# Claudio Barahona

> Claudio Barahona is a seed investor at CVC Latam (Santiago) backing Software and FinTech. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CVC Latam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cvc-latam)
- Location: Santiago, Chile
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiobarahona
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/claubarahona
- Website: http://www.alaya-capital.com

Claudio Barahona is a Venture Capital and Innovation leader with over a decade of experience investing in and supporting high-growth startups across Latin America. He founded his first startup at the age of 18, which he successfully exited six years later. A Civil Industrial Engineer from Universidad de Chile, he has devoted much of his career topromoting innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile and the broader LATAM region.As Managing Partner at Alaya Capital, he led the fundraising and deployment of a $30M early-stage fund, building a portfolio of 20+ tech-driven companies and managing a team of nine professionals.Previously, Claudio spearheaded Telefónica’s Corporate Venture Capital strategy in Chile, investing in 45 startups and generating strategic and financial returns for the corporation—including $4M in new revenue through startup-corporate integrations in a single year.He is also the founder of ComoLevantarCapital.com, a fundraising platform that has empowered over 1,000 entrepreneurs across Latin America, and is an active angel investor and startup mentor.Deeply committed to ecosystem development, Claudio served on the board of the Chilean Venture Capital Association (ACVC) and founded the Corporate Venturing Latam Report to map and analyze CVC trends throughout the region.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $465k–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 50% |
| FinTech | 4 | 25% |
| EdTech | 2 | 13% |
| Payments | 2 | 13% |
| Education | 2 | 13% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 56% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chile | 4 | 25% |
| United States | 3 | 19% |
| Peru | 2 | 13% |
| Mexico | 2 | 13% |
| Colombia | 2 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Creditop | Creditop orchestrates loans by providing a multi-lender payment method that enables merchants to efficiently sell by credit. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2024 |  |
| PathPilot | PathPilot offers an AI-powered platform that analyzes session replays to reveal user insights, UI issues, and improvement recommendations. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Coba | Coba is taking the complexity out of remote work through an open platform of financial tools and services that are built around the needs of the remote worker, with an initial focus on Latin America. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Finerio Connect | Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money. |  |  | Oct 23, 2023 |  |
| Finerio Connect | Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money. | $6.5M | Seed | Oct 23, 2023 |  |
| MegaBite Food | MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations. | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Talently | Talently offers an intensive program that helps software developers get a better job in the technology industry, anywhere in the world. It is the accelerator of the careers of Latin American tech talent. | $3M | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Preauth | Preauth is a software company that builds collateral for everything. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Delaware, United States. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Finerio Connect | Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money. | $465K | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Houm | Houm is reinventing the way of leasing properties in Latam by leveraging technology, data, and design to transform a currently painful and bureaucratic process into a pleasant, quick, and simple experience, both for the owner as for the tenant. | $8M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalancha Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalancha-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Unpopular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unpopular-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acacia Venture Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acacia-venture-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bancolombia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bancolombia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About CVC Latam

VC Fund



1 contacts available at CVC Latam.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claudio Barahona | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claudio-barahona |

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## FAQ

### What does Claudio Barahona invest in?

Claudio Barahona invests primarily in Software, FinTech and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Chile. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Claudio Barahona's check size?

Claudio Barahona typically joins rounds of $465k–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Claudio Barahona participates in.

### When did Claudio Barahona last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Claudio Barahona closed in Dec 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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