Gerry Colyer
Co-founder | CEO @ Clara
Mexico City, Mexico
Gerry Colyer is a seed investor at Clara in Mexico City focused on Software and Financial Services. Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Gerry Colyer invests in
Stages Gerry Colyer invests in
Countries Gerry Colyer invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $30k–$12M
- Pre-Seed
- $2.5M–$3.8M
- Series A
- $12M–$46M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (36%)
- Financial Services 5 (36%)
- FinTech 4 (29%)
- Finance 3 (21%)
- SaaS 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (43%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (14%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Country
- Mexico 2 (14%)
- Colombia 2 (14%)
- Chile 1 (7%)
- Brazil 1 (7%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cercli
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Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $12M / Series A / Oct 21, 2025 | |
Zelt
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Zelt provides the enterprise with all the functionality needed to manage its workforce across the whole employee lifecycle end-to-end with applications spanning HR, Finance and IT use cases. Zelt is easy to use, tasteful, and affordable, and it enables organizations to function in a simpler and more automated way. The platform automates variousaspects of employee management, such as onboarding and offboarding, significantly reducing the time and effort required to provision employee accounts. | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 20, 2023 | |
Latitud
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Latitud is a venture capital platform that supports early-stage startups. Latitud is both an infrastructure for tech startups and a venture fund. Its core focus is on providing pre-seed investments and offering hands-on support to founders to help them build and scale their startups from the ground up. | $1.5M / Seed / Jul 12, 2022 | |
Treinta
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Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools. | $46M / Series A / Apr 04, 2022 | |
Yuno
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Yuno enables any company to accept all the available payment methods and manage fraud through a single integration. It allows customize checkout and adding new payment methods with just a click. The company enables an improved customer experience while increasing revenues by routing transactions to the best processor and retrying declinedtransactions. | $10M / Seed / Mar 10, 2022 | |
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Zelt
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Zelt provides the enterprise with all the functionality needed to manage its workforce across the whole employee lifecycle end-to-end with applications spanning HR, Finance and IT use cases. Zelt is easy to use, tasteful, and affordable, and it enables organizations to function in a simpler and more automated way. The platform automates variousaspects of employee management, such as onboarding and offboarding, significantly reducing the time and effort required to provision employee accounts. | Seed / Mar 03, 2022 | |
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Zelt
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Zelt provides the enterprise with all the functionality needed to manage its workforce across the whole employee lifecycle end-to-end with applications spanning HR, Finance and IT use cases. Zelt is easy to use, tasteful, and affordable, and it enables organizations to function in a simpler and more automated way. The platform automates variousaspects of employee management, such as onboarding and offboarding, significantly reducing the time and effort required to provision employee accounts. | $3.8M / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | |
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Latitud
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Latitud is a venture capital platform that supports early-stage startups. Latitud is both an infrastructure for tech startups and a venture fund. Its core focus is on providing pre-seed investments and offering hands-on support to founders to help them build and scale their startups from the ground up. | $11.5M / Seed / Feb 28, 2022 | |
Vest
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Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts. | $6M / Seed / Jan 26, 2022 | |
Palenca
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Palenca is a Payroll API that makes it easy for consumers to share employment data with financial institutions, as well as offering automated collections directly from a borrower's paycheck. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 17, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Clara
End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
Clara Contacts
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Gerry Colyer
Co-founder | CEO
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FAQ
What does Gerry Colyer invest in?
Gerry Colyer invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gerry Colyer's check size?
Gerry Colyer typically joins rounds of $30k–$12M at Seed, $2.5M–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$46M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gerry Colyer participates in.
When did Gerry Colyer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gerry Colyer closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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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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