# Caricaco VC

> Caricaco VC is a VC fund in San José backing Software, FinTech and Financial Services. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San José, Costa Rica
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emprendecaricaco/
- Website: https://www.caricaco.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caricacohub

Caricaco VC is a VC fund in San José focused on Software and FinTech. CARICACO is a startup powerhouse. We support the best entrepreneurs in Central America with capital, mentors and connections. We seek to be the bridge that connects early stage startups with new markets and the best investment funds/accelerators.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$3.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $50k–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| FinTech | 4 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 27% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 20% |
| Apps | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 53% |
| Seed | 5 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Costa Rica | 4 | 27% |
| El Salvador | 3 | 20% |
| Argentina | 1 | 7% |
| Guatemala | 1 | 7% |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ábaco | Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions. | $3M | Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Paggo | Providing access to mobile payments for SME's through an app and mPOS that accepts debit and credit cards, create link payments for e-commerce, will come with a historical sales dashboard and financial ratios | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Ábaco | Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions. | $7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 28, 2025 |  |
| Tumoni | Tumoni is a fintech company that offers digital banking services through free remittances. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 11, 2024 |  |
| boxful | Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America. | $3.4M | Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Ábaco | Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Caldo Restaurant Technologies | Caldo Restaurant Technologies is a robotics company that provides kitchen automation technology. OCTO, their initial product, is an automated makeline that handles the "last-mile of cooking." In a nutshell, the system acts as a robotic helper for kitchen personnel, handling ready-to-eat items, processing incoming orders, and autonomouslypreparing bespoke meals in a safe, timely, and waste-free manner. Their Runner.OS software controls incoming orders automatically, so that stations that would usually require an extra pair of hands are never overcrowded. | $2M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Vitrinnea | Vitrinnea is the first full service marketplace in Central America powered by re-injecting used garments back into the market. Our goal is to make shopping for fashion accessible, fun and sustainable. We offer clothing, footwear and accessories at the best price with the best user experience. |  | Seed | Mar 30, 2023 |  |
| Listo | At Listo, we found that disconnection between restaurants and their suppliers leads to long, expensive, error-filled ordering processes that result in food waste and a multitude of other problems along the LatAm supply chain. We solved this problem with Listo: a B2B SaaS-enabled marketplace for restaurants and suppliers that allows them to buy andsell faster, cheaper and without the chaos. | $160K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Innogen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innogen-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bridge Latam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridge-ba20) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Carao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carao-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ulua VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulua-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [6 Degrees Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6-degrees-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Caricaco VC invest in?

Caricaco VC invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Costa Rica. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Caricaco VC's check size?

Caricaco VC typically joins rounds of $2M–$3.4M at Seed and $50k–$7M 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 Caricaco VC participates in.

### When did Caricaco VC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Caricaco VC closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 15 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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