# Christine Kenna

> Christine Kenna is a seed investor at IGNIA (Chapultepec) backing E-Commerce and Internet. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [IGNIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignia)
- Location: Chapultepec, Mexico
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-kenna-850a771/
- Website: https://x.com/ckenna

Christine Kenna is a seed investor at IGNIA in Chapultepec focused on E-Commerce and Internet. Christine Kenna is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Partner of IGNIA. Christine previously worked at Guggenheim Foundation as a Managing Director. Christine Kennaattended the Duke University. Christine Kenna received recognition as one of Latin America's Top Female Investors by LAVCA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 19% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| CRM | 1 | 6% |
| Apps | 1 | 6% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 4 | 25% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| escala | All in one software for marketing and sales | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| Novel Capital | Novel Capital’s fintech funding platform breaks down the traditional growth barriers faced by today’s B2B software companies. Their tech-first approach makes it easy for customers to leverage future recurring revenue for immediate access to non-dilutive capital. Paired with online data-driven insights and curated learning resources, the Novelplatform empowers entrepreneurs to capitalize on their momentum. | $15M | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Piper | Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Lentesplus | Lentesplus.com brings the Latin American contact lens market online and into the 21st century, offering competitive prices between 20% and 30% below market standards. The company offers clients ease and efficiency, delivering the correct product straight to their homes or offices, in many cases on the same day as the order was placed. With a strongfocus on customer service, Lentesplus makes reordering contact lenses as simple as two clicks. Currently have operations in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina | $8M | Series E | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Nuvemshop | Nuvemshop (also known as Tiendanube in Spanish-speaking Latin America) is the only D2C e-commerce platform built specifically for Latin America. It absorbs the full complexity of LATAM commerce — payments, logistics, marketing, banking, access to capital, point of sale, AI, agentic commerce, and fiscal compliance — with everything developedin-house.Unlike fragmented stacks where no single vendor owns the outcome, Nuvemshop gives brands a single platform, a single point of contact, and a fully integrated data layer. Merchants can sell more and operate less, with automation and AI running repetitive tasks so they can focus on building their brand.Founded in 2011 by Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez, Nuvemshop is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, and serves D2C brands across Latin America — from those building their first store to those scaling to hundreds of millions in annual revenue. | $30M | Series C | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Lentesplus | Lentesplus.com brings the Latin American contact lens market online and into the 21st century, offering competitive prices between 20% and 30% below market standards. The company offers clients ease and efficiency, delivering the correct product straight to their homes or offices, in many cases on the same day as the order was placed. With a strongfocus on customer service, Lentesplus makes reordering contact lenses as simple as two clicks. Currently have operations in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina | $5.2M | Series D | Mar 20, 2020 |  |
| Kinedu | Kinedu provides an educational platform to develop nourishing and meaningful relationships with children through creative activities. Its services include engaging personalized video-based developmental activities for children to help parents boost the cognitive, social, linguistic, emotional, and physical progress of their toddlers in the stage oftheir early development. | $5M | Series A | Nov 12, 2019 |  |
| Apli | Apli is an online platform that offers recruitment services to its users.The platform enables its users to create personalized profiles and visit their house. They provide its users with half-time and weekend shifts for a range of vacancies, including waiters, garrotero, chefs, bartenders, hostesses, capturists, and sellers.Apli was launched in2016 and is based in Latam. | $1M | Seed | May 02, 2019 |  |
| Lentesplus | Lentesplus.com brings the Latin American contact lens market online and into the 21st century, offering competitive prices between 20% and 30% below market standards. The company offers clients ease and efficiency, delivering the correct product straight to their homes or offices, in many cases on the same day as the order was placed. With a strongfocus on customer service, Lentesplus makes reordering contact lenses as simple as two clicks. Currently have operations in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina |  | Series A | Nov 29, 2018 |  |
| GoTrendier | Gotrendier.com.co is a platform to sell the clothes that you no longer use and to buy in the closet of other girls throughout Colombia. Posting your products on gotrendier.com.co is completely free! They are sure that in your closet you have many fashion garments that you have not even put on, or that are new, even with a label. At GoTrendier wegive you the opportunity to sell these items and earn money. In addition, you can buy clothes from other users, and find your new favorites | $3.3M | Series B | Oct 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antai Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antai-venture-builder) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bonsai Venture Capital SCR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonsai-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elevar Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevar-equity) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [InQlab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inqlab) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Palm Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/palm-drivecapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pedralbes Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedralbes-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About IGNIA

VC Fund · San Pedro, Mexico

IGNIA is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in global entrepreneurs who are developing innovative technology solutions that address fundamental pain points in Latin America. Founded in 2007, IGNIA has a total of three funds, IGNIA Impact Fund, IGNIA VC Fund I and IGNIA VC Fund II, with over US$400 million in AUM. IGNIA invests in sectorssuch as healthtech, fintech, SaaS, edtech, e-commerce, web3, and AI-Enabled tech platforms, among others.

5 contacts available at IGNIA.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alberto Torrado Martínez | Advisory Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-torrado-martnez |
| Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui | Co - founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alvaro-rodrguez-arregui |
| Christine Kenna | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-kenna |
| Otto Navarro | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otto-graff-navarro |
| Cristina Fernandez Lozano | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-fernandez-lozano |

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## FAQ

### What does Christine Kenna invest in?

Christine Kenna invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Christine Kenna last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christine Kenna closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 16 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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