# IGNIA

> IGNIA is a VC fund in San Pedro backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 95 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Pedro, Mexico
- Total investments: 95
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $150M
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignia-partners-vc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/IGNIA_Fund
- Website: http://www.ignia.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IGNIAFund/

IGNIA is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in global entrepreneurs who are developing innovative technology solutions that address fundamental pain points in Latin America. Founded in 2007, IGNIA has a total of three funds, IGNIA Impact Fund, IGNIA VC Fund I and IGNIA VC Fund II, with over US$400 million in AUM. IGNIA invests in sectorssuch as healthtech, fintech, SaaS, edtech, e-commerce, web3, and AI-Enabled tech platforms, among others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $387k–$12M |
| Series A | $3.7M–$14M |
| Series B | $2M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 22 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 20 | 21% |
| Software | 11 | 12% |
| Internet | 10 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 8 | 8% |

98 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 21% |
| Series A | 18 | 19% |
| Series B | 16 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 8% |
| Series C | 7 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 29 | 31% |
| United States | 14 | 15% |
| Brazil | 4 | 4% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Chile | 1 | 1% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alberto Torrado Martínez | Advisory Board Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-torrado-martnez |
| Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui | Co - founder & Managing Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alvaro-rodrguez-arregui |
| Christine Kenna | Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-kenna |
| Otto Navarro | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otto-graff-navarro |
| Cristina Fernandez Lozano | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-fernandez-lozano |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| aviva | Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $18M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Checker |  | $8M | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| BackChannel | BackChannel is an online B2B platform for inventory transactions and for buying and selling online goods. | $4.7M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| MiSalud | MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Digitt | Digitt creates equitable financial tools to combat predatory lending. Digitt's mission is to eliminate the predatory interest rates that banks charge on credit cards. Digitt offers low-interest rates ranging from 20% to 42% per year, allowing customers to pay less interest and pay off their debt faster. Customers using Digitt will know exactlyhow much they must pay each month and when they will be debt-free. | $10M | Series A | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Monato | Monato is a fintech that builds modular, scalable financial infrastructure that allows companies to integrate financial services in compliance with regulations. | $13M | Seed | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| Tensec | Founded in 2023, Tensec is a global fintech that enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to enter global trade and thrive by giving them access to global transaction banking solutions that are user-friendly, efficient, and secure.Tensec founders have driven startups from foundation to exit, built decacorns, and led global teams atcompanies such as PayPal, Credit Karma, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. We’re putting together a world-class team to disrupt the $50 trillion cross-border b2b financial services industry by providing SMBs the financial strength to participate and win in the global economy.We believe that successful companies and teams are directly correlated to a company's cultural DNA. At Tensec, we make a deliberate effort to create values and foster a culture able to unleash both human and organizational potential. We strongly believe that the best business results derive from teams that have a strong identification with a mission, push themselves to the edge, and love what they do.The Tensec team is diverse and global, with members in New York, San Francisco and São Paulo. We are funded by top venture capital firms such as Costanoa Ventures, Quiet Capital, Cambrian Ventures, Ignia Partners and WillowTree Investments. | $12M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Crabi | Full stack, digital car insurance | $13.6M |  | Jun 05, 2025 |  |
| aviva | Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $6.5M | Seed | May 09, 2025 |  |
| Malga | Malga is an API to accept payments with multiple payment providers. Malga gives digital businesses access to multiple payments services through a single integration, and the ability to change between them on a transaction-to-transaction basis without writing code. | $5.6M | Series A | Feb 25, 2025 |  |

10 of 95 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antai Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antai-venture-builder) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Elevar Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevar-equity) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [FinTech Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintech-collective) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Shilling VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shilling-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Wollef Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaguar-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kaszek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaszek-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does IGNIA invest in?

IGNIA invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 95 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is IGNIA's check size?

IGNIA typically joins rounds of $387k–$12M at Seed, $3.7M–$14M at Series A and $2M–$42M 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 IGNIA participates in.

### How do I contact IGNIA?

Public channels for IGNIA include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at IGNIA?

The team at IGNIA includes Alberto Torrado Martínez (Advisory Board Member), Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui (Co - founder & Managing Partner) and Christine Kenna (Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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