# Top 30 Real Estate Angel Investors in Colombia in June 2026

## Brian Requarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

## Daniela Izquierdo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, FinTech

Daniela Izquierdo is the co-founder of Foodology.

## David Vélez
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.

## Ricardo Weder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.

## Javier Diaz Evans
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS

Javier Diaz Evans is a Chief Revenue Officer at A3Sec. He attended Innovation Experience Israel.

## Spencer Rascoff
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Internet

Spencer Rascoff is based out of New York, New York and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Match Group and also the Board of Directors of Hinge. Spencer previously served as Co-Founder, Executive Chairman at dot.LA. Spencer Rascoff attended Harvard University.

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps

Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.

## Jonathan Wasserstrum
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, FinTech

Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

## Pablo Garfinkel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Concepcion Del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B

Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz.

## Manolo Atala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.

## Leonardo Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food Delivery

Leonardo Borrero

## Sebastian Ruales
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

Sebastian is Co-Founder and CEO of Bia.Energy, company aiming to empower LatAm with cheap, sustainable and smart energy, through a consumer centric technology platform.He is founding team member of LatAm´s SuperApp Rappi -YC 16’, Sequoia, SoftBank, DST, T.RowePrice - Where he built from scratch and developed the Monetization model of the company,Business Development and New Businesses. He additionally served as an independent consultant to several StartUps in the region, advising on product and commercial strategy. He is advisor to 8VC, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Opera Ventures, and VP of MatterScale Ventures. He is also Speaker -Including TEDTalks. Prior to tech and VC, he had marketing and commercial strategy roles in the CPG industry, where he worked for L´Oreal, Quala and Johnson & Johnson.Sebastian has an MBA from Tulane University and an EP from Singularity University.

## JP Duque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

## Eric Reiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Eric is a Founding Partner of Vine Ventures based in NYC. Prior to Vine, Eric was a Founding Partner at Sinai Ventures. Previously, Eric has been an investor with Israel's largest venture capital firm, Pitango, as well as Insight Venture Partners, a $16 billion software and internet investor based in New York City. As an operator, Eric servedas Head of Corporate Development at Dynamic Yield, leading strategic partnerships, channel sales, and fundraising. Most recently, he worked as Head of Strategy at Newell Brands, a $16 billion consumer products conglomerate, within the XO division, focusing on IoT and digital innovation.

## Julian Alvarez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software

Julian Alvarez is the Founder and CEO of Logixboard. Julian Alvarez attended Carnegie Mellon University.

## Daniel Correa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software

Daniel Correa

## Alan Rutledge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Alan Rutledge

## Brian Truong
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Logistics, B2B, Internet

Brian Truong - Partner @ Graph Ventures

## Cyril Berdugo
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, FinTech, Software

Cyril Berdugo is the founder of Landis, the company he founded to fulfill the mission of helping Americans reach homeownership. He is a graduate of Emory University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.

## Ali Rampurwala
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.

## Julio Vasconcellos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, FinTech

Julio Vasconcellos is the Managing Partner of Atlantico. He previously worked at Prefer as a CEO. Julio Vasconcellos attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Kevin Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates. 

## Daniel Bilbao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate

Daniel Bilbao - Co-founder & CEO @ Truora

## Hadi Partovi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.

## Juliane Butty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software

Juliane Butty

## James Kraus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software

James Kraus

## Dileep Thazhmon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, B2B, Finance

Dileep Thazhmon is the Co-Founder and CEO at Jeeves.

## Brian Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, FinTech

Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital.

Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay.  He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.

## Marcos Salama
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Nutrition, Health Care, Real Estate

Marcos Salama is the Founder and CEO of Inventa. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Fernando Olloqui
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Procurement, Construction

Fernando Olloqui is the Co-Founder and CEO of Licify.

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