Top 10 Impact Startup Investors in Guatemala in January 2026
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Impact startups based in Guatemala. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Guatemala. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Impact Startup Investors in Guatemala in January 2026
| Investor | Impact Guatemala investments |
|---|---|
| PeopleFund | 2 |
| FMO | 2 |
| Matias de Tezanos | 1 |
| Tom Chi | 1 |
| Proparco | 1 |
| Opes Impact Fund | 1 |
| Oikocredit International | 1 |
| E10 | 1 |
| Fernando Pontaza | 1 |
| Wayra | 1 |
PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companieswith the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com
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Investment focus
- Internet, Renewable Energy, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Guatemala, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Kaptyn — Transforming the Las Vegas ride service experience for good by building a platform of sustainable vehicles and professional drivers.
- Sostengo — Sostengo provides an application for insurance services.
- Menlo Micro — Since 2016, Menlo Micro combines the strengths of the relay with the merits of the transistor, our revolutionary technology is smaller, faster, & more powerful.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
- SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
- Sahyadri Farms — Sahyadri Farms is a farmer producer and agricultural company.
Matias de Tezanos is the Investor & Board Director at Getaround.
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Investment focus
- Semiconductor, Advertising, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series E
- United States, Guatemala, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- AutoWeb — AutoWeb operates as an automotive marketing services company that helps automotive retail dealers and manufacturers that sell new and used vehicles through its Internet lead referral and online advertising programs. The company's lead programs include new vehicle lead program that allows consumers to submit requests for pricing andavailability of specific makes and models, used vehicle lead program, which allows consumers to search for used vehicles according to specific search parameters, such as the price, make, model, mileage, year, and location of the vehicle; and finance lead program designed to provide consumers opportunity to obtain vehicle financing and other services. Its consumer-facing automotive Web sites, which include Autobytel.com, Autoweb.com, AutoSite.com, Car.com, CarSmart.com, CarTV.com, and MyRide.com, provide consumers the information and tools to aid them in their automotive purchase decisions, and the opportunity to submit lead requests. The company was formerly known as autobytel.com Inc.AutoWeb was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
- Orionis Biosciences — Orionis Biosciences operates in the healthcare industry focusing on the biotechnology business and innovation.The company is an early-stage drug discovery and development biotechnology company fueled by a suite of disruptive technologies to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs – with an initialinternal focus in oncology and immunotherapies.Orionis Biosciences has research facilities in the Boston area (Headquarters in Waltham, MA, USA) and Ghent (Belgium), and is operated by a world class team of entrepreneurs, scientists and transatlantic network of investors, in concert with strategic research and development collaborations. The latter includes collaborations with VIB (Belgium), Orionis Biosciences co-founding institution.
Tom Chi is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Board of Director of Provectus Algae. Tom also serve as Founding Partner of At One Ventures. Tom Chi attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering, Analytics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Ignite Holding Company Inc. — Kingo provides decentralized solar energy services to families and businesses in off-grid villages across the world; turning their lives ON towards a better future.
- Coral Vita — Coral Vita's innovative coral reef restoration grows diverse, resilient corals to protect marine biodiversity and support communities dependent on healthy reefs
- UPSIDE Foods — Growing real meat directly from animal cells.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- India, Kenya, Mauritius
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- SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
- Alya — FinTech providing instalments & payment solutions in Africa
- Delta Holdings — Delta Holdings specialises in strategic global investments and active management of subsidiaries in the speciality chemicals business.
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Communities, Agriculture, Service Industry
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
- Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products
E 10 is a venture capital firm base in Guatemala City addressing emerging markets energy challenges
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Investment focus
- Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency
- Series A
- Guatemala
Portfolio highlights
- Ignite Holding Company Inc. — Kingo provides decentralized solar energy services to families and businesses in off-grid villages across the world; turning their lives ON towards a better future.
Fernando Pontaza is a Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Invariantes Fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ecuador, Guatemala
Portfolio highlights
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
- Picker — On-demand delivery gateway.
- Atom Computing — Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California.
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, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
- Omnix Corp — Omnix connects to all customer systems, managing their information and triggering actions when there are operational failures. Currently our clients are large companies in the Retail and Telco sector, where our solution allows complete visibility and traceability of inventory.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
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