Top 35 Startup Investors in Venezuela
A list of 35 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Venezuela. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Venezuela. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Startup Investors in Venezuela
Investor | Venezuela investments |
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JAM Fund | 4 |
First Check Ventures | 3 |
Anthos Capital | 3 |
Soma Capital | 2 |
Necessary Ventures | 2 |
Epakon Capital | 2 |
Simma Capital | 2 |
Hustle Fund | 2 |
Flucas Ventures | 2 |
Canary | 2 |
Diverse Angels | 2 |
Litani Ventures | 1 |
Humberto Hernandez | 1 |
Goodwater Capital | 1 |
Ross Lipson | 1 |
Nate Matherson | 1 |
Vital Ventures | 1 |
WIND Ventures | 1 |
Holland George Capital Management | 1 |
Sequoia Capital Israel | 1 |
Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund) | 1 |
Graph Ventures | 1 |
AngelList | 1 |
Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 1 |
GE32 Capital | 1 |
Ethos VC | 1 |
Elisa Bustamante | 1 |
Blaine Vess | 1 |
Lehman Holdings | 1 |
North Base Media | 1 |
Dart Capital & Co. | 1 |
Justin Mateen | 1 |
Elisa Bustamante | 1 |
NXTP Ventures | 1 |
Vang Capital | 1 |
JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a naturally charming, vibrant, and socially responsible fashion brand that celebrates your unique individuality.
- Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
- Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.
First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Anthos Capital partners with innovative consumer and technology companies shaping the future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DataOps — DataOps is a platform and tools that underpin the philosophy of DataOps to enable every company and stakeholder to get better, faster, and higher quality data, with no compromise on governance and data security.
- BrainLogic AI — We are a #ConsumerAI company that creates massive-scale, GenAI-first products designed to positively impact emerging markets.
- Mountaintop Studios — Mountaintop Studios is a game studio creating multiplayer games for players who crave a challenge.
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
- TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
- AstroForge — We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
- Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
Necessary Ventures focuses on investing in what the world needs. They work with the founders to build the most scalable solutions.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Nigeria, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- Plural Energy — Invest in high yielding clean energy infrastructure around the world on Plural. As little as $500 can deliver some of the highest returns on-chain
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
- Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Venezuela, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
- UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
- Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.
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.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DwellFi — Fractional Real Estate Ownership
- Hemster — Hemster is an on-demand tailoring service that empowers customers to create their own size no matter where they shop. It offers and provides alteration and tailoring services to brand name retailers across the country. Hemster eliminates the most frustrating part of shopping: finding that perfect size. Instead of making shoppers look for theirperfect size, retailers can now create a tailored size from off-the-rack inventory using Hemster’s Perfect Fit Platform.It was founded in 2015 and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.
- Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
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
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Magie — Magie is WhatsApp's first smart account, designed for people who understand the value of their time.Magie pays your invoices using WhatsApp and you may communicate with her via messages, audio, or photographs without ever having to enter into an app. Magic.
- Lexter.ai — Lexter.ai is the first SaaS platform that helps legal teams in Brazil gain efficiency by automating documents' analysis and revision using AI. Lexter's technology is capable of automatically reviewing contracts based on each client's strategy and is already being used by companies such as Gerdau, Votorantim Cimentos and Suzano.
- Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.
Diverse Angels is an angel group for current & aspiring investors from underrepresented and diverse backgrounds (People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+) to come together and share access to opportunities for ownership in early-stage tech companies.The mission to increase representation of diverse investors as a means to address the systemic wealthgaps, notably the racial wealth gap in the US. With a focus on bridging wealth gaps & disparities, Diverse Angels is a B-Corporation that is supported 100% by volunteers and charges no fees to the community though its 0/00 model. This innovative 0/00 model (0% management fees are charged and 0% of carried interest - i.e. profit) was put into place to remove barriers and costs that could prevent diverse angels (especially first-timers) from participating in deals. The 0/00 model also ensures that the angels’ maximum amount of capital is deployed to allow for the maximum amount of upside.In search of the best founders, Diverse Angels leverages the size, strength, and diversity of its member base to maintain high standards of investment rigor. There are intentional efforts to source & meet founders from all backgrounds and it is a priority that the majority of Diverse Angels’ investments are made into Diverse Founders (People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+).
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Yakoa — Harness AI to detect and address infringements, effortlessly. Eliminate manual searches, experience ecosystem-wide forensics and Proactively screen violations.
- 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- Safe — Over 10,000+ links generated
Litani Ventures is a consumer investment company for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Consumer
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- Notissia — Smart Search Your Documents. Built For Financial Due Diligence.
- X (formerly Twitter) — X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
- Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.
Humberto Hernandez
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Investment focus
- Education, Secondary Education
- Seed
- Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- Dawere International, Inc. — We are an accredited and affordable online school currently focused on secondary education. Our students are Latin Americans that can’t or don’t want to go to a traditional face-to-face school to obtain a high school diploma.Governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs and sport clubs use our service because of our adherence to the most rigorousquality standards and the flexibility of our self-paced, proprietary, asynchronous education platform.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
- Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.
Ross Lipson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dutchie, a leading cannabis technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consumers with safe and easy access to products, and supports the societal change that cannabis is bringing to the world. Founded in 2017, Dutchie works with over 5000 dispensaries across North America, facilitatingover $14b in annual sales. Prior to founding Dutchie, Ross was the Co-Founder and CEO of GrubCanada, Canada’s first online food ordering service. GrubCanada was acquired by Just Eat in 2012.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
- Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
- Filo — Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US
Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Dropezy — A daily needs platform that uses a network of dark stores to guarantee deliveries in under 20 minutes.
- Unify AI — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
Vital Ventures is a Japan-based investor.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Consumer, Internet
- Seed, Series B
- Japan, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- bitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
WIND Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm specializing in the new mobility, energy, and retail sectors for startups and scaleups. The firm leverages COPEC's significant resources to accelerate startups and scaleups in realizing new growth. It also invests in entrepreneurs working to build tomorrow’s energy, mobility, and retailcompanies. WIND Ventures aims to build a sizeable investment portfolio of strategic startups and scale-ups where COPEC's significant resources accelerate the exploration or realization of new growth. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Software, Energy Efficiency
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
- Source — Discover SOURCE Water, a renewable, clean drinking water solution made possible by the power of Hydropanels
- ClearFlame Engines — ClearFlame's clean engine technology equips diesel engines to quickly and cost-effectively reduce CO2 emissions, lower costs & break free from fossil fuels.
Holland George Capital Management is an investment company. It is located in New York and London
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
- Varo Money — Get access to personal banking services including no monthly fee checking, high-yield savings, cash advances up to $250 and more with Varo Bank.
- Airlift Technologies — Founded in 2019, Airlift is on a mission to build a world of self-empowerment using technology-backed logistics solutions that enable safe, reliable and affordable access to necessities. Airlift scaled Pakistan's largest decentralized transportation network to change the way people move, shifting away from private vehicles towards sharedmobility and affordable mass transport. In 2020, Airlift diversified into last-mile delivery through Airlift Express, delivering essentials across households in 30 minutes across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Airlift Express spans across food supplies, household supplies, pharmacy, stationery, pet food, fresh fruits and vegetables, small electronics and more. On this mission to enable self-empowerment in the region, Airlift is backed by First Round Capital and has recently raised over $24m in financing.
Sequoia Capital Israel is a VC firm focused on seed stage, mid stage, late stage, and growth investments in the fintech sector. Sequoia Capital Israel prefers to invest in Israel. The firm typically invests between $100,000 and $1 million in seed companies, between $1 million and $10 million in early venture, and between $10 million and $100million in growth investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Analytics
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Israel, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Forter — Forter is the leader in Identity Intelligence for digital commerce. We provide real-time decisions for every customer interaction.
- Vibrant Gastro — Discover Vibrant - innovative non-drug treatment for chronic constipation patients. The future of constipation treatment is already here.
- Personetics — Data-driven personalized customer engagement platform for financial services. Want to explore how your bank can harness the power of AI to engage and serve customers? We work with banks of all sizes across all geographies and will be happy to see how we can help.
Digital News Ventures makes seed investments in news and information start-upsWe foster innovation in the creation of useful news and information. We invest in entrepreneurs who are creating the platforms, tools and services that news businesses need to be viable in the digital age. See some of our portfolio businesses here.MDIF has longbeen active in the digital media space. We have financed some of the most respected and successful online news sites in the developing world, including Malaysiakini.com and South Africa’s M&G Online. Digital News Ventures is the next evolution of our investment strategy. It extends the scope of our activity beyond media companies to include platforms, tools, and services that news businesses need to be viable in the digital age.
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Investment focus
- News, Digital Media, Advertising
- Seed
- United States, Ecuador, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- El Cambur — El Medio del Centro
- El Meme — Agencia de Marketing Digital / Productora de Contenidos Digitales Audiovisuales | El Meme
- GkillCity — GKillCity is a digital, countercultural citizens’ communication project. It was founded in 2011, in Guayaquil, and 152 editions have been published since, with contributions of over 290 collaborators from all over the world. New media in Ecuador is almost unexplored, and Gkillcity.com wants become the iconic digital media of Ecuador. It aims tocreate more audio content and mobile applications, and also make use of digital TV channels.
Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include:
* BetterUp
* Birdies
* BlueApron
* Dapper Labs
* Earnin
* Envoy
* Hinge
* Houseparty
* Ipsy
* Loft
* Lever
* Lingokids
* Moon Express
* Papaya
* PicsArt
* Porch
* Quinto Andar
* RideOS
* Saildrone
*Very Good Security
* VivaReal
* Zeplin
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
- 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
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
- Roga — Fast, effective relief from stress whenever you need it
- Myko AI — Myko AI is a data-driven financial planning and analysis platform that helps companies spend less time budgeting while making better decisions. They help finance professionals to directly access data and reports from QuickBooks into the Excel or google sheets.
Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Vaas — Software
- Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
Ethos empowers visionary entrepreneurs to bring their transformative ideas to life, fueling innovation and pushing society forward.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round, Series D
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Setscale — Setscale simplifies trade & empower companies to scale with Purchase Order Financing. Setscale only get paid once you do! We fund Supply. You meet demand.
- Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
- Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.
Elisa Bustamante
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Logistics
- Seed
- Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- Vikua — Vikua® is harnessing the power of technology to change the UrbanTech industry, especially in the intermediate cities of the world target. By providing a SaaS Urban Services management platform, called URBO®, complimented by our Sinapsis® IoT devices and AI algorithms, we are able to dynamically respond to the conditions of city living and improvethe efficiency of urban assets. Delivered on a game changer B2G model, our city clients are able to access innovation, scale their operational capacities and integrate all the stakeholders in the city to generate a positive impact in the quality of life.
Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
- Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Lehman Brothers was a global financial services firm that was founded in 1850 and went bankrupt in 2008. Barclays acquired Lehman Brothers' North American investment banking and capital markets businesses for $250 million.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications
- Series B, Series D, Funding Round
- United States, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- MyShape — MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.
- ExaGrid — ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based backup solutions in the United States. It also offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions, as well as disk-based backup systems for information technology companies. In addition, the company provides backup applications for backups and restores. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was formerly known asInflection Systems, Inc.The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has satellite offices in the United States and internationally.
- AOptix Technologies — AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as bordersecurity, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.
NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
- Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
Dart Capital & Co. (DC&C) is a private equity firm providing strategic investments across multiple asset classes, robust data and economic analysis, and various social impact and ESG advisory services. At DC&C, we believe capital can offer exceptional returns to its clients without sacrificing ethics, considering all partners'impact across the value chain.Working alongside first-in-class partners, we keep our vision focused on what's next, working passionately to create a future that works for everyone.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Peru, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
- OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
- Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
- Connect Homes — The Connect Homes housing system comes from a decade of research on making high-modern, green architecture affordable to the mass market. The results are low-cost modular prefab homes that mimic the spatial and aesthetic qualities of mid-century modern California residential architecture. These homes can be shipped anywhere, adapted to anyenvironment, and are move-in ready a few weeks later. Connect Homes modules emerge from our San Bernardino factory 95% complete -- with all interior and exterior finishes, doors, windows, appliances, plumbing, mechanical, fire sprinkler systems, finish flooring, and roofing already installed. The homes can be shipped worldwide on the intermodal shipping container network and can be installed in as little as two weeks.
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 techentrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
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- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a naturally charming, vibrant, and socially responsible fashion brand that celebrates your unique individuality.
- Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Elisa Bustamante
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- SaaS, Big Data, Logistics
- Seed
- Venezuela
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- Vikua — Vikua® is harnessing the power of technology to change the UrbanTech industry, especially in the intermediate cities of the world target. By providing a SaaS Urban Services management platform, called URBO®, complimented by our Sinapsis® IoT devices and AI algorithms, we are able to dynamically respond to the conditions of city living and improvethe efficiency of urban assets. Delivered on a game changer B2G model, our city clients are able to access innovation, scale their operational capacities and integrate all the stakeholders in the city to generate a positive impact in the quality of life.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
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- Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
- Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
We are Vang Capital, strategic high-risk investors with success building scale and investing across industries.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Venezuela, United States, United Kingdom
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- RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
- Zest — Zest helps create and manage Investment DAOs, backed by a real-world LLC. We're a full-suite concierge, offering DAO tooling alongside back-office and compliance support. We remove the inherent complexities surrounding Investment DAOs so members can form a global community that compliantly coordinates capital to maximize investmentopportunities together.
- Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.
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