# Mariano Mayer

> Mariano Mayer is a pre-seed investor at Newtopia VC backing FinTech and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Newtopia VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newtopia-vc)
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mayer-8138122/?originalSubdomain=ar
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gugamayer?lang=en

Mariano Mayer is a pre-seed investor at Newtopia VC focused on FinTech and Software. Mariano Mayer is Argentina’s former national secretary for entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises and founder of Marea Venture Partners.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |
| PropTech | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Argentina | 2 | 33% |
| Mexico | 1 | 17% |
| Colombia | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shorta | Shorta is a mobile‑first platform for premium vertical fiction, delivering short‑form “micro‑series” designed specifically for phones and social‑style viewing. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| Creditop | Creditop orchestrates loans by providing a multi-lender payment method that enables merchants to efficiently sell by credit. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Botin | Digital Broker App of U.S Securities for Latin Americans |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| Pulppo | Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo). | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| REVAI | Founded in 2020, REVAI s mission is to encourage Doctors and Clinics to start making anonymized data available for open research, while prompting citizens to become the ultimate owners and controllers of their health data. REVAI is intended to become a true information marketplace, based on new mechanisms of trust and direct, value-basedrelationships between citizens, hospitals, research centres and businesses.What´s more, we strongly believe that patient s healthcare experience has a large room for improvement. That s why we are building a "best in class", web based Electronic Health Record where doctors can easily handle every piece of information of his patients life. Not only we leverage AI, analytics, big data and automation to streamline patients´ experience, we also work very hard to provide a technology platform to help doctors win, retain and delight patients! | $900K | Pre-Seed | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Nuqlea | Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments. | $3.9M | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Check Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-check-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Boost Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boost-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Catalizadores](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catalizadores) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grupo Murchison](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grupo-murchison) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Latitud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitud) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Newtopia VC

VC Fund · Miami, United States

Newtopia VC is a venture capital firm that targeted early-stage startups. Newtopia’s launch comes as global venture investors are increasingly backing Latin American startups. The region now has at least 23 unicorn startups.

5 contacts available at Newtopia VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Diego Noriega | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-noriega |
| Juan Pablo Lafosse | Co-Founder, General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-pablo-lafosse |
| Mariano Mayer | General Partner, Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariano-mayer |
| Sacha Spitz | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sacha-spitz |
| Juan Lafosse | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-lafosse-253a |

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## FAQ

### What does Mariano Mayer invest in?

Mariano Mayer invests primarily in FinTech, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Argentina. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mariano Mayer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mariano Mayer closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 6 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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