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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Mexico in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Mexico. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Mexico. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Mexico in February 2025

Investor	Payments Mexico investments
Ricardo Weder	4
Manolo Atala	2
Brendan Dickinson	2
Bill Clerico	2
Ryan Simonetti	2
Martin Schrimpff	2
Federico Ranero	2
Arash Ferdowsi	2
Steve Salis	2
Howard Han	2
Kevin Carter	2
Travis Foxhall	2
Scott Belsky	2
Sebastian Mejia	2
David Shim	2
Oliver Jung	2
Ariel Lambrecht	2
Antonia Rojas Eing	2
Scott Sandell	2
Gokul Rajaram	2
Sergio Furio	2
Jon Oringer	1
Otto Graff Navarro	1
Anna Raptis	1
Edward Lando	1
Emilie Choi	1
Francisco Medina	1
Zac Bookman	1
Arjun Sethi	1
Jay Adelson	1
Sebastian Castro	1
Deepak Chugani	1
Nicky Goulimis	1
Anthony Pompliano	1
Michael Levinthal	1
Paul Sawaya	1
Max Burger	1
Jose Shabot Cherem	1
Jose Vielma	1
Angel Losada	1
Diego Serebrisky	1
Hans Tung	1
Oso Trava	1
Brian Requarth	1
Chris Thomas	1
Marc Sacal	1
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	1
Eric Glyman	1
Andy Cohen	1
Julie McDermott	1

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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, Chile, Colombia

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.

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.

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

WiseLayer — WiseLayer's AI empowers finance teams to improve profitability & efficiency in minutes per week
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.

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.

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.

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, Funding Round
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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
Beyond Aero — Beyond EFB is an innovative ecosystem of services and tools focused on meeting the needs of aviation. We offer assistance to pilots at every stage of their journey, from planning and document management to aircraft services quoting and booking. We are determined to drive the success of the aviation industry. Our platform is ready to transform howpilots operate, how companies engage with their customers and how the sector thrives.With our platform, pilots enjoy a seamless and integrated solution, simplifying their routines, increasing efficiency and enhancing their overall flight experience. And we go beyond: we track trends and create detailed profiles of service consumption and flight operations, generating valuable insights for industry companies to personalize their services, maximize sales opportunities, reduce operational costs and offer an exceptional experience to their customers.At Beyond EFB, we are not only committed to revolutionizing the aviation industry, but also to mitigate the environmental impact of flights. Through strategic partnerships and proprietary technology, Beyond EFB empowers airlines and pilots to take meaningful action in the fight against climate change, allowing them to easily calculate and offset their carbon emissions and take the operations closer to their global sustainability goals.
CodeCrafters — Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Travis Foxhall oversees the finance function at Clara, the leading corporate credit card and spend management solution for Latin America. Before joining Clara, he was an early-stage investor with Point72 Ventures and Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis was also Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digitalbank in Brazil, where he worked for the CEO on special projects. He began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorganChase and Thomson Reuters. Travis is also an active angel investor, with a focus on seed-stage opportunities in the United States and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Banking, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
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.

Scott Belsky is currently the Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products Chief Strategy Officer, and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He was also the Chief Ecutive Officer atBehance LLC. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cephable — Assistive technology platform that extends digital controls to head movement, voice, gestures, facial expressions and more.
Sapien — Sapien is a platform for creating autonomous coworkers for finance professionals. It promotes its service as an AI-native system created from the ground up that connects with Excel, ERP systems, and customer relationship management platforms.
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.

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

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.
Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce

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.

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

Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
Circleback — AI-powered meeting notes and automations. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, and in-person conversations. Get started for free.

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

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.

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.

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.

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

Atlas — Atlas is an invite-only charge card that unlocks access to exclusive dining and travel experiences.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Raspberry AI — Raspberry AI employs artificial intelligence technology to design styles that are in high demand. The platform offers the convenience of instantly generating technical packs and CADs for any product image, providing a comprehensive solution for product design requirements. It also features automated, high-conversion product descriptions andphotography, along with the capability to create new high-fidelity designs from a sketch or reference image.

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

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 — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Parking, Blockchain
Seed, Series B, Series C
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Abra — The easiest place to buy, trade, earn and borrow crypto
Parkimovil — We're a platform that smartly manages and processes interactions and payments with different mobility nodes.

Anna Raptis is the Founder & Managing Partner at Amplifica Capital.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rocket.La — We provide value to our users through free financial advising. We are able to prepare personalized financial product suggestions for our customers, which are based on data we collect from the Credit Bureau and other alternative sources.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
Aide Health — Aide Health is a clinician-to-patient service which uses conversational AI to improve patient engagement and clinical assessment for chronic disease.
Center — Start point for your next NFT app.

Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Payments
Seed
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.

Zac is the CEO of OpenGov, the "GovTech" cloud software leader. OpenGov has raised $200 million in capital from Andreessen Horowitz and other venture funds and powers more than 1000 cities, counties, and state agencies across the United States. Before co-founding OpenGov, Zac served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on theAnti‑Corruption Task Force at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He previously practiced trial litigation at Keker, Van Nest & Peters in San Francisco, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Zac studied corruption in Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow and has taught American Government at San Quentin Prison. He holds a JD from the Yale Law School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated valedictorian from the University of Maryland. Zac serves on the board of and as advisor to various technology companies and funds, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the YPO. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and San Francisco and Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 under 40.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.
Sewer AI — SewerAI develops the leading software for infrastructure defect detection and labeling. We deploy cost-effective AI solutions and Cloud software that find cracks in the wastewater system. Our SaaS systems are used by utilities and sewer inspection contractors every day.
With (Coing) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
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

Jay Adelson is the Chairman & Co-Founder at Scorbit.

Investment focus

Consumer Electronics, News, Clean Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Hipcamp — From seaside campsites to luxury treehouses, we're the most comprehensive guide to camping and glamping across the UK. Camp on farms, beaches and country estates.
Sr.Pago — Sr.Pago is a mobile point of sale (MPOS) system that enables individuals and small businesses to receive card payments via smartphones and tablets. It enables users to have access to banking-related services via a chip-based debit card, a card reader that connects to any smartphone or tablet, and an app for managing transactions.The MPOS systemenables its users to accept credit card payment for the services they render, transfer that money to a reloadable MasterCard debit card, and make purchases with those funds anywhere MasterCard is accepted, and a withdraw cash from any Walmart-affiliated location in Mexico.It is available for iPods, iPads, and iPhones as well as Android platforms.Sr.Pago was launched in 2010 and its operations are based in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
FreeWire Technologies — OptiGrid electric vehicle charging solutions are easy-to-deploy and ready for seamless integration at your business or commercial property.

Professional Goals:Develop exciting technologies, services, and products that bridges the gap between online experiences and the offline worldContinue to acquire a detailed understanding of technology and energy infrastructure global markets, particularly in Latin AmericaPromote greater investment in renewable and sustainable technologiesalong with traditional energy sources for profitable ventures, specifically as an intermediary between technical project specifications and its strategic implementation within the larger context of successful company operations

Investment focus

B2B, Banking, Payments
Series A
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.

Deepak Chugani

Investment focus

B2B, EdTech, Banking
Seed, Series A
Colombia, Mexico, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Mono — Mono is on its way to become the 'bankingless bank' of Latin American SMBs, starting with Colombia.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.

Nicky Goulimis is the co-founder and COO of Nova Credit, the world’s cross-border consumer reporting agency.

Investment focus

Credit Cards, FinTech, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Mexico, Greece, United States

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.
Finloup — Finloup is a buy now, pay later FinTech that increases consumer purchasing power and uses Open Banking to ensure responsible spending.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Spindl — Make more intelligent business decisions in web3 using Spindl’s attribution tooling.
Zion — Join our mission in creating the last platform you will ever build
Haven — Bookkeeping, tax credits and tax services for growing businesses!

Michael Levinthal is the Managing Partner at Levinthal Capital and currently lives in Park City, Utah.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Alysio — The leading Sales Performance Management platform that enables teams to track and visualize their employee's daily performance metrics.
Ask Alex — Ask Alex transforms data into dialogue. Our AI analytics tool lets businesses interact with their data, uncovering customer trends and driving operational efficiency and revenue.
Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.

Paul Sawaya was the Co-Founder of Human Interest.

Investment focus

Credit, Internet, Payments
Seed
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Max Burger is an Angel Investor in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is the co-owner of FMCG.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Smartvel — Are you looking to boost your marketing and SEO strategy? Check out our curated travel content solutions with AI. More information here!
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Managed by Q — Keep your workplace running smoothly with Eden Workplace's all-in-one workplace management and desk booking software. Discover how Eden Workplace's suite of solutions can streamline your workflow today!

Jose Shabot Cherem

Investment focus

Credit, Internet, Payments
Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.

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

Investment focus

Banking, Mobile Payments, Financial Services
Convertible Note
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.

Angel Alverde Losada is the Chief Executive Officer at Gigante Grupo Inmobiliario. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Office Depot, a subsidiary of Grupo Gigante, S.A.B. de C.V. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Masters degree in Finance and Marketing From JL Kellog Graduate School ofManagement.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Payments
Seed
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.

Mr. Serebrisky has been Managing Director at Alta Ventures Mexico. Prior to joining Alta Ventures, Diego collaborated with Advent International, a global private equity fund. He spent 12 years in their Mexico City office and then relocated to Bogota, Colombia, where he launched the office in 2011. While at Advent, Diego focused on the wholeinvestment process including new deals analysis, investment monitoring and divestments. He participated in more than 13 investments in different sectors including financial services, business services, pharmaceutical, retail and technology. Before Advent International, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Caracas, Venezuela, Johannesburg, South Africa and New York City providing strategy advice to large clients. Diego currently serves as a member of the Board of ColCapital, the Colombian Private Equity Association. He also served as a member of the Board of AMEXCAP, the Mexican Private Equity Association, where he was president during 2008 and 2009. Furthermore he collaborates as an Endeavor mentor and participates in the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystems in Colombia and Mexico. Mr. Serebrisky graduated with a degree in Computer Engineer, summa cum laude from Universidad Simon Bolivar at Caracas, Venezuela; he also holds an MBA from Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Mexico, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Bankingly — Bankingly provides Digital Banking Channels for financial institutions allowing them to improve customer experience, gain new ones and save costs.
UnDosTres — UnDosTres is revolutionizing the consumer payments landscape in Mexico. We are building the country's leading platform that allows Mexican's to pay for anything and everything at the tap of a button! We are amongst the fastest-growing startups in Mexico and were recently crowned the Best Fintech Startup in Emerging Markets.
Rocket.La — We provide value to our users through free financial advising. We are able to prepare personalized financial product suggestions for our customers, which are based on data we collect from the Credit Bureau and other alternative sources.

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Ximkart — Everything you need to import raw materials. minus the headache! For manufacturers and businesses of every scale. With Ximkart, cross border trade is as easy as buying from your local supplier. We are currently dealing with Metals, Minerals, Chemicals with having a large list of QC tested products like Silicon, Titanium, Calcium Carbonate, Styrene, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Ingots, Magnesium, Mixed Xylene, Butyl Acetate, Scrap, Alloy Wheel, MTO, GTO, Pine Oil, Rutile, 2196+, KMML, Doguide, RJ916, CPCL, BPCL, HPCL, 553, 441, 3303, DBM and many more.
Fazz — Fazz offers an online business account to help your company grow faster, by providing access to credit, payment, corporate cards, savings and more.
Prisms VR — The new paradigm for math education. Learn math through movement, experience, and meaningful discovery.

Oso Trava

Investment focus

Apps, Audio, Credit
Seed, Series A
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

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.
Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.

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, SaaS, Software
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.
Taxflow — Taxflow is an AI agent for US tax and accounting firms and eliminate tedious tasks and reduce manual errors. Our AI agent automates data collection, client communications, transaction categorization and other end to-end tax preparation tasks.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Chris Thomas is a co-founder and partner of Assembly Ventures.Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Previous to this, Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While atFontinalis he served as a Board Member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a Board Observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis Chris served in the U.S. Army as a Communications Officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an Investment Banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a Senior Advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a Co-Owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously advised a number of mobility startups around the globe; served as the Chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States; and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems. Chris earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Economics and International Relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the City of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Automotive
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Canada

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.
Kall Morris Inc — Kall Morris Inc orbital debris research and development, consulting experts.
Buddy's Pizza — Buddy's Pizza is a widely recognized as the originator of detroit-style pizza.

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Mobile Payments
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PayMon — PayMon integrates an ERP software with a user-friendly digital wallet for seamless payment processing, top-ups, and much more.

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.

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

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
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.

Andy Cohen is the Advisor and Angel Investor at Cohen Global LLC. He is an accomplished executive with 25 years of experience successfully growing businesses.Prior to joining Bill.com, he founded and sold Caring.com, the nation’s leading online destination for those caring for aging loved ones. Andy grew the company to a profitable venturegenerating $24 million in revenue with a team of 150 people. Before founding Caring.com, he held various sales and marketing leadership positions at SuccessFactors, Intuit, Instill, Peapod and SC Johnson Wax, where he grew businesses from start-up to tens of millions of dollars in revenue. He earned an M.B.A. in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. in history from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, Credit Cards
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Zitti — Zitti is a first-of-its-kind payment and credit platform built for food industry management and vendors.
Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.

Early-Stage Tech Investor; Sustainability; Ex-Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, 50 countries.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Brandefy — Dupe Alert | The app helping beauty enthusiasts find affordable alternatives to cult-favorite products through extensive comparative reviews.
TomoCredit — TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.
Matriark Foods — Matriark Foods is a social enterprise business that captures surplus produce and upcycled fresh-cut remnants within local food systems and creates nutritious and affordable value-added products for food service businesses, schools and hospitals.

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