# Ignacio Vilela

> Ignacio Vilela is a secondary market investor at Junipero Capital backing Software and SaaS. See 46 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Junipero Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/junipero)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 46
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ignaciovilela
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Nachovilela
- Website: https://x.com/Nachovilela

Ignacio Vilela is a secondary market investor at Junipero Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Ignacio Vilela - Partner @ Junipero Capital

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $521k–$5.2M |
| Series D | $225M–$500M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 22% |
| SaaS | 7 | 15% |
| Cyber Security | 7 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 13% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Secondary Market | 15 | 33% |
| Seed | 9 | 20% |
| Series D | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |
| Series A | 2 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 61% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Highspot | Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.Its platform specializes in providing intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, customer engagement, and actionable analytics. Its unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a singlesolution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence – all supported by actionable analytics.The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| SandboxAQ | SandboxAQ develops quantitative artificial intelligence technologies that combine AI methods with physics-based modeling and advanced computational techniques to address scientific and industrial challenges. Its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) are designed to analyze complex quantitative data and support applications in areas such as drugdiscovery, chemicals and materials research, cybersecurity, navigation, and sensing. The company provides software and simulation tools that help organizations study molecular interactions, manage cryptographic systems, and operate in environments where conventional positioning technologies may be unreliable. SandboxAQ also works with experimental and proprietary scientific datasets to generate predictions and insights for research and engineering workflows. Its technologies are used across industries including life sciences, energy, defense, and manufacturing. |  |  | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| SandboxAQ | SandboxAQ develops quantitative artificial intelligence technologies that combine AI methods with physics-based modeling and advanced computational techniques to address scientific and industrial challenges. Its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) are designed to analyze complex quantitative data and support applications in areas such as drugdiscovery, chemicals and materials research, cybersecurity, navigation, and sensing. The company provides software and simulation tools that help organizations study molecular interactions, manage cryptographic systems, and operate in environments where conventional positioning technologies may be unreliable. SandboxAQ also works with experimental and proprietary scientific datasets to generate predictions and insights for research and engineering workflows. Its technologies are used across industries including life sciences, energy, defense, and manufacturing. | $500M | Series D | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| Postman | Postman is a complete API development environment, used by nearly six million developers and more than 200,000 companies worldwide. It offers a platform for developers or enterprises to build, test, and debug their APIs. The platform intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.Postman is an elegant, flexibletool used to build connected software via APIs quickly, easily, and accurately. It enables API-first development, automated testing, and developer onboarding. The platform's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so they can create better APIs faster. Postman was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners. |  | Secondary Market | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| ConsenSys | ConsenSys is an Ethereum software web3 company. ConsenSys enables developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. ConsenSys' product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions ofusers, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for its clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is a programmable blockchain in the world, business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open-source foundation, ConsenSys is building the digital economy of tomorrow. | $450M | Series D | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| ConsenSys | ConsenSys is an Ethereum software web3 company. ConsenSys enables developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. ConsenSys' product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions ofusers, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for its clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is a programmable blockchain in the world, business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open-source foundation, ConsenSys is building the digital economy of tomorrow. | $450M | Series D | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Snyk | Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customersatisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture.Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce.Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021. |  | Secondary Market | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Postman | Postman is a complete API development environment, used by nearly six million developers and more than 200,000 companies worldwide. It offers a platform for developers or enterprises to build, test, and debug their APIs. The platform intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.Postman is an elegant, flexibletool used to build connected software via APIs quickly, easily, and accurately. It enables API-first development, automated testing, and developer onboarding. The platform's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so they can create better APIs faster. Postman was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners. | $225M | Series D | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Scale | Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like Lyft, OpenAI, Zoox, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data. |  | Secondary Market | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Groq | Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $300M | Series C | Apr 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 46 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Augusta Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/urizen-ventures-i) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AngelList](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Junipero Capital

VC Fund · Miami, United States

Junipero Capital invests in early-stage technology companies and provides support to founders developing software and digital products. The firm focuses on identifying startups with scalable business models, offering capital alongside guidance on product development, market strategy, and organizational growth. Its investment activities includeevaluating opportunities, structuring deals, and collaborating with entrepreneurs throughout company development.The firm works with portfolio companies to refine go-to-market approaches, build partnerships, and prepare for future fundraising rounds. It engages with a network of operators and investors to support company execution and expansion across different stages.

1 contacts available at Junipero Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ignacio Vilela | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nacho-vilela |

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## FAQ

### What does Ignacio Vilela invest in?

Ignacio Vilela invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Cyber Security startups, most often at Secondary Market and Seed stage. Most of the 46 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 Ignacio Vilela's check size?

Ignacio Vilela typically joins rounds of $521k–$5.2M at Seed and $225M–$500M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ignacio Vilela participates in.

### When did Ignacio Vilela last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ignacio Vilela closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 46 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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