Top 50 Startup Investors in Colombia in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Startup Investors in Colombia in November 2024
Investor | Colombia investments |
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K50 Ventures | 17 |
Magma Partners | 16 |
monashees | 14 |
H20 Capital | 13 |
Wollef Ventures | 11 |
Simma Capital | 11 |
Kaszek | 10 |
Global Founders Capital | 9 |
Cometa | 9 |
Wayra | 9 |
Brian Requarth | 9 |
INVX | 9 |
Latin Leap | 9 |
H20 Capital Innovation | 9 |
The Ark Fund | 8 |
NFX | 8 |
Cometa | 8 |
Andeo Capital | 8 |
FJ Labs | 8 |
Soma Capital | 8 |
Flucas Ventures | 7 |
Nazca Ventures | 7 |
Alpha4 Ventures | 7 |
Unpopular Ventures | 7 |
Clocktower Technology Ventures | 7 |
EWA Capital | 7 |
Simon Borrero | 7 |
GRUPO BANCOLOMBIA | 6 |
99 Startups | 6 |
First Check Ventures | 6 |
Amador Holdings | 6 |
Leonardo Borrero | 6 |
Kayyak Ventures | 6 |
Arrebol Capital | 6 |
Newtopia VC | 5 |
Marathon Ventures | 5 |
17Sigma | 5 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
Pear VC | 5 |
Oikocredit International | 5 |
TheVentureCity | 5 |
MatterScale Ventures | 5 |
Felipe Villamarin | 5 |
GE32 Capital | 5 |
MAYA Capital | 5 |
Sebastian Ruales | 5 |
Canary | 5 |
Mercado Libre Fund | 5 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 5 |
Kalei Ventures | 5 |
K50 Ventures is a purpose-driven, early-stage venture capital firm. We are the first institutional check and long-term partner to founders who believe technology has the potential to unlock access and affordability for the world’s working class across health, finance, and work. Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 150 companies that have generatedtop-decile venture returns for our investors and material impact for millions of people and small businesses.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
- Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i
Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
- LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.
- Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
- Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
H20 Capital backs disruptive entrepreneurs creating tomorrow's largest, most valuable, and longest-lasting companies, seeking to become a hands-on partner by helping entrepreneurs disrupt and create new markets while adding value. The Firm's focus is in B2B Enterprise Software (SaaS), B2B Marketplaces, and B2B Fintech in LatAm and the US(primary focus on LatinX & immigrant founders in the US).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Pulpos — Pulpos es el mejor punto de Venta para tu Tienda. Crear tu catalogo online, gestionar tu inventario y facturacion en linea nunca fue tan facil. El sistema ideal para tu negocio, a un precio accesible.
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Felix — Felix is a chat-based digital platform that enables cross-border payments. It uses blockchain technology, natural language processing, and other artificial intelligence features to simplify and automate transactions.
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
- Nexu — Nexu is a financing platform used by car dealerships to offer to finance to more car buyers in a 100% digital and real-time experience. Nexu's platform uses AI, statistical algorithms, and technology automation.
- 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.
We invest in early and growth-stage companies that are cofounded by outstanding teams, are scalable, have solid unit economics, and are connected with Colombia and the rest of Latin America
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- Morado. — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
- Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
- smartBeemo — smartBeemo is an online education platform focused on reducing the knowledge gap of modern skills, in the Spanish speaking communities. We created an online education platform that seeks to solve this problem through-out exceptional online programs, corporate trainings and events, developed by professionals in the industry who are entrepreneurs,influencers, marketing agency leaders, technology developers and educators.
We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
- Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
- Winnin — Cultural Relevance powered by AI. Winnin AI transforms cross-platform video behavioral data into game-changing predictive insights
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
- Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
- Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
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.
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 Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sales, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.
Latin Leap is a Venture Capital Studio (VC Studio) established to create a unique investment platform to soft-land purpose-driven tech companies in Latin America and provide market access for international scale-ups to deploy in the region. The VC Studio also supports the Latin American entrepreneurship ecosystem with global human and financialcommitment and contributes to quality education and mindset change by fostering knowledge-intensive businesses in the region.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Dapta — Our SaaS platform offers a no-code solution for building APIs and aggregating databases. Save time and resources by streamlining your backend development process. Try it now!
- Cubo — Cubo is a developer of a payment services platform. They offer small and medium businesses, starting with the point-of-sale systems that make payment accessible for merchants.
- Magneto Global — Magneto Global is a SAAS company that offers a software to help companies in talent acquisition.
H20 Capital Innovation is a cross border early-stage venture capital fund with operations in the USA and Latin America. We actively invest in entrepreneurs that are using technology to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones in the B2B Marketplace and B2B Enterprise IT sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- Morado. — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
- Spot2 — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nudos — B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico.
- GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
- Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.
We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
- Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
- Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
- Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
ANDEO Capital is an Angel Smart Capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with great qualities, a global mindset, and an early growth stage company.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Colombia, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- Escappy Travel — ESCAPPY TRAVEL es una Travel Tech que por medio de experiencias 100% personalizadas (Automatizados), Virtuales (Realidad Virtual) y viajes Sorpresa (Travel to Surprise) hacemos el match perfecto entre deseos y el mejor plan/experiencia. Por medio de tecnología y analítica de datos se logra entender, analizar y conectar con aliados, generandovalor en el Match realizado. Pionera en Latam con este modelo de negocio disruptivo y escalable.
- Enterapia — Enterapia transform the way Latino Spanish-speaking contributors live, ensuring that companies obtain the ideal potential of the members of the organization, achieving an increase in productivity rates and optimizing investment in human talent.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LoopUp — LoopUp exists to provide multinational businesses with one global telephony provider, simplifying and centralizing telephony management and support, and delivering economies of scale. LoopUp is the world leader in global coverage for Microsoft's certified Operator Connect program.
- StruxHub — Construction Management Software. Best project management software for construction, Jobsite Management. Scheduling Software for Construction Field Teams.
- Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.
Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns)
It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
- Manifest — Manifest is an anchor for a generation seeking direction.
- Third Dimension AI — Third Dimension's focus on immersive quality suggests they prioritize creating engaging and realistic experiences, which can be particularly beneficial for fields like gaming, virtual reality, architecture, and simulation training.
Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
- PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.
Alpha4 Ventures GP LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, early stage and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in the technology sector among the spheres of e-commerce, fintech, marketplaces/saas and high tech. The firm invests in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Colombia, Mexico, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
- Instaleap LLC — SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently
- Katapult Studios — Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
- Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
- Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.
- Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
In EWA Capital, we prioritize impact investing with a gender lens, focusing on smart money and transformative partnerships to drive gender equity.
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Investment focus
- Education, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Samay — Respira Labs is developing the first wearable device to measure “trapped air,” an early marker of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). No reliable and validated methods currently exist to detect COPD exacerbations in time for early intervention and prevention. By leveraging the power of non-invasive acoustic sensors, audio signalprocessing, machine learning and Acoustic Resonance Index Analysis (ARIA), our device will fundamentally revolutionize COPD management by predicting and preventing attacks at the patient’s home, significantly improving health outcomes and patient quality of life while dramatically lowering health care costs.
Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
- Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
Bancolombia SA is a Colombia-based financial institution primarily engaged, together with its subsidiaries, in the banking sector. The Company provides a range of financial products and services to individual and corporate customers, which include stock brokerage, investment banking, leasing, factoring, consumer finance, fiduciary and trustservices, asset management, and insurance, among others. The Company is a parent of Grupo Bancolombia, a group present in Central America, with El Salvador's bank, Banagricola SA, off-shore banking subsidiaries in Panama, Cayman and Puerto Rico, as well as an agency in Miami. In April 2014, the Company acquired assets, liabilities and contracts of Factoring Bancolombia; as a result the Company holds 99.99% stake in Factoring Bancolombia.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Lending
- Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia
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- trii — Trii partnered with prominent financial institutions to develop Colombia's first trading app. Trii is a mobile platform that allows retail investors to buy both US and local equities in LatAm.
- RappiPay — RappiPay is a financial service that provides near-field communication-based prepaid cards and wallets for consumers.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
Startups, Inversion, Latam, Fintech, Venture capital, Fundadores
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
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- Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions
- Palomma — Palomma is a tech company that saves merchants in the community money on card fees by allowing customers to pay directly from their bank at checkout. It enables users to make secure payments with their bank account with a single click and earn rewards in affiliated businesses. With secure, one-click bank payments, merchants can reduce processingcosts while increasing conversion.
- Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
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- AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
- Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
- Veikul — Veikul is a marketplace that connects ride-hailing and delivery platforms with gig workers and provides them with a vehicle to do their jobs. It provides both the vehicles and the gasoline required, allowing drivers and couriers to make additional revenue.
Amador Holdings is an investment holding company providing growth capital and support to small and medium-sized businesses serving the urban middle classes.
It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Panama, Colombia.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Colombia, Mexico, Chile
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- Fracttal — Fracttal offers intelligent maintenance and asset management software (CMMS/GMAO/EAM), that is 100% mobile and cloud-based. These tools allow companies to manage their maintenance in a more sustainable, secure, and efficient way that guarantees the integrity and continuity of their operations, as well as the safety of workers.Demonstrated improvements include reducing asset failures by over 25%, improving maintenance costs by at least 15% and increasing productivity by more than 35%, while also reducing accidents and operational risks. Fracttal, which counts companies such Acciona, Unilever, Iberostar, Veolia and FedEx, among its almost 1000 customers, directs its solutions to large multinationals and SMEs in various industry sectors, including manufacturing, facility management, energy, and transport in which it already has a significant presence.With its main solution, Fracttal One, companies can remotely manage all maintenance operations from any device and for any type of asset, including equipment, vehicles, machinery, and facilities. This intelligent tool, a leader in several of the world's most prestigious rankings, facilitates real-time collaborative work between different work teams and integrates with any ERP. Fracttal One improves decision making, maximizes efficiency and extends the useful life of physical assets, while reducing incidents and unplanned downtime that can lead to delays, lost profitability, and accidents. Fracttal has also developed Predictto, an AI enabled predictive maintenance solution that allows companies to anticipate failure conditions with a high percentage of certainty. To do so, Predictto applies Machine Learning to bigdata, identifying the behavior of assets based on proprietary reliability and degradation models.
- Moonflow — Mejora tus procesos de cobranzas y ahorra hasta un 75%. Software de Gestion de Cobranzas para Empresas,
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
Leonardo Borrero
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- Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Colombia, Mexico
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- 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 invest in daring entrepreneurs from Seed to Series B from Latin America to the world.
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- SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Chile, Colombia, Mexico
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- Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
- Fracttal — Fracttal offers intelligent maintenance and asset management software (CMMS/GMAO/EAM), that is 100% mobile and cloud-based. These tools allow companies to manage their maintenance in a more sustainable, secure, and efficient way that guarantees the integrity and continuity of their operations, as well as the safety of workers.Demonstrated improvements include reducing asset failures by over 25%, improving maintenance costs by at least 15% and increasing productivity by more than 35%, while also reducing accidents and operational risks. Fracttal, which counts companies such Acciona, Unilever, Iberostar, Veolia and FedEx, among its almost 1000 customers, directs its solutions to large multinationals and SMEs in various industry sectors, including manufacturing, facility management, energy, and transport in which it already has a significant presence.With its main solution, Fracttal One, companies can remotely manage all maintenance operations from any device and for any type of asset, including equipment, vehicles, machinery, and facilities. This intelligent tool, a leader in several of the world's most prestigious rankings, facilitates real-time collaborative work between different work teams and integrates with any ERP. Fracttal One improves decision making, maximizes efficiency and extends the useful life of physical assets, while reducing incidents and unplanned downtime that can lead to delays, lost profitability, and accidents. Fracttal has also developed Predictto, an AI enabled predictive maintenance solution that allows companies to anticipate failure conditions with a high percentage of certainty. To do so, Predictto applies Machine Learning to bigdata, identifying the behavior of assets based on proprietary reliability and degradation models.
- Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
Born in Colombia. Envisioned in Silicon Valley and Switzerland. Deployed in Latin America.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Mexico
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- Monto — Monto is a mobile application that offers staff the flexibility to collect their already worked salary before the company's payday. Monto reduces financial stress and improves the quality of life of employees. Monto improves satisfaction, productivity, and retention in the workforce.
- goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
Our purpose is to share knowledge, channel smart money, and enhance experiences for early-stage startups, so we can help them unleash a new wave of Latin
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
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- Inner AI — Inner is an AI-Native workspace to organize your thoughts, be more creative, and accomplish your tasks faster.
- 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.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Our mission is to maximize the potential of the best talent in the region in the long run
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
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- Maqui — Maqui is a business-to-business platform helps garment brands in improving supply chain management by reducing manufacturing waste.
- Yolo Bank — Yolo Bank is a fintech company that uses artificial intelligence to help universities minimize tuition defaults. This approach increases revenue for educational institutions and benefits students. We offer a SaaS for bad debt management and a dedicated digital account for students to manage their monthly payments.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
At 17Sigma we support disruptive and innovative Latin American entrepreneurs in their early stages to push forward the next generation of regional leaders and companies. Founded to collaborate with teams, backing ideas that have the potential to disrupt the status-quo and build a stronger, better, and fairer future.17Sigma will primarily focus onembryonic startups looking to raise Pre-seed and Seed rounds.We are firm believers in the potential of Latin America to achieve 17Sigma results, understood as extremely rare and statistically unlikely events. We are here to bet on that magic!
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- SaaS, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
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- NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
- Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
- Patagon AI — Patagon AI specializes in AI for sales, helping Marketing Managers transform their sales process into a scalable, efficient engine. Reimagine your strategy and achieve confident growth.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Infinitus Systems — Infinitus Systems offers Voice Robotic Process Automation (VoiceRPA) software for businesses in the healthcare industry.
- Valon Technologies — Valon Mortgage is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved, tech-enabled residential mortgage servicer. The company’s mission is to champion homeowners on their financial journey as the partner they trust with their home and their future.
- Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.
Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Colombia
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- Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
- SweatPals — SweatPals is a home for all your fitness, wellness and mindfulness events, communities and friends
- Matter Intelligence — Matter Intelligence is creating the most detailed map of the world using first-of-a-kind sensors to understand our planet like never before
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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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- 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.
- Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Brazil
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- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
- BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Colombia
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- 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.
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.
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- Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, United States, Brazil
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- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
- Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
- Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
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- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- Avra — AI for Credit Intelligence and Risk
- Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
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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- Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Colombia, United States, Chile
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- 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.
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.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
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- CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
- Cilia — Cilia is a software firm that designs and develops budgeting, workshop regulation and claims management software.
- Elenas — Elenas is Latin America's top social commerce platform. Our platform has empowered tens of thousands of women across Colombia to launch online businesses and earn extra income by selling products on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. Currently, 11 million women across Latin America sell consumer good products through direct salescatalogs and door-to-door sales. Elenas provides a digital solution for them to start an online store, manage clients, and grow their business from home, without having to worry about product sourcing, delivery, or payment collection.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region.
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- Internet, Logistics, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Mexico, Colombia
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- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- 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.
- BrainLogic AI — We are a #ConsumerAI company that creates massive-scale, GenAI-first products designed to positively impact emerging markets.
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