Wensceslao Casares
Founder & CEO @ Xapo
Palo Alto, United States
Wensceslao Casares is a seed investor at Xapo in Palo Alto focused on Mobile and Internet. Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Wensceslao Casares invests in
Stages Wensceslao Casares invests in
Countries Wensceslao Casares invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $2M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 3 (30%)
- Internet 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- Financial Services 3 (30%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (50%)
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
Country
- Brazil 3 (30%)
- Chile 2 (20%)
- Argentina 2 (20%)
- Japan 1 (10%)
- United States 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Meanwhile
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Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $40M / Series A / Apr 10, 2025 | |
BoulderTech
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BoulderTech is building the leading tokenization company in Latin America, focused on digital securities. We specialize in tokenizing equity of private companies and launching tokenized investment funds—offering a new, compliant path to capital markets and an alternative to traditional IPOs. Backed by experienced founders in crypto and finance, andsupported by a deep network across the LATAM entrepreneurial and financial ecosystem. | Seed / Nov 11, 2024 | |
Cornershop
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Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE). | $2.5M / Seed / Jul 02, 2015 | |
Tril
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Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | Seed / Oct 01, 2014 | |
VivaReal
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VivaReal is an online real estate marketplace that connects buyers, sellers, and renters with properties in Brazil. It enables its users to sell, buy, rent, or invest in residential and commercial properties, vacation homes, beachfront properties, and investment properties.VivaReal lists approximately 5 million properties on its site and has over15 million visits every month.The company was launched in 2009 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. | $3.7M / Series A / Jan 17, 2012 | |
Nuvemshop
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Nuvemshop (also known as Tiendanube in Spanish-speaking Latin America) is the only D2C e-commerce platform built specifically for Latin America. It absorbs the full complexity of LATAM commerce — payments, logistics, marketing, banking, access to capital, point of sale, AI, agentic commerce, and fiscal compliance — with everything developedin-house.Unlike fragmented stacks where no single vendor owns the outcome, Nuvemshop gives brands a single platform, a single point of contact, and a fully integrated data layer. Merchants can sell more and operate less, with automation and AI running repetitive tasks so they can focus on building their brand.Founded in 2011 by Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez, Nuvemshop is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, and serves D2C brands across Latin America — from those building their first store to those scaling to hundreds of millions in annual revenue. | $300K / Angel / Oct 01, 2011 | |
Gengo
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Gengo’s unique platform consists of a diverse and growing community of more than 18,000 qualified translators from 114 countries working across 37 languages and 64 language pairs. The professional human translation platform represents a huge leap in quality compared to machine translation, while enjoying faster delivery times than traditionalservice providers. Through its web offering and open API, Gengo enables businesses of any size to quickly and easily connect with a global audience at scale. Clients and partners include JTB, TripAdvisor, BuzzFeed, Rakuten and Vestiaire Collective; a more complete list can be found at https://gengo.com/customers/Founded in 2008, Gengo is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with an office in Silicon Valley.To learn more about Gengo, visit www.gengo.com | $800K / Seed / Jan 01, 2011 | |
Popego
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Popego was founded with the goal of bringing answers, and therefore, creative and innovative solutions that challenge men to seek continuous improvement, and finally put down the flag of Latin American Technology. With all the creativity and pride that their people have. | Seed | |
Pago Rural
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Pago Rural is an inclusive lend and pay platform, specially designed for underserved farmers and distributors (most of them SMEs). Originally it emerged as a concrete response to the growing financial needs of agriculture and supports the growth and sustainability of producers in the long term.With Pago Rural, the agricultural producer canfinance the purchase of their inputs such as seeds, agrochemicals, fertilizers and others, in a simple, agile, and safe way. We improve the efficiency and operating margins of the entire value chain, integrating technology and structured financial products, aligning incentives, and offering a winning solution for farmers and suppliers. Pago Rural was established in 2014 and is based in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. | $300K / Pre-Seed | |
Tiaxa
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TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users' mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and thePhilippines.Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications. | $2M / Series A |
Co-Investors
About Xapo
Xapo combines the convenience of an everyday bitcoin wallet with the security of a deep cold storage vault. They believe that bitcoin’s ultimate success will be based on trust – whether individuals trust the digital currency’s stability and whether they trust the industry’s security. That’s why they’ve assembled a team of financial services andsecurity experts to build an entirely new bitcoin storage experience. By offering two distinct products – an easy access wallet and a locked-down vault – they’re marrying the convenience bitcoin users want for everyday needs with the security they require for confident bitcoin saving. It’s the most secure, reliable, and the most convenient.
Xapo Contacts
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Carlos Salas
Android Engineer
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Federico Murrone
Founder & COO
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Karsten Behrend
SVP & Chief Compliance Officer
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Seamus Rocca
Group CFO
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Thong Ngo
Chief Compliance Officer; Chủ đầu tư
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FAQ
What does Wensceslao Casares invest in?
Wensceslao Casares invests primarily in Mobile, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Wensceslao Casares's check size?
Wensceslao Casares typically joins rounds of $800k–$2.5M at Seed and $2M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Wensceslao Casares participates in.
When did Wensceslao Casares last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Wensceslao Casares closed in Apr 2025. 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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