# Top 35 Marketplace Angel Investors in Chile in June 2026

## Elad Gil
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Philip O'Connor
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Phil is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Blackhorn Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in technology that increases the resource efficiency of essential industries. Prior to Blackhorn, Phil was co-founder and CEO of PAX Pure, an industrial water treatment company. For the past five years Philip has been an investor and advisorfocusing on improving natural resource use.

## Mike Hennessey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

Mike Hennessey

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil).  IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Fredrik Björk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Analytics

Fredrik Björk is Founder & CEO at Grafbase. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology.

## Oscar Salazar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine.Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international companydesigned to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work.Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

## Stephanie Truan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software

Stephanie Truan

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

## Rahul Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Rahul Mehta is a Co-Founder at DST Global. He is the Managing Partner at DST Global.

## Peter Fader
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Credit

Peter S. Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise centers around the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. He works with firms from a wide range of industries, such as telecommunications,financial services, gaming/entertainment, retailing, and pharmaceuticals. Managerial applications focus on topics such as customer relationship management, lifetime value of the customer, and sales forecasting for new products. Much of his research highlights the consistent (but often surprising) behavioral patterns that exist across these industries and other seemingly different domains. These insights are reflected in his book, “Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage.” Professor Fader believes that marketing should not be viewed as a “soft” discipline, and he frequently works with different companies and industry associations to improve managerial perspectives in this regard. His work has been published in (and he serves on the editorial boards of) a number of leading journals in marketing, statistics, and the management sciences. He has won many awards for his teaching and research accomplishments

## Alan Weschler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, E-Commerce

Alan Weschler

## Juan Pablo Cuevas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketplace

Founder at Cornershop.

## Diego Rivera
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software

Diego Rivera

## Eduardo Novoa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketing, E-Commerce

Eduardo Novoa

## Pierpaolo Barbieri
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China.  Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.

## Max Valdés
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software

Max Valdés

## Marc Sorli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media

Marc Sorli is the founder of Fancybox.

## Gregory Gretsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software

Greg is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jackson Square Ventures. He investments in potentially category-leading companies in SaaS, sales & marketing, consumer, and marketplaces. His investments include Upwork (second largest shareholder at IPO - UPWK), Responsys (IPO - acquired by Oracle), Strava, Toutapp (acquired by Marketo),Equallogic (acquired by Dell), Jellyvision, Jackbox Games, Doxo, and Talking Blocks (acquired by HP).Prior to entering venture, Greg was a serial entrepreneur, founding three companies, including Connectify, which was acquired by Kana Communications (now Kana Software). A graduate of the University of Georgia, Greg lives in San Francisco with his wife and four sons.

## Edward Kaplun
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketing, E-Commerce

Edward Kaplun

## Tomás Ibáñez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketing, E-Commerce

Tomás Ibáñez

## Francisco Javier Restrepo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery

Francisco Javier Restrepo

## José Cristián Cortés
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery

Results driven leader with several years of experience helping companies to their greater potential, within crisis and turbulence, engaging stake holders, team members and customers developing collaboration, critical thinking, and determination.

## Daniel Undurraga
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

## James Park
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

## Trevor Zimmerman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Robotics, FinTech

Trevor is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Unless. 

An engineer by training, Trevor is passionate about energy and environmental stewardship and human health. He sees entrepreneurship as one of the most effective (and enjoyable) ways to affect meaningful change, especially in these areas.

## Olivier Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Beauty

Olivier Grinda is the VP of Founder Success at Clearco.

## Matt Brown
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, VoIP, Computer

Matt Brown is an entrepreneur and angel investor. As the VP of Product at Voxbone, he launched and scaled their Enterprise Communications platform in 38 countries with over 900 customers in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In October 2020 Voxbone was acquired by Bandwidth for $519.4 million.Matt was also the co-founder and CEO ofTengo Inc., a fintech platform serving the unbanked in ascending economies, and VP of Product at Prove, a digital identity platform trusted by 1000+ Enterprises and 500+ Financial Institutions globally.As an angel investor Matt has invested in tech startups across the globe, with portfolio companies in North America, South America, and Europe.

## Oskar Hjertonsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps

Oskar Hjertonsson is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Cornershop.


## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

## Alexander Torrenegra
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, Mobile

Alexander Torrenegra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torre and a Co-Founder at Tribe Labs. He previously worked at Bunny Studio as the Co-founder and CEO. He attended Florida International University.

## Eneko Knorr
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Fashion

Eneko Knorr is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stabolut. He previously worked at AngelClub as a Co-Founder. Eneko Knorr attended IE Business School.

## Wensceslao Casares
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

## Theresa Preston-Werner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Marketplace

Theresa Preston-Werner is the Affiliate Director of a new Global Family Planning Project at Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability, U. C. Berkeley.

## Manolo Atala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.

## Ariel Poler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.
