# Santiago Lira

> Santiago Lira is a seed investor at Buk (Santiago) backing B2C, SaaS and FinTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Buk](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buk-cf91)
- Location: Santiago, Chile
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiago-lira-a0a25a46/
- Website: https://x.com/TopFiveBySanti
- Facebook: https://es-la.facebook.com/santiago.lira.75

Santiago Lira is a seed investor at Buk in Santiago focused on B2C and SaaS. Santiago Lira is based out of Santiago, Region Metropolitana and is the Co- Founder and Chief Development Officer of Buk. Santiago previously worked at Falabella.com as a Development Manager. Santiago Lira attended the Kellogg School of Management.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$7.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2C | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Training | 1 | 50% |
| Wellness | 1 | 50% |

9 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Toku | Toku is the leading Payment Relationship Management (PRM) platform in Latin America, built to transform how companies manage their recurring revenue collection.Designed for businesses that rely on monthly payments — such as insurers, lenders, telecom providers, real estate firms, educational institutions, utilities, and subscription services —Toku enables organizations to automate, orchestrate, and optimize the entire billing and payment lifecycle.With Toku, companies can reduce operational friction, improve cash flow, lower collection costs, and deliver a seamless payment experience to their customers. From payment method enrollment to intelligent retry logic, automated reminders, reconciliation, and integration with ERP/CRM systems, Toku acts as the financial infrastructure behind high-performing operations.More than just a payments tool, Toku is defining a new software category — PRM: Payment Relationship Management — empowering companies to build smarter, more reliable, and human-centric financial interactions with their customers. | $7.2M | Seed | Mar 12, 2023 |  |
| Yourney | We are a digital coaching platform that improves the lives of your employees and their ability to drive your organization to its full potential. We facilitate Coaching, the most effective tool to accelerate the development of critical skills in three simple steps. | $800K | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [4um Investimentos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4um-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clocktower Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drobny-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [F-Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-prime-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Honey Island Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hi-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Invexor Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invexor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Buk

VC Fund · Santiago, Chile

Buk is a cloud-based human resource management software system that unifies a wide range of HR functionality into one system. The software provides benefits, talent management, payroll, time tracking, and recruiting solutions. The Buk App allows teams to be managed more effectively, providing notifications, document signing, and access to payrolldetails directly from mobile devices.

5 contacts available at Buk.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Felipe Sateler | Co Founder / CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felipe-sateler |
| Jackie Chen | Growth Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jackie-chen-2a78 |
| Jaime Arrieta Boetsch | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaime-arrieta-boetsch |
| Matias Vial | Head of Internal Products and Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matias-vial |
| Ricardo Sateler | Co-Founder and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricardo-sateler |

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## FAQ

### What does Santiago Lira invest in?

Santiago Lira invests primarily in B2C, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Chile. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Santiago Lira's check size?

Santiago Lira typically joins rounds of $800k–$7.2M 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 Santiago Lira participates in.

### When did Santiago Lira last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Santiago Lira closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 2 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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