Top 10 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Ecuador (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Groupe Duval
VC Fund
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2 | France, Ecuador | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, SaaS, Content | $3.3M–$24M |
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North Base Media
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising | $75k–$8M |
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MACSF
VC Fund
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1 | France, Spain, Ecuador | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Medical, Medical Device | $1.1M–$44M |
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Media Development Investment Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Indonesia, Egypt, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Digital Media, Social News | $75k–$75k |
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NXTP Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Argentina, Brazil | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology | $50k–$20M |
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NJJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | France, Ecuador | Seed, Series A | Apps, Android, Computer | |
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BREEGA
VC Fund
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1 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$25M |
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Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ecuador, Argentina | Seed | News, Digital Media, Advertising | |
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Fabrice Grinda
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet | |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$70M |
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Groupe Duval is a real estate firm that involve in real estate development and investment, project management, and consulting.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: France, Ecuador
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- XXII GROUP — With more than 50 employees, XXII designs, develops and markets a SaaS platform for deploying and configuring algorithms for video stream analysis: XXIICORE. Our solution has already convinced companies in many sectors and local authorities, whose teams measure the benefits of video analysis assisted by our algorithms every day.
- 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.
NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $75k–$3.6M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
- Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, Spain, Ecuador
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$24M; Series A $7.7M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- Singulier — Singulier partners with global private equity funds and portfolio companies from due diligence to transformation.
- Enodia Therapeutics — Enodia Therapeutics pioneers targeted protein degradation at the Sec61 translocon, developing small-molecule therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Media Development Investment Fund: Human rights organization and non-profit investment fund for independent media.
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- Industry: News, Digital Media, Social News
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Indonesia, Egypt, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $75k–$75k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Egab — Egab enables journalists in the Global South to publish nuanced stories in international media outlets. Join 2,000+ journalists across the Global South publishing in international media.
- Katadata — KATADATA is an online media company and research in economics and business. Established on April 1, 2012 in Jakarta, the company presents news, information, data, and research results in depth to the interests of business leaders and policy makers, but packaged in a straightforward and attractive way for easy public understanding. Therefore, newsand information not only presented in the form of text, but also in a visually compelling display.In other words, they are trying to simplify complicated matters, without losing their essence. "Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication," as Leonardo da Vinci put it, which we make the company's motto. The Katadata team consists of experienced journalists and researchers in the fields of energy, finance, macroeconomics, commerce and infrastructure.
- Hukumonline.com — Hukumonline menghadirkan berbagai solusi untuk riset hukum, pemantauan kepatuhan hukum, pengelolaan dokumen, hingga publikasi dan penyelenggaraan event Anda.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Argentina, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $50k–$5.4M; Series A $988k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $98M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- RetailApp — RetailApp’s mission is to help retailers increase sales and enhance margins through the development and deployment of innovative retail technologies.
- Properati — Properati is an online and mobile property platform for the real estate market. The company offers buyers, users, agile, free of ads, banners website, and tenants or real estate investors with a quick, designed for them to be able to communicate effectively with the offeror who has what they are looking for.Properati has an office in Sao Paulo,Brazil, and was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina.
- Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
NJJ Capital is an investment vehicule of Xavier Niel
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- Industry: Apps, Android, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Ecuador
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Dattak — Dattak offers cyber insurance solutions based on cybersecurity technologies. Their cybersecurity tools allow us to assess a company's level of cybersecurity without complex questionnaires. They provide their policyholders with a variety of cybersecurity tools to help them prevent and defend against cyberattacks.
- Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
Digital News Ventures makes seed investments in news and information start-upsWe foster innovation in the creation of useful news and information. We invest in entrepreneurs who are creating the platforms, tools and services that news businesses need to be viable in the digital age. See some of our portfolio businesses here.MDIF has longbeen active in the digital media space. We have financed some of the most respected and successful online news sites in the developing world, including Malaysiakini.com and South Africa’s M&G Online. Digital News Ventures is the next evolution of our investment strategy. It extends the scope of our activity beyond media companies to include platforms, tools, and services that news businesses need to be viable in the digital age.
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- Industry: News, Digital Media, Advertising
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Ecuador, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- El Cambur — El Medio del Centro
- El Meme — Agencia de Marketing Digital / Productora de Contenidos Digitales Audiovisuales | El Meme
- GkillCity — GKillCity is a digital, countercultural citizens’ communication project. It was founded in 2011, in Guayaquil, and 152 editions have been published since, with contributions of over 290 collaborators from all over the world. New media in Ecuador is almost unexplored, and Gkillcity.com wants become the iconic digital media of Ecuador. It aims tocreate more audio content and mobile applications, and also make use of digital TV channels.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1M–$70M; Series A $2.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qutwo — Europe’s next-generation AI lab for a quantum world.
- HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
- Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
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