Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Argentina in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Argentina. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Argentina. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Argentina in December 2024
Investor | Marketplace Argentina investments |
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NXTP Ventures | 11 |
Wollef Ventures | 6 |
FJ Labs | 6 |
Mercado Libre Fund | 6 |
Alaya Capital | 6 |
NXTP Ventures | 6 |
Pablo Garfinkel | 5 |
Newtopia VC | 5 |
Kalei Ventures | 4 |
Nazca Ventures | 4 |
Wayra | 4 |
MatterScale Ventures | 3 |
Marco Giberti | 3 |
Guillermo Rauch | 2 |
Stefan Jeschonnek | 2 |
Movile | 2 |
Santiago Schettini | 2 |
Tiger Global Management | 2 |
RaliCap | 2 |
Jan Deepen | 2 |
Soma Capital | 2 |
Matias Woloski | 2 |
Magma Partners | 2 |
Finaves | 2 |
CORFO | 2 |
Alec Oxenford | 2 |
Troopa | 2 |
Latitud | 2 |
Arash Ferdowsi | 2 |
SV Angel | 2 |
Rebel Fund | 1 |
Ennovva | 1 |
Guilherme Bonifacio | 1 |
TASA Logistica | 1 |
Toyota Tsusho | 1 |
Murchinson | 1 |
Nero Ventures | 1 |
Emanuel Ginobili | 1 |
Parser | 1 |
iThink VC | 1 |
Igor Marchesini | 1 |
Galicia ventures | 1 |
TransCosmos | 1 |
The Ark Fund | 1 |
Simma Capital | 1 |
Reflect Ventures | 1 |
Xeibo Ventures | 1 |
Alberto Moriondo | 1 |
StartersHub | 1 |
Alberto Moriondo | 1 |
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
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nexu — Nexu is a financing platform used by car dealerships to offer to finance to more car buyers in a 100% digital and real-time experience. Nexu's platform uses AI, statistical algorithms, and technology automation.
- Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
Mercado Libre Fund is the Corporate Venture Capital Fund of Mercado Libre.They support innovation and the development of companies that boost the e-commerce and tech ecosystem in Latin America:
Investing smart money in seed, early and growth stage companies with great teams
Accompanying entrepreneurs in the scaling process of their businessAdding value as strategic partner: fostering synergies between their portfolio companies and MELIWhat they invest on
They differentiate their investments into two funds which differ in scope, stage and investment criteriaTheir Business Development Fund invests in seed stage companies that provide a great product and have a clear potential impact on MELI´s ecosystem
Their Opportunities Fund invests in early and growth stage companies that have developed innovative solutions through the use of technology. They seek tech companies with great teams and outstanding execution capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
- Cilia — Cilia is a software firm that designs and develops budgeting, workshop regulation and claims management software.
- Elenas — Elenas is Latin America's top social commerce platform. Our platform has empowered tens of thousands of women across Colombia to launch online businesses and earn extra income by selling products on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. Currently, 11 million women across Latin America sell consumer good products through direct salescatalogs and door-to-door sales. Elenas provides a digital solution for them to start an online store, manage clients, and grow their business from home, without having to worry about product sourcing, delivery, or payment collection.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
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- Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
- Loads — Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers.Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to+20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.
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, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, B2B
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
- Wisboo — Our mission is to become the platform of choice for Content Creators & Education SMBs that want to grow, empowering them to teach millions at scale while monetizing their knowledge.We provide an out-of-the-box software stack for easily creating digital courses and start selling them on their own websites, while handling payments &back-office operations: i. Professionally designed templates, ready to go. White-labeled & 100% customizable ii. Content digitization & course creation made simple, using DIY Tools iii. Multi-Device Course Delivery, with the modern experience users expect. iv. Payment processing, Reporting & fully-hosted Back-office.We enable Content Creators & Education SMBs reuse their existing contents and add a digital distribution channel for their business, therefore allowing them to reach more customers and generate new revenue streams, which results in maximized business margins thanks to the minimum investment required.
- Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Our purpose is to share knowledge, channel smart money, and enhance experiences for early-stage startups, so we can help them unleash a new wave of Latin
Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Inner AI — Inner is an AI-Native workspace to organize your thoughts, be more creative, and accomplish your tasks faster.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region.
Investment focus
- Internet, Logistics, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- 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.
- BrainLogic AI — We are a #ConsumerAI company that creates massive-scale, GenAI-first products designed to positively impact emerging markets.
Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
- Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders.
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
Marco Giberti is the Co-Founder and Board Member at The LAB Miami. He attended Harvard Business School in 2004.
Investment focus
- B2B, E-Commerce, EdTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Canada, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Balluun — Balluun is the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service technology connecting B2B buyers and sellers world-wide through vertical market networks. The product integrates B2B social network, e-Commerce marketplace and business applications all in one platform to enable sellers and buyers to connect, engage, and transact within industry-specificnetworks. The company provides solution for Trade Show Organizers and Trade Associations to create branded market network to engage their audience 24/7/365, as well as solution for Enterprises to create private marketplaces to connect their vendor and buyer networks.Starting from July 2019, Balluun Inc. became an independent US entity, separated from its Swiss-based parent company through a MBO (Management Buy Out) process. The current company retained all IP, product, customers and team, with a clean cap table and financials. The product is fairly matured. We are looking for seed round funding to fuel revenue growth.
- Nearpod — Nearpod is an all-in-one solution for the synchronized use of iPads in the classroom that makes lectures more engaging through interactive multimedia presentations. With Nearpod, teachers can create mobile presentations, engage students in class, and assess them in real time.The fast adoption of tablet computing and mobile devices is having aprofound impact on education. Nearpod allows educators to very easily take their existing presentations, convert them into mobile-friendly content, and engage all students to convert them into active classroom participants. Teachers can deliver their existing content through mobile (iOS or Android) devices and get instant feedback from students through interactive features like polls, quizzes, drawing activities, and others.
- Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Dash0 — Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
- Roboflow — With just a few dozen example images, you can train a working, state-of-the-art computer vision model in less than 24 hours
- New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
Before Zeitgold, Stefan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief product officer. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of St. Gallen.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, France, Hungary
Portfolio highlights
- sento.io — sento.io builds infrastructure to enable effortless B2B data exchange
- Rebill — Rebill provides merchants with a unique control panel, and an API (programmatic environment) as well as pre-made payment pages so they can sell online in multiple regions very quickly, integrating with the financial entities and payment gateways they want.All customer's information, including non-sensitive card and subscription information,are stored at Rebill. Who, in turn, manages the recurrence of the collection of subscriptions, monitoring of card expiration and automatic collection retries to avoid delays and securing a predictable revenue model.Rebill is the last mile solution to improve the shopping experience for international stores. Provides flexibility to change providers: banks, or payment gateways, without losing information and in a matter of minutes.From Rebill, businesses can integrate multiple cloud services such as CRM (for customer management), or ERP (for business management), as well as local invoicing systems, among others.
- SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.
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.
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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
Santiago Schettini - Co-Founder @ Future Leaders World
Investment focus
- EdTech, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- TinyBytes Games — Best iOS & Android Action Mobile Game Developer and Publisher.
- Wormhole — They are the creators of the first "Live Learning" platform in the market, focused on increasing and improving interaction between people to create the most effective virtual environments for distance learning.They firmly believe that online education is much more that simply looking at static content on a website, that is why theyprovide the best products to manage educational programs, create virtual campuses and improve the teacher-student relation through live online classes, from any computer or mobile device. Their team works with passion, because they love technology and they believe that they can use it to change the world.Nowadays thousands of companies, academic institutions and professional associations in over 10 countries use their platform to improve their education and training programs, saving time and money while increasing their reach. They currently have presence in the USA, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia from where they lead their international expansion and work everyday with the mission to revolutionize the way in which people teach, learn and collaborate online.
Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
- Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
- Checkmate — Integrate over 100 ordering platforms directly to your restaurant POS system and manage all your ordering platform menus in one place.
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Mexico, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Before Zeitgold, Jan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief commercial officer. Before SumUp, he was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group. Jan received his doctorate from the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Hungary, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- sento.io — sento.io builds infrastructure to enable effortless B2B data exchange
- Rebill — Rebill provides merchants with a unique control panel, and an API (programmatic environment) as well as pre-made payment pages so they can sell online in multiple regions very quickly, integrating with the financial entities and payment gateways they want.All customer's information, including non-sensitive card and subscription information,are stored at Rebill. Who, in turn, manages the recurrence of the collection of subscriptions, monitoring of card expiration and automatic collection retries to avoid delays and securing a predictable revenue model.Rebill is the last mile solution to improve the shopping experience for international stores. Provides flexibility to change providers: banks, or payment gateways, without losing information and in a matter of minutes.From Rebill, businesses can integrate multiple cloud services such as CRM (for customer management), or ERP (for business management), as well as local invoicing systems, among others.
- SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.
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
- Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
- PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
- Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
- Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
- Num Finance — Mint fully backed tokenized Real World Assets on-chain. Explore Stocks, Commodities and Fixed Income, with the highest security and compliance standards.
Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.
Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
- LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.
- Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.
CORFO is an executing agency of government policy in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, through tools and instruments compatible with the central tendencies of a social market economy, creating the conditions to achieve building a society of opportunities.
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Chile, Argentina, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- Mywacc — We are a fintech that offers valuation services to provide start-ups and small businesses with accurate, reliable, and affordable financial valuations (leveraged in AI), as well as access to capital and additional services that could help them make better financial decisions and improve their chances of success. Funded by Corfo Chile. Partnershipfrom UDD Ventures. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
- Audibots — Otro sitio de WordPress
- Remote Waters — Remote Waters provide water purification systems with low O&M and fast installation for remote communities with limited access to potable water.
Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School.
He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School.
Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- DRIC — DRIC is a data privacy and storage platform developer. Their platform is based on two-dimensional code that provides a revolution in the transmission, preservation, storage, and privacy of data, making it accessible and instantaneous.
- 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.
- Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.
Troopa invests in technology-based companies that seek to empower the SMB sector throughout Latin America.Troopa has been founded by seasoned entrepreneurs and knowledgeable early-stage investors. Our investments will be targeted to promising companies with a regional scope who are seeking to close their angel or seed round investment needs.We empower the Startups that are focused on delivering value to the SMB market, the heart of our economy. The digital revolution first impacted regular people, then the big corporations and now it’s time for the SMBs to reap the benefits.Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we are single-mindedly focused on our region and the many opportunities and needs that exist here. When our mission is complete, there will undoubtedly be time to explore new horizons.We can see many opportunities in the digital field, even unicorns waiting to be built, but that's not the main reason that moves us forward. It's neither the reason nor our objective.What really drives us is the search and pursuit of great teams (1) and the urge to help our region deliver on the missions and challenges that remain (2), are what really drives us. We believe this is our role, the goal we can help achieve.
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- Marketplace, Real Estate, Rental Property
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Alquilando — Alquilando is an online marketplace for long-term rentals which simplifies each step of the process, minimizes risk and guarantees the rent payments on time. It integrates real estate services with InsurTech and FinTech solutions in order to deliver the most complete long-term rental service for landlords and tenants.
Build good sh*t with Latitud
Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Conectamos — Ship with local carriers, more affordable and reliable
- Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
- Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
- CodeCrafters — Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kalshi — Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. Kalshi’s markets cover a wide range of topics including economics, international affairs, media and entertainment, climate/weather, and public health. Because Kalshi’s market topics can be more specific thanother instruments like stocks or bonds, investors can get direct exposure to the events and trends that they are interested in. For example, a Kalshi market on whether a certain free trade agreement will be signed can help retail investors get exposure to emerging markets and fluctuations in international trade.Website: https://kalshi.com
- New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
- Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders
Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AiSDR — Create and send email campaigns on auto-pilot. Move prospects down the funnel faster with the help of AI. Build-up your pipeline in days with AiSDR. Reduce costs by 90%.
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- atla — Advance the potential and safety of AI
e-NNOVVA designs and develops media advertising campaigns. They offers web development, mobile application, and online marketing strategy services.
Investment focus
- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Funding Round
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Almashopping — Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.
Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
TASA Logistica provides comprehensive logistics solutions, with the quality and technology, to add value to clients' business.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Shipping, Software
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.
Investment focus
- Automotive, Software, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
- Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
- LIGHTz — LIGHTz delivers a technology transfer and information exchange platform leveraging AI.
- May Mobility — May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a worldwhere self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces.
Murchinson is an investment firm founded by Marc Bistricer. Marc and his investment team have worked together for the majority of their careers with a consistent focus on special situation investing globally.
Investment focus
- Logistics, SaaS, Shipping
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
- Kargoru Inc — Expedia-like platform for the freight industry in Latam
Nero Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on investments in companies with technology-based services in growth stages of development. Nero has a strong vocation for active management of investments, accompanying investees in several stages to reduce operational risk, sectorial and technology specialisation and presence in five European cities.
Investment focus
- Marketplace, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
- Reloadly — Reloadly makes it easy for developers to connect with Mobile operator services. We are disrupting a Trillion dollar industry! Mobile Operators are stuck in old school business models, where most of the world is moving to open source platforms for developers to build amazing products. Reloadly is bridging the gap between mobile operators anddevelopers, and at the same time creating new sales channels for the 816 mobile operators around the world.
- Signaturit — Signaturit develops a electronic signature software designed to offer trust services that guarantee the legal security of all digital transactions. The company's software provides a suite of cloud-based tools -electronic signatures, electronic registered delivery, electronic identification and qualified electronic time stamp for complying withthe highest legal and security standards, enabling businesses to send and sign legally binding contracts from any device, without having to install any application.
Emanuel Ginobili
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Construction, Information Technology
- Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
Parser offers digital transformation, agile delivery management, and engineering & business consulting services.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Shipping, Software
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
iThink VC is investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who are solving our region's structural challenges through technology.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Shipping, Software
- Series A
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
Igor Marchesini - Global Head of Growth @ SumUp
Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Rebill — Rebill provides merchants with a unique control panel, and an API (programmatic environment) as well as pre-made payment pages so they can sell online in multiple regions very quickly, integrating with the financial entities and payment gateways they want.All customer's information, including non-sensitive card and subscription information,are stored at Rebill. Who, in turn, manages the recurrence of the collection of subscriptions, monitoring of card expiration and automatic collection retries to avoid delays and securing a predictable revenue model.Rebill is the last mile solution to improve the shopping experience for international stores. Provides flexibility to change providers: banks, or payment gateways, without losing information and in a matter of minutes.From Rebill, businesses can integrate multiple cloud services such as CRM (for customer management), or ERP (for business management), as well as local invoicing systems, among others.
Grupo Financiero Galicia arrives to alter the industry and be the primary ally of startups, promoting their growth with our experience and solidity as a foundation.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Shipping, Software
- Funding Round
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
Transcosmos Investments & Business Development, Inc., is a strategic corporate investor and an active local business partner for Internet-based U.S. technology companies expanding into the Japanese and Asian marketplace.It is offering capitalization of joint ventures, infrastructure development, strategic relationships, and localization tocompanies in the U.S. technology sector. Transcosmos Investments' portfolios, which focus on companies specializing in digital marketing, e-commerce and digital media, include such brand names as Ask.com, DoubleClick Inc., RealNetworks Inc., NetRatings Inc., Atom/Shockwave Entertainment, Inc., Become, Inc., Pheedo, Inc. and Brightcove, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Erasco — Erasco is Indonesia’s largest B2B trucking platform. Kargo’s product suites can seamlessly integrate with any business and empower supply chains to work with more transparency & efficiency. Kargo’s workflow tools allow freight to be priced, tracked and billed with technology. Kargo’s platform has highly managed and vetted transporters alongwith reputation systems to instill trust. The platform has managed to grow to tens of thousands of truckers and attracted notable clients such as some of the world's largest MNCs, the largest eCommerce platforms, and thousands of SME businesses
- Anchanto — Anchanto is a global B2B SaaS company enabling warehouse management, omni-channel retail management; offers inventory management system, order management system and product information management
- Reply.ai — Scale your customer service and deliver great customer experiences using AI chatbots and intelligent self-service that goes beyond static long FAQ answers. Improve self-service on chat, email and messaging.
The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Lizza — Finnu is a financial services technology company based out of Barcelona, Spain, giving its users access to affordable asset-backed consumer loans via its mobile app.Finnu leverages machine learning and alternative phone usage data points, as well as mobile device management (MDM) technology to deliver credit to those, who are usually overlookedby other lenders. With Finnu, users can not only fully digitally apply and receive loans via their phones, but use their phones as collaterals to significantly reduce interest rates. Finnu is backed and supported by top-tier venture capital funds from Europe and Latin America.
- GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
- Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.
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.
Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.
Investment focus
- Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Pakistan, United States, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Xeibo Ventures is a privately held investment and advisory firm with a focus in delivering exceptional uncorrelated returns for our investors through investments in disruptive technologies focused in Web3, Blockchain & Crypto.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Advertising, Social Media
- Pre-Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Fanstastic — FANSTASTIC, a social app that allows content creators (designers, writers, podcasters, musicians, teachers, coaches, influencers, etc) the ability to create, share, and monetize their content under one roof, with a seamless UX, with full ownership of the distribution and content. Fanstastic aims to bridge the gap between YouTube and Patreonthrough a decentralized social media app that allows creators to bring their followers and monetize in any way they want, with no conditions. The company does this by solving the big three issues for creators: growing their audience, having an all-in-one platform, and accessing built-in monetization routes instantly and under one roof. With a simple and seamless UX, creators can instantly share and monetize their content: music lessons, coaching, hacks, digital content, NFTs, blogs, podcasts, membership access, etc.
- Defiant Wallet — First self-custodial mobile wallet with a P2P and focus on stablecoins.
Alberto is an entrepreneur and senior executive with 25+ years of strategy, marketing and business development experience across a number of industries and technologies. Mobile industry pioneer, with over 15 years connecting brands and consumers through mobile devices and interactive marketing programs. Proven leader and strategic thinker whobuilds strong, collaborative teams that attract A-players. Angel investor and advisor to technology start-ups with a focus on mobile, cloud and digital.
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- E-Commerce Platforms, Internet, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Argentina
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- WebCurfew — WebCurfew is a cloud-based platform to enable home automation by managing the routers (gateway) that people already have at home… and a simple dashboard to control the experience. The first application is an “Internet Parental Control” service that allows parents to take back control over when and how their children access the internet from anyconnected device. It replaces the antiquated device-centric model of managing parental controls on individual devices, and provides a simple solution by managing the central point of all WiFi internet access in the home – the router.
- Reply Tech — Reply Tech is a spin-off from Reply Latam that leverages AI to help brands grow their sales on LATAM ecommerce marketplaces
- Reply Latam — Reply helps brands sell their products on mayor LATAM marketplaces. Services include product onboarding, pre-sale and post-sale customer support, marketing campaigns, and big data analytics.
We are StartersHub. We are here for people who want to grow their start-up
Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Nerf IT — Nerf IT! is a super app enriched with crypto and NFT, where you can participate in tournaments, education, and events within esports.
- Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
- Kassa — Kassa is an app that allows the user to easily share the expenses with their friends. The app reviews the user's balance of income and expenses, together with their savings to make financial decisions accordingly. Kassa keeps every mutual expense made to share it evenly.
Alberto is an entrepreneur and senior executive with 25+ years of strategy, marketing and business development experience across a number of industries and technologies. Mobile industry pioneer, with over 15 years connecting brands and consumers through mobile devices and interactive marketing programs. Proven leader and strategic thinker whobuilds strong, collaborative teams that attract A-players. Angel investor and advisor to technology start-ups with a focus on mobile, cloud and digital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce Platforms, Internet, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- WebCurfew — WebCurfew is a cloud-based platform to enable home automation by managing the routers (gateway) that people already have at home… and a simple dashboard to control the experience. The first application is an “Internet Parental Control” service that allows parents to take back control over when and how their children access the internet from anyconnected device. It replaces the antiquated device-centric model of managing parental controls on individual devices, and provides a simple solution by managing the central point of all WiFi internet access in the home – the router.
- Reply Tech — Reply Tech is a spin-off from Reply Latam that leverages AI to help brands grow their sales on LATAM ecommerce marketplaces
- Reply Latam — Reply helps brands sell their products on mayor LATAM marketplaces. Services include product onboarding, pre-sale and post-sale customer support, marketing campaigns, and big data analytics.
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