# LEAP Global Partners

> LEAP Global Partners is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Fund size: $55M
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leap-innovation-advisory/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/leappartners
- Website: http://www.leapglobalpartners.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leapglobalpartners/

LEAP Global Partners is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on FinTech and Financial Services. LEAP Global Partners Catalazing the next wave of global innovation by investing in underrepresented founders across the Americas. We are a diverse led VC that partners with underrepresented founders challenging the status quo in Fintech, Marketplaces and SaaS. We focus on LatinX markets given secular growth opportunities that are oftenoverlooked by tradicional VCs.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $775k–$6.3M |
| Series A | $6M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 10 | 36% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 32% |
| SaaS | 6 | 21% |
| Software | 5 | 18% |
| B2B | 3 | 11% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 29% |
| Seed | 6 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 14% |
| Series B | 3 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 39% |
| Mexico | 7 | 25% |
| Colombia | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roman Leal | Managing Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-leal |
| Daniel Coppel Garcia | Head of Enterprise Innovation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-coppel-garcia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caplight | Caplight is a platform that enables institutional investors to buy and sell derivatives of private equity.For the first time in the private markets, institutional investors can hedge positions, generate income on assets, and access true liquidity with public settlement-like mechanics.Caplight serves a broad range of QIBs including hedge funds,VC funds, family offices, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, and insurance firms.Securities are offered by North Capital Private Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a partner of Caplight Markets LLC. | $16M | Series A | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Finix | Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform designed to let businesses own, manage and monetize their payments. Their platform uses modular, workflow-driven architecture and a real-time interface to track transactions, consolidate disparate payment processor data and underwrite merchant accounts, enabling banks, acquirers, andenterprises to send money anywhere in the facilitate push payments over debit cards. | $75M | Series C | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Worky | At Worky, we are revolutionizing the way HR is managed at Small and Medium Companies. We want to disrupt the way these firms communicate with their employees, and these employees’ financial health | $6M | Series A | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Leal | Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue. | $5M | Series B | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Leal | Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue. |  | Series A | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Around | The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around. | $3.8M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Pacto | Pacto is the new way to order and pay in Latin America | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Pacto | Pacto is a B2B enterprise software and payments platform focused on small merchants in Latin America. Pacto builds tools and technology to allow banks and financial institutions to empower merchants to move beyond cash payments and accelerate growth in their digital business. Pacto is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Onuu | Onuu ensures financial stability. Founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $6M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Onuu | Onuu ensures financial stability. Founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $6.3M | Seed | Mar 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does LEAP Global Partners invest in?

LEAP Global Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 28 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 LEAP Global Partners's check size?

LEAP Global Partners typically joins rounds of $775k–$6.3M at Seed and $6M–$20M 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 LEAP Global Partners participates in.

### How do I contact LEAP Global Partners?

Public channels for LEAP Global Partners 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 LEAP Global Partners?

The team at LEAP Global Partners includes Roman Leal (Managing Partner) and Daniel Coppel Garcia (Head of Enterprise Innovation). 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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