Top 15 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Uruguay (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$112M |
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Fabian Fernandez
Angel
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2 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Diego Robino
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Jorge Corral
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Nicolas Amarelle
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Sergio Oberlander
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Content | |
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Matt Fichtner
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Seed | Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants | |
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Brad Flora
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Ignacio Gonzalez
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Jorge Fernandez
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Software | $66k–$2.4M |
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Carla Bertolotti
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Angel | Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology | |
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Agencia Nacional de Desarrollo
VC Fund
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1 | Uruguay | Grant, Pre-Seed | Enterprise Software, SaaS, Surfing | |
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Dan Rumennik
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Delivery | $450k–$35M |
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Canary
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, Software | $540k–$25M |
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2069
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Series A $9M–$55M; Series B $17M–$112M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.2B in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
- Supersonik — Supersonik provides an AI-powered platform for SaaS companies to offer 24/7 interactive product demos, enabling prospects to explore and personalize demos instantly without scheduling or manual intervention.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Investment focus
- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
Diego Robino
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- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
Jorge Corral
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- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
Nicolas Amarelle
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- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
Sergio Oberlander
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Content
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- befit — Our goal is to inspire people to have a healthier life&style. We understood we could do it democratizing access to quality workout content. We structured befit’s streaming on-demand platform with exclusive content classified across different categories such as yoga, pilates, functional, dancing, barre, and abs, among others. Sessions have beenrun by well-regarded Latin American trainers with users being able to narrow and filter workout sessions by intensity level, time duration, coach preference, and equipment needed. By offering a diverse set of workouts, users’ are able to personalize their exercise routines as they move towards their respective fitness goals.
Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.
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- Industry: Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
CMO @ MDoloris Medical Systems
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- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
Jorge Fernandez
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- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
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Browse database — It's Free!Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $680k–$2.4M; Angel $66k–$874k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
Carla Bertolotti
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- Industry: Surfing, Video Streaming, Marine Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
La Agencia Nacional de Desarrollo aporta capital semilla a los emprendimientos que demuestran potencial y valor agregado.
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- Industry: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Surfing
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VaFirma - Firma Digital para Latinoamérica — VaFirma aims to democratize the use of digital signatures for any user and any company. It achieves this by providing an omnichannel gateway (a single technological connection) that offers different signature alternatives with varying levels of guarantees: Advanced Digital Signatures: Certified and regulated in different countries in Latin Americaand the Caribbean (equivalent to a notarized signature). Simple Signatures: With fewer legal guarantees but greater ease of use and technical security. On the gateway platform, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool is available that focuses on maximizing the user experience by facilitating the creation and validation of digital signatures on digital documents, as well as contract lifecycle management. The solution enables organizations to adopt the use of different types of digital signatures (more than 15 alternatives, in 7 markets), with varying levels of legal guarantees and different user experiences, in an agile manner. This allows all digital signature alternatives to be used according to the convenience of each case from a single software platform, and commercially contracted with a single provider.
- Boki — LOGAMTOTO merupakan penyedia layanan resmi situs toto online 4D terbesar dan terpercaya saat ini, mari login dan daftar bersama Logam Toto untuk dapatkan hadiah terbesar setiap harinya.
- Lineup — Lineup is a technology company. Their services include AI-powered, interpreted surf forecasts and live streaming of the surfing spot. It offers surfing, live streaming HD cams, and surf reporting and forecasting.
Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $450k–$9.1M; Series A $5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cerebral — Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients.
- The Coffee — Coffee is amazing. We love. But taste and aroma are only part of the whole experience.
- Kairos — Go from Web 2.0 to web3 with our creative partnership and comprehensive NFT solutions.
Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 277
- Round size: Seed $800k–$8M; Pre-Seed $540k–$3.5M; Series A $3.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
- Karta — The premium US charge card for the world's borderless people. Credit lines up to $200,000 based on your US assets. No Social Security number required.
- Settle — The smartest way to sell to the government.
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