# Newtopia VC

> Newtopia VC is a VC fund in Miami backing Software and FinTech. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Aug 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newtopiavc
- Website: https://newtopia.vc

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $252k–$2.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 12% |
| FinTech | 13 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 11 | 9% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 7% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 7% |

72 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 22 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 3% |
| Series A | 1 | 1% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Argentina | 14 | 12% |
| United States | 9 | 8% |
| Colombia | 7 | 6% |
| Mexico | 6 | 5% |
| Brazil | 4 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diego Noriega | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-noriega |
| Juan Pablo Lafosse | Co-Founder, General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-pablo-lafosse |
| Mariano Mayer | General Partner, Co-Founder | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariano-mayer |
| Sacha Spitz | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sacha-spitz |
| Juan Lafosse | Co-Founder & General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-lafosse-253a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| aviva | Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $18M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Humand | Humand provides companies to digitize their internal communication, culture, HR processes in one app.. | $77.5M | Series A | Feb 23, 2026 |  |
| Aurelia | Aurelia is a co-founder platform that helps users build and validate application ideas. The platform allows users to describe their concept by voice or text and receive support in building an app. Aurelia creates progressive web apps that can be installed on mobile and desktop devices without using app stores. The system supports idea validation byhelping founders test demand before full development. It generates feature priorities using categories such as must, should, and could. The platform also plans to provide market targeting tools, user launch programs, and cohort-based learning. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Numbi | Numbi is building the AI-powered G&A engine for Latin American businesses |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Creditop | Creditop orchestrates loans by providing a multi-lender payment method that enables merchants to efficiently sell by credit. | $3.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| HUNTY | HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired. | $1M | Seed | Aug 01, 2025 |  |
| Nexa Finance | Nexa Finance envisions a future where everyone has access to premium investment opportunities, democratizing finance and making high-quality investment options available to all. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Crabi | Full stack, digital car insurance | $13.6M |  | Jun 05, 2025 |  |
| aviva | Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $6.5M | Seed | May 09, 2025 |  |
| Glim | At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Latitud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitud) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [MatterScale Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matterscale-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [First Check Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-check-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Newtopia VC invest in?

Newtopia VC invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 119 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Argentina. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Newtopia VC's check size?

Newtopia VC typically joins rounds of $700k–$6M at Seed and $252k–$2.4M 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 Newtopia VC participates in.

### How do I contact Newtopia VC?

Public channels for Newtopia VC include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Newtopia VC?

The team at Newtopia VC includes Diego Noriega (Managing Partner), Juan Pablo Lafosse (Co-Founder, General Partner) and Mariano Mayer (General Partner, Co-Founder), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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