# PeopleFund

> PeopleFund is a VC fund in Miami backing Internet and E-Commerce. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last fund: Sep 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/peoplefund-inc-
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PeopleFundInc
- Website: http://www.peoplefund.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PeopleFundInc

PeopleFund is a VC fund in Miami focused on Internet and E-Commerce. PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companieswith the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$19M |
| Series B | $20M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 7 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 11% |
| Advertising | 3 | 8% |
| Transportation | 3 | 8% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 8% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 42% |
| Series A | 10 | 26% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |
| Series E | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 53% |
| Guatemala | 5 | 13% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Belize | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julio Gonzalez Arrivillaga | Founding Partner & Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julio-gonzalez-arrivillaga |
| Diego Fernández | CoFounder and Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-fern-ndez |
| Jose Vargas | Co-Founder | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jose-vargas |
| Matias de Tezanos | Founder & CEO | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matias-de-tezanos |
| Morten Sondergaard Pedersen | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morten-sondergaard-pedersen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DMAT | DMAT develops highly-advanced concrete formulas that increase durability and reduce carbon emissions. Our mission is to bring a new level of sustainability and innovation to the concrete industry. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Kingo | Lack of access to energy and connectivity are formidable barriers to human progress in developing countries. Reliable energy and internet open the doors to improved healthcare, education and economic opportunities. However, over 1 billion people still lack access to modern energy services, and billions more lack internet connectivity.KingoHolding Company, Inc. is a technology startup formed in 2022 to acquire and restructure the business and operations of Ignite Holding Company Inc, which previously operated under the Kingo tradename. We provide affordable clean energy and connectivity solutions to people and small businesses in off-the-grid (OTG) communities in Guatemala and Colombia. We design and operate high-uptime systems that provide last-mile service in remote and areas where traditional wired infrastructure is too challenging or costly to deploy. We serve approximately 700 communities with an aggregate population of 250,000 people, mostly subsistence-level farmers living at the so-called “base of the pyramid.” Kingo uses internet-of-things (IoT) technology to enable consumer goods and financial services companies expand to OTG areas. We also make it possible for OTG communities to have access to education, healthcare and other basic services for the first time. | $2.1M | Series A | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Sostengo | Sostengo provides an application for insurance services. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| Kaptyn | Kaptyn is a platform of sustainable vehicles and professional drivers that transforms mobility. They offer the luxury, comfort, and efficiency of a private car service with the sustainability and congestion-reducing benefits of ridesharing. It was founded in 2016 and has current operations in LA, Miami, and Las Vegas. | $20.2M | Series B | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Menlo Micro | Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomesusing high power.Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. | $150M | Series C | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| RewardsWeb | RewardsWeb offers a platform that enhances loyalty and reward programs. Its platform helps shoppers to pay for purchases with local credit and debit cards or with cash at banks through agreements with local financial institutions, thereby enabling customers to buy products of their own choice of brands.The company was founded in 2021 and is basedin Miami, Florida. | $3.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| Getaround | Getaround empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with a $1M insurance policy and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using its app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car.Powered by Getaround ConnectTM, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe carsharing experience is without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment. | $140M | Series E | Oct 14, 2020 |  |
| Amply Power | Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles. It delivers a scalable solution for EV Fleet Charging, as a fleet moves from a pilot project to production scale, that accelerates the zero-emission goals of the business and the EV fleet managers.The company wasfounded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $13.2M | Series A | Apr 28, 2020 |  |
| Advano | Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density. By conquering the challenges of silicon, Advano integrates or completely replaces graphite in today’s lithium-ion batteries with its advanced silicon anode material - improving the longevity of lithium-ion batteries for batterymanufacturers and Tier one consumer electronics and automotive companies. | $18.5M | Series A | Jan 28, 2020 |  |
| Instrumems | Instrumems Inc develops innovative sensors that are based on a new sensing platform “nano-wire”, which allows measurement of temperature, velocity and humidity. Our sensors are faster, cheaper and with a smaller footprint compared with conventional measuring techniques.Sensing technologies are becoming more available and are being used almosteverywhere as an integral part of the IoT from mobile phones to aerospace applications. In the last two decades, data collection and storage have improved significantly, driving sensing technologies to high resolution/high frequency measurements.Instrumems offers high performance, reliable and low-cost sensors for a variety of market needs, which span a wide range of applications such as aerospace, automotive and engine monitoring market and natural gas. The technology is also ideal for mobile applications, real time weather monitoring and distributed monitoring for climate changes and other environmental needs. | $3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Future Shape](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-shape) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fifty Years](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifty-years) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does PeopleFund invest in?

PeopleFund invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 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 PeopleFund's check size?

PeopleFund typically joins rounds of $300k–$4.5M at Seed, $1.5M–$19M at Series A and $20M–$32M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds PeopleFund participates in.

### How do I contact PeopleFund?

Public channels for PeopleFund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 PeopleFund?

The team at PeopleFund includes Julio Gonzalez Arrivillaga (Founding Partner & Managing Director), Diego Fernández (CoFounder and Director) and Jose Vargas (Co-Founder). 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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