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Top 35 Startup Investors in Venezuela in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in April 2025

Investor	Venezuela investments
JAM Fund	4
Anthos Capital	3
First Check Ventures	3
Hustle Fund	2
Simma Capital	2
Flucas Ventures	2
Diverse Angels	2
Epakon Capital	2
Necessary Ventures	2
Canary	2
Soma Capital	2
Samsung NEXT	1
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	1
NXTP Ventures	1
Nate Matherson	1
Blaine Vess	1
Graph Ventures	1
Lehman Holdings	1
AngelList	1
Elisa Bustamante	1
Dart Capital & Co.	1
Humberto Hernandez	1
Elisa Bustamante	1
Marbruck	1
GE32 Capital	1
Nicoya Ventures	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Vital Ventures	1
Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund)	1
WIND Ventures	1
Holland George Capital Management	1
Sequoia Capital Israel	1
Ethos VC	1
North Base Media	1
Litani Ventures	1

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.

Anthos Capital partners with innovative consumer and technology companies shaping the future.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.

First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe

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.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
Scout — Scout is a financial planning company that offers financial education, wealth management, and tax preparation services for athletes.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

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

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.

Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.

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

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+).

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.
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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.

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 — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers

We invest in what the world needs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

Nevoya — Nevoya's focus on zero-emission freight transport is a significant step toward sustainability in the logistics industry. Nevoya is an electric truckload carriers can help reduce the carbon footprint of shipping while also potentially lowering operational costs in the long run.
Plural Energy — Plural Energy connects institutional investors with high-quality renewable energy assets overlooked by traditional finance. Access middle-market clean infrastructure with competitive yields, tax benefits, and impact while advancing the energy transition.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.
Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Podqi — Podqi is an AI-powered platform specifically designed for entertainment companies to automate monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for infringement on their portfolio of IP.
Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.
Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
Ceramic — Next generation AI training systems for better models with less compute, less time, and lower costs.
Primus Labs — Primus connects Web2 data to Web3, offering verified information to AI models while ensuring user privacy.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Capim — Capim is a Vertical SaaS for dental clinics with embedded financial solutions, including Payments and Credit in the POS for patients
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

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!
DryMerge — DryMerge lets you connect your apps and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. Try for free today and save hours of time with 30 seconds.
ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LAAM — LAAM is an online marketplace that offers clothes, footwear, and accessories.
Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.

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.

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.

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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.

Elisa Bustamante

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.

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.

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.

Humberto Hernandez

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.

Elisa Bustamante

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.

Marbruck is an open-ended venture capital group. Marbruck sources, invests, and provides ongoing guidance to early / growth stage technology companies. With no outside capital, Marbruck actively manages a diverse global portfolio of 30+ companies spanning Seed through to pre-listing. Marbruck leverages its intellectual capital, its network ofpartner investors, and its deep operational experience, to successfully navigate the highest-risk, highest-reward spectrum of investing.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mutinex — Discover how Mutinex helps businesses optimize marketing decisions with data-driven insights and AI-powered solutions.
Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
Sidecar Health — Get flexible, affordable health insurance with Sidecar Health. Choose your provider, see costs upfront, and save on care with our innovative approach.

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

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 Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

Nicoya Ventures is a privately owned and financed venture capital fund based out of Toronto, Ontario, primarily focused on applying an Operator-Sponsored approach to early-stage companies looking for strategic growth capital and ongoing advisory services to help commercialize their models.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, EdTech, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Series C
Canada, Sweden, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

LUB Foods — Luthman Backlund Foods AB was started in 2013 by Carl Backlund and Niclas Luthman. Since then they have built a team of dedicated and hard-working people around us that all share the same vision - creating snacks and confectionery that is actually good for you and the people you love.THeir ambition is to create a global brand and a wide range ofproducts that adds to the quality of life and well-being of all the snacks and candy-loving people of the world.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
NICK’S — Swedish-style ice cream is so creamy, so light and so Swedish. Swedish-style is low fat, low calorie, and keto friendly ice cream. But most importantly it's CREAMY ice cream that has only 4-7g of net carbs per serving.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

welevel — Building games with attitude
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.

Vital Ventures is a Japan-based investor.

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

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Logistics, Software
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
75F — 75F's award-winning smart sensors and controls improve indoor air quality and make commercial buildings more comfortable and energy efficient. Automatically.

Holland George Capital Management is an investment company. It is located in New York and London

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.

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.

Ethos empowers visionary entrepreneurs to bring their transformative ideas to life, fueling innovation and pushing society forward.

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.

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.

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!

Litani Ventures is a consumer investment company for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Food Processing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

Cove — On a mission to end the world's reliance on plastic. Cove has developed the first fully biodegradable water bottle.
Zymochem — ZymoChem is accelerating the transition to a real-zero economy with bio-based materials for everyday items.
Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.

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