# Fernando Rivera

> Fernando Rivera is a seed investor at Buen Trip (Quito) backing Software and B2B. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Buen Trip](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buen-trip)
- Location: Quito, Ecuador
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernandorivera/
- Website: https://buentrip.vc

Fernando Rivera is a seed investor at Buen Trip in Quito focused on Software and B2B. Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and VC. Ex-CTO for ETF.com. Interest in LatAm startups and Fintech.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| B2B | 1 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Baby | 1 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Angel | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Brazil | 1 | 14% |
| Israel | 1 | 14% |
| Colombia | 1 | 14% |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ConstructAI | ConstructAI offers an AI-powered platform designed to automate takeoff and cost estimation for large construction projects. The platform aims to replace traditional manual processes in estimating project costs, which are typically slow, expensive, and prone to errors. It helps construction companies save time, reduce costs, and improve biddingaccuracy in the market. The company’s focus is on transforming the construction industry by capturing data for decision-making. | $150K | Angel | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Kommi | Kommi provides digital marketing services that intends to help organizations boost their sales and and converts data into sales. |  | Seed | Aug 05, 2023 |  |
| Innvox | Innvox builds software elevating their agents' success through AI solutions. They provide actionable data, agent performance management. They also helps to streamline the company's workflows, improve productivity, and minimize the risk of errors through automation. |  | Angel | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Storybook | Storybook is an app that combines infant massage and relaxation techniques with bedtime stories and music to assist families in bonding, connecting, relaxing, and sleeping better. According to the startup, which has a scientific committee that oversees all content, the app helps 80% of children sleep better and 89% of users report betterconnections with their children.Daniela Vega and Francisco Cornejo founded it in 2018. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| Shippify | Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014. |  | Seed | Jan 20, 2016 |  |
| Pimes | Mission-Driven, For-Profit, Online Lender to Small Businesses in Developing MarketsPimes is focused on accelerating the success of profitable small businesses led by motivated, capable and ethical entrepreneurs in select developing markets by providing access to innovative and comprehensive debt financing. At the same time, we aim to offer ourinvestors market returns and access to a new asset class.Starting in Colombia, we will offer a hand up to growing companies who need capital to maximize their impact, create employment and open pathways for upward mobility.Learning, and adapting, from recent experiences in developed markets, we are reinventing small business lending in developing markets.Our target customer has 3 to 50 employees and requires a loan of $5,000 to $100,000. This is typically too large for the microfinance model, but too small for traditional banking approaches to be profitable.We will measure our social impact in terms of absolute employment creation, loans to women-owned and impact-focused enterprises, and loans to rural and underserved regions. |  | Seed |  |  |
| VisIC Technologies | VisIC Technologies is an automotive GaN product providing previously unseen levels of performance in its focused product portfolio. |  | Seed |  |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asymmetry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brazil-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Latitud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitud) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MVI (MENA Venture Investments)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mena-venture-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SEED MG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-mg) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Buen Trip

VC Fund · Quito, Ecuador

Startup incubator in Quito, Ecuador

1 contacts available at Buen Trip.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fernando Rivera | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fernando-rivera |

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## FAQ

### What does Fernando Rivera invest in?

Fernando Rivera invests primarily in Software, B2B and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Fernando Rivera last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fernando Rivera closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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