# AVP Ventures

> AVP Ventures is a VC fund in Lima backing Software and Human Resources. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lima, Peru
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 52%
- Fund size: $1.9M
- Last fund: Nov 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/angel-ventures-peru/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/angventuresperu?lang=en
- Website: http://angelventures.vc/seed
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angelventuresperu/

AVP Ventures is a VC fund in Lima focused on Software and Human Resources. Partnering with relentless founders as they build solutions to real problems in Latin America

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$2M |
| Series A | $1M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 32% |
| Human Resources | 5 | 20% |
| FinTech | 4 | 16% |
| B2B | 3 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 12% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 52% |
| Series A | 4 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peru | 7 | 28% |
| United States | 5 | 20% |
| Mexico | 2 | 8% |
| Colombia | 2 | 8% |
| Argentina | 2 | 8% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elizabeth Acuña Rivera | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-acu%C3%B1a-rivera |
| Greg Mitchell | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-mitchell-f176 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| deskbird | deskbird is the workplace management app that puts employees first. The platform provides a smooth and user-friendly experience, allowing users to easily check the office's occupancy and adjust their schedule accordingly. With just 2 clicks, you can book a desk on a mobile, desktop, Slack or MS Teams app. That's why employees love it!Over 5,000 offices are already using deskbird globally. Clients like AON, Unicef, Vitra, Heineken, and ThyssenKrupp trust deskbird to implement desk booking, coordinate employees returning to the office more often, optimize the office space, and save costs on lease and energy. | $13M | Series A | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Prestamype | Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company. | $5M | Seed | Aug 24, 2023 |  |
| Nippy | Nippy connects independent workers with services, benefits, and opportunities to improve their lives. They help freelancers obtain tools and services at a low cost and solve all their basic needs. | $150K | Non-equity Assistance | May 24, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $2M | Seed | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Lumu | Lumu is a cybersecurity company that identifies threats and attacks that affect enterprises worldwide. Lumu secures networks by enhancing and augmenting existing defense capabilities, using actionable intelligence. Lumu was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Doral, Florida. | $7.5M | Series A | Mar 10, 2021 |  |
| DB Menos | DB Menos it’s a debt settlement platform created to help people with problems of over-indebtedness & who can no longer pay their debts, providing legal & financial advice. | $250K | Seed | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Slang | Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offersproficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years. | $2.5M | Convertible Note | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Viapool | En Viapool nos une la vocación por encontrar soluciones viables e innovadoras que promuevan el desarrollo sostenible de la sociedad. Así nos posicionamos logrando la confianza de nuestros clientes y convirtiéndonos en aliados estratégicos para sus operaciones. A través del uso combinado de elementos tecnológicos y sociales, fomentamos el usoeficiente y responsable del transporte corporativo, en el marco de una comunidad cooperativa. | $1M | Series A | Mar 05, 2020 |  |
| Get on Board | Get on Board is the biggest tech recruitment platform in Latin-America, with hundreds of thousands of job applications sent. It offers modern tools for recruiters and a simple, curated experience for job seekers.Thousands of startups and enterprises from Latin-America and the US trust Get on Board’s integrated platform and exclusive data oncandidate performance to speed up their remote recruiting and lower dramatically their sourcing costs. | $600K | Seed | Feb 20, 2020 |  |
| Slik | Slik purpose is to link employee happiness to business outcomes. Our vision is to provide organizations a clear ROI of HR Initiatives so they can make data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. | $390K | Seed | Feb 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does AVP Ventures invest in?

AVP Ventures invests primarily in Software, Human Resources and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Peru. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is AVP Ventures's check size?

AVP Ventures typically joins rounds of $200k–$2M at Seed and $1M–$13M 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 AVP Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact AVP Ventures?

Public channels for AVP Ventures 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 AVP Ventures?

The team at AVP Ventures includes Elizabeth Acuña Rivera (Principal) and Greg Mitchell (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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