Jimena Pardo
Managing Partner, Co-founder @ Hi Ventures
Mexico City, Mexico
Jimena Pardo is a seed investor at Hi Ventures in Mexico City focused on FinTech and Finance. Jimena brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience developed in multiple tech companies. Inside the firm she leads the relationship with Slang, Mendel, Fondeadora, and Apli. She began her journey in the entrepreneurial ecosystem after co-founding Carrot, the region ́s largest carsharing and P2P mobility marketplace which was HI VENTURES’sfirst investment back in 2012. Her time as Carrot’s co-founder and CEO led her to become an Endeavor Entrepreneur. Jimena continued her path as an operator at Meta (Facebook), where she served as Product Growth Manager. During this time, she developed a deep expertise around product, user experience and go-to-market strategies, which she also shared with entrepreneurs via mentorships and angel investments. She came back home to HI VENTURES in May 2022 and will become our portfolio company’s best ally for operative guidance, founder-to-founder empathy and product strategy. Jimena holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. She has been recognized as Forbes Mexico 30-under-30 Promises, Emprendedora Expansión, and TEDx speaker.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Jimena Pardo invests in
Stages Jimena Pardo invests in
Countries Jimena Pardo invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 5 (33%)
- Finance 3 (20%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- Financial Services 3 (20%)
- Information Technology 3 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (47%)
- Series A 3 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 5 (33%)
- Chile 3 (20%)
- Mexico 2 (13%)
- Brazil 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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TESS
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Founded in California by Brazilian entrepreneurs, TESS AI is an enterprise-grade autonomous agentic AI platform engineered to deliver hard corporate ROI. The company empowers professionals to build highly customized AI agents orchestrating over 250 AI models, featuring native integration with global automation ecosystems. By pioneering adisruptive, "seatless" pricing model, TESS eliminates restrictive per-user licenses, generating up to 90% in cost savings and allowing enterprises to consolidate their stack by replacing 4 to 5 traditional SaaS tools within the first six months. Powered by a complex agentic architecture—outperforming Meta’s $2B Manus AI—TESS is driving explosive adoption, with over 16,000 users executing more than 600,000 autonomous tasks every month. | $4.9M / Seed / Mar 02, 2026 | |
Cenit
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Cenit offers an AI-driven SaaS platform that enables financial institutions to tailor client experiences and enhance operations through machine learning automation. | $1.8M / Seed / Nov 27, 2025 | |
Mendel
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Mendel will use expense management software to recover all of your invoices and integrates expense management software with your accounting system. | $35M / Series B / Mar 27, 2025 | |
Sirvana
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AI-powered shopping platfotm. | $2M / Seed / Mar 14, 2025 | |
perhaps
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Perhaps is an AI assistant platform that build smart helpers to assist to everyday work and tasks. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Jul 07, 2024 | |
Atlas
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No-code friendly tool to automate emails and send segmented campaigns. | $2.7M / Seed / Dec 04, 2023 | |
Shinkansen
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Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana. | $3M / Seed / Jul 03, 2023 | |
Senzai AI
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Senzai AI uses machine-learning and casual inference techniques to estimate the impact of different treatments on expected customer outcomes. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | |
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Mendel
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Mendel will use expense management software to recover all of your invoices and integrates expense management software with your accounting system. | $10M / Series A / Nov 07, 2022 | |
Clubbi
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Clubbi is a B2B marketplace for small merchants such as mini-markets and corner stores. It facilitates transactions with their suppliers and supports them to improve operations. It also increases the overall value pool for the FMCG industry by maximizing the fragmented market’s sales and by developing the most efficient way for distributors andbrands to reach and communicate with independent retailers | $12M / Series A / Jun 01, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Hi Ventures
Hi Ventures is the fund seed and early venture capital, formed to invest in entrepreneurs with strong components and scalable models of innovation.
Hi Ventures Contacts
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Jimena Pardo
Managing Partner, Co-founder
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Antonia Eing
Partner
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Blanca Sañudo
Management Analyst
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Charlotte Paratre
Investor
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Federico Antoni
Founder & Managing Partner
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What does Jimena Pardo invest in?
Jimena Pardo invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Jimena Pardo last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jimena Pardo closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 15 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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