# Fen Ventures

> Fen Ventures is a VC fund in Santiago backing Software and FinTech. See 74 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Chile
- Total investments: 74
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fen-ventures/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FenVentures
- Website: http://www.fenventures.com

Fen Ventures is an early stage VC fund investing in tech-enabled companies that are building a better future for Latam

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Fen Ventures. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Fen Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/fen-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $390k–$1.2M |
| Series A | $2M–$29M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 16% |
| FinTech | 11 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 11% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 18% |
| Series A | 10 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chile | 24 | 32% |
| United States | 6 | 8% |
| Colombia | 5 | 7% |
| Argentina | 5 | 7% |
| Mexico | 2 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cristóbal Silva Bengolea | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crist-bal-silva |
| Javier Pedrals | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javier-pedrals |
| Jose Antonio Jimenez | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jose-antonio-jimenez |
| Manuel Bengolea | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manuel-bengolea |
| Olivia Valdés | Bio Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olivia-vald%C3%A9s |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Forest | Forest is a dockless, shared, and ad-supported e-bike service company. | $23M | Series B | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Cifrato | Cifrato helps mid market accounting accounting firms automate bookkeeping, payments, bank reconciliations, tax reporting and insights reporting with AI so they can grow their client base 2x and reduce their headcount by at least 80%. | $1M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Signa | Signa is a global platform that uses artificial intelligence to identify and remove counterfeit products and false claims on social networks, marketplaces, and search engines. It serves businesses, especially in the pharmaceutical and beauty sectors, helping them recover lost revenue and protect their brands.The platform operates on a B2B SaaSmodel, providing tools for law firms, national authorities, and companies to work together in eliminating both digital and physical counterfeit goods.Launched in 2023, Signa reached a $1M USD ARR by the end of 2024, with clients in the U.S., Colombia, and Mexico. | $1M | Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Loto Latam | Loto Latam is a business management intelligent platform that allows controlling of expenses and employee benefits. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Kunzapp | Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año. | $2M | Seed | Aug 09, 2025 |  |
| Selenios | Selenios is an AI company that automates recruiting, scheduling, and interviewing processes to reduce hiring time. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2025 |  |
| Versu AI | Versu is an e-commerce verticalized AI agent that operates 24/7 | $390K | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2024 |  |
| Fecundis | Nuevos medios de cultivo para capacitación de espermatozoides | $2.6M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Xeptiva Therapeutics | Xeptiva Therapeutics is a veterinary biotechnology company that focuses on developing therapies for chronic inflammation conditions in companion animals. Its main products target chronic pain associated with osteoarthritis and atopic dermatitis in dogs. In addition, the company is developing therapies for the treatment of pain in horses and asthmain cats. Xeptiva's goal is to allow pets to live longer and healthier by targeting the underlying source of many chronic diseases. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Splight Tech | Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry. | $12M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 74 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kayyak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kayyak-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Chile Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chile-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Tantauco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daedalus-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Fen Ventures invest in?

Fen Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 74 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Chile. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Fen Ventures's check size?

Fen Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$8M at Seed, $390k–$1.2M at Pre-Seed and $2M–$29M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fen Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Fen Ventures?

Public channels for Fen Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Fen Ventures?

The team at Fen Ventures includes Cristóbal Silva Bengolea (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Javier Pedrals (Principal) and Jose Antonio Jimenez (President), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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