# Alpha Impact 8

> Alpha Impact 8 is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai8ventures
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/alphaimpact8
- Website: https://www.ai8ventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alphaimpact8

Alpha Impact 8 is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. 5 year ago, we founded Alpha Impact 8 Ventures, with the vision to generate atypical returns by empowering technology creators to disrupt the financial sector.Since the inception of our portfolio, we have: Invested, developed strategies, generated direct sales, created strategic alliances, provided executive advice, and transmitted the experiencebehind having been entrepreneurs as well, and having grown companies from bootstrap to exit, generating incredible returns for our investors. Today, it is very likely that you use some of the technologies built by our portfolio companies, just like millions of other people around the world. Without knowing, you are benefiting from this new infrastructure which allows you to save, pay, transact, or invest.But we are not done yet, as a matter of fact, we are just getting started, and we are planning to get to millions more and generate profits in all levels of society, superior returns for our investors and for our entrepreneurs the largest exits.Access to financial services is one of the factors that bridge the socioeconomic gap, creating value to all of their stakeholders, building a better ecosystem for the world, your world.THE ONLY WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO BUILD IT. The world needs you.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.3M–$9.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 42% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 33% |
| Internet | 3 | 25% |
| PaaS | 2 | 17% |
| Retail | 2 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 50% |
| Mexico | 3 | 25% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dion DeLoof | Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dion-deloof |
| Carlos Ochoa | Founder and Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlos-ochoa-2 |
| Ximena Flores de la Tijera | Junior Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ximena-flores-de-la-tijera |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FinanEx | Our mission is to grow the export volume of small and medium size agribusinesses in Latin America, generating a sustainable impact in their rural communities while increasing export volume to countries with food deficit | $3M | Seed | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| Axify | On Axify we offer prepayment installment plans to acquire services, like a "tanda" of the digital age. The company is seeing huge potential and interest in different industries: travel, e-commerce, insurance, hospitals, health, and beauty centers. The company focuses on helping people who lack resources or even a credit card acquire aquality product without the predatory lending rates, which are very expensive and generate a huge burden on Mexican and LatAm families. That said we give prepayment plans to people and help them, by creating a pre-payment plan, acquire the products and services in a sustainable free-of-debt manner. We are seeing a tendency to avoid debt all over Mexico and we have already helped more than 7000 families acquire products or services without any kind of debt. | $1.3M | Series A | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| FinanEx | Our mission is to grow the export volume of small and medium size agribusinesses in Latin America, generating a sustainable impact in their rural communities while increasing export volume to countries with food deficit | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Feb 03, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $30M | Series B | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| X0PA AI | X0PA AI was established by our Founder & CEO, Nina Alag Suri, in 2017 to reduce the inefficiencies and subjectivity of traditional hiring processes. X0PA AI is a B2B AI-powered SaaS platform that helps in people decisions around talent and enables scientific and objective choices in hiring and selections. X0PA’s patented AI algorithms areused to source, score and rank talents with each candidate assessed beyond age, gender, race. It is aligned with the UN SDGs of equal and fair opportunities to all by ensuring both capability and compatibility on both employer and employee sides. Through ethical AI and data science, we aim to maximise objectivity in hiring and ensure workplace happiness through equitable and best matches between employee and employer. | $3.9M | Series A | Jan 04, 2022 |  |
| MPOWER Financing | MPOWER is a US-based lender offering student loans to international students studying in the US or Canada without requiring a co-signer, collateral, or US credit history because our proprietary credit algorithm focuses on future potential.MPOWER disburses payments directly to the university on behalf of the students to pay for tuition oruniversity-sponsored services like housing, meal plans, or health insurance. Students start paying back the loan within 6 months after graduation. The loan comes with interest discounts, free personal finance education courses, credit-building, and a job placement service for the students. | $9M |  | Jun 08, 2020 |  |
| Regalii | Arcus Arcus is the leading payments-as-a-service platform making fintech possible for everyone. Arcus helps businesses fuel smarter, faster, integrated, and more accessible financial services. Some of the world’s most popular mobile payment apps including Santander, BBVA, Walmart, 7-Eleven, RappiPay, and more, are powered by Arcus’ infrastructure. | $9.8M | Series A | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Arcus Financial Intelligence | Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others. | $9.8M | Series A | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| SnapCare | SnapNurse provides the only technology platform for quality nurses and medical professionals to find short term engagements without the hassle of paperwork and job boards, as well as allowing medical facilities to find the most relevant staff instantly. |  | Convertible Note | Apr 29, 2019 |  |
| Airtm | Airtm is an e-wallet connected to over 300 bank and e-money systems via a peer-to-peer network and direct bank connections. Users hold their money as dollars or cryptocurrency, and can send and receive funds domestically and internationally. Airtm was founded in 2015 with the goal of leveraging digital money to help people in the developing worldsuffering from currency devaluation preserve their wealth and free their money from disconnected money networks.Headquartered in Mexico City and San Francisco, Airtm is a US-registered money service business. | $7M | Series A | Sep 19, 2018 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Carao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carao-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IGNIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Agrega Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agrega-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bridge Latam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridge-ba20) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SoftBank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Alpha Impact 8 invest in?

Alpha Impact 8 invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alpha Impact 8's check size?

Alpha Impact 8 typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9.8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alpha Impact 8 participates in.

### How do I contact Alpha Impact 8?

Public channels for Alpha Impact 8 include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Alpha Impact 8?

The team at Alpha Impact 8 includes Dion DeLoof (Managing Partner), Carlos Ochoa (Founder and Managing Partner) and Ximena Flores de la Tijera (Junior Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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