split into 12 equal shares, and each share costs 1/12 of the total house price. A buyer can buy up to half of the property (6 shares). WHAT YOU GETYou get ownership of a second home suited to your budget and needs. Whether you use it for leisure, work or you simply believe in the property’s potential as an investment, you have the rights to the asset. You can use and resell your share when you want. Meanwhile, you get to enjoy upscale, smart living in very prime properties, downtown, without any of the headaches of maintenance, cleaning and bill handling. Flyway acts as the Property Manager, taking all the hassle of ownership away from you, so that you simply land and enjoy your home.
- Muni Tienda — Muni Tienda is the first community group buying platform in Latin America, the system aims to provide convenience and savings to the region's middle class households.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
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- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
- Paradigm — The AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources.
- The Wedding Company — The Wedding Company provides the best wedding services in India. Book end-to-end wedding planning services online with us and grab the best deals for your wedding, engagement, reception, and other events.
Risk Management professional, experienced in Stress Testing and Capital Planning.
Economist, Investment Analyst, Financial Consultant. Interested in FinTech.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, India
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- Nada — Finance, Invest and Bank your real estate.
- DigiBuild — DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology. It captures transactions from all of the different systems being utilized on the project and puts them into a filterable, searchable, and comparable project timeline to remove the waste and fraud for better data insights and decision making that will stopbudget overages.
- Upright — Meet Upright, the good for you go-to. Our first product is a category-defining high-protein, allergen-free Instant Oatmilk in three creamy, delicious flavors: original, vanilla, and chocolate. Each tasty cup of our oatmilk packs the same key nutrients as dairy, without the unwanted allergens or environmental impact.
Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Brazil, India
Portfolio highlights
- NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
- unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."
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