# Lolita Taub

> Lolita Taub is a pre-seed investor at Ganas Ventures (Baltimore) backing Beauty and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ganas Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganas-ventures)
- Location: Baltimore, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolitataub
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lolitataub
- Website: https://lolitataub.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lolitamtaub

Lolita Taub is a General Partner and Founder of Ganas Ventures, a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an Enterprise Fund Investment Partner at Portfolia.Lolita is also a Co-Founder of the Startup-Investor Matching Tool, a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and an LP at Operators Collective. Forbes and Inc Magazine have featuredher as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders.She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$1.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Beauty | 2 | 22% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 44% |
| Mexico | 2 | 22% |
| Brazil | 1 | 11% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glitzi | In-hoome & virtual wellness services platform The best place to find certified wellness, beauty & health professionals in Latin America | $2.8M |  | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Leadsales | Commerce is being revolutionized throughout Latin America. Increasingly, SMBs are restructuring themselves to rely on online conversational platforms (like WhatsApp) as their primary channel for acquiring and servicing their clients. LeadSales is building the platform that will be the dominant operating system for this entire new industry - andwill help businesses manage all of their interactions with consumers ranging from conversational sales, CRM, to order fulfillment, even to payments. | $400K | Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Leadsales | Commerce is being revolutionized throughout Latin America. Increasingly, SMBs are restructuring themselves to rely on online conversational platforms (like WhatsApp) as their primary channel for acquiring and servicing their clients. LeadSales is building the platform that will be the dominant operating system for this entire new industry - andwill help businesses manage all of their interactions with consumers ranging from conversational sales, CRM, to order fulfillment, even to payments. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Latitud | 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 |  |
| Commsor | Community scales your business, resources, and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels cannot. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Visit https://commsor.com/ to learn more. | $50M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Shappi | Connecting Shoppers with verified Travelers to deliver products by renting the traveler’s unused luggage space. | $1M | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Baraka | baraka is an investment app, founded in the UAE. It empowers people to become confident investors by providing educational content, digestible market news and in-depth stock analysis. Access to thousands of stocks and ETFs creates the freedom to explore new opportunities. baraka’s mission: to give everyone access to the markets, and empowereveryone to invest. It’s what they call: investing. empowered. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Handsome App | Handsome App is the leading professional network for beauty professionals. Launched in 2018, Handsome App is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| Suma Wealth | SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 19, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Concrete Rose Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concrete-rose-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MaC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mac-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ganas Ventures

VC Fund · Carlsbad, United States

Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.

4 contacts available at Ganas Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gabriel Tudela Aramburu | Investments and Venture Scout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-tudela-aramburu |
| Khartik Uppalapati | Deal Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abesalom-webb |
| Lindsay Helm | Deal Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lindsay-helm-b0a3 |
| Lolita Taub | GP, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lolita-taub |

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## FAQ

### What does Lolita Taub invest in?

Lolita Taub invests primarily in Beauty, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Lolita Taub's check size?

Lolita Taub typically joins rounds of $400k–$1.5M at Seed and $400k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lolita Taub participates in.

### When did Lolita Taub last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lolita Taub closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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?

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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