# Roger Laughlin

> Roger Laughlin is a Series B investor at Kavak (Mexico City) backing Banking and Payments. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kavak](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kavak)
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-laughlin-carvallo-87867117/

Roger Laughlin is a Series B investor at Kavak in Mexico City focused on Banking and Payments. Roger Laughlin - Founder & COO @ Kavak

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $45M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 2 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 4 | 50% |
| Brazil | 3 | 38% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nowports | Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the productsand providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port. | $150M | Series C | May 24, 2022 |  |
| Stark Bank | Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges. | $45M | Series B | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Stark Bank | Stark Bank is a corporate bank in Brazil | $45M | Series B | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Tani Salud | Tani Salud is a platform that provides quality care and transparent surgery prices for the middle class in Latin America. The company is based in Mexico City. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Loft | Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. | $100M | Series D | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Loft | Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. | $100M | Series D | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Meru | B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 30, 2021 |  |
| Casai | Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental. | $23M | Series A | Oct 14, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Baillie Gifford](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baillie-gifford) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bezos Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bezos-expeditions) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K5 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k5-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MONASHEES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monashees-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Kavak

VC Fund · Mexico City, Mexico

KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars. It specializes in the fields of e-commerce, automotive, and retail. KAVAK e-commerce for the purchase and sale of pre-owned cars in Latin America. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito.

5 contacts available at Kavak.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Loreanne Garcia | Co-Founder & Chief People Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loreanne-garcia |
| Roger Laughlin | Founder & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-laughlin |
| Alejandro Gouveia | VP Innovation & Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alejandro-gouveia |
| Carlos Ottati | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlos-julio-garcia |
| Carlos Salinas | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlos-salinas |

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## FAQ

### What does Roger Laughlin invest in?

Roger Laughlin invests primarily in Banking, Payments and Real Estate startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Roger Laughlin's check size?

Roger Laughlin typically joins rounds of $45M–$45M 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 Roger Laughlin participates in.

### When did Roger Laughlin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roger Laughlin closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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