Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Puerto Rico in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Puerto rico. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Puerto rico. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Payments Startup Investors in Puerto Rico in January 2025

Investor	Payments Puerto Rico investments
David J. Namdar	1
Shima Capital	1
Advent-Morro Equity Partners	1
Snackclub	1
Morro Ventures	1

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David J. Namdar is the Co-Founder of NFT.com. Attended at University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Funding Round, Angel, Seed
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Based in Puerto Rico, Advent-Morro Equity Partners focuses on healthcare, distribution, technology, telecom, education, and hospitality.

Investment focus

Water Purification, Water, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Puerto Rico

Portfolio highlights

Quench — Quench USA, Inc. offers Water-as-a-Service(TM) solutions by providing bottleless filtered water coolers and other products that use filtered water as an input, such as ice machines, sparkling water dispensers, and coffee brewers, to customers across the United States. Our point-of-use (POU) systems purify a building's existing water supply toprovide reliable and convenient filtered water to a broad mix of end-markets, including government, education, medical, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and other large commercial customers, including more than half of the Fortune 500. Headquartered outside of Philadelphia, Quench recently became an independent operating company of AquaVenture Holdings(TM).
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Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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Morro Ventures is a fairly recent addition to Puerto Rico, or La Isla del Encanto to those of us on the inside. I traded the New York smog for the Caribbean breeze in early March, with the goal of launching the island’s first institutional venture capital fund under the auspices of Advent-Morro Equity.