Top 5 Local Startup Investors in LATAM in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Local startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Local companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Local Startup Investors in LATAM in April 2025

Investor	Local LATAM investments
Mastercard	1
Polaris Investimentos	1
Accion	1
Movile	1
Cassio Spina	1

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Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paintillio — Paintillio's quality, collaborative, hands-on art projects dismantle barriers based on age, gender, race, and ability because anyone can be an artist.
Shawish Market — Shawish is an online Indigenous marketplace that enables Indigenous artists and business owners to set up their own stores and list their goods.
The Magpie Cakery — The Magpie Cakery cooperative community kitchen is intended to support the growth of nearby companies.

Polaris is a venture capital investment fund, operating only with its own resources, without third party funding. It is headquartered in Brasília, but operates throughout Brazil, seeking investment opportunities in new companies or in operation within several areas.More than just providing financial capital, Polaris seeks to value the companiesin which it invests, through an active partnership. It intends to always be the minority partner, committed to long-term partnership projects.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Small and Medium Businesses
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Automni — Automni develops products and solutions for industrial automation such as autonomous industrial vehicles. It was founded in 2014.
Incentiv — Incentiv.me is a tax innovation taxtech that offers products and services to the ecosystem of incentive laws.
Agenzia Mkt — marketing digital, inteligência artificial, data science, machine learning

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Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Credit
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

FlexiLoans — FlexiLoans is an online lending platform started with an endeavour to solve the problem that SMEs face in accessing Quick, Flexible and Adequate funds for growing their Businesses. Over 80% of Loan proposals from SMEs currently are rejected by institutional channels on account of inadequate financial history or collaterals. With the fast andubiquitous digital adoption in India and increased avenues to leverage data analytics, they are standing on the verge of Banking transformation in this country which will help us efficiently cater to the large untapped and unserved demand. They wish to make the ‘social and alternative scoring’ of SMEs and Individuals a big opportunity for the economy that will far out place the limited insights that financial bureau provide. They believe our technology-powered online marketplace is the best model to meet the financial requirements of SME’s who do not have credit history and hence cannot avail loans from traditional banking channels.
First Circle — First Circle is an award-winning FinTech company that has been supporting SMEs since 2016. We help businesses increase sales, fund projects, manage payments, and ultimately overcome the biggest barriers to their growth.
Banco Contactar — Banco Contactar provides a wide range of financial products and services aimed at promoting economic growth and development. The company focuses on offering microcredit solutions to support small businesses, particularly in rural areas. Banco Contactar also provides tools for managing and mitigating social, environmental, and climate change risks.The company is committed to helping customers achieve their financial goals through various channels and contact methods.

Movile is a Brazilian mobile commerce platform that operates in Latin America, the USA, and France. The company works with people who are completely passionate to achieve this dream, empowered to build new businesses with global potential, and driven to take risks to learn as fast as it grows. Movile invests in content distribution platforms andOnline-To-Offline (O2O) applications in the segments of children's education and other mobile content, food delivery, ticketing, and cloud logistics. Movile is supported by Naspers, a global internet and entertainment group and one of the largest technology investors in the world and a strategic partner and shareholder of Movile since 2008, and by Innova Capital, a global Venture Capital and Private Equity firm focused on long-term value creation and a strategic partner and shareholder of Movile since 2014.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Brazil, Colombia, Peru

Portfolio highlights

a55 — A55 is a developer of a financial underwriting platform used to offer a revenue-backed credit line system to companies with recurring revenue. Its platform underwrites small and medium-sized enterprises through a technology platform that connects bank accounts, escrow solutions, billing, payment means, and credit intelligence and enables borrowersto get a credit monitoring dashboard, an insights section on revenue and cost metrics, an integrated cash flow covenant management system and lenders to get a monitoring platform fed in real-time by transactional data.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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.
Instaleap LLC — SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently

Cassio Spina is an entrepreneur and an angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry.He founded and started-up his first business when he was 19 years-old which was a data communications software development company and after successful growth of his business, after completing his graduation in Electronics Engineering, he startedhis second business, Trellis, a computer networking hardware manufacturer.He developed Trellis as a major player in Brazil in computer networking industry, acquiring and merging other companies and receiving investment from VCs. After 18 years, he completed this entrepreneur cycle selling it and started-up investing in new companies as angel investor and founded Anjos do Brasil (www.anjosdobrasil.net), an angel network focused on fostering angel investment for supporting innovative entrepreneurs.Cassio is also the co-founder and responsible for the strategy of ZoeMob, the global mobile family assistant service with a cloud-based platform back-end for providing protection, interaction, and organization for/between parents, kids and care givers.He is also the author of the book "Investidor-Anjo - Guia Prático para Empreendedores e Investidores" (transl. "Angel-Investor - Pratical Guide for Entrepreneur and Investors").