# Hernan Kazah

> Hernan Kazah is a Series B investor at Kaszek backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kaszek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaszek-ventures)
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 70%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hernan-kazah-95810/

Hernan Kazah is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kaszek Ventures. He currently sits on the board of several leading Latin American technology companies. Before founding Kaszek Ventures in 2011, Hernan cofounded MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) in 1999, where he was COO for 9 years and CFO for 3 years. Prior to this, he worked as Brand Manager atProcter & Gamble Co., and was a finance analyst at the United Nations Development Program.Hernan was also selected Endeavor Entrepreneur in 1999, awarded "The Outstanding Young Persons of Argentina" recognition by the Junior Chamber International in 2004, chosen Established Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2009, and selected Entrepreneur Master of the Year 2018 by Ernst & Young Argentina.Hernan received an MBA from Stanford University and graduated magna cum laude in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 35% |
| FinTech | 6 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 25% |
| Software | 4 | 20% |
| Finance | 3 | 15% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 35% |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Series A | 5 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 5 | 25% |
| Mexico | 4 | 20% |
| Colombia | 2 | 10% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Humand | Humand provides companies to digitize their internal communication, culture, HR processes in one app.. | $77.5M | Series A | Feb 23, 2026 |  |
| OmniChat | OmniChat professionalize your sales on any Chat platform by delivering a sensational shopping experience to your customer! | $8.8M | Seed | Jun 02, 2025 |  |
| Niva | Niva is a global business identity platform used to build trust in businesses across the globe. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2025 |  |
| ARQ | Frictionless finance for a borderless world. Join the revolution and discover the power of a global USDc account. | $5M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Kushki | Kushki is a payment platform tailor-made for Latin America that uses local logic and pricing and can be rapidly integrated. It connects LATAM through payments. Kushki offers clients an integrated payments platform and omnichannel solutions for e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical stores. The startup’s API standardizes the ecosystem’s fragmentedpayments landscape, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks with over 300,000 physical points of payment.Founded in New York City in 2016, by serial entrepreneurs, Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, the company has operations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, USA, and Canada. | $100M | Series B | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| BeerOrCoffee | BeerOrCoffe is an app available for iOS and Android, in portuguese, english and spanish to help you to do networking in an easier and faster way. It offers a speed matching solution for networking that tells you who is available near you in that specific moment to have a beer or coffee with, so you don't miss a great opportunity.> FINDA premium community with the focus on increasing your network, changing knowledge and experience. Identify and search for people by specific interests to yours near you, ensuring a relevant conversation.> INVITE With a few clicks invite the right person around you to a coffee or a beer and start the talking through our chat.> MEET Drink the coldest beer or a delicious coffee while enjoying a great moment to create true connections in the best places around. Beer or Coffee? Invite people, exchange ideas and transform your life, beginning with a simple beer or coffee. | $10M | Series A | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Woba | Woba is a software that provides an ecosystem with work solutions for office and remote teams. | $10M | Series A | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Exactly | Decentralized credit protocol for lending and borrowing with stablecoins, fixed interest rate and longer terms. | $3M | Seed | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Digital House | Digital House is a coding school where new generations of coders and digital professionals are trained to imagine, innovate, and create what they always dreamed. It was established in 2015 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| OmniChat | OmniChat professionalize your sales on any Chat platform by delivering a sensational shopping experience to your customer! | $3.8M | Series A | Jan 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Argo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Broadhaven Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/broadhaven-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Kaszek

VC Fund · Buenos Aires, Brazil

Kaszek is a venture capital firm that invests in high-impact technology-based companies. The firm is industry and stage-agnostic, mainly investing in Seed, Series A, and Series B. In addition to capital, it provides first-hand expertise and insights into strategy, operational execution, team-building, growth, technology, product, networking,fundraising, and more. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo.

5 contacts available at Kaszek.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Guillermo Laborde | VP of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillermo-laborde |
| Hernan Kazah | Managing Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hernn-j-kazah |
| Juan Abadi Roig | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-abadi |
| Julia Salles | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-salles |
| Marcelo Díaz | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcelo-d%C3%ADaz |

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## FAQ

### What does Hernan Kazah invest in?

Hernan Kazah invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hernan Kazah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hernan Kazah closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 20 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?

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