Federico Antoni
Founder & Managing Partner @ Hi Ventures
Mexico City, Mexico
Federico Antoni is a seed investor at Hi Ventures in Mexico City focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Federico Antoni, Founding Partner of Hi Ventures, has served as Managing Partner since its inception in 2012. He is a member of the Board of Directors of various portfolio companies including Fintual, as well as RobinFood, Mendel, Clubbi, Dentalia, Apli, Prestadero, Cumplo, Wonder Brands and Super.In the foodtech space, Federico was a Boardmember of Cornershop since Hi Venture’s first investment in 2015 until Uber’s control acquisition. He helped the team to establish first partnerships with retailers in the region and accompanied them to raise all their institutional financing rounds. He also supported the team navigating the M&A processes with Walmart and Uber.Prior to that, Federico served as Head of Business Development and later as CEO of Edoardos, a then publicly-traded Mexican apparel company. From 2006 to 2012, he led the Company’s international expansion across Latin America, its launch of new brands, and its turnaround efforts during the economic crisis. Federico successfully developed and launched three new product lines in Europe while working at L’Oréal, a global leader in the cosmetics industry.He also served as CMO of Mexico for B2W (formerly Submarino), the dominant e-commerce platform in Brazil, doubling the country’s sales prior to the subsidiary’s acquisition by Televisa, the world’s largest Spanish-speaking media company. At Televisa, he took on the role of VP of e-commerce and restructured the division to cut costs, grow sales, and launch new product offerings in Mexico.Federico, is a frequent Techcrunch contributor, is an Entrepreneurship and Management Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received his MBA. He also holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Applied Economics from Paris Dauphine, and has taught at ITAM, Mexico’s preeminent business and engineering institution, as well as CENTRO, a Mexican liberal arts and design school.
- Total investments:
- 50
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
Last updated:
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Industries Federico Antoni invests in
Stages Federico Antoni invests in
Countries Federico Antoni invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $103k–$4.9M
- Series A
- $383k–$15M
- Series B
- $5.8M–$39M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 7 (14%)
- FinTech 5 (10%)
- Software 5 (10%)
- Health Care 5 (10%)
- Information Technology 5 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (36%)
- Series A 12 (24%)
- Series B 5 (10%)
- Funding Round 3 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (2%)
Country
- Mexico 17 (34%)
- United States 4 (8%)
- Chile 3 (6%)
- Brazil 2 (4%)
- India 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Founded in California by Brazilian entrepreneurs, TESS AI is an enterprise-grade autonomous agentic AI platform engineered to deliver hard corporate ROI. The company empowers professionals to build highly customized AI agents orchestrating over 250 AI models, featuring native integration with global automation ecosystems. By pioneering adisruptive, "seatless" pricing model, TESS eliminates restrictive per-user licenses, generating up to 90% in cost savings and allowing enterprises to consolidate their stack by replacing 4 to 5 traditional SaaS tools within the first six months. Powered by a complex agentic architecture—outperforming Meta’s $2B Manus AI—TESS is driving explosive adoption, with over 16,000 users executing more than 600,000 autonomous tasks every month. | $4.9M / Seed / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Mendel will use expense management software to recover all of your invoices and integrates expense management software with your accounting system. | $35M / Series B / Mar 27, 2025 | ||
| No-code friendly tool to automate emails and send segmented campaigns. | $2.7M / Seed / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana. | $3M / Seed / Jul 03, 2023 | ||
| Senzai AI uses machine-learning and casual inference techniques to estimate the impact of different treatments on expected customer outcomes. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Mendel is a provider of financial technology that intends to make businesses save money and spend less. | $10M / Series A / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
| Mendel will use expense management software to recover all of your invoices and integrates expense management software with your accounting system. | $10M / Series A / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
| Clubbi is a B2B marketplace for small merchants such as mini-markets and corner stores. It facilitates transactions with their suppliers and supports them to improve operations. It also increases the overall value pool for the FMCG industry by maximizing the fragmented market’s sales and by developing the most efficient way for distributors andbrands to reach and communicate with independent retailers | $12M / Series A / Jun 01, 2022 | ||
| Nuvocargo is the only all-in-one digital platform for cross-border trade offering freight forwarding, customs brokerage, cargo insurance and supply chain financing. It combines powerful technology with an exceptional team of experts to seamlessly integrate end-to-end movement of cargo in a single platform. Nuvocargo is modernizing a $2T market thathas yet to experience real digitalization, empowering shippers with unparalleled visibility, efficiency and support. Run by a fully bi-lingual team, Nuvocargo's unique position at the intersection of technology, logistics, the US and Latin America, contributes to growing revenues >25% month over month since beginning operations in late 2019. Nuvocargo is backed by Tiger Global, QED Investors, NFX, ALLVP, world-renowned startup accelerator Y Combinator, leading entrepreneurs (including the founders of NuBank, Rappi, Loft, Ramp, Deel and the COO of Kavak) among others. | $20.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 10, 2021 | ||
| Mendel is a provider of financial technology that intends to make businesses save money and spend less. | $15M / Series A / Dec 02, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Hi Ventures
Hi Ventures is the fund seed and early venture capital, formed to invest in entrepreneurs with strong components and scalable models of innovation.
Hi Ventures Contacts
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Jimena Pardo
Managing Partner, Co-founder
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Antonia Eing
Partner
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Blanca Sañudo
Management Analyst
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Charlotte Paratre
Investor
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Federico Antoni
Founder & Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Federico Antoni invest in?
Federico Antoni invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Federico Antoni invest in?
Federico Antoni typically joins rounds of $103k–$4.9M at Seed, $383k–$15M at Series A and $5.8M–$39M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Federico Antoni's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Federico Antoni took part in.
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When did Federico Antoni last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Federico Antoni closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 50 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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