Patrick Wakeham
Mananging Partner @ Escala.vc
New York, United States
Patrick Wakeham is a seed investor at Escala.vc in New York focused on E-Commerce and FinTech. Patrick Wakeham has completed over 13 startup and growth related investments since 2011, in addition to being a founding member of a digital startup in New York. An active mentor for accelerator programs in Latin America such as 500 Startups, NXTP Labs, Founders Institute and NeXT, Patrick typically spends his time meeting entrepreneurs in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries Patrick Wakeham invests in
Stages Patrick Wakeham invests in
Countries Patrick Wakeham invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $20k–$1.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (27%)
- FinTech 2 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (18%)
- EdTech 1 (9%)
- Mobile 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (82%)
- Convertible Note 1 (9%)
Country
- Mexico 5 (45%)
- Peru 1 (9%)
- Argentina 1 (9%)
- United States 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Rocket is the largest platform for financial advice in Mexico, with currently more than 4M registered users of whom at least 1.6 M have given access to their credit history. With this data, we have been building the largest Credit Marketplace in the region. We have achieved this by reinterpreting successful models such as CreditKarma, and adaptingthem to the specific needs in Mexico. | Convertible Note / Mar 31, 2017 | ||
| Nubity provides cloud monitoring and management solutions. It configures, manages, and up-scales cloud infrastructure. Nubity offers Nubity agent, which monitors servers, configures thresholds and notices, and provides alerts; and integrates various clouds in a platform to monitor and manage physical or virtual servers. It also provides cloudmanagement and support services; CPU, memory, and disk utilization services; and Web servers, databases, cache systems, and more. Moreover, Nubity installs, configures, patches, monitors, and troubleshoots Linux distros and Windows servers. It supports Web and databases technologies that include base technologies, Web servers, big data and NoSQL, database engines, and common apps. Dario Peña and Juan Ozino Caligaris founded Nubity on November 1, 2013. It has its headquarters in Mexico City. | $160K / Seed / Jan 15, 2016 | ||
| Conekta designs an online payment platform that helps banks and financial institutions secure and optimize their processes. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to integrate the API, so that it can process online and offline payments, enabling financial institutions to analyze the transaction behavior to identify fraudulent purchases while itsPCI-DSS certified secure banking services encrypt and protect banking and financial information. | $1.8M / Seed / May 01, 2015 | ||
| Nubity provides cloud monitoring and management solutions. It configures, manages, and up-scales cloud infrastructure. Nubity offers Nubity agent, which monitors servers, configures thresholds and notices, and provides alerts; and integrates various clouds in a platform to monitor and manage physical or virtual servers. It also provides cloudmanagement and support services; CPU, memory, and disk utilization services; and Web servers, databases, cache systems, and more. Moreover, Nubity installs, configures, patches, monitors, and troubleshoots Linux distros and Windows servers. It supports Web and databases technologies that include base technologies, Web servers, big data and NoSQL, database engines, and common apps. Dario Peña and Juan Ozino Caligaris founded Nubity on November 1, 2013. It has its headquarters in Mexico City. | $702K / Seed / Nov 14, 2014 | ||
| TiZKKA [ACQUIRED 2018] is a fashion and lifestyle platform that helps you dress better and grow your fashion know-how, on your path to becoming a fashionista. Within the fashion community users get inspired by discovering the latest trends, share their looks and receive advice from fashionistas.The community provides its members with a place toget inspired and discuss fashion, fulfill their psychological need of being noticed and approved by others, on a unique platform where users strive for their daily “15 seconds of fame”.TiZKKA was recognized by Fast Company as one of Latin America's Most Innovative Companies in 2016: http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/sectors/latin-americaFashion influencers upload their looks and match them with products of TiZKKA's partner e-commerce so that users can purchase these items with just one tap seamlessly in-app. The owners of each look earn money for selling the products that are associated to the look. | $250K / Seed / Nov 01, 2014 | ||
| Shopeando is an online retailer that offers a wide array of unbranded products. Its portfolio includes car accessories, cameras and related accessories, cell phones, PDAs, computers, gaming consoles, games and toys, clothing, footwear, sports and fitness equipment, health and beauty, jewelry, audio and video equipment, and more.Shopeando wasfounded by Isaul Gomez Martinez and is based in Mexico City. | Seed / Oct 01, 2014 | ||
| Rocket is the largest platform for financial advice in Mexico, with currently more than 4M registered users of whom at least 1.6 M have given access to their credit history. With this data, we have been building the largest Credit Marketplace in the region. We have achieved this by reinterpreting successful models such as CreditKarma, and adaptingthem to the specific needs in Mexico. | Seed / Jun 01, 2014 | ||
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Mejores Mudanzas
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$20K / Seed / Mar 01, 2014 | ||
| We are a flash Sale site exclusively for trips and getaways. We extend our members the best travel experiences at the best price. Weekly we offer our members a big variety of deals in hotels and aparts with discount between 40% and 70%. | $75K / Seed / Mar 01, 2014 | ||
| Oja.la is an online learning platform for computer skills in Latin America. Oja.la has developed 1,500 classes.- 70 tech programs, released 16 new programs last month and are planning to double the new release of new courses monthly. | $615K / Seed / Jan 24, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Escala.vc
Micro Venture Capital for Latin America. We support post incubator startups with fast founder friendly capital. Current investments: Nubity Shopeando SoloStocks MejoresMudanzas Vontravel Oja.la Acquired: TasteSpace
Escala.vc Contacts
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Patrick Wakeham
Mananging Partner
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FAQ
What does Patrick Wakeham invest in?
Patrick Wakeham invests primarily in E-Commerce, FinTech and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Patrick Wakeham invest in?
Patrick Wakeham typically joins rounds of $20k–$1.8M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Patrick Wakeham's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Patrick Wakeham took part in.
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When did Patrick Wakeham last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Wakeham closed in Mar 2017. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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