# Daniel Bilbao

> Daniel Bilbao is a seed investor at Truora (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Truora](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/truora)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbilbao/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ddbilbao
- Website: https://x.com/ddbilbao
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielbilbao1

Daniel Bilbao is a seed investor at Truora in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Daniel Bilbao is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-founder & CEO of Truora. Daniel previously worked at Frubana as a Board Member. Daniel Bilbao attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 78% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 56% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Credit | 1 | 11% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 89% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colombia | 4 | 44% |
| Mexico | 2 | 22% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caliza | Provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open digital dollar accounts for their users to save and transact. | $5.3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| HoyTrabajas | HoyTrabajas is an HR-Tech solution designed to assist companies in Latin America facing high turnover rates in swiftly attracting and retaining low-skilled talent within a timeframe of fewer than 48 hours. | $5M | Seed | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| Datanomik | Datanomik is a B2B Open Finance API platform that allows businesses to get their financial information in a simpler, seamless way. | $6M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| TROOP | TROOP has arrived to revolutionize the real estate business in LATAM, simplifying and DEMOCRATIZING this asset class by allowing people to participate in income producing real estate from very low tickets. As the first platform of its kind in Colombia, TROOP seeks to differentiate itself from traditional players by offering a wide range ofopportunities in high quality RE assets with no middlemen involved, through a DIY, simple and intuitive process, under a low-cost commission scheme. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Bankuish | Bankuish is a technology platform where gig workers and freelancers leverage their work history data to demonstrate their creditworthiness. Users gain access to a marketplace of preapproved offers from national banks tailored to their unique profile as well as tools to grow their credit score. The company helps banks gain new customers, managerisk, and improve customer relationships. The Bankuish Score has been used to de-risk thousands of individuals while maintaining a default rate well below the industry standard. Bankuish was established in 2020 with its headquarters in New York City and Mexico City. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Neivor | Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 18, 2022 |  |
| Jefa | Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution. | $2M | Seed | Nov 26, 2021 |  |
| trii | Trii partnered with prominent financial institutions to develop Colombia's first trading app. Trii is a mobile platform that allows retail investors to buy both US and local equities in LatAm. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 07, 2021 |  |
| Vaas | Vaas is a private credit infrastructure platform that automates asset verification, servicing, and operations for asset backed financing. |  | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Latitud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitud) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MAGIC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magic-carpet) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Magma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magma-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nazca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nazca-ventures-3) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Truora

VC Fund · Cali, Colombia

Truora provides identity verification and fraud prevention tools that help businesses validate users and reduce risk in digital interactions. Its platform offers services such as background checks, identity authentication, and phone number verification to support secure onboarding and transactions.

5 contacts available at Truora.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arturo Bermejo | Software Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arturo-bermejo |
| Cesar Pino | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cesar-pino-80c8 |
| Daniel Bilbao | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-bilbao |
| Jorge Cuadrado | Tech Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jorge-cuadrado |
| Maite Telleria | Co-founder and Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maite-muniz-telleria |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Bilbao invest in?

Daniel Bilbao invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Colombia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Daniel Bilbao's check size?

Daniel Bilbao typically joins rounds of $2M–$6M 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 Daniel Bilbao participates in.

### When did Daniel Bilbao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Bilbao closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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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