# Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Mexico in June 2026

## Travis Foxhall
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

Travis Foxhall is based out of New York, New York, and is the Chief Financial Officer of Clara. Travis previously worked at Point72 Ventures as an Investment Vice President. Travis Foxhall attended Yale University.

## Kevin Efrusy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

## Patrick Spaulding Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Software

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

## Ricardo Weder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.

## Scott Sandell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner at NEA. A General Partner since 2000, and Co-Managing General Partner from 2015 - 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments inindustry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.Scott is currently a director of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and a number of private companies including Automation Anywhere, Branch, Cloudflare, Coursera, Enigma, Expanse (fka Qadium), Hello Alfred, One Concern, Robinhood, Sentons, Transfix, and WaterBit. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup).

## Elias Hernández
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Soccer, Sports

Professional soccer player,

## Steve Salis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Retail, Software

Steve Salis is the Chairman and CEO of SIZZLE Acquisition and founder and CEO of Salis Holdings.

## Orbelin Pineda
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Soccer, Sports

Professional soccer player. Part of the Mexican National Team.

## Arash Ferdowsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

## Ariel Poler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

## JP Duque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

## Ryan Simonetti
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Retail

Ryan Simonetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Convene. He previously worked at Gramercy Capital Corp as a Vice President. Ryan attended Villanova University.

## Rafael Baca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Soccer, Sports

Professional soccer player.

## Kevin Carter
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Retail, Wellness

Kevin Carter is the Founder and General Partner of Night Capital. He previously worked at SV Angel as a General Partner. Kevin Carter attended Santa Clara University.

## Warrick Shanly
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Warrick Shanly

## Madeleine Clavijo Verjel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Mobile Payments

Madeleine Clavijo Verjel is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Kushki Colombia.

## Federico Casas Alatriste
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Mobile

Federico Casas Alatriste - Partner @ 0BS

## Arjun Sethi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO	of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

## Leonardo Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology

Leonardo Borrero

## Andrew Vigneault
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Andrew is a successful entrepreneur as well as investor and advisor to more than 100 early-stage startups across enterprise SaaS and fintech. He founded and served as CEO of ClearGraph (acquired by Tableau (NYSE: DATA)). Andrew is a top .5% contributor to Stanford StartX (2k+ entrepreneurs). Earlier in his career, he served multiple roles inventure and investment banking, and holds a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the Gabelli School of Business.

## David Rusenko
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

David Rusenko is the general manager of e-commerce at Square. He was the founder and CEO of Weebly.

## Ron Pragides
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.TRUSTLY - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards. CARTA - Vice President of Engineering responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team ofEngineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo.APPDIRECT - Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.BIGCOMMERCE - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin.TWITTER - Director of Engineering thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.SALESFORCE - Joined pre-IPO Salesforce when Engineering team was ~36 individuals. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.

## Emilie Choi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Emilie Choi is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Coinbase. She attended the Johns Hopkins University and the Wharton School.

## Nicolas Vikonis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Soccer, Sports

Professional soccer player.

## Thomas Eisenmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Android

Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Attended Harvard Business School.

## Qasar Younis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation

Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.

## Carlos Julio Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Real Estate, Financial Services, FinTech

Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak

## Katrina Lake
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Fashion, Information Technology, Education

Katrina Lake is the Interim CEO of Stitch Fix. She previously worked at Polyvore as a Marketing / Blogger Outreach. Katrina Lake attended Stanford University.

## Mate Pencz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, B2B, Apps

Mate is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GE32 Capital. In addition, he is a Founder and Co-CEO of Brazil's premier real estate marketplace Loft, which has raised more than $90M since its inception in July 2018. Previously, he co-founded Printi, a leading e-commerce platform for customized materials & services with operations in Braziland the United States. Printi has raised more than $70M in capital from financial and strategic investors including Cimpress (Nasdaq:CMPR). Mate is also a Co-Founder and Investment Partner at Canary, Brazil's foremost seed-stage technology investment firm. Before moving to Brazil, he worked at eminent financial firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs after receiving a degree in economics from Harvard University. In 2015, Mate and his co-founder Florian were listed on Forbes' prestigious 30 under 30 list.

## Eric Perez-Grovas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miguel Hidalgo, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Software

Eric Perez-Grovas is a co-founder and general partner at Wollef Ventures.

## Jay Adelson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Consumer Electronics, News

Jay Adelson is based out of Detroit, Michigan and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scorbit. Jay previously worked at Opsmatic as a Chairman. Jay Adelson attended the Boston University.  Jay Adelson has received TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" Award.

## Martin Schrimpff
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS

Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

## Roger Laughlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Real Estate

Roger Laughlin - Founder & COO @ Kavak

## James Cash
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Marketplace

While on the faculty of Harvard Business School from 1976 to 2003, James served as the senior associate dean and chairman of HBS Publishing, as well as the chairman of the MBA Program. At HBS, his research focused on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector, specifically the development of a performance measurement systemfor large information technology organizations. He earned an advanced degree in accounting and has been published extensively in accounting and information technology journals.Currently, he provides management development and consulting services through The Cash Catalyst, LLC, which he formed in 2009. He is also a director of The Chubb Corporation, where he began serving in 1996, and General Electric Company, where he began serving in 1997. James has been a director of a number of other public companies, including Phase Forward Incorporated from 2003 to 2009, and Microsoft Corporation from 2001 to 2009. He has also served on the audit committees of several public companies.

## Manolo Atala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.

## Sergio Romo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Sergio Romo is a Managing Partner at Investomex. He attended Universite Jean Moulin (Lyon III) from 2008 to 2009.

## Jonathan Swanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

Jonathan Swanson is the Founder and Chairman of Athena.
He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

## José Daniel Guerrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Soccer, Sports

Professional soccer player.

## Angel Cisneros
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Finance, Telecommunications

Angel is and entrepreneur and co-founder of Quiubas Mobile where he serves as CEO. He has also founded companies in the software development and transportation sector. Angel has also started acting a seed investor on tech based companies.In 2007 Angel developed www.quiubas.com, serving as one of the only 2 free Mexico SMS networks.As anentrepreneur Angel Cisneros has been invited to present lectures and conferences for Software Related Business and Entrepreneurship in the most recognized universities in Mexico.Angel has interacted with world-recognized and defining leaders in the political, software and economical fields.Quiubas Mobile is the Mexico's leading SMS messaging provider. The main focus is A2P messaging, which now include delivering SMS to Colombia and Ecuador.

## JaMes Sowers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.

## William Sahlman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile Apps, iOS

Lead Entrepreneurship Professor and Dean of External Relations, Harvard Business SchoolWilliam Salhman is an advisor to HST Solar where he guides the firm on strategy. He is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff – Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The d’Arbeloff Chair was established in 1986 to support teachingand research on the entrepreneurial process. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development.  Sahlman has written numerous articles and two textbooks on topics including entrepreneurial management, venture capital, private equity, deal structuring, incentives, commercializing science, and the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy.In April 2011, the National Venture Capital Association gave Sahlman The American Spirit Award, which was created in 1999 to recognize individuals who have shown outstanding leadership by applying business skills, knowledge, expertise and resources to make a meaningful contribution to society. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard.

## Anthony Pompliano
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Anthony Pompliano currently works as an Entrepreneur and Investor for Pomp Investments. He previously worked at Morgan Creek Digital Assets as a Co-Founder and Partner. Anthony Pompliano attended Bucknell University.

## Hans Tung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Hans Tung is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital and also Board Member of Wispr Flow. Hans previously worked at Poshmark as a Board Member. Hans Tung attended the Stanford University.

## Oscar Salazar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine.Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international companydesigned to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work.Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps

Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.

## Marc Sacal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Mobile Payments

Marc Sacal is the COO at Arcus. Marc Sacal is CEO at Astropay. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs in the IBD and attended Tufts University.

## Otto Graff Navarro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Bitcoin

Otto Graff is a partner and chief financial officer at IGNIA. In this role, Otto oversees all of IGNIA’s financial matters, including debt financing, equity fundraising for portfolio companies, treasury operations, financial reporting to investors, tax planning and compliance.Prior to joining IGNIA, Otto worked as a Risk Manager for Vitro, one ofthe largest glass manufacturers in the world, where he was responsible for the implementation and management of hedged portfolios of financial derivatives to mitigate exposure to natural gas, exchange rate, and interest rate volatility.Previously, Otto worked in the Corporate Finance and Financial Reporting teams, where he structured debt and capital issuances, developed and implemented a financial information system and produced annual and quarterly reporting as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Mexican Stock Exchange.Otto also served as Vice President of the Energy Commission of the Nuevo Leon Chamber of Industrial Transformation (CAINTRA) from August 2007 to November 2008. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

## Miguel Layún
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Soccer, Sports

Professional soccer player.

## Jose Vielma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: Banking, Mobile Payments, Financial Services

Jose Vielma is the Chief Executive Officer at Genesis Capital Ventures.

## Gokul Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural.

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