# Martin Schrimpff

> Martin Schrimpff is a seed investor at Kocomo backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kocomo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kocomo)
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-schrimpff-99a283

Martin Schrimpff is a seed investor at Kocomo in Mexico City focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $662k–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 40% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Credit | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 80% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colombia | 4 | 40% |
| Mexico | 3 | 30% |
| Brazil | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Atrato | Atrato is a fintech company that allows affiliated merchants to offer a safe, accessible, and reliable buy now, pay later method to their customers. Customers can use Atrato to make purchases at affiliated stores, either online or in person, and pay them off over the course of up to 24 months without using a credit or debit card. Atrato'smission is to provide fair financial tools and services that improve Latin America's quality of life. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Atrato | Atrato is a fintech company that allows affiliated merchants to offer a safe, accessible, and reliable buy now, pay later method to their customers. Customers can use Atrato to make purchases at affiliated stores, either online or in person, and pay them off over the course of up to 24 months without using a credit or debit card. Atrato'smission is to provide fair financial tools and services that improve Latin America's quality of life. | $2.7M |  | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Aptuno | Aptuno provides a seamless search and application experience for LatAm's residential renters and maximizes liquidity for landords. | $1.9M | Seed | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| Grin Scooters | Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America. | $7M | Seed | Jun 28, 2018 |  |
| Zinobe | Zinobe has operated in Colombia since 2012 and develops online financial products for the consumer and small business sectors. The company is focused on using technology to provide the highest level of customer experience and has developed a data centric credit model to help target underserved markets in Colombia. Zinobe is backed by firms such asQED Investors, a U.S. based venture capital firm specializing in disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.zinobe.com, www.lineru.com. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| bxblue | bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online. |  | Seed | Aug 21, 2017 |  |
| Solar for Schools | Solar for Schools is a social impact, digital platform enabling schools , kindergartens and colleges to generate their own solar energy. The platform enables students, volunteers, local partners, councils, diocese to develop solar projects on schools faster, at lower risk and cost and far less effort. We bring partners, funders and installerstogether to make it easy for any school to go solar, regardless of their financial means to cut carbon emissions, save money and inspire the next generation to live more sustainably. | $662K | Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| UnDosTres | UnDosTres is revolutionizing the consumer payments landscape in Mexico. We are building the country's leading platform that allows Mexican's to pay for anything and everything at the tap of a button! We are amongst the fastest-growing startups in Mexico and were recently crowned the Best Fintech Startup in Emerging Markets. | $1.4M | Seed | Apr 10, 2017 |  |
| Busqo | Busqo is an online insurance broker. Busqo offers quote for free online that compares between different insurers and save up to fifty percent on the insurance for car, motorcycle, and home. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2016 |  |
| Acsendo | Companies make decisions regarding employee promotion, compensation and retention without quantifiable data as to skill sets, performance or productivity. Frequently this results in employee dissatisfaction and low morale and eventually loss of talent. Acsendo provides a SaaS based solution that categorizes employee roles, responsibilities, KPIsand competencies enabling employers to enhance and automate the employee review and evaluation process. The result is an open and metrics driven environment that improves employee satisfaction and retention rates while enabling employers to optimize employee talents to business needs. | $150K | Angel | Jan 01, 2012 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Four Cities Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fourcities-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mexamerica Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mexamerica-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Xffirmers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xffirmers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Base10 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base10-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kocomo

VC Fund · Mexico, United States

Kocomo is an early-stage proptech startup, backed by leading U.S., European, and Latin American investors. Leveraging the power of technology, Kocomo has created a transparent vertically-integrated solution that empowers people to purchase, enjoy, and sell co-ownership stakes in luxury homes, starting in Mexico. At Kocomo, we believe your memoriesdeserve a home. We are on a mission to make the dream of vacation home ownership an attainable reality for more people around the world.

5 contacts available at Kocomo.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Requarth | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-requarth-d630 |
| Brian Requarth | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-requarth |
| Graciela Arango | Co-Founder & CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graciela-arango |
| Martin Schrimpff | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-schrimpff-6720 |
| Thomas Baldwin | Co-Founder & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-baldwin |

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## FAQ

### What does Martin Schrimpff invest in?

Martin Schrimpff invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Colombia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Martin Schrimpff's check size?

Martin Schrimpff typically joins rounds of $662k–$7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Martin Schrimpff participates in.

### When did Martin Schrimpff last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martin Schrimpff closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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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