# Pierpaolo Barbieri

> Pierpaolo Barbieri is a seed investor at Ualá (New York) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ualá](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uala)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierpaolo-barbieri-4686851b
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pbarbieri
- Website: https://x.com/pbarbieri

Pierpaolo Barbieri is a seed investor at Ualá in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$30M |
| Series A | $10M–$60M |
| Series B | $27M–$58M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 36% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 36% |
| Banking | 4 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 21% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 3 | 21% |
| Colombia | 2 | 14% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Chile | 1 | 7% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NG.CASH | NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life. | $26.5M | Series B | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Somos Internet | Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. | $13.4M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| NG.CASH | NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life. | $10M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Elevva | Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management. | $30M | Seed | May 12, 2022 |  |
| Tarken | Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Foodology | Foodology builds and runs delivery-focused digital restaurant brands. It engages in scaling restaurant brands across Latin America. Its virtual restaurants run through cloud kitchens enabling brands to shorten their iteration cycles and increase their concept offering without incurring significant setup costs. The company operates over 80 kitchensin Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. | $15M | Series A | Oct 22, 2021 |  |
| Aspire | Aspire is the finance stack that helps global founders build fast and scale freely—with no minimum balance, no borders, and nonstop support. Aspire has supported over 50,000 businesses worldwide, helping them save time and money across international payments, treasury, expenses, payables, and receivables—all managed through a single, intuitiveaccount. To date, Aspire has powered over US$25 billion in payments across 30+ countries, enabling the next generation of global founders to scale without the friction of borders. Founded in Singapore, Aspire has 600+ employees across nine countries. The company has raised over US$300 million from world-class investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and PayPal, and has been recognised as one of the world’s Top Fintechs by CB Insights and CNBC for two consecutive years. | $58M | Series B | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Jeeves Inc. | Jeeves is a global financial platform on a mission to help businesses save time and money by simplifying and automating their financial operations. Our flagship offering began with corporate cards, but the platform has since evolved into a comprehensive, AI-powered suite that includes bill payments, spend management, and accounting tools - allbuilt to streamline how companies manage money at scale.We serve over 5,000 clients across high-growth markets including Brazil, Colombia, NAM, and the EMEA region. While Jeeves initially focused on serving startups and scaling companies in Latin America, we've since expanded our reach and now power financial infrastructure for global enterprise clients such as H&M, Burger King, Nubank, and many others.Jeeves is not just building tools; we’re building the next generation of a truly borderless business banking platform, designed from the ground up for enterprise-level companies operating globally.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in the United States. | $57M | Series B | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| Merama | Merama is an e-commerce platform that partners and exponentiates the growth of each brand they work with. The platform helps fuel their business with outstanding human resources and non-dilutive capital. Its mission is to be the best and largest online group of brands in Latin America.Merama was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in MexicoCity, Mexico. | $60M | Series A | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| Trela | Social Commerce Platform in Brazil | $2.8M | Seed | Apr 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MONASHEES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monashees-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [17Sigma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/17sigma) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kaszek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaszek-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MAYA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maya-capital-56b2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ualá

VC Fund · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.

5 contacts available at Ualá.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pierpaolo Barbieri | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pierpaolo-barbieri |
| Ezequiel Mina | Infrastructure Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ezequiel-mina-2603 |
| Joaquín Diz | Head of Risk | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joaqu%C3%ADn-diz |
| Maia Eliscovich | Head of Ualá Bis | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maia-eliscovich |
| Manuel Franck | Chief of Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manuel-franck |

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## FAQ

### What does Pierpaolo Barbieri invest in?

Pierpaolo Barbieri invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Pierpaolo Barbieri's check size?

Pierpaolo Barbieri typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$30M at Seed, $10M–$60M at Series A and $27M–$58M 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 Pierpaolo Barbieri participates in.

### When did Pierpaolo Barbieri last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Pierpaolo Barbieri closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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