Fernando Lelo de Larrea H.
Managing Partner @ Hi Ventures
Mexico City, Mexico
Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. is a seed investor at Hi Ventures in Mexico City focused on E-Commerce and Financial Services. As a relevant player in Mexico’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, Fernando is one of the most important and active early-stage investors in Mexico. He has extensive experience in operational and financial aspects of private equity, project finance, and managing growing businesses. He heads Rumbo Ventures, the leading climate tech fund for Latin America.Fernando co-founded ALLVP in 2012 and has since invested in over 24 service-oriented companies in sectors such as healthcare, financial services, mobility, and e-commerce. Additionally, he co-founded NUMA México (formerly Venture Institute), the leading startup accelerator platform, and Fondeadora, LATAM´s pioneer crowdfunding platform that was sold to Kickstarter in 2016.After his tenure as COO and CFO of Umbral Capital, Fernando became CEO of the real estate private equity fund where he was responsible for managing USD$ 50M in capital commitments, and continued as Chairman of the Board after founding ALLVP. Before Umbral Capital, Fernando was Deputy Director of the Division of Energy and Project Finance in Protego Asesores, now Evercore Partners.Fernando holds an MBA from Stanford GSB, an MA in Economics from London School of Economics, and a BA in Economics from ITAM. Fernando has been active in Alternative Assets for more than 20 years, the last ten as founding partner of ALLVP.
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. invests in
Stages Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. invests in
Countries Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $239k–$1.5M
- Series A
- $501k–$7.4M
- Series B
- $4.7M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 4 (12%)
- Financial Services 4 (12%)
- FinTech 3 (9%)
- Health Care 3 (9%)
- Energy 2 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (26%)
- Series A 9 (26%)
- Series B 4 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- Mexico 10 (29%)
- United States 3 (9%)
- Spain 2 (6%)
- Chile 1 (3%)
- Norway 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Hoop Carpool is a SaaS Carpooling Platform for Companies, Universities and Citi-halls | $1.3M / Seed / Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| CoreZero is a climate-tech company dedicated to hastening the transition to net zero energy. It quantifies and monetizes the positive environmental impact of food waste reduction or valorization initiatives. | Seed / Jun 15, 2023 | ||
| Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty. | $3.5M / Series A / Dec 23, 2022 | ||
| Flat.mx is a property tech startup that that simplifies the process of buying or selling a home, with a deep layer of technology and data.With Flat.mx, sellers can sell their homes for a fair price in a matter of days, and move-in to a new apartment effortlessly. For buyers, Flat.mx assures the conditions of the property, a fair purchase price,and a seamless buying experience.Bernardo Cordero and Victor Noguera founded it in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal. | $20M / Series A / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| Thalasso is an ocean start-up committed to sustainable seaweed management, turning the sargassum problem into a solution. The company uses the Sargassum management blue economy approach. Its headquarters is located in Florø, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. | $300K / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| RobinFood is the leader in cloud-restaurants in Latin America with presence in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. RobinFood was founded in 2018 | $15M / Series B / Oct 30, 2019 | ||
| RobinFood is the leader in cloud-restaurants in Latin America with presence in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. RobinFood was founded in 2018 | Series A / Oct 01, 2019 | ||
| Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offersproficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years. | $2.5M / Convertible Note / Jan 22, 2019 | ||
| Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE). | $21M / Series B / May 04, 2017 | ||
| Aplazame is a consumer credit company that provides instant financing service for online purchases. It combines an overtime payment method integrated at the e-commerce checkout with marketing tools to enable e-commerce to use financing as a promotional lever to boost sales. Aplazame simplifies financing to boost sales, increase the average ordervalue, improve conversion rates and reach more customers.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. | $902.3K / Seed / Apr 04, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Hi Ventures
Hi Ventures is on a mission to back Latin American founders building innovative global companies. We invest early with deep belief in technology, long-term founder partnership, and disciplined capital allocation. Federico and Jimena, co-founders of Hi Ventures, have built together for over a decade, from Hi’s early investment in Jimena’s startup to leading the firm today. Jimena led product growth at Meta and is a Kauffman Fellow and Endeavor Entrepreneur. Federico is on the Stanford GSB faculty and has backed category-defining companies built from Latin America to the world. Hi has invested in 50+ startups, with realized outcomes including Cornershop (Uber), R2 (Ant), and Atlas (Remote), and long-term positions in leaders such as Fintual, Mendel, and Nuvocargo.
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 Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. invest in?
Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. invests primarily in E-Commerce, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 34 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 Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. invest in?
Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. typically joins rounds of $239k–$1.5M at Seed, $501k–$7.4M at Series A and $4.7M–$21M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Fernando Lelo de Larrea H.'s own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. took part in.
How do I contact Fernando Lelo de Larrea H.?
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When did Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Fernando Lelo de Larrea H. closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 34 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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