Top 20 Marketplace Startup Investors in Ecuador in May 2025
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 May 2025
Investor | Marketplace Ecuador investments |
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Groupe Duval | 2 |
Eduardo Castro Wright | 2 |
BuenTrip Ventures | 2 |
Zacua Ventures | 2 |
Magma Partners | 2 |
BREEGA | 1 |
ABSeed Ventures | 1 |
Fifth Wall | 1 |
Salkantay Ventures | 1 |
Clocktower Technology Ventures | 1 |
Xavier Niel | 1 |
SVQUAD | 1 |
NJJ Capital | 1 |
DILA Capital | 1 |
AMK Investment Office | 1 |
Function Investments | 1 |
Terracotta Ventures | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Conexo Ventures | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 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
- E-Commerce, SaaS, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- 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.
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
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
- PayMon — PayMon integrates an ERP software with a user-friendly digital wallet for seamless payment processing, top-ups, and much more.
- Stride Conductor — Conductor is a GenAI product designed to streamline software development processes by automatically generating quality tests code and user stories to make your team move faster and deliver value. The best AI tool for software testing.
- Synthera AI — Synthetic Data for Financial Markets using Generative AI
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
- Algoma — We automate real estate development for developers to lower costs and save time. Proptech, startup, AI, real estate, construction, multifamily development, apartment construction, housing projects, residential, urban, project management, high-rise residential construction, energy-efficient construc
- Sitewire — Sitewire helps lenders reduce risk and improve efficiency in construction lending. Our platform offers faster draws, detailed budget management tools, and real-time progress monitoring. Schedule a demo today.
- 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.
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
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Altis — ALTIS is a digital platform that acts as a banking correspondent to facilitate the loan contracting process.
- PayMon — PayMon integrates an ERP software with a user-friendly digital wallet for seamless payment processing, top-ups, and much more.
VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.
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.
- OmniK — OmniK is a software development process that provides a SaaS platform to revolutionize digital retail.
- Clinia — The patient communication platform
The largest asset manager investing at the intersection of real estate and technology.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
- Fractional — We help you lower the cost-of-entry and time commitment for real estate investment properties. It's never been easier to be a rental property owner.
- Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.
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
- Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.
- 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.
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, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Steadily — Property and liability insurance for rental property owners and investors. Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars. Competitive prices nationwide. Quotes online in minutes.
- Vigil — Vigil helps carriers empower their agents and policyholders with a modern, delightful service experience.
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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cube — 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.
- H Company — Runner H is a state-of-the-art AI agent that will allow anyone to automate complex, cumbersome, multi-step tasks without repetitive and manual input.
SVQUAD is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Flam — Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform.
- Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.
- Skillfully — Skillfully builds AI-powered pre-hire simulations so employers can see past the resume to see applicant skills in action.
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
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.
AMK Investment Office is a generation private family office.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
- Nexford University — Nexford is a next-generation online university based in Washington DC. Earn a globally affordable, accredited degree program at a flexible pace. Master competencies. Move forward in life.
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.
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
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, Portugal, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
- Buildpeer — Buildpeer is a project management software for construction fields. The company was founded by Mauricio Valdes in 2021 and is headquartered in Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
- Hotelverse — Hotelverse allows customers search over hotels on their platform and book rooms as per their requirements.
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
- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
- 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.
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