Top 10 Recruiting Angel Investors in Colombia in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Recruiting Angel Investors in Colombia in February 2025

Investor	Recruiting Colombia investments
Felipe Villamarin	2
James Park	1
Eduardo Mufarej	1
Vikas Raj	1
Jeronimo Uribe	1
Caribou Honig	1
Simon Borrero	1
Andres Barreto	1
Austen Allred	1
Deepak Chugani	1

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Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Colombia, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

Eduardo Mufarej built his career in private equity and education as an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of Tarpon Investimentos, one of Brazil’s largest independent investment managers. He served on several boards and was Chairman of Somos Educação and Omega Energia Renovável. From 2014 until 2018 Eduardo led the largest k-12company in Latin America, Abril Educação, which he managed until the sale of the company to Kroton Educacional in October 2018. After the sale, Eduardo created Renova, a project focused on selecting and training a new generation of leaders in Brazilian politics. Since its creation, the program has supported and trained over 2000 individuals in Brazil, helping to elect 176 of its students. This effort awarded Eduardo the prize Brazilian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. In early 2020, Eduardo co-founded Galena, a company that supports and trains individuals for their first jobs. Eduardo is a member of the advisory board of the Wilson Institute, in Washington, DC, of the Yale University SOM Council of Global Advisors and a fellow at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author of the book Jornada Improvável (Unlikely Journey, 2021).

Investment focus

EdTech, Genetics, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Alicerce — Alicerce is a social impact platform designed to support middle-class education. It offers an educational solution, focused on what is most important and promotes the social ascension of Brazilian families.The company is driven by a mission to provide a successful opportunity for all young Brazilians through quality education.Alicerce wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Vikas Raj - Managing Director, Accion Venture Lab @ Accion Venture Lab

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Colombia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.

Jeronimo Uribe

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Coworking
Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.

Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman and co-founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact oftechnology on the workplace, and insurAPI.io, a catalog of insurance-related APIs. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
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Andres Barreto is the Managing Director of Techstars. He previously worked at ENTER.CO as an Investor and Board Member. Andres Barreto attended the University of Florida.