# Augusto Caceres

> Augusto Caceres is a pre-seed investor in Lima backing FinTech, Software and Marketplace. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Lima, Peru
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustocaceres/
- Website: https://linktr.ee/augustocaceres

Augusto Caceres is a pre-seed investor in Lima focused on FinTech and Software. Angel Investor and VC/Startup lawyer based in Lima, Peru. Founder @QAPU Ventures, angel fund that invests in pre-seed and seed startups in Latin America. Mostly fintech, foodtech, edtech, healthtech, proptech, SaaSm but mainly interested in disruptive founders in the region. Also Board member of PECAP (Peru VC association) and Director of thePeru Venture Capital Conference, the most important VC, startups and innovation conference in Peru and one of the most relevant in Latam.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$4.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 30% |
| Software | 6 | 30% |
| Marketplace | 5 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 20% |
| B2B | 3 | 15% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 50% |
| Seed | 5 | 25% |
| Angel | 3 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peru | 5 | 25% |
| Colombia | 4 | 20% |
| United States | 4 | 20% |
| Mexico | 2 | 10% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avify | Avify is the best platform that takes the D2C model to the next level. Due to Pandemic, sales through social media and E-commerce channels in Latin America, increased almost 40%, and business owners have to manage multiple sales channels everyday like Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, their own E-commerce, Mercado Libre, Etsy, Amazon and more, causinga huge problem with inventories that are not synchronized and jumping from one channel to the other answering questions, printing shipping labels and is so hard to grow the business when all this job is manual. That's why we created Avify, the Centralized Backoffice for E-commerce in Latin America. Our customers can save a lot of hours per week doing manual tasks and invest that time growing the business and acquiring more clients. Avify provides an agnostic layer where our customers integrate any delivery service, payment gateway or invoicing tool, creating a powerful workflow to take the business to the next level of automation. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| MAQU | Maqu is the digital market for the construction and mining industry, centralizing machinery and spare parts making them widely available in LatAm (Starting in Peru). Verticals: B2B marketplace, contech, proptech, female founders, minetech. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| OnePay AI | Frictionless Payments Via WhatsApp For Latam |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2023 |  |
| BeeCuick | BeeCuick is the real-time hotel procurement for passionate suppliers that want to reach the hotel procurement industry, allowing them to discover genuine and real-time hotel needs tailored for products. Suppliers can start conversations or set a meeting with the right people, send quotes, and also save time and money by streamlining sales likenever before. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Aflore | Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia (65% of the population) to achieve financial goals. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. The company was founded in2012 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 31, 2022 |  |
| Nudos | B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Almaya Life | Almaya offers an innovative solution to the age-old problem of preserving the essence of individuals and their life stories. When a person passes away, an entire world of stories, life lessons, humor, and wisdom disappears with them. We are on a mission to ensure that the human experience is securely preserved for the current and futuregenerations.Our core offerings include: A) An 'interactive autobiography builder' app that empowers users to easily record their life's story and engage in a game-like experience, answering questions and prompts about their lives.B) An AI-powered chat (ALMA) that guides friends and family members to interact with the storyteller by asking them questions and receiving their answers.C) Users can also choose a complement to the Almaya app: emulateme.ai. With uploaded information, we generate their Avatar that reflects how the person looks, sounds, and responds to almost any question.The Almaya app offers both individual and collaborative experiences, allowing families to engage together by recording their history and memories. Loved ones can access all digital content and engage in immersive conversations with the person through AI, anytime, anywhere.In the near future, we envision every family having an effortless way to interact with the essence of a departed relative, similar to how we interact with virtual assistants like Siri or Alexa. With Almaya, the wisdom and experiences of our loved ones endure, fostering connections that transcend time. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| OlaClick | OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that helps businesses receive simplified online orders through WhatsApp | $4.4M | Seed | May 27, 2022 |  |
| EQUIP | In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon. | $400K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| EQUIP | In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon. | $400K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gg-capital-626f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Board](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-board) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Unpopular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unpopular-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allied Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allied-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Augusto Caceres invest in?

Augusto Caceres invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Marketplace startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Peru. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Augusto Caceres's check size?

Augusto Caceres typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$4.4M at Seed and $400k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Augusto Caceres participates in.

### When did Augusto Caceres last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Augusto Caceres closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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