# Semilla Ventures

> Semilla Ventures is a VC fund in Guadalajara backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/semilla-ventures/
- Website: https://www.semilla.ventures/

Semilla Ventures is an industry-agnostic early-stage VC fund that invests in startups across Spanish-speaking Latin America with a focus on teams that include at least one technical founder. The fund is committed to driving the digitalization of industries, businesses, and consumers.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $180k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 40% |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |
| Retail | 1 | 10% |
| Fashion | 1 | 10% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 4 | 40% |
| Peru | 1 | 10% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grupalia | Grupalia is a credit company that offers digital loans for micro-entrepreneurs through online process. | $7.7M | Seed | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Leracom AI | Leracom AI provides an AI-powered customer service SaaS platform combining automation and human input. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| Grupalia | Grupalia is a credit company that offers digital loans for micro-entrepreneurs through online process. | $4.8M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| SARELLY SARELLY | SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community. | $3M | Seed | Jul 25, 2025 |  |
| Nufi | Nufi is Latin America's first alternative identity bureau, empowering businesses with fast, reliable, and AI-powered verification solutions. Our platform offers Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) services, enabling the instant verification of individuals and companies in less than 5 minutes. By providing clean, structureddata through seamless API integrations, Nufi helps financial institutions, fintechs, proptechs, and HR companies make secure, data-driven decisions. With access to over 130 data sources, Nufi stands out for its speed, accuracy, and scalability, driving trust and transparency across the region's transactions. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Fonema | Fonema is a conversational AI platform that automates voice calls, WhatsApp messages, and website chat interactions for businesses operating in Spanish-speaking markets across Latin America. Built specifically for regional Spanish, Fonema provides over 200 Latin American voice options, covering Mexican, Colombian, Argentine, Chilean, and Peruvianaccents, that handle pronunciation, local expressions, and cultural context natively rather than through translated or Castilian-adapted speech.On the voice side, Fonema's AI agents manage both inbound and outbound phone calls with end-to-end response latency under 1,000 milliseconds, maintaining natural conversational flow without awkward pauses. Agents handle multi-turn conversations autonomously and transfer to human agents when the situation requires it. Core use cases include sales lead qualification, lead reactivation campaigns, debt collection reminders, appointment scheduling, payment follow-ups, and first-level customer support, workflows specifically designed for how Latin American businesses operate.Beyond voice, Fonema extends the same AI agents to WhatsApp and website chat widgets, enabling omnichannel engagement from a single platform. Conversations carry context across channels, so a customer who starts on WhatsApp can be followed up by phone without repeating information.Fonema integrates with CRM systems including HubSpot and Salesforce to log call outcomes, update lead statuses, and trigger automated workflows. The platform connects to existing telephony infrastructure and supports deployment across multiple phone lines and campaigns simultaneously. Rather than requiring teams to build agents through APIs or code, Fonema offers managed onboarding with Spanish-language support. Agents are configured, tested, and deployed with guided assistance, making the platform accessible to operations teams without dedicated developer resources.Headquartered in Mexico City, Fonema serves industries including financial services, healthcare, real estate, insurance, BPO and contact centers, automotive, education, and retail across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and the broader Latin American market. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| YaVendio | YaVendió is a SaaS platform that increases sales for online stores selling through social media using AI sales reps. From chat to checkout, it boosts sales by 34% at 20% of the cost. The founders bring tech, product, and GTM experience from Silicon Valley AI startups, top Latin American companies, and AI research (MLCommons, BUK, Belcorp, BCP,Vozy, and Stanford).The AI rep learns about the business, its products, checkout process, and selling style. It then connects to your social media platforms, understanding consumer intent through the messages they send, turning those messages into purchases and also upselling. | $850K | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Helix Earth Technologies | Helix Earth Technologies revolutionizes liquid-gas chemistry to disrupt and decarbonize the built environment and heavy industries. With many incentives and tax credits available, the Helix products may cost $0 out-of-pocket making our devices an easy and obvious addition to rooftop HVAC systems. | $6M | Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| YaVendio | YaVendió is a SaaS platform that increases sales for online stores selling through social media using AI sales reps. From chat to checkout, it boosts sales by 34% at 20% of the cost. The founders bring tech, product, and GTM experience from Silicon Valley AI startups, top Latin American companies, and AI research (MLCommons, BUK, Belcorp, BCP,Vozy, and Stanford).The AI rep learns about the business, its products, checkout process, and selling style. It then connects to your social media platforms, understanding consumer intent through the messages they send, turning those messages into purchases and also upselling. | $180K | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2024 |  |
| Saptiva AI | Saptiva is building the AI infrastructure and orchestration layer for Latin America, empowering enterprises, developers, and governments with secure, scalable, and flexible AI solutions. Through its core platform, FrIDA, Saptiva enables organizations to deploy, manage, and run large language models across private cloud, on-premise, and air-gappedenvironments — while maintaining full control over data and model selection. Backed by founders with a prior exit to Twilio, Saptiva operates its own GPU cloud across multiple datacenters in Mexico and is driving the future of AI adoption in the region by fostering an open, sovereign AI ecosystem. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Semilla Ventures invest in?

Semilla Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Semilla Ventures's check size?

Semilla Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7.7M at Seed and $180k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Semilla Ventures participates in.

### When did Semilla Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Semilla Ventures closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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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