# Patrick Wakeham

> Patrick Wakeham is a seed investor at Escala.vc backing FinTech and Enterprise Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Escala.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/escala-vc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2017
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwakeham
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wakehamp

Patrick Wakeham is a seed investor at Escala.vc in New York focused on FinTech and Enterprise Software. 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 inArgentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $20k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 18% |
| Credit | 1 | 9% |
| EdTech | 1 | 9% |
| Mobile | 1 | 9% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 82% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 4 | 36% |
| Peru | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rocket.La | We provide value to our users through free financial advising. We are able to prepare personalized financial product suggestions for our customers, which are based on data we collect from the Credit Bureau and other alternative sources. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 31, 2017 |  |
| Nubity | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.La | We provide value to our users through free financial advising. We are able to prepare personalized financial product suggestions for our customers, which are based on data we collect from the Credit Bureau and other alternative sources. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2014 |  |
| Mejores Mudanzas |  | $20K | Seed | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| VONTRAVEL | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-ventures-mexico) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NXTP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/NXTP-Ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alta Ventures Mexico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alta-ventures-mexico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cometa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cometa-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grand-canyon-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IGNIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Escala.vc

VC Fund · Lima, Peru

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

1 contacts available at Escala.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Patrick Wakeham | Mananging Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-wakeham |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Wakeham invest in?

Patrick Wakeham invests primarily in FinTech, Enterprise Software and Credit 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 is Patrick Wakeham's check size?

Patrick Wakeham typically joins rounds of $20k–$1.8M 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 Patrick Wakeham participates in.

### 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.

### 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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