# Ganas Ventures

> Ganas Ventures is a VC fund in Carlsbad backing Software and Retail. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carlsbad, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ganasvc
- Website: https://www.ganas.vc

Ganas Ventures is a VC fund in Carlsbad focused on Software and Retail. Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Retail | 3 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 11% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 33% |
| Mexico | 4 | 22% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| El Salvador | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gabriel Tudela Aramburu | Investments and Venture Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-tudela-aramburu |
| Khartik Uppalapati | Deal Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abesalom-webb |
| Lindsay Helm | Deal Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lindsay-helm-b0a3 |
| Lolita Taub | GP, Founder | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lolita-taub |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leracom AI | Leracom AI provides an AI-powered customer service SaaS platform combining automation and human input. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| Harmony (tryharmony.ai) | Harmony AI, an early-stage startup that is now building out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Vitrinnea | Vitrinnea is the first full service marketplace in Central America powered by re-injecting used garments back into the market. Our goal is to make shopping for fashion accessible, fun and sustainable. We offer clothing, footwear and accessories at the best price with the best user experience. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Nufi | Nufi is Latin America's first alternative identity bureau, empowering businesses with fast, reliable, and AI-powered verification solutions. Our platform offers Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) services, enabling the instant verification of individuals and companies in less than 5 minutes. By providing clean, structureddata through seamless API integrations, Nufi helps financial institutions, fintechs, proptechs, and HR companies make secure, data-driven decisions. With access to over 130 data sources, Nufi stands out for its speed, accuracy, and scalability, driving trust and transparency across the region's transactions. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Unvale | UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Unvale | UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | $1.8M | Angel | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Unvale | UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| LiquiDonate | LiquiDonate matches and moves reclaimable items into nonprofit organizations. Their tech solution offers the matching algorithm and the Donation as a Service API. LiquiDonate provides the donation method for retailers, businesses, and downsizing organizations. | $3.8M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Ask Alex | Ask Alex is an AI-powered data and marketing software providing customer insights and automated reporting of essential business metrics. | $2M | Seed | Feb 18, 2024 |  |
| Avify | Avify is the best platform that takes the D2C model to the next level. Due to Pandemic, sales through social media and E-commerce channels in Latin America, increased almost 40%, and business owners have to manage multiple sales channels everyday like Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, their own E-commerce, Mercado Libre, Etsy, Amazon and more, causinga huge problem with inventories that are not synchronized and jumping from one channel to the other answering questions, printing shipping labels and is so hard to grow the business when all this job is manual. That's why we created Avify, the Centralized Backoffice for E-commerce in Latin America. Our customers can save a lot of hours per week doing manual tasks and invest that time growing the business and acquiring more clients. Avify provides an agnostic layer where our customers integrate any delivery service, payment gateway or invoicing tool, creating a powerful workflow to take the business to the next level of automation. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ganas Ventures invest in?

Ganas Ventures invests primarily in Software, Retail and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Ganas Ventures's check size?

Ganas Ventures typically joins rounds of $400k–$12M at Seed and $400k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ganas Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Ganas Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Ganas Ventures?

The team at Ganas Ventures includes Gabriel Tudela Aramburu (Investments and Venture Scout), Khartik Uppalapati (Deal Partner) and Lindsay Helm (Deal Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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