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Top 30 Platforms Startup Investors in Mexico

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 30 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Platforms startups based in Mexico. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from Mexico. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Platforms Startup Investors in Mexico

Investor	Platforms Mexico investments
Kevin Efrusy	3
MAYA Capital	2
XFactor Ventures	2
Wollef Ventures	1
Jonathan Swanson	1
Katrina Lake	1
Tnt Ventures	1
The Graduate Syndicate	1
Hans Tung	1
Grupo FAME	1
Felicis	1
Global Founders Capital	1
August Hill	1
James Cash	1
FEMSA Ventures	1
Investo	1
Industry Ventures	1
Sergio Romo	1
Steve Salis	1
DILA Capital	1
Eric Perez-Grovas	1
Kevin Carter	1
Ryan Simonetti	1
Angel Losada	1
Chris Thomas	1
William Sahlman	1
Thomas Eisenmann	1
The Ark Fund	1
NFX	1
Francisco Medina	1

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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.

An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

deco.cx — Deco.cx is the web builder for the post-AI era. Its an open-source, headless frontend platform that enables businesses to create authentic, high-performance digital experiences.
Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
Start Careers — Start Careers offers Publicize the vacancies in a practical way to the best universities in the country.

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.

Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Argentina, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nexu — Nexu is a financing platform used by car dealerships to offer to finance to more car buyers in a 100% digital and real-time experience. Nexu's platform uses AI, statistical algorithms, and technology automation.
Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.

Jonathan Swanson is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Thumbtack. Before Thumbtack, Jonathan was a White House staffer working in the West Wing on financial market policy. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Rocketlane — Rocketlane is a customer onboarding software that lets you collaborate with customers, consistently hit your onboarding goals, and accelerate time-to-value. Try Now.
Pareto — Pareto matches AI companies with expert-vetted data labelers to fine-tune cutting-edge AI/LLM models. Meet the top 0.01% of AI labelers today.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Katrina is passionate about helping women achieve everyday confidence. She founded Stitch Fix to help women everywhere discover and explore their style through a truly client-focused shopping experience.Prior to founding Stitch Fix, Katrina developed extensive experience at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology. She managed theblogger platform at venture-backed social commerce company Polyvore and consulted with a variety of e-commerce and traditional retailers during her time at The Parthenon Group. Additionally, she has invested in and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and start-ups at Leader Ventures.Katrina holds a B.S. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Fashion, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Cambly — Cambly gives English learners on-demand access to native English speaking tutors over video chat.
Pavilion — Search for cooperative contracts from national and regional purchasing cooperatives, GSA, states, and local governments - all in one place, for free.
MiLa — XCJ delivers authentic Chinese Street Food to you. Steam soup dumplings at home in just 10 minutes. Enjoy xiao long bao in pork, pork & shrimp, or chicken.

Tnt Ventures helps enterprise software founders and other technical professionals with fundraising services to increase capital.

Investment focus

Software, Restaurants, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blip — Blip unlocks personalized, engaging, and powerful bill management experiences for fintech and bank customers.
Ariglad — Ariglad saves time by automatically capturing HR communication and organizing it into a ticketing system. By offering AI-powered analytics and SLAs with key personnel data, leaders are empowered to make informed data-driven strategic decisions.
Switchboard — Switchboard is the only error monitoring and incident response platform for Zapier and Make (formerly Integromat).

The Graduate Syndicate is led by Jeff Bussgang, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (HBS) and co-founder and general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners. They invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups led by recent graduates of Harvard, primarily HBS. In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown tremendously on campus and many valuablecompanies have been created by recent graduates. Their goal is to bring investors, students, graduates, and friends of Harvard together to build successful, impactful and sustainable companies

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Brazil, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
Ourside (fka) Aspen Apothecary — Scent for where you are and where you'll go. Black owned, woman founded, manufactured in the Bronx, NY.
X-COR Therapeutics — X-COR Therapeutics is a Boston based medical device company creating the first commercially available CO2 removal device that uses ultra-low-blood flows for a cheaper, safer, and more accessible treatment for acute respiratory failure. X-COR was the runner-up in the 2018 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge with its device, a novel consumablehybrid cartridge that removes CO2 from patients’ blood with less invasive procedures than high-flow alternatives. X-COR is part of the 2018 MedTech Innovator and MassChallenge cohorts.X-COR’s core technology is a patent-pending medical device that allows physicians to remove excess CO2 from patients who are in symptomatic lung failure and its accompanying control algorithm that is based on machine-learning techniques. The system is compatible with existing medical device infrastructure for ease of use and deployment. Unlike other technologies to treat lung failure, X-COR uses a hybrid approach that allows patients’ blood to be drawn at <300 ml/min flows through small catheters that can be placed by nursing staff. This therapy is more affordable, safer, and more accessible than existing comparable extracorporeal devices that often require >3 L/min flows and highly specialized physicians.

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Series A, Series B, 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.

One of the main car dealers in Mexico and Latin America

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.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Brevian — AI for enterprise business users
Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

August Hill is an investment firm.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Haddy — Haddy is a 3D printed furniture manufacturer that specializes in sustainable and recyclable materials. Visit us today to learn more.
Wabbi — Secure DevOps (SecDevOps) Infrastructure Platform
CLIPr — CLIPr uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to create searchable recorded meeting recaps and actionable insights enabling you to search, skim and find what you need to learn better and drive desired outcomes in a fraction of the time.

FEMSA Ventures is a venture capital.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Software, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
SPOT — SPOT | Making enterprises smarter
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed. Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.

Industry Ventures has cultivated new segments of the venture capital market for over two decades using its complete lifecycle approach.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AM Batteries — AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Sensible Weather — Discover Sensible Weather, the team that has you covered when unexpected weather puts a damper on your day.
Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.

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

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Colombia, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Pulse — Drive better decisions by joining a community for CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs learning from each other via Q&As, polls, surveys, AMAs, blogs, and product recommendations.
Ozon Mobility — Ozon is a marketplace that offers monthly subscriptions to second-hand micromobility vehicles (bikes, e-bikes, scooters & mopeds)

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.

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

mmhmm — Make every virtual meeting better by being on screen with your presentation. Works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, and more. Download mmhmm for free.
Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
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.

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?

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.

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.

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 — 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.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile Apps, Ride Sharing
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Australia

Portfolio highlights

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.
Truepic — From real to synthetic, Truepic ensures authenticity of online content for enterprise. Securely add, verify, and view C2PA Content Credentials on all media.
pop.in — Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text andimages to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in.Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California.

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

Investment focus

iOS, Lifestyle, Retail Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Mark43 — Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to effortlessly collect, manage, analyze, and share information. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology anddata-driven insights to public safety.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.
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.
Quincy Apparel — No professional woman should be stuck wearing mass market boxy clothing or spending a month's rent on designer clothes just so she can feel like herself at work. A modern brand for young, ambitious women, Quincy harnesses the power of mass customization and disrupts traditional clothing sizes, allowing women to shop by body shape instead ofdress size. Made in NYC and sold exclusively online.

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Lizza — Finnu is a financial services technology company based out of Barcelona, Spain, giving its users access to affordable asset-backed consumer loans via its mobile app.Finnu leverages machine learning and alternative phone usage data points, as well as mobile device management (MDM) technology to deliver credit to those, who are usually overlookedby other lenders. With Finnu, users can not only fully digitally apply and receive loans via their phones, but use their phones as collaterals to significantly reduce interest rates. Finnu is backed and supported by top-tier venture capital funds from Europe and Latin America.
GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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.

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EdTech

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