Top 15 Hardware Startup Investors in Argentina in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Argentina. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Argentina. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Hardware Startup Investors in Argentina in January 2026
| Investor | Hardware Argentina investments |
|---|---|
| Mercado Libre Fund | 3 |
| Globant Ventures | 3 |
| Wollef Ventures | 3 |
| NXTP Ventures | 2 |
| Nazca Ventures | 2 |
| Inspirit Angels | 1 |
| Wayra | 1 |
| Globant | 1 |
| UNICEF Innovation Fund | 1 |
| Marcos Galperin | 1 |
| Pinama Investment | 1 |
| Mercy Corps Ventures | 1 |
| Tomas Pando | 1 |
| NXTP Ventures | 1 |
| Lánzame Capital SL | 1 |
Mercado Libre Fund is the Corporate Venture Capital Fund of Mercado Libre.They support innovation and the development of companies that boost the e-commerce and tech ecosystem in Latin America:
Investing smart money in seed, early and growth stage companies with great teams
Accompanying entrepreneurs in the scaling process of their businessAdding value as strategic partner: fostering synergies between their portfolio companies and MELIWhat they invest on
They differentiate their investments into two funds which differ in scope, stage and investment criteriaTheir Business Development Fund invests in seed stage companies that provide a great product and have a clear potential impact on MELI´s ecosystem
Their Opportunities Fund invests in early and growth stage companies that have developed innovative solutions through the use of technology. They seek tech companies with great teams and outstanding execution capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- CXC — CXC delivers AI-driven structured finance solutions with real-time asset tracking, verification, and trusted servicing across Latin America.
- Cilia — Cilia is a software firm that designs and develops budgeting, workshop regulation and claims management software.
- Simetrik — Simetrik offer big data solutions for financial control and automation services for corporate companies.
We invest in visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent business through the lens of AI, Blockchain, and Future of Work technologies. Our DNA is that of our founders, and our venture fund targets investment from Seed stage to Series B, while bringing to bear the expertise, scale, and passion of our global network.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Argentina, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Fivvy — In the dynamic world of financial technology, Fivvy stands at the forefront, enabling banks to surpass the competition by leveraging cutting-edge, data-driven models and tailored customer engagement strategies. Fivvy’s innovative solutions unlock the immense value hidden within financial data, propelling banks of all sizes toward unparalleledcustomer experiences. With Fivvy's streamlined implementation process, banks can quickly turn into data driven and customer centric organizations in as little as 3 months. Overall, Fivvy empowers banks to offer a more customer-centric approach, while unlocking the full value of their data.
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- LinkedAI — Image Labeling platform and annotation services to accelerate the creation highest quality training data for your Computer Vision development
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
- 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.
- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
- Luzid — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.
- Openlayer — Our platform automates model inventory, risk classification, and compliance workflows, while applying 100+ behavioral tests to detect issues like hallucinations, bias, PII leakage, and toxicity.
Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
- Desteia — Desteia uses highly-specialized AI to give you clean data, live freight status, and seamless customs clearance - with zero manual upkeep.
- 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.
Inspirit Angels is a Buenos Aires-based angel investment group focused on Latin American companies with global products.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed
- Argentina, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aivo — Aivo Conversational AI. Automate outstanding customer experiences with omnichannel tools and live agent solutions.
- 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.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
- Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Argentina, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
- Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
- ping — messageLOUD is a patented app that automatically reads text messages, emails, WhatsApp, Slack and all other message types out LOUD without any action from the user.Think about your daily commute. Focused on safety, productivity and convenience, the service reads all major message types out loud when touching your phone is unsafe, inconvenient orillegal.Distracted Driving costs $129 billion per year and 11 lives per day. messageLOUD not only saves lives, but also enhances productivity. There are more than 800 million app users of streaming audio services, running, cycling and other activity-based apps where users would prefer to hear their texts and emails read out LOUD rather than checking their phones.
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that canbenefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Seed
- Argentina, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf — Digital financial services for vulnerable populations on a mobile device. Access the convenience and affordability of a digital wallet with savings, remittances, and payments locally and across borders. Backed by blockchain, the safe storage and transport of assets reduces risk while creating an economy identity.
- CirroLytix — CirroLytix helps governments, researchers, NGOs, and social enterprises leverage data to achieve positive change.
- Grassroots Economics — Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that has been seeking to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future since 2010.
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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- 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?
Pinama is an investment club formed by entrepreneurs willing to invest in projects with a "return on investment" beyond the purely financial.
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Investment focus
- Internet, B2B, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Eccocar — Launch, operate and scale your digital shared mobility services. Technology that takes mobility to the next level!
- RepScan — RepScan is an eliminate the negative that the Internet says about you. Rapid negative reputation detection and removal technology.
- The Sampling Solutions — The Sampling Solutions specialized in taking samples in the environmental, agri-food and hospital sectors.
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
- Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
Tomas Pando - Co-Founder @ Master Me Up
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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.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
- Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Lánzame Capital is a pledge fund in Spain that invest in startups. Lánzame is promoted by a group of investors who work in different economic and business areas with many years of experience in different sectors.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FLOORFY — Real estate software to create virtual tours. The new way to show your portfolio of properties from anywhere and at any time. Know it!
- Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
- Food for Joe — Food for Joe is a pet food company.
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