Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in LATAM

Investor	Payments LATAM investments
Arash Ferdowsi	4
Ricardo Weder	4
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	3
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	3
Martin Schrimpff	3
Arjun Sethi	3
Fabio Igel	2
Brian Requarth	2
Bill Clerico	2
George Burke	2
Ryan Petersen	2
Scott Sandell	2
Jon Oringer	2
Biz Stone	2
Jose Marin	2
Dylan Field	2
Sebastian Mejia	2
David Shim	2
Brendan Dickinson	2
Sergio Furio	2
Victor Lazarte	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Max Levchin	2
Steve Salis	2
Travis Foxhall	2
Angela Strange	2
Brian Armstrong	2
Howard Han	2
Gokul Rajaram	2
Scott Belsky	2
Oliver Jung	2
Fabrice Grinda	2
Manolo Atala	2
Stewart Butterfield	2
Karim Atiyeh	2
Kevin Carter	2
Eric Glyman	2
Rodrigo Dantas	2
Antonia Rojas Eing	2
Zachary Perret	2
Federico Ranero	2
Everson Lopes	2
Adalmiro Baptista Junior	2
Loren Roosendaal	2
Ryan Simonetti	2
Jose Marin	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
Matias Nisenson	2
Martin Varsavski	2
Ariel Lambrecht	2

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
PawCo Foods — The new generation of healthy and delicious dog food made from plant-based meat. Support earth, animal welfare, and your dog's health!

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
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.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Angel
Colombia, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zinobe — Zinobe has operated in Colombia since 2012 and develops online financial products for the consumer and small business sectors. The company is focused on using technology to provide the highest level of customer experience and has developed a data centric credit model to help target underserved markets in Colombia. Zinobe is backed by firms such asQED Investors, a U.S. based venture capital firm specializing in disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.zinobe.com, www.lineru.com.
Atrato — Atrato is a leading buy now pay later company for omnichannel merchants in Mexico
Grin Scooters — Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.

Arjun Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and executive, as well as a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital.Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using artificial intelligence and data science. Some of its noteworthy investments include Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken,Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.Arjun was previously a Partner at Social Capital where he led the Venture Team consisting of six full time GPs with a broad focus on early stage investing in the consumer and enterprise sector. Arjun has a long history of sourcing, winning and leading early stage deals. Arjun’s investments at Social Capital include notable companies such as Front, Carta, Swarm (Sold to SpaceX), Slack, Cloud Kitchens and Relativity Space. Arjun's track record includes being recognized as one of the top 100 angels in Silicon Valley through advisory, direct, and secondary investments across various stages. He has invested in high-profile names such as Frax, Snapchat, Lyft, OpenDoor, and Gusto. Prior to his work in venture, Arjun co-founded and sold two successful companies. After his second company, MessageMe, was acquired by Yahoo, he joined the executive team, where he was instrumental in driving mobile product usage from 100M to 1B monthly uniques and was a Board Observer on Alibaba. Before that, Arjun was the Founder and CEO of LOLapps, a mobile gaming company that grew to 100M monthly users and sold for $240M.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru Chain is a community-owned, decentralized blockchain built for a next generation Web3 experience. Nibiru powers a smart contract hub with RWAs, DeFi, gas royalties, gaming and other dApps.
DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Fabio was monashees’ first investor and today oversees the Fund and the Management Company's culture and values. He is the guardian of monashees’ DNA and is co-responsible for its long-term strategies. Fabio believes that people come first, and when doing business, he dedicates time to building relationships.He graduated from HostaUniversity in Leysin, Switzerland, and has been an advisor to Grupo Ultra since 1988. Prior to monashees, Fabio was an angel investor and was a professional skier, representing Brazil at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Investment focus

Banking, Payments, Financial Services
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Bill Clerico is the Founder and Managing Partner at Convective Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Release — Release Environments streamline the development process, with Environments as a Service: fast, shareable, scalable, managed, and easy to reproduce at every step, driven by Kubernetes.
Coris — Coris helps Financial Services companies better manage small business risk by providing alternate credit quality data on merchants and constantly monitor businesses for changes in business quality
Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

KILT Protocol — KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.KILT provides Internet Data Sovereignty and puts users in control of their data, allowing them to choose which data to share, when, with whom, and why. It's a blockchain protocol that creates a distributed onlinetrust market to help people manage their online trust connections.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Berlin.
Sentinel — Browse your favorite websites safely from anywhere in the world by using the Sentinel dVPN app or any of the other dVPN apps built using Sentinel
Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

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).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, China

Portfolio highlights

Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
CrewLAB — CrewLAB turns average teams into unstoppable crews
Mercor — Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

Investment focus

Software, Messaging, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

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.

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Nile — Serverless Postgres build with multi-tenacy at it's core. Fault tolerant, globally distributed, with user and tenant management built in.
Orchid — Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders. Orchid’s preconception system analyzes both partners’ genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to common diseases, including heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Orchid results are developed withworld-class experts in reproductive medicine and genetics to give its clients the most accurate results.Orchid offers a “Couple Report” that utilizes an at-home saliva test to analyze each person’s genomes to detect the probability of genetic risks, then models how their DNA together will combine in a future child. If elevated risk is detected, Orchid provides insights to help couples monitor biomarkers, adapt their diet or elect for procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. It was founded by Noor Siddiqui in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.

As CEO of Foursquare, David Shim is responsible for driving the company mission and vision as the world's most trusted and independent location technology platform.David joined Foursquare in June 2019 as president of the company. Prior to joining Foursquare, David was the Founder and CEO of Placed, the leader in ad to in-store attribution.Founded in 2011, Placed worked with 430+ partners enabling over 500 advertisers to measure media's impact on store visits. Placed was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 and Foursquare in 2019.David has also held leadership roles across product and operations at Farecast (acquired by Microsoft), WebTrends, Quantcast, and Snapchat.

Investment focus

Brand Marketing, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

MikMak — MikMak provides eCommerce marketing analytics and eCommerce enablement software to accelerate online sales for brands.
Hola Cash — Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience.
SparkPlug — Award-winning platform specializing in sales gamification for retailers, brands, and restaurants.

Brendan Dickinson is a General Partner at Canaan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Marvin. — marvin. is a company that facilitate the credit and payment flow between suppliers and retailers.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam

Victor Lazarte holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from USP and École Centrale de Paris and a degree in Owner/President Management from Harvard Business School. He began his career at JP Morgan London but decided to return to Brazil in 2010 to start Wildlife with his brother Arthur. Victor has an active role in business strategy andorganization building. He currently lives in the U.S.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Payments
Series A, Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

withco — You deserve to own your business' real estate. We help make that happen through a new concept: lease-to-own your commercial real estate.
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

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

Investment focus

Restaurants, Financial Services, Retail
Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

75 & Sunny — 75 & Sunny is Spencer Rascoff's investment firm and startup lab. In 2020, 75 & Sunny Ventures invested in 39 companies, 25 of which are based in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, 75 & Sunny Labs launched two startups: dot.LA and Pacaso. In 2021, 75 & Sunny Ventures is on track to invest in more than 25 startups, and 75 & Sunny Labswill launch two new companies. Spencer — who co-founded Hotwire and Zillow, and who was CEO of Zillow for more than a decade — started 75 & Sunny to support and mentor startups and their leaders in LA and beyond. Its team provides 75 & Sunny companies with a broad range of support, including leadership coaching; marketing and PR advice; brand amplification; product strategy; recruiting; access to our broad network of partners that include top venture capital and private equity firms; overall mentorship; and help with subsequent fundraising. Spencer is an investor in over 55 venture capital funds, many of which use 75 & Sunny for informal deal-sourcing at the earlier stage.
Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.

Travis Foxhall is a Vice President on the Investment Team at Point72 Ventures, responsible for evaluating and executing investments in the fintech space. Before joining Point72 Ventures, Travis was Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digital bank in Brazil, where he worked with senior management on corporate strategy, business development, andfundraising initiatives. Prior to that, he was a venture investor with Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorgan Chase and Thomson Reuters.

Investment focus

Payments, Banking, Real Estate
Pre-Seed, Series A
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Casai — Uncover exclusive holiday home deals on Casai.com. Compare rates from reputable travel platforms to secure the best offer on luxury homes. Your dream getaway is just a booking away.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Angela Strange is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on investments in financial services including insurance, real estate & increasing inclusivity. She is currently a board observer for the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Branch, Earnin, HealthIQ, Mayvenn, PeerStreet, and Point. Angela joined the firmin 2014.Prior to joining a16z, Angela was a product manager at Google where she launched and grew Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS into two of Google's most successful mobile products. Previously, she was the director of product management and business development at Ruba.com (acquired by Google) and a senior associate partner at Bay Partners where she focused on the consumer internet sector. Prior to that, Angela was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting in Toronto.Angela is a proud Canadian and served as co-chair of the C100, a non-profit that bridges Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley, and on the Canadian Finance Minister Morneau's Economic Growth Council. Angela has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Queen's University, in Canada, and an MBA from Stanford. Angela is a world-class athlete and spent two years training professionally as a runner; she has won several marathons and achieved a seventh place national ranking in Canada.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.
Hyperexponential — We are transforming insurance through the power of decision intelligence.

Brian Armstrong is the CEO and Co-founder of Coinbase, the world’s leading digital currency exchange. As CEO, Mr. Armstrong is responsible for Coinbase’s retail and institutional arms and all products and services that are developed by both trading platforms. Mr. Armstrong co-founded Coinbase in June 2012, and since then, has been responsible forintroducing much of America and beyond to cryptocurrency. Mr. Armstrong has led the team, now at over 200 employees, through over $200M in funding from leading investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, USV, DFJ and NYSE. Since co-founding the company, Mr. Armstrong has led Coinbase to serve over 10M customers across 32 countries, providing custody for more than $10B in digital assets. Mr. Armstrong was listed as Fortune 40 under 40 and Recode 100 in 2017.Before founding Coinbase, Mr. Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at Airbnb from 2011-2012 as part of the hospitality marketplace, focusing on fraud prevention. At the time, Airbnb was moving money between 190 countries, and Mr. Armstrong had a front row seat into global payment systems.Previously, he worked as a Developer for IBM and Consultant at Deloitte.Mr. Armstrong holds three degrees from Rice University: Bachelor’s of Computer Science, Bachelor’s of Economics, and a Master’s of Computer Science.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Orchid — Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders. Orchid’s preconception system analyzes both partners’ genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to common diseases, including heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Orchid results are developed withworld-class experts in reproductive medicine and genetics to give its clients the most accurate results.Orchid offers a “Couple Report” that utilizes an at-home saliva test to analyze each person’s genomes to detect the probability of genetic risks, then models how their DNA together will combine in a future child. If elevated risk is detected, Orchid provides insights to help couples monitor biomarkers, adapt their diet or elect for procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. It was founded by Noor Siddiqui in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Howard Han

Investment focus

B2B, Payments, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Kumospace — Kumospace is the go-to virtual office and event hosting platform. Remote teams can communicate, collaborate, and meet online in our virtual workspace.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
Lutra AI — Lutra AI is to simplify complex tasks that specializes in workflows, created by the platform.
Knock — Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Peakflo — Streamline your finance process with Peakflo's AP & AR automation software. Automate bill payments & invoice collections for better cashflow. Get a demo now!
Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams onmillions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C's XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Atreo.io — Atreo.io develop an RTSM solution in the market, revolutionizing the client experience.Atreo’s team has diverse and complementary experience across all aspects of RTSM, Clinical Supplies, and Clinical Trials project delivery and support. Atreo’s team has delivered and supported 1000+ clinical trials for a diverse client pool including emergingBiotechs to top 10 Pharma and CROs.
ModernLoop — ModernLoop creates software that organizes and manages business interviews. The company offers a software that schedules interviews, sends day-off reminders, and resolves meeting conflicts. ModernLoop was founded in 2020 by Christopher Triolo and Lydia Han.
Venue — Venue is a video conferencing platform that increases engagement and strengthens culture at large team-wide events.

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time and control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Archive — Archive App automatically detects & saves Instagram posts your brand gets tagged in. Yes, Instagram Stories as well, not just feed posts.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Kevin Carter is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined the firm upon launch in 2009. At SV Angel, Kevin originated investments in Snapchat, Pinterest, and GroupMe (acquired by Skype), and works particularly close with Sunrise, Inbox, FlightCar, FarmLogs and Optimizely. He was included in Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 in 2012 and 2013. Heis also on the Engineering Advisory Board at Santa Clara University (EAB). Prior to SV Angel, he worked in the Private Equity Group at Silicon Valley Bank. At SVB he was a part of the Entrepreneur Services and Venture Capital Relationship Management Groups and helped with diligence and cross platform relationship efforts. Before SVB, Kevin worked at Affinity Circles, Inc. where he performed sales and client account management. Kevin graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Finance. While at SCU, he worked closely with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and was awarded "Outstanding Student Entrepreneur".

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, France

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?

Eric Glyman is co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the ultimate platform for modern finance teams. Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables tens of billions of dollars in purchases each year. 15,000+ businesses on Ramp have collectively saved more than $600 million and over 8.5 million hours ofemployee time by controlling spend and automating manual tasks. Prior to Ramp, Eric co-founded Paribus, a price-tracking app to help consumers save money on their everyday online purchases. Paribus was acquired by Capital One in 2016. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Eric now lives in New York City.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sandbar — Simplify and accelerate your AML compliance with Sandbar. We adapt with you to minimize risk and reduce your workload. Learn more and start a conversation today.
Archive — Archive App automatically detects & saves Instagram posts your brand gets tagged in. Yes, Instagram Stories as well, not just feed posts.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zazos — Allow companies to create their own people management tools and offer a unique experience to their employees.
Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
Cardeal.app — Cardeal, a proptech that aims to unleash the potential of distressed real estate assets, managing all the complexities and simplifying access to ownership, whether for investment or residential purposes.

Antonia is a partner in Manutara Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital fund from Chile, focused on highly scalable tech ventures that want to expand across Latinamerica and the U.S. Previously, she worked as head of investment at Trigono S.A, where she oversaw the real estate and private equity division, and opened the Venture Capital verticalof the company.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, B2B, Payments
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Melonn — Melonn enables any retailer to offer Amazon Prime-like deliveries with its e-commerce fulfillment & back-end technology services
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Zachary Perret is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Plaid. He previously worked at Bain as a Consultant. Zachary Perret attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

Federico Ranero COO at Kavak

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Rental
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Hola Cash — Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience.

Everson Lopes (Jan 19, 1983) is a Brazilian Entrepreneur and Technology Investor.He's Partner and MD of The Hive Brazil an investment firm focused in Big Data companies with presence in Brazil, India and Hq's in Silicon Valley, and Partner of Valor Capital Group, an NY based firm specialized in growth equity deals. Mr EversonLopes is also Chairman of the Board of Moip Pagamentos S.A – Leading Digital Payments company in Brazil; Board Member of TecTotal S.A; Board Member of Snips SAS; Board Member of Automatos S.A; Investor and Advisor in several private technology companies.Mr. Everson Lopes is also former Chairman of the board of Ciashop S.A (Acquired by Totvs S.A); Board Member of iMusica S.A (Aquired by America Movil); Board Member of Bolsa de Mulher S.A (Aquired by Batanga Media, Inc); Hands Mobile (Aquired by PontoMobi); Managing Director of Ideiasnet S.A (IDNT3 Bovespa); Corporate Development of Buscape.com (Acquired by Naspers $375M) and Co-founder of BlueOak Resources - formerly Biomine (Invested by KPCB).Holds interest in different areas of technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Larning, Blockchain, Management Software, Financial Tech, Marketplaces, Payments, Mobile. Mr Everson Lopes studied Architecture and Urbanism - University of Cuiaba, Business Administration - ESPM and Graduates Students Programs in Singularity Universty at NASA Ames Research Park, CA.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Billing
Funding Round, Seed
Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
Snips — Snips is an artificial intelligence voice platform that runs on the edge, without sending any voice data to the cloud. Their embedded voice AI technology offers enterprises and developers offline and private-by-design conversational interfaces to animate interactions with products. With enterprise-grade performance and cloud-level accuracy across awide range of hardware integrations on a low-power footprint, the Snips voice assistant simplifies human interactions with connected devices.Founded in 2013 by 3 PhDs, Snips operates in Paris, New York, and Tokyo, leveraging the ability to create custom voice commands and natural language interfaces to lead the embedded voice revolution.
CloudWalk — Our vision is to create the best payment network worldwide

Adalmiro Baptista Junior

Investment focus

B2B, Credit, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Loopa — Loopa is an integrated financial management platform designed to track business transactions. Loopa helps small and medium entrepreneurs in their relationship with credit card machines, auditing each transaction, optimizing fees, and recovering amounts due. The company's goal is to simplify clients' day-to-day lives with transparency andconfidence, so they can focus on their own business.The platform does all the work for clients. No more Excel spreadsheets, no bureaucracy or doubts. Loopa is automatic, practical, safe, and free.

Loren Roosendaal is the Founder and Chairman of Knowingo.

Investment focus

eSports, Blockchain, Online Games
Seed, Funding Round
Panama

Portfolio highlights

Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Branch — Branch sells premium office furniture for teams of all sizes. Standing desks, workstations, ergonomic chairs and filing cabinets, sold direct to save you money. Space planning, delivery and assembly come standard.
Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.

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, Software
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Matias Nisenson - Co-Founder & CEO @ Experimental

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Seed, Series A
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Wibond — Under the “buy now pay later” business model, Wibond is a 100% flexible digital payment method to pay in installments and without a card. It provides financial access to a large community offering payment options according to the possibilities and the profile of each user. - Companies increase their sales by approaching a new user community andoffering an innovative payment alternative. - Users access a universe of stores and businesses to be able to pay in installments without a card. The platform sets out an ambitious vision and seeks to promote trade in Latin America, a very complex region. Their next steps include landing in Chile and Mexico. Wibond was founded in Argentina in 2020 by Ezequiel Bucai and Alejandro Silvestre. In 2013 they created a platform where users accessed a network of more than 2,500 gyms and sports centers located in 30 cities in Argentina, Mexico and Chile. Then Classpass, the US Unicorn, acquired Clickypass.
Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.

Martin Varsavski

Investment focus

FinTech, Credit Cards, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.

Ariel Lambrecht

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.