# Luis X. Barrios

> Luis X. Barrios is a pre-seed investor at ArkAngeles (Mexico City) backing Software and Apps. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ArkAngeles](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-s-a-p-i-de-c-v)
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisxbarrios/

Luis X. Barrios is a pre-seed investor at ArkAngeles in Mexico City focused on Software and Apps. Luis X Barrios is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of ArkAngeles.co. He also founded TheArkFund in 2016 and is one of the founders of The Pool in 2013.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $170k–$300k |
| Pre-Seed | $50k–$700k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Retail | 1 | 14% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 14% |
| Fashion | 1 | 14% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 4 | 57% |
| Colombia | 2 | 29% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| STRADE | STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online. | $145K | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2023 |  |
| Get Konvex | Wihom helps buildings and condominiums to solve the attention of owner service, omnichannel software to generate effective interactions. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2023 |  |
| Lineup | Lineup is a lead scoring SaaS for growth teams. | $345K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| DitoBanx | Our main objective is to enable Bitcoin Financial Services for medium size business and big size corporations. Our services include Bitcoin Merchant tools, Bitcoin Savings Accounts, Bitcoin loans, Crypto Debit card and more. | $50K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Piktia | Piktia is a mobile app where users can choose their favorite photos from their phone or social media, to create prints and photo albums in seconds and get them delivered at their doorstep. Taking photos and sharing them with friends and family has never been easier, thanks to Smartphones, trillions of photographs are created every day, and manyof them have the possibility to become printed pictures. Today’s photo printing solutions are expensive, inefficient and hard to use. Users in Latin America have to spend over 90 minutes in average to print their photos. With Piktia they can do it in just seconds and get their pictures delivered at home. | $170K | Seed | Apr 01, 2018 |  |
| InstaFit | INSTAFIT is an online fitness startup based in Mexico City and co-founded by international entrepreneurs Oswaldo Trava and Natalia Amaya. We make it exciting to work out from home by offering on-demand audio & video fitness classes that combine the guidance of a professional trainer, intelligent programming and fun social interactions to createa truly engaging experience for our users.We make it possible to get professional fitness training from top coaches without leaving your home for less than half the price of the cheapest gym. We produce awesome long format workouts led by the world’s best trainers from yoga to functional training to treadmill workouts, with new content published every week and available offline for unparalleled flexibilityThe InstaFit app was launched in late 2016 and has paying users in 37 countries. It has a 4.4 star rating, is the #1 ranked health and fitness app in 15 countries, and was selected as best of 2016 by Apple. The company attacks the region´s most important health issue, obesity, through the use of world class technology, creative marketing and lean startup practices in an internet market with a 5 year CAGR of over 30%. | $300K | Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |
| The Pool - Entrepreneurship Club | The Pool is an entrepreneurial environment that provides its clients with coworking spaces. It serves as a business center as well as providing coworking spaces and offices for startups and companies in growth potential. The Pool was founded in 2013 by Luis X. Barrios and is based in Mexico City, Mexico. | $350K | Angel | Mar 10, 2013 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The Ark Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-arkfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arrebol Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrebol-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalancha Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalancha-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capital Invent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-invent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gg-capital-626f) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ArkAngeles

VC Fund · Mexico City, Mexico

ArkAngeles.co is a co-investment platform that invests in top startups and investment opportunities in Latam. It allows any investor to co-invest amounts from $ 50,000 pesos in the best startups in the region that have been previously analyzed and approved by angel network investment committees, sophisticated investors, and funds from institutionalventure capital.

1 contacts available at ArkAngeles.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Luis X. Barrios | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-x-barrios |

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## FAQ

### What does Luis X. Barrios invest in?

Luis X. Barrios invests primarily in Software, Apps and Retail startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Luis X. Barrios's check size?

Luis X. Barrios typically joins rounds of $170k–$300k at Seed and $50k–$700k 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 Luis X. Barrios participates in.

### When did Luis X. Barrios last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Luis X. Barrios closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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