# Fernando Pontaza

> Fernando Pontaza is a seed investor at Invariantes Fund backing Software and FinTech. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Invariantes Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invariantes-fund)
- Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fpontaza/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/fpontaza
- Website: https://x.com/fpontaza

Fernando Pontaza is a Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Invariantes Fund.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$4.2M |
| Series A | $3M–$50M |
| Series B | $42M–$130M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 21% |
| FinTech | 4 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 10% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |

67 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 28% |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Series B | 4 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 62% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 3% |
| Guatemala | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OKY | OKY builds technologies that help immigrants to improve their lives, connecting families and sending value home efficiently. The Company's products enable people to participate in the digital economy, connecting and sharing goods and services with friends and family through the OKY App, or at more than 6,000 thousand retail locations acrossthe US. OKY built the first retail digital marketplace in Latam consisting of 600 brands with more than 15,000 physical stores across 6 countries where you can redeem products. Our direct-to-consumer solution brings an innovative alternative for cross-border value transfer at a fraction of the cost of traditional alternatives. OKY operates through four sales channels: the OKY App, the OTC retail network, local Rewards & Incentives, and a Resellers API.OKY's innovative embedded finance solution is serving a multi-billion TAM, expanding the financial product offerings that operators currently provide. Our products complement the offerings of existing traditional cross-border remittances operators, driving much higher profitability and emotional value as compared to remittances. Our API integration is deployed on partners' native customer journey, providing an opportunity to monetize customer acquisition on a multi-billion dollar market. There are no incremental customer acquisition costs, thus raising average revenues per user, while keeping customers longer. Ultimately, our exclusive marketplace complements existing offerings driving superior economics and increasing customer lifetime value. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Revere VC | Revere empowers a range of investment advisors, wealth managers, and allocators with the tools to expand their venture capital programs. Revere is best known for creating the industry’s first standardized framework for evaluating fund managers. | $4.2M | Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Atom Computing | Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California. | $60M | Series B | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Picker | On-demand delivery gateway. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Lambda | Lambda provides GPU-powered hardware, cloud, and software solutions tailored for AI model development, training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its offerings include on-demand GPU cloud instances and multi-node clusters, desktop and server workstations equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, a curated software stack for seamless integration of MLtools, and consulting services that help build scalable ML infrastructure and workflows. | $15M | Series A | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Hamama | Hamama provides indoor microgreen seed kits enabling people to grow nutritious microgreens at home. Hamama promotes its healthy food kits as foolproof, even for people who have never grown plants before. Kale, broccoli, radish, clover, wheatgrass, fenugreek, mustard, green onions, and a variety of greens are among the seeds included in Hamama seedkits. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Favor | The Pill Club is an all-in-one healthcare service delivering birth control across the US. Backed by Stanford physicians, The Pill Club is a telemed service focused on delivering birth control, emergency contraceptives, and free gifts to promote a healthy lifestyle. With the full support of incubators such as StartX and 500 Startups, The Pill Clubis driven to ensure a personalized and connected healthcare experience and to empower women to take ownership of their health and bodies, while providing access and personal freedom. The Pill Club was founded in October 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $41.9M | Series B | Jun 14, 2021 |  |
| Revere VC | Revere empowers a range of investment advisors, wealth managers, and allocators with the tools to expand their venture capital programs. Revere is best known for creating the industry’s first standardized framework for evaluating fund managers. | $1.4M | Seed | May 05, 2021 |  |
| Topple | Topple is an advertising platform that allows users to create digital ads across the open web. In the AdTech space, these blacklists have significantly reduced the monetization of publications that rely on this income to stay open. Topple solves this problem by connecting like-minded publishers and advertisers and connecting them with the $201bndigital advertising market. | $500K | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2021 |  |
| CareRev | Care Revolutions is a marketplace for healthcare staff, an online technology platform where Hospitals and Outpatient facilities can directly access per diem medical staff. No vendors, no agencies, no middlemen. Care Revolutions fill empty shifts faster, lower overall staffing costs, and increase trust and quality of patient care. Hospitals andoutpatient facilities book professionals daily to complement their float pool, increase shift fill rates, and maintain safe nurse-to-patient ratios. | $50M | Series A | Apr 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Invariantes Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invariantes-fund) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Invariantes Fund

VC Fund · Guatemala City, Guatemala

Invariantes Fund offers generational wealth management, and venture capital. Invariantes Fund is an early-stage venture fund investing in technology companies that leverage software as infrastructure.

5 contacts available at Invariantes Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alejandro Zelaya | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alejandro-zelaya |
| Daniel Castillo | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-castillo-fae0 |
| Fernando Pontaza | Co-Founder & Managing General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fernando-pontaza |
| Juan Aguilar | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-aguilar-2 |
| Cristobal Ibarguen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristobal-ibarguen |

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## FAQ

### What does Fernando Pontaza invest in?

Fernando Pontaza invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Fernando Pontaza's check size?

Fernando Pontaza typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$4.2M at Seed, $3M–$50M at Series A and $42M–$130M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fernando Pontaza participates in.

### When did Fernando Pontaza last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fernando Pontaza closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 29 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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