Top 40 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Chile in November 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Chile investments
CORFO	10
CORFO	10
Nazca Ventures	3
Antai Ventures	3
Antai Ventures	3
Nazca Ventures	3
Olivier Grinda	1
Draper University Ventures	1
Simon Nixon	1
Kube VC	1
Eneko Knorr	1
Magma Partners	1
Marc Sorli	1
Cabiedes & Partners	1
la Caixa	1
Cometa	1
Diego Noriega	1
ESADE BAN	1
Diego Noriega	1
Kube VC	1
Draper University Ventures	1
Simon Nixon	1
Marc Sorli	1
Cometa	1
Eneko Knorr	1
Cometa	1
la Caixa	1
Cabiedes & Partners	1
Magma Partners	1
Olivier Grinda	1
ESADE BAN	1
Chile Ventures	1
Jose Marin	1
Jose Marin	1
Wayra	1
Chile Ventures	1
Jose Marin	1
Jose Marin	1
Cometa	1
Wayra	1

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

We back incredible people and help them build disrupting products with the potential of changing the lives of millions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Shopping, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Chile, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Piper — Piper is an AI-based software tool that offers CRM data to keep flawless records of customer interactions, and relations.

We back incredible people and help them build disrupting products with the potential of changing the lives of millions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Shopping, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Chile, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Piper — Piper is an AI-based software tool that offers CRM data to keep flawless records of customer interactions, and relations.

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.

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.
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.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Olivier Grinda is the VP of Founder Success at Clearco.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Beauty
Seed, Angel, Series A
Chile, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

ecomom — ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions aboutthe products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families.ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living.ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless.
B4A — B4A is redefining the beauty industry in Brazil, the world's 4th largest beauty market. We operate several business units, both B2C and B2B, such as Glambox, the largest beauty subscription service of LATAM, and Men's Market, the largest male-focused beauty e-commerce of Brazil.
Ticketbis — Ticketbis enables users to purchase and sell tickets for concerts, festivals, theater plays, sporting events, and more. It has more than one million customers worldwide.Ticketbis was launched by Jon Uriarte and Ander Michelena in December 2009 and its main operations are based in Madrid, Spain with presence in other countries such as Italy,Portugal, United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Japan, New Zealand, and more.

Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

paydece — Paydece is a decentralized P2P platform that enables users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Fiat without intermediaries, offering privacy, and security, and always preserving decentralization, in other words, Paydece is a decentralized Fiat On/Off ramp.
LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.

Simon Nixon is the Founder of Moneysupermarket Group. He attended the University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Financial Services, Banking
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

AllPlants — Enjoy healthy, chef-made vegan food packed with flavour & plant power. Ready from your freezer in minutes. Join the tribe fuelling their days with delicious plants and enjoy 15% off your first 3 orders.
Let’s Do This — Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cyclingand obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race.It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.
Zilch — Buy now, pay later with Zilch. Shop thousands of brands online or in store and pay off your purchase over 6 weeks in 4 instalments.

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.
Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development

Eneko Knorr is the Managing Partner at Woonkly Labs. He attended IE Business School from 2006 to 2006.

Investment focus

Apps, Lifestyle, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Badi — Badi is an AI-powered online room rental platform that allows anyone to publish, find, and securely book rooms from anywhere in the world. Badi has created a trusted community that can easily and securely list and book unique rooms. By facilitating bookings and online safe payments through the platform.The company was founded in September 2015 byCarlos Pierre Trias de Bes, and is currently headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.

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.

Marc Sorli is the founder of Fancybox.

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services. Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laagam — WE MAKE ATTAINABLE LUXURY. TO BOOST SELF-ESTEEMS. TO INSPIRE WOMEN TO TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM. A CONCEPT WORTH TRYING. HANDMADE IN EUROPE. FROM BARCELONA TO THE WORLD.
Shalion — Shalion provides eCommerce data solutions to help global brands like Heineken, Kellogg's, AB Inveb, ISDIN, Revlon, Wella or Hasbro.Beyond traditional Digital Shelf analytics, Shalion has started a true revolution with an integrated solution that helps brands measure the success of their overall online Visibility and eRetail Media. This toolhelps to monitor all types of retail Ads, Search results (organic or paid), their share of shelf, and promotional activity across the top retailer sites worldwide. The experienced team allows Shalion to adapt fast to the evolving eCommerce landscape and that’s why innovative solutions to monitor Q-Commerce Apps and our Amazon Market Share solution have been also launched recently.
Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

The Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, "la Caixa", is the result of the merger, in 1990, of the Caja de Pensiones, founded in 1904, and the Caja de Barcelona, founded in 1844. Since its beginnings, "la Caixa" was primarily dedicated to family saving and to offer all its clients an insurance for old age, when this type ofwelfare service still did not exist in Spain.Thus, since its origins, "la Caixa" has been characterised by a strong social commitment and a vocation to work in favour of the general interest, both through its financial activity and its Welfare Projects, which finance and maintain activities of a social, cultural and scientific nature.This vocation to serve has been maintained and consolidated throughout this period. Thus "la Caixa" is currently the leading savings bank in Spain and the third largest financial entity in the country. With a large network of more than 5,300 offices, almost 8,000 automatic cashpoint machines, a staff of more than 27,000 employees and more than 10,5 million clients, â€la Caixaâ€ has positioned itself as a leading entity and referent within the Spanish financial sector.The activity of the "la Caixa" Group is focused on a model of universal banking based on the strategy of multi-channel operations that enables it to efficiently combine the use of cutting-edge technologies and qualifications of the employees to provide the best and most complete service to the greatest number of clients.The "la Caixa" Group operated a total turnover of banking business of more than 415,000 million euros, on 31 December 2009, with total resources of clients of more than 231,000 million euros.With the aim of diversifying income and with the desire to take part in the development of companies that offer basic services to society, for many years now "la Caixa" has backed a strategy of investing in company holdings. The "la Caixa" Group currently has a large portfolio of industrial holdings in companies involved in the infrastructures, energy and communications sectors, among others, , through Criteria CaixaCorp.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, CAD, SaaS
Angel, Seed, Series B
Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

CL3VER — Award winning Barcelona startup, CL3VER is a cloud based platform that allows engineers, architects, and other design professionals to create interactive 3D presentations to engage clients and prospects throughout the complete sales and marketing cycle. CL3VER presentations offer an engaging way to explore design projects or products from anyangle and evaluate design alternatives. CL3VER presentations require no 3rd plugins to work on any device, thereby providing a ubiquitous experience for their customers in viral campaigns, online marketing, POS and Product configuration/personalization. In essence their technology is a WebGL and HTML5 based 3D engine. Interactive presentations created with CL3VER work in all browsers so the content can be shared via a link through emails, social media or they can be embedded on a website via iFrame. By importing 3D models from most common modeling software, CL3VER allow real-time 3D rendering in the cloud. The scene can be edited using highly realistic materials and by changing environment, lighting and cameras to create realistic scenes. Using the CL3VER API the scene become more interactive allowing the inclusion of animated annotations so the CL3VER scene itself contains all the useful information for the target user.
FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com
ChicPlace — ChicPlace is the online marketplace of the most chic boutiques. ChicPlace.com offers the opportunity to go shopping around different cities without moving from home and find a selection of unique products from small, stylish boutiques."How many times you didn’t know what to buy as a gift for a birthday and you ended up buying a typical scarffrom the typical department store that everyone is wearing? At ChicPlace you find inspiration and you have the possibility to buy for example an exclusive handmade foulard from a stylish boutique in Paris at good price and directly delivered to your home."At the same time ChicPlace offers small shops an easy and affordable platform to sell online and reach an international customers. Our business model is very simple, they keep a commission on every sale. They have other revenue streams thanks to other services they provide to shops, like online marketing and pop-up stores. How does it work? They have a very powerful in-house developed platform, totally integrated with shops and logistic partners, the the products go directly from the shops to the customers, they do not store or manage stocks and they have a positive cash flow. They Launched 2 years ago in April 2013 and they already have exclusivity contracts with 600 shops in Spain, France, Italy and other European countries. They are growing very fast, achieving great results and improving our KPI's. After the success in Europe, they e are testing the model in Colombia before expanding into Latin America.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
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
Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.

Diego Noriega

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media
Angel
Chile

Portfolio highlights

FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, Chile, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kuorum — Kuorum provides solutions for electronic voting. Our clients organize telematic shareholders meetings, assemblies, elections and other secure and legal processes since 2013. Kuorum complies with the European Regulation of Electronic Identification (REU 910/2014), with the National Security Scheme according to RD 3/2010, ISO/IEC27001/2014 audited by AENOR. Our technology is the result of more than five years of research and development in the field of security and usability. And we provide custom support, paying attention to the particularities of each client and advising their teams in technological, as well as legal and strategic aspects.
Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

Diego Noriega

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media
Angel
Chile

Portfolio highlights

FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development

Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

paydece — Paydece is a decentralized P2P platform that enables users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Fiat without intermediaries, offering privacy, and security, and always preserving decentralization, in other words, Paydece is a decentralized Fiat On/Off ramp.
LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.

Simon Nixon is the Founder of Moneysupermarket Group. He attended the University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Financial Services, Banking
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

AllPlants — Enjoy healthy, chef-made vegan food packed with flavour & plant power. Ready from your freezer in minutes. Join the tribe fuelling their days with delicious plants and enjoy 15% off your first 3 orders.
Let’s Do This — Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cyclingand obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race.It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.
Zilch — Buy now, pay later with Zilch. Shop thousands of brands online or in store and pay off your purchase over 6 weeks in 4 instalments.

Marc Sorli is the founder of Fancybox.

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Digital Media
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
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
Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.

Eneko Knorr is the Managing Partner at Woonkly Labs. He attended IE Business School from 2006 to 2006.

Investment focus

Apps, Lifestyle, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Badi — Badi is an AI-powered online room rental platform that allows anyone to publish, find, and securely book rooms from anywhere in the world. Badi has created a trusted community that can easily and securely list and book unique rooms. By facilitating bookings and online safe payments through the platform.The company was founded in September 2015 byCarlos Pierre Trias de Bes, and is currently headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
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
Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.

The Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, "la Caixa", is the result of the merger, in 1990, of the Caja de Pensiones, founded in 1904, and the Caja de Barcelona, founded in 1844. Since its beginnings, "la Caixa" was primarily dedicated to family saving and to offer all its clients an insurance for old age, when this type ofwelfare service still did not exist in Spain.Thus, since its origins, "la Caixa" has been characterised by a strong social commitment and a vocation to work in favour of the general interest, both through its financial activity and its Welfare Projects, which finance and maintain activities of a social, cultural and scientific nature.This vocation to serve has been maintained and consolidated throughout this period. Thus "la Caixa" is currently the leading savings bank in Spain and the third largest financial entity in the country. With a large network of more than 5,300 offices, almost 8,000 automatic cashpoint machines, a staff of more than 27,000 employees and more than 10,5 million clients, â€la Caixaâ€ has positioned itself as a leading entity and referent within the Spanish financial sector.The activity of the "la Caixa" Group is focused on a model of universal banking based on the strategy of multi-channel operations that enables it to efficiently combine the use of cutting-edge technologies and qualifications of the employees to provide the best and most complete service to the greatest number of clients.The "la Caixa" Group operated a total turnover of banking business of more than 415,000 million euros, on 31 December 2009, with total resources of clients of more than 231,000 million euros.With the aim of diversifying income and with the desire to take part in the development of companies that offer basic services to society, for many years now "la Caixa" has backed a strategy of investing in company holdings. The "la Caixa" Group currently has a large portfolio of industrial holdings in companies involved in the infrastructures, energy and communications sectors, among others, , through Criteria CaixaCorp.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, CAD, SaaS
Angel, Seed, Series B
Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

CL3VER — Award winning Barcelona startup, CL3VER is a cloud based platform that allows engineers, architects, and other design professionals to create interactive 3D presentations to engage clients and prospects throughout the complete sales and marketing cycle. CL3VER presentations offer an engaging way to explore design projects or products from anyangle and evaluate design alternatives. CL3VER presentations require no 3rd plugins to work on any device, thereby providing a ubiquitous experience for their customers in viral campaigns, online marketing, POS and Product configuration/personalization. In essence their technology is a WebGL and HTML5 based 3D engine. Interactive presentations created with CL3VER work in all browsers so the content can be shared via a link through emails, social media or they can be embedded on a website via iFrame. By importing 3D models from most common modeling software, CL3VER allow real-time 3D rendering in the cloud. The scene can be edited using highly realistic materials and by changing environment, lighting and cameras to create realistic scenes. Using the CL3VER API the scene become more interactive allowing the inclusion of animated annotations so the CL3VER scene itself contains all the useful information for the target user.
FancyBox — Launched in May 2012, Fancybox is the first and leading beauty e-commerce in Latin America. Operating in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.Fancybox offers consumers the chance to live a complete beauty experience, from discovering new products that they can try befor buying, to be informed of all the new trends and must haves. All this,of course, around a complete online beauty store offering more than 6.000 products from over 175 of the most well known brands, and at the best price. Also, a local celebrity is the co-founder and brand ambassador of the brand in each country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhHIt1Zmdo Fancybox is a complete beauty universe just one click away. www.fancybox.com
ChicPlace — ChicPlace is the online marketplace of the most chic boutiques. ChicPlace.com offers the opportunity to go shopping around different cities without moving from home and find a selection of unique products from small, stylish boutiques."How many times you didn’t know what to buy as a gift for a birthday and you ended up buying a typical scarffrom the typical department store that everyone is wearing? At ChicPlace you find inspiration and you have the possibility to buy for example an exclusive handmade foulard from a stylish boutique in Paris at good price and directly delivered to your home."At the same time ChicPlace offers small shops an easy and affordable platform to sell online and reach an international customers. Our business model is very simple, they keep a commission on every sale. They have other revenue streams thanks to other services they provide to shops, like online marketing and pop-up stores. How does it work? They have a very powerful in-house developed platform, totally integrated with shops and logistic partners, the the products go directly from the shops to the customers, they do not store or manage stocks and they have a positive cash flow. They Launched 2 years ago in April 2013 and they already have exclusivity contracts with 600 shops in Spain, France, Italy and other European countries. They are growing very fast, achieving great results and improving our KPI's. After the success in Europe, they e are testing the model in Colombia before expanding into Latin America.

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services. Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laagam — WE MAKE ATTAINABLE LUXURY. TO BOOST SELF-ESTEEMS. TO INSPIRE WOMEN TO TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM. A CONCEPT WORTH TRYING. HANDMADE IN EUROPE. FROM BARCELONA TO THE WORLD.
Shalion — Shalion provides eCommerce data solutions to help global brands like Heineken, Kellogg's, AB Inveb, ISDIN, Revlon, Wella or Hasbro.Beyond traditional Digital Shelf analytics, Shalion has started a true revolution with an integrated solution that helps brands measure the success of their overall online Visibility and eRetail Media. This toolhelps to monitor all types of retail Ads, Search results (organic or paid), their share of shelf, and promotional activity across the top retailer sites worldwide. The experienced team allows Shalion to adapt fast to the evolving eCommerce landscape and that’s why innovative solutions to monitor Q-Commerce Apps and our Amazon Market Share solution have been also launched recently.
Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

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.

Olivier Grinda is the VP of Founder Success at Clearco.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Beauty
Seed, Angel, Series A
Chile, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

ecomom — ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions aboutthe products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families.ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living.ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless.
B4A — B4A is redefining the beauty industry in Brazil, the world's 4th largest beauty market. We operate several business units, both B2C and B2B, such as Glambox, the largest beauty subscription service of LATAM, and Men's Market, the largest male-focused beauty e-commerce of Brazil.
Ticketbis — Ticketbis enables users to purchase and sell tickets for concerts, festivals, theater plays, sporting events, and more. It has more than one million customers worldwide.Ticketbis was launched by Jon Uriarte and Ander Michelena in December 2009 and its main operations are based in Madrid, Spain with presence in other countries such as Italy,Portugal, United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Japan, New Zealand, and more.

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, Chile, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kuorum — Kuorum provides solutions for electronic voting. Our clients organize telematic shareholders meetings, assemblies, elections and other secure and legal processes since 2013. Kuorum complies with the European Regulation of Electronic Identification (REU 910/2014), with the National Security Scheme according to RD 3/2010, ISO/IEC27001/2014 audited by AENOR. Our technology is the result of more than five years of research and development in the field of security and usability. And we provide custom support, paying attention to the particularities of each client and advising their teams in technological, as well as legal and strategic aspects.
Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

Admiramos a los fundadores

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Chile, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nutrix — The future of glucose monitoring
Leasity — Leasity is an online platform to manage properties online. They are the main data in the rental contract, and they automate it. They receive rental payments and stay updated at all times about properties.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — The sales compensation platform that helps you align your company and employee goals by automating all aspects of incentive plans.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

Admiramos a los fundadores

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Chile, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nutrix — The future of glucose monitoring
Leasity — Leasity is an online platform to manage properties online. They are the main data in the rental contract, and they automate it. They receive rental payments and stay updated at all times about properties.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
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
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.

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.

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.