# Top 50 Hospitality Startup Investors in LATAM in June 2026

## MONASHEES
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. With a human-values-first approach, monashees helps founders challenge the statusquo and improve people’s lives through technology. The monashees community includes over 150 companies and 300+ founders.

## Travis Foxhall
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

Travis Foxhall is based out of New York, New York, and is the Chief Financial Officer of Clara. Travis previously worked at Point72 Ventures as an Investment Vice President. Travis Foxhall attended Yale University.

## Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, FinTech

Actions Capital is a seasoned pre-seed venture capital firm, that works alongside founders from Day 0.

## Canary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## View Capital GP
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Hospitality

Primer Fondo de Venture Capital en America Latina enfocado impulsar la tecnología que impacta en Real Estate

## Cometa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Primary Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## Valor Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital.
It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

## devlabs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Bridge Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Finance

Business adviser & investor for early stage network-based services & technology

## Kaszek
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

## Antelo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Hospitality

Antelo Capital is an investment firm.

## Norte Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Norte is a founder's fund created and invested by entrepreneurs

## Rafael Duton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile.
Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Mate Pencz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, B2B, Apps

Mate is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GE32 Capital. In addition, he is a Founder and Co-CEO of Brazil's premier real estate marketplace Loft, which has raised more than $90M since its inception in July 2018. Previously, he co-founded Printi, a leading e-commerce platform for customized materials & services with operations in Braziland the United States. Printi has raised more than $70M in capital from financial and strategic investors including Cimpress (Nasdaq:CMPR). Mate is also a Co-Founder and Investment Partner at Canary, Brazil's foremost seed-stage technology investment firm. Before moving to Brazil, he worked at eminent financial firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs after receiving a degree in economics from Harvard University. In 2015, Mate and his co-founder Florian were listed on Forbes' prestigious 30 under 30 list.

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps

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.

## Iñaki Arrola
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Iñaki Arrola founded coches.com as entrepreneur in 2003. He invested as BA during some years and raised two funds. Vitamina K in 2011 and in 2016 K Fund.

## Michael Kleindl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet

Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law.

## Unblock Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Payments

Unblock Ventures is a corporate token venture fund that invests in blockchain businesses via tokens. The company was based in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

## INSEAD Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Information Technology, EdTech

Group of Bay Area INSEAD Alumni

## Grão
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

A venture capital firm, backed by a family office, which invests in early stage startups in Brazil and VC funds from around the world.

## Matt Fichtner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

## Polaris Investimentos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brasília, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Polaris is a venture capital investment fund, operating only with its own resources, without third party funding. It is headquartered in Brasília, but operates throughout Brazil, seeking investment opportunities in new companies or in operation within several areas.More than just providing financial capital, Polaris seeks to value the companiesin which it invests, through an active partnership. It intends to always be the minority partner, committed to long-term partnership projects.

## Indicator Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Founded in 2014, Indicator Capital is a Brazilian venture capital firm operating in Sao Paulo and the Silicon Valley. The partnership formed by Derek Lundgren Bittar, Fabio Iunis de Paula, and Thomas Lundgren Bittar, promotes the convergence between the dream of the entrepreneur and the financial return for the investor, tropicalizing American bestpractices to national startups. With more than R$ 270MM under management, Indicator Capital is the largest early-stage venture capital firm in Latin America specialized in Internet of Things (IoT). In their investments, the partners apply value-adding, proprietary methodology Building Value Together®, besides acting as Investors for Good, a concept reinforced by the firm`s certification as a B System™ company.

## Barn Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Software, Agriculture

Barn Investments is a Venture Capital firm dedicated to early stage, seed and Series A investments in the Brazilian and Latin American Market.

## DILA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

## DST Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on late-stage ventures in the Internet sector. The firm has invested in several rapidly growing companies. Its offices are in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

## big_bets
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Information Technology

Big_bets is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate business development.

## Roger Laughlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Real Estate

Roger Laughlin - Founder & COO @ Kavak

## VentureFriends
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## Brad Flora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.

Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

## Investo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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## Altabix
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Travel, SaaS, Hotel

Altabix is a subsidiary of Mexican Hotel Group City Express.

## GE32 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.

## HM Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, Biotechnology

HM Capital Partners is a sector-focused private equity firm that primarily makes control investments in the energy, food, and media industries, where the Firm has extensive experience, expertise, relationships, and access to differentiated deal flow.  Since its inception, the firm has completed more than 150 transactions in these sectors for atotal transaction value in excess of $26 billion.

## Giovanni Gardelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

## Clocktower Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.

## BWG Ventures, LLC (Florida)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Hotel, Travel, Hospitality

Investor in early and growth stage companies, with focus on Latin America,

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Flybridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

New York and Boston Based Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm Backing Seed Stage AI Companies. Focused on AI Enablement, Developer Platforms, Agentic Business Applications, and Native AI for Human Ingenuity

## Knockout Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services

Knockout Capital is a boutique consumer sector focused hedge fund investing in both private and public markets to drive returns. Small moves, big impact.

## The Ark Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

## Derive Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Seed
- Focus: Software, Hospitality, Travel

Derive Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The company makes investments in several industries to develop the tourism sector. Derive Ventures makes investments in a variety of technologies and concepts to enable improved connections and experiences that advance the tourism business.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

## Outbound Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software

We invest in our generation. Millennials not only represent the largest buying group in US history, but are also reshaping the way business is done.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
