Top 35 Startup Investors in Costa Rica
A list of 35 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Costa rica. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Costa rica. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Startup Investors in Costa Rica
Investor | Costa Rica investments |
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Carao Ventures | 14 |
Nazca Ventures | 2 |
HEM ANGELS | 1 |
NFX | 1 |
Matias Woloski | 1 |
NXTP Ventures | 1 |
GridX | 1 |
Imaginable Futures | 1 |
Felipe Villamarin | 1 |
Fabian Gomez Gutierrez | 1 |
Broom Ventures | 1 |
Preface Ventures | 1 |
devlabs | 1 |
The LegalTech Fund | 1 |
J Ventures | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
Net Zero Technology Centre | 1 |
Dadneo | 1 |
Alaya Capital | 1 |
NDRC | 1 |
Innogen Venture Capital | 1 |
AU21 Capital | 1 |
BitScale | 1 |
Cluster Capital | 1 |
Metaverse Ventures | 1 |
Collab+Currency | 1 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 |
Caricaco VC | 1 |
Private Family Office | 1 |
Epakon Capital | 1 |
Avalancha Ventures | 1 |
Roberto Souviron | 1 |
Deetken Impact | 1 |
Andres Bilbao | 1 |
Loyal VC | 1 |
They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Enterprise Software, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Costa Rica, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
- Qanlex — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
- Sidcodx — Sidcodx is a tool that collects and digitalizes data automatically in the job site to speed up critical construction processes such as progress control and the formwork stage.
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, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Wonder brands — Wonder Brands is a Latin American startup specialized in partnering with successful digital brands to boost their growth. The implementation of its strategy is achieved by injecting into associated companies a significant investment to exponentially increase working capital, marketing and equipment, as well as providing added value in the areas oftechnology, digital marketing, supply chain and administration.
- Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
- 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.
Hem Angels is a part of Hem Securities Limited, which holds experience of 4 decades in Financial Markets. Hem Angels as an angel investment platform intends to co-invest along with the lead investors.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Financial Services, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Costa Rica, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ImmersiveLabz — We have built two innovative learning products - SimuLab (virtual science lab) and Cadaviz (virtual human dissection table).
- Zypp Electric — Zypp is building the Largest Same Day Delivery Sustainable Fleet in India & Region providing Lowest cost same day delivery solution for multiple B2B customers by superlative utilization of a vehicle via passion economy. Idea is to disrupt and transform the future of the last mile delivery with right EVs, Battery swapping infrastructure, IOT,AI, ML Tech platform while making it sustainable and affordable for businesses of all types including kiranas to large e-retail customers.
- BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
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
- Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
- Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
- Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Spain, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Num Finance — Num Network offers businesses a fast way to scale operations in emerging markets with yield, loans and stablecoins.
- 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
- Latitud — Latitud provides community, infrastructure, and capital to tech companies. It was founded in 2020 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America. As one of the oldest VC firms in Latin America active since 2011, NXTP puts its extensive network of mentors, investors and industry specialists to work for its portfolio companies. We are particularly passionate about SaaS, logistics,and other services primed to create efficiencies in business workflows by introducing new technology. NXTP Ventures was an early investor in business such as AuthO, CargoX, Trocafone, Satellogic, Cobli, Liftit, VU Security and many more.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
We make it easy for utilities and their customers to know the exact value of clean energy choices. We are the catalyst for our clean energy future.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Farming, Animal Feed
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- FeedVax — Transforming fish vaccines with a simple and profitable solution.
- Tomorrow Foods — Producción de proteínas en base vegetal
- Bioeutectics — Revolutionazing the solvents industry turning it into a natural, biodegradable and sustainable one.
Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment firm driven by impact and the belief that learning is key to well-being and equitable, healthy systems.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Higher Education
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United States, Costa Rica, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Wonderschool — Wonderschool is an end to end solution for family child care providers and centers. Wonderschool helps providers, families and state leaders to increase the health of the child care landscape on the ground.
- Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.
Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- 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
- Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Founder & CEO of Frubana. Former Rappi Expansion Leader. Former McKinsey consultant.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, B2B, Beauty
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.
- Morado. — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
Broom Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in extraordinary teams, leadership, and culture (TLC)
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Fanki — The Fanki platform brings together sports fans and sports organizations in an ecosystem where they can find a choice of products and services ranging from a digital wallet and a personalized Mastercard to loyalty programs. great perks and experiences.
- NUVIEW — Explore NUVIEW's LiDAR satellite technology, revolutionizing Earth observation with annual global mapping, unrivaled coverage, and cutting-edge data.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
The capital before your story. Early stage investments for founders building the frontier of enterprise infrastructure and software.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- alfii — Alfii is a digital HR management solution for startups and SMEs. One place to manage employee data, payroll, and time off. Get started in minutes.
- FunnelStory — Revenue Data Platform for GTM Teams
- dope.security — No stopovers. No outages. Eliminate the datacenter and perform all security checks directly on the endpoint, providing stronger privacy, reliability, and performance speeds up to 4x faster.
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).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Chile, Peru, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
- ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
- Cheetrack — Bringing AI to your sales process to close faster and automatically. Check our video https://youtu.be/PNacP44M-WQ
Investing in companies transforming the world of law
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Investment focus
- Legal Tech, Legal, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- The Contract Network — AI-powered collaborative contracting is an innovative approach to contract negotiation that emphasizes real-time collaboration, communication, and transparency.
- ECFX — ECFX develops innovative software that addresses unmet automation needs in the legal industry. Our first product, ECFX Notice, automates the downloading, profiling, storing, and distribution of court documents in ECF notices for both Federal and State courts. Electronic court documents are automatically downloaded and stored anywhere, includingthe firm DMS, client share folders, and practice group file repositories. Email notifications with the court documents attached are sent to all relevant attorneys, legal assistants, paralegals, and docketing clerks. Team members can choose to receive the documents in the format of their preference (PDFs, links to the documents in the firm DMS, or links to the documents in ECFX Cloud), and the email notifications can include internal firm data such as matter number and matter name. Administrators can also track a variety of electronic court filing activities using a powerful Analytics Dashboard.
- Doormat — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
J Ventures is a venture capital firm. They move fast on decisions, are patient with growth timelines, and hustle to help entrepreneurs reach their goals.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, China
Portfolio highlights
- Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
- Descope — Add passwordless authentication, user management, and authorization to your app with a few lines of code. Choose from our drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs.
- Qanlex — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
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, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Devolut — Devolut offers a product designed for businesses and enhancing customer experience. The Company uses intelligent algorithms to boost sales, reduce costs, and improve customer experience through reusable shipments and a real-time management portal.
- Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Torch Dental — Torch Technology develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Technology is based in New York, New York.
The Net Zero Technology Centre is developing and deploying technologies for an affordable net zero energy industry.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Power Grid, Wind Energy
- Pre-Seed, Grant
- United Kingdom, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- ACUA Ocean — The world's first hydrogen powered uncrewed surface vessel (H-USV) for ocean protection, data collection and monitoring.
- Myriad Wind Energy Systems — Myriad wind energy systems is an early stage start up building high performance modular wind tubrines around the multi-rotor wind turbine concept.
- WaveX — WaveX is a consultancy for international enterprises that focuses on the development of commercial partnerships.
Dadneo enhances the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation by connecting early-stage startups with the venture capital LatAm industry. Through their investment model using Smart Capital, they offer their entrepreneurs disposition of their network and all necessary measures to contribute to the success of their project tools.Dadneo wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.
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Investment focus
- Service Industry, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Chile, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Wheel the World — Wheel the World is the leading solution for accessible travel to book accessible hotels and experiences with all the accessibility you need
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
- Slik — Slik es la plataforma para medir, analizar y accionar la Experiencia y Compromiso del Empleado en tiempo real.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- MegaBite Food — MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations.
- Talently — Talently offers an intensive program that helps software developers get a better job in the technology industry, anywhere in the world. It is the accelerator of the careers of Latin American tech talent.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
Innogen Capital is a LATAM venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth companies. It focuses on proven business models, including companies with a social impact mission, Innogen Capital also seeks to provide its partners with expertise and exposure via a network of professionals in diverse fields.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Mexico, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.
- Koibanx — KOIBANX is a software company focused on Smart Contracts and Blockchain Services.Koibanx solutions cover a wide range of use cases defined by their Transparency, Security, LowCost and Efficiency of applying Blockchain technology.These new decentralized software solutions have the potential to disrupt several industries rangingfrommarketing rewards to financial inclusion, allowing a democratic access to new opportunities formillions of new consumers across the world.
- YoFio — YoFio
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.
- The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.
- Unlockd — Maximize the return on your NFTs with cross-chain, instant loans while keeping their utility.
- Sandstorm — Sandstorm platform connects brands with the best metaverse builders.
Cluster Capital is a global network of crypto investors, media influencers, and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, News
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United Kingdom, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
- Euler — Euler Labs is a software development and risk management company.
- Carbon Based Lifeforms — Carbon Based Lifeforms is an indie video game studio in the heart of Scotland pioneering play-to-earn virtual worlds.
Metaverse Ventures invests in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Blockchain
- Series A, Funding Round
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
- Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.
Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.
- ZTX — ZTX is a web-3 virtual world that supports communities and creators. ZTX is a blockchain project that jump crypto and ZEPETO, the largest avatar social network, have collaborated on.
- Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
- Markato — Markato offers an all-in-one online wholesale platform for businesses and stores in Asia to source from hundreds of premium, independent brands from the United States, Europe, and Australia.
- Portkey — Portkey enables companies to develop, launch, maintain & iterate over their generative AI apps and features faster. It is an LMOps platform that speeds up your development and your app.
- Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
CARICACO is a startup powerhouse. We support the best entrepreneurs in Central America with capital, mentors and connections. We seek to be the bridge that connects early stage startups with new markets and the best investment funds/accelerators.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Banking, Compliance
- Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
Private Family Office
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.
Epakon Capital is a high growth, early-stage (pre-seed to seed) venture capital fund investing in category-defining businesses across emerging markets. For founders, by founders.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Venezuela, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- 10 Minute Squad — GoPuff for Korea. We deliver groceries in 10 minutes in Seoul through a networks ‘dark stores’.
- Stack — A Stack gives ML datasets version control and collaboration. Simply, Gitlab for datasets.
Early stage venture capital fund that invests in unique teams building extraordinary companies which, with the use of technology, innovate to deliver efficient and cost-effective products and services for the wider population.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, PaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Mexico, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
- Carryt — Carryt performs efficient last mile deliveries by empowering gig economy drivers with our route optimization technology and impact strategy.
- Talently — Talently offers an intensive program that helps software developers get a better job in the technology industry, anywhere in the world. It is the accelerator of the careers of Latin American tech talent.
Roberto Souviron is a Founder at Win Win Ventures. Roberto attended Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Operating Systems, Financial Services
- Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Deetken Impact is a Canadian impact investment firm specializing in social and responsible impact investing throughout the Americas.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Greenenergy — Greenenergy specialises in financing solutions that enable businesses to produce, store, and manage their own electrical energy.
Andres Bilbao
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
- InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
- ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.
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