Fernando Lelo de Larrea
Angel Investor @ Hi Ventures
Spain
Fernando Lelo de Larrea is a seed investor at Hi Ventures in Spain focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Fernando Lelo de Larrea es un inversor y emprendedor mexicano con más de 25 años de experiencia en venture capital, financiación de proyectos e inversión estructurada. Como fundador y socio director de Rumbo, desarrolla una plataforma centrada en descarbonización industrial, tecnología climática, energía y manufactura avanzada en el sur de Europa y las Américas. Antes fue cofundador de ALLVP. Con base en Madrid, su trayectoria conecta capital, industria y transformación productiva desde una visión de largo plazo.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
Last updated:
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Industries Fernando Lelo de Larrea invests in
Stages Fernando Lelo de Larrea invests in
Countries Fernando Lelo de Larrea invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $255k–$20M
- Series B
- $4.7M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (14%)
- Financial Services 3 (14%)
- Energy 2 (10%)
- Medical 2 (10%)
- E-Commerce 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (29%)
- Series A 5 (24%)
- Series B 4 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Convertible Note 1 (5%)
Country
- Mexico 6 (29%)
- United States 3 (14%)
- Chile 1 (5%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
- Norway 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Clau is a leading real estate platform that simplifies buying, selling, and remodeling properties. It acts as a real estate superapp combining a property marketplace with CRM tools for brokers, mortgage brokerage services, renovation connections, and a data platform for market insights. It serves homebuyers, brokers, sellers, and investors seekingstreamlined property transactions and market data. | $20M / Series A / 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Enlight is a solar energy company for homes and small businesses. Our customers use the endless energy provided by the sun to generate their own electricity at a substantially lower cost, with more clarity about their consumption and through a great customer experience. Enlight has thousands of customers and is a partner of Engie, the largestindependent electricity producer in the planet. | $4.7M / Series B / Feb 15, 2017 | ||
| Alkanza is a global B2B SaaS platform providing leading financial institutions with a suite of automated advisory products to better serve their end customers. Alkanza differentiates with a asset-agnostic asset allocation methodologies powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. This allows Alkanza the flexibility to enter nearly anycapital market and utilize market securities and/or the proprietary mutual funds offerings of our partners. Alkanza's Behavioral Science team powers an omni-channel engagement engine, allowing for personalized messaging and notification. Alkanza extends these capabilities via web and mobile applications to serve consumers or advisors. The company also has a Corporate offering to support the use case of corporate treasurers. Alkanza serves a wide range of financial institutions - Banks, Brokers, Asset Managers and Insurance companies. Alkanza has partnerships in EMEA, Asia and Latin America. | $6M / Series A / Jan 09, 2017 | ||
| Enlight is a solar energy company for homes and small businesses. Our customers use the endless energy provided by the sun to generate their own electricity at a substantially lower cost, with more clarity about their consumption and through a great customer experience. Enlight has thousands of customers and is a partner of Engie, the largestindependent electricity producer in the planet. | $900K / Seed / Aug 25, 2016 | ||
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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 invest in?
Fernando Lelo de Larrea invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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 invest in?
Fernando Lelo de Larrea typically joins rounds of $150k–$2.5M at Seed, $255k–$20M at Series A and $4.7M–$21M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Fernando Lelo de Larrea's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Fernando Lelo de Larrea took part in.
How do I contact Fernando Lelo de Larrea?
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When did Fernando Lelo de Larrea last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Fernando Lelo de Larrea closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 21 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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