Top 5 Real Estate Startup Investors in Costa Rica (October 2026)

They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United States, Costa Rica, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 89
Round size: Seed $500k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $30k–$1.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $160k–$10M
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

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Hem Angels is a part of Hem Securities Limited, which holds experience of 4 decades in Financial Markets. Hem Angels as an angel investment platform intends to co-invest along with the lead investors.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: India, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 81
Round size: Seed $16k–$1.4M; Series A $1k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $11k–$3M
Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
REGRIP — Regrip tyres are a high-performance alternative to fresh tyres for big commercial vehicles' dummies and drive axles. Regrip's inexpensive, dependable, and ecological product line assists fleet owners in saving significant money on tyre use.
WiseDrive — More information about: "Frontpage&quot by offiial website Aviator site.

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Alejandro Moran

Investment focus

Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Payments
Stage:Seed
Geography: Costa Rica

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Obsidiam — FX, payments and international treasury in one platform. Firm quotes, USDT settlement and an API for businesses.

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Epakon Capital is a high growth, early-stage (pre-seed to seed) venture capital fund investing in category-defining businesses across emerging markets. For founders, by founders.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Venezuela, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 18
Round size: Seed $3M–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M; Series A $16M–$46M
Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs has closed. After three years, we have made the decision to close Reforged Labs.

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