Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Costa Rica (August 2026)

They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United States, Costa Rica, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 80
Round size: Seed $500k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance
Bellelli Educación — Bellelli Educación provides an educational services for early childhood.

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CARICACO is a startup powerhouse. We support the best entrepreneurs in Central America with capital, mentors and connections. We seek to be the bridge that connects early stage startups with new markets and the best investment funds/accelerators.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Argentina

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $2M–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$7M
Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tumoni — Tumoni is a fintech company that offers digital banking services through free remittances.
Paggo — Providing access to mobile payments for SME's through an app and mPOS that accepts debit and credit cards, create link payments for e-commerce, will come with a historical sales dashboard and financial ratios
Ábaco — Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions.

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Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Argentina, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 163
Round size: Seed $50k–$5.4M; Series A $988k–$20M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $98M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Properati — Properati is an online and mobile property platform for the real estate market. The company offers buyers, users, agile, free of ads, banners website, and tenants or real estate investors with a quick, designed for them to be able to communicate effectively with the offeror who has what they are looking for.Properati has an office in Sao Paulo,Brazil, and was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina.
Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.

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Ulua VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies with the potential to create transformative socioeconomic impact. Ulua VC supports the region's entrepreneurs as they build businesses that will drive positive change in Latin America.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Wellness
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Mexico, Costa Rica, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Pre-Seed $160k–$1.3M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Castor — Castor.app is a sleek, versatile domain that exudes innovation and energy. With just 6 letters and 2 syllables, this one-word name is easy to remember and perfect for a modern startup. The word Castor brings to mind qualities like adaptabil
Listo — At Listo, we found that disconnection between restaurants and their suppliers leads to long, expensive, error-filled ordering processes that result in food waste and a multitude of other problems along the LatAm supply chain. We solved this problem with Listo: a B2B SaaS-enabled marketplace for restaurants and suppliers that allows them to buy andsell faster, cheaper and without the chaos.

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