Top 20 Marketplace Startup Investors in Ecuador in November 2024
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Ecuador. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Ecuador. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Marketplace Startup Investors in Ecuador in November 2024
Investor | Marketplace Ecuador investments |
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Groupe Duval | 2 |
BuenTrip Ventures | 2 |
Magma Partners | 2 |
Eduardo Castro Wright | 2 |
Zacua Ventures | 2 |
Breega | 1 |
MACSF | 1 |
Kaszek | 1 |
Function Investments | 1 |
Clocktower Technology Ventures | 1 |
ABSeed Ventures | 1 |
NJJ Capital | 1 |
Terracotta Ventures | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
DILA Capital | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Fifth Wall | 1 |
devlabs | 1 |
Salkantay Ventures | 1 |
Xavier Niel | 1 |
Groupe Duval is a real estate firm that involve in real estate development and investment, project management, and consulting.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Content, Security
- Seed, Series A
- France, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- XXII GROUP — AI Vision Software
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
BuenTrip Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Quito, Ecuador, that leverages its position as one of the leading ecosystem builders in Latin America to identify, mentor, and invest in software-based startups that are transforming the region’s economy.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Ecuador, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
- BucksApp — BucksApp is a SaaS company that provides business intelligence solutions to financial institutions through our in-house-developed API
- Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.
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.
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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.
Eduardo Castro-Wright is a private investor. He was the former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and president and CEO of Global e-Commerce and Global Sourcing. Prior to this, Eduardo was president and CEO of Walmart U.S., where he led the transformation of stores, improvements in the customer experience, and the development of a strongleadership team. Before joining Walmart, Eduardo was president and CEO of Honeywell Transportation and Power Systems Worldwide and prior to that he was President and CEO of Nabisco Asia-Pacific. He holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- COR — COR is the next-generation solution for creative and professional teams that intelligently suggests how to manage your projects, teams, and finances.
- Instaleap LLC — SaaS Platform for retailers to operate their on-demand digital channels efficiently
- Home Delivery Service (HDS Global) — We’re on a mission to transform eCommerce – end-to-end – starting with fresh groceries and other home essentials. Powered by the latest in AI and advanced robotics, our patented automated fulfillment system, RoboFS, enables quick, touchless order fulfillment, bringing fresher-than-store goods, direct to your door. Our shopping experience isalso built around each customer’s dietary needs, preferences, and brand favorites. Gone are the days of filtering and scrolling through irrelevant inventory. With HDS, you’ll only ever see products that match your exact criteria. HDS also offers: • Made-to-order meats and prepared foods, customized to your exact specs • Free home delivery with no subscription /delivery / service fees or tips • Tri-temperature-controlled vans, so frozen items arrive fully frozen • Retail-level customer service and easy at-home returns, right at your doorstep • Sustainable delivery totes, eliminating nearly all cardboard and plastic waste
Investing in the next generation of built environment entrepreneurs
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Investment focus
- Construction, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Sitewire — Web and mobile apps to collect data from construction sites and share it with lenders.
- Document Crunch — Identify risks, standardize your process, & get a project playbook with our AI-assisted solutions. Learn how we can save you 8 hours a week with a free demo.
- Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InSpek — Next-generation chemical monitoring systems using Raman-on-a-chip integrated photonic sensors.
- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
Mutuelle d'Assurance du Corps de Santé Français (MACSF) is the provider of insurance to health professionals. MACSF protects and accompanies 950,000 members of all medical and paramedical specialties, offering professional and personal solutions in insurance, savings, financing, and pensions. Its products and services meet the real needs ofits members by accompanying them in the evolution of their profession and their projects.MACSF was founded in 1935.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Device
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- France, Spain, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- Singulier — The new guard of strategy firm
- RDS — RDS is a healthcare technology startup that specializes in remote patient monitoring solutions. The company's primary product, MultiSense®, is designed to help healthcare professionals continuously monitor patients' physiological parameters, whether they're in a hospital or at home. This innovative and multi-patented technology isaimed at improving patient pathways, which in turn enhances the quality of life and care efficiencies. The company's market is primarily hospitals (particularly surgical departments) and institutions that are looking for ways to improve patient care and reduce hospital stays. By facilitating early hospital discharge and continuous monitoring, RDS solution can contribute to significant healthcare savings. The MultiSense® solution is now CE marked (MDR) and is available for sale in several European countries. The company generates recurring revenues by providing the solution on a “fee for a service” business model to healthcare institutions and professionals. The product has been well-received in the market, earning multiple awards and the support of a vibrant community of clinicians. In addition to its primary product, RDS also provides services that help healthcare systems become more attractive and sustainable. This includes training and support for healthcare professionals to effectively use the MultiSense® technology. Keywords: Healthcare Technology, Remote Patient Monitoring, MultiSense®, Patient Pathways, Care Efficiencies, Hospital Discharge, Healthcare Savings, Clinicians, Physiological Parameters, Our main product, MultiSense®, is a comprehensive Remote Patient Monitoring Solution. MultiSense® offers healthcare professionals a high-precision, multi-parametric solution to continuously monitor patients’ physiological parameters in the hospital and beyond. MultiSense® combines a wearable patient monitor designed to capture high-accuracy physiological data with a cloud platform that helps transform these data into actionable clinical insights. MultiSense® is a patented medical device that has received multiple awards. MultiSense® has been validated by 6 completed clinical investigations.RDS relies on a talented and international team with deep subject-matter-expertise and a proven track record in the Healthcare and Medical Device sector. At RDS, we all share the same passion for bringing patient pathways to the next level.
We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Investor syndicate comprised of super angels looking to invest in Series A+ enterprise software and fintech companies
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Leapfin — Close month-end faster, report accurate financials, and gain unprecedented visibility into your business with automated revenue accounting and unified transaction data.
- Pod Foods Co — Pod Foods is a revolutionary B2B distribution platform that connects emerging food brands with grocery buyers.
- Truv — With Citadel, users can easily connect their payroll account and instantly share the information you need to run verifications—and we make it more affordable and faster than your manual verifications.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
- Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.
- Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
A.B.Seed Ventures focuses on SaaS and B2B recurrence models already in operation, with signposts of user engagement with products and services. It seeks founders with proven experience in space, complementary skills and total commitment to the business.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Construex — Construex is a B2B SaaS construction marketplace for Latin America. We bring together suppliers and users of constructions supplies and services. We are bringing digital commerce to a huge industry ruled by legacy commerce.
- VAAS — VAAS is an AML and Compliance platform that offers on-chain and off-chain data integration for crime and suspicious activity prevention.
- OmniK — OmniK is a software development process that provides a SaaS platform to revolutionize digital retail.
NJJ Capital is an investment vehicule of Xavier Niel
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Investment focus
- Apps, Android, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- France, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Leviia — Leviia is the cloud storage company that fights to protect the environment and ensure reforestation.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Zenly — zenly your world
Terracotta Ventures is a venture capital in Latin America focused on investment in Construtechs and Proptechs.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Construction, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Livance — Healthcare Infrastructure as a Service
- Construex — Construex is a B2B SaaS construction marketplace for Latin America. We bring together suppliers and users of constructions supplies and services. We are bringing digital commerce to a huge industry ruled by legacy commerce.
- CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
- Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
Fifth Wall Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on technology solutions for the Built World.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
- Document Crunch — Identify risks, standardize your process, & get a project playbook with our AI-assisted solutions. Learn how we can save you 8 hours a week with a free demo.
- Merlin Solar Technologies — Merlin Solar is the brainchild of several disparate experts in the solar industry coming together, with a bit of a kick from a few helpful outsiders. Like its magical namesake, Merlin embraces an inquisitive solutions-oriented approach. The founders come from deep solar backgrounds, having worked the gamut of thin film and silicon slicingtechnologies. Core members also come from outside the industry, working in areas such as flexible displays and high throughput automation. This combination of deep solar expertise and outsider push has resulted in a product that fundamentally rethinks the physics and mechanical strength of a crystalline solar cell. By starting from first principles and designing for optimal performance, while also keeping line changes to a minimum, the team has come up with a solution that is simultaneously incremental and disruptive.
We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Chile, Peru, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
- ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
We Invest in the best teams leveraging technology to solve the most pressing challenges in Latin America
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Education, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Peru, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Moonflow — Mejora tus procesos de cobranzas y ahorra hasta un 75%. Software de Gestion de Cobranzas para Empresas,
- Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.
- Cultivo — Cultivo is a public benefit corporation accelerating investment to regenerate nature at scale. Cultivo unlocks the value of natural capital by using its AI-driven science and technology platform to supercharge project origination and by mobilizing different pools of capital into land regeneration projects that remove carbon, increase biodiversityand improve water storage. Cultivo also works in close partnership with leading NGOs and land partners to co-design, implement and monitor projects to the highest standards that are fair and equitable for local communities and land stewards
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
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