Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in LATAM in January 2026

Investor	Recruiting LATAM investments
H20 Capital	5
Bossa Invest	3
Owl Ventures	3
H20 Capital Innovation	3
Kalei Ventures	3
B Venture Capital	2
Armínio Fraga	2
Exor Ventures	2
Flucas Ventures	2
99 Startups	2
Magma Partners	2
Clocktower Technology Ventures	2
Dan Rosensweig	2
Felipe Villamarin	2
IGNIA	2
MAYA Capital	2
David Vélez	2
Hi Ventures	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
Exor Ventures	2
Point72 Ventures	2
17Sigma	2
FJ Labs	2
Latitud	2
Honey Island Capital	2
Kaszek	2
VentureFriends	2
AVP Ventures	2
Valhalla Valley Ventures	2
Cometa	1
Share Capital	1
Empower Investment	1
SCM Advisors	1
Romero Rodrigues	1
Jeronimo Uribe	1
Altos Ventures	1
Aimorés Investments	1
André Street	1
Criteria Venture Tech	1
Daniel L Gleizer	1
SOFTBANK Latin America Ventures	1
James Park	1
Austen Allred	1
Duxx Investimentos	1
ArpexCapital	1
Jon Oringer	1
Otto Capital	1
Solid Ventures	1
Scale-Up Ventures	1
Upload Ventures	1

H20 Capital backs disruptive entrepreneurs creating tomorrow's largest, most valuable, and longest-lasting companies, seeking to become a hands-on partner by helping entrepreneurs disrupt and create new markets while adding value. The Firm's focus is in B2B Enterprise Software (SaaS), B2B Marketplaces, and B2B Fintech in LatAm and the US(primary focus on LatinX & immigrant founders in the US).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Safara — Book over 1M hotels that are carbon offset for free on Safara, plus get insider travel recommendations and enjoy an unbeatable loyalty program.
Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Comunitive — Peepi is a solution for scaling and changing customer and employee engagement into brand defenders improving retention, empowering sharing experiences, and attracting new customers. The company allows users to know who likes a brand and get closer to these people and increase engagement. Users can encourage people to share and advertise a brand insocial networks and more.Peepi was founded on 2017 and is headquartered Curitiba, Brazil.
Guapeco — Guapeco provides customized pet insurance services that helps pet parents take care of well-being of their pets through a health plan
Just Travel — Just Travel serves as a reference in the distribution of tourism products and customer service. The company offers cutting-edge technology that focuses on virtual presence, and provides growth, profitability, and brand strengthening on the internet.

Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
Linus — The fun, effective, affordable way to study for the SAT.
Complement 1 — Improve cancer-related health outcomes with expert-led live sessions covering exercise, nutrition, and well-being.

H20 Capital Innovation is a cross border early-stage venture capital fund with operations in the USA and Latin America. We actively invest in entrepreneurs that are using technology to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones in the B2B Marketplace and B2B Enterprise IT sectors.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Mexico, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Morado — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
Spot2 — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.

Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region.

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Argentina, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
The Podcast App — The Podcast App is an audio platform that helps millions of people in their pursuit of happiness. Under one roof, we bring the best and most powerful podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations from leading minds and experts around the world.

BVC is a venture capital fund investing in Latin American startups at the seed and pre-seed stages. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs to build world-changing companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Brazil, Colombia, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Loopia — Loopia is an AI-based platform that centralize customer service in e-commerce and marketplaces, transforming support interactions into sales opportunities. With Luna, our intelligent AI agent, businesses can centralize and streamline their customer service, ensuring fast, efficient, and highly scalable support. By automating repetitive tasks andoptimizing response times, Loopia enables e-commerce companies to reduce operational costs while maximizing customer satisfaction and revenue growth.We believe that traditional customer service is outdated, our mission is to elevate it into a strategic sales driver. Every customer interaction should go beyond simple support, it should create meaningful engagement, build brand loyalty, and drive conversions. With Loopia, businesses don’t just solve customer issues, they unlock their full sales potential.
Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
Give4.Tech — Give4.Tech is a fintech firm that offers a global infrastructure for online giving.

Armínio Fraga

Investment focus

Recruiting, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

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.
Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.

Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Ori Industries — Ori is a developer of a cloud platform designed to enable computing anywhere and everywhere. It empowers developers and networks to build future applications for global infrastructure from smart cities, immersive worlds, and autonomous machines. Ori Industries was established in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Startups, Inversion, Latam, Fintech, Venture capital, Fundadores

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Soyio — La plataforma modular para cumplir con la ley de datos personales
Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions
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.

Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Mexico, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
Altis — ALTIS is a digital platform that acts as a banking correspondent to facilitate the loan contracting process.
Frente — Nossa missão é transformar a forma com a qual as pessoas fazem câmbio. Unimos a experiência de profissionais com carreira consolidada no mercado financeiro a uma visão inovadora e contemporânea de negócios. Tudo com a potência que a tecnologia de dados trouxe para o universo Fintech.Somos a sua parceira de câmbio mais sólida e confiável, capaz deatender às suas demandas, superando desafios cada vez maiores e mais rápidos, em um mundo em constante transformação. Nossa preocupação verdadeira com um atendimento próximo, consultivo e atencioso, além de taxas acessíveis e preços justos, complementam a experiência que oferecemos. Tudo de forma a trabalharmos para diminuir a carga burocrática e processos engessados das grandes instituições financeiras.

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Ume — Ume is a credit platform that specializes in accessing credit to all individuals for all purchases.
Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
MGT Insurance — MGT Insurance is the leading business insurance platform, combining best-in-class product and underwriting expertise with innovative technology to drive scale and profitability.

Dan Rosensweig is the Executive Chairman of Chegg. He previously worked at Yahoo! as a Chief Operating Officer. Dan Rosensweig attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Investment focus

Recruiting, EdTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.

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.
C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
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

IGNIA is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in global entrepreneurs who are developing innovative technology solutions that address fundamental pain points in Latin America.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MiSalud — MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.
Monato — Monato is a fintech that builds modular, scalable financial infrastructure that allows companies to integrate financial services in compliance with regulations.
Tensec — Tensec is reimagining B2B cross-border financial services by providing the fastest and simplest way for businesses to move money across global markets.

MAYA Capital is an early-stage fund that supports bold leaders who are catalyzing change in Latin America. | MAYA Capital

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
XFX — XFX makes global money movement fast, transparent, and capital-efficient across fiat and stablecoin rails.
Agent.Shop — Create your store directly on WhatsApp in less then 10min and start increasing your sales!

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Hi Ventures is the fund seed and early venture capital, formed to invest in entrepreneurs with strong components and scalable models of innovation.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
perhaps — A company building AI-native products

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
Eoliann — Eoliann offers a climate risk assessment and prediction API to financial institutions. Our solution leverages satellite data and proprietary ML algorithms to forecast the probability and impact of specific climate risk events

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
Abound — Abound is a suite of APIs powering the 1099 economy. Abound automates withholdings and other tax services for self-employed earners. We offer a W9 API, 1099 APIs, tax calculation APIs and tax payment APIs.
Pagos Solutions — Get real-time payment data detecting issues, trends, and opportunities plus intelligent payment solutions for optimizing payment performance.

At 17Sigma we support disruptive and innovative Latin American entrepreneurs in their early stages to push forward the next generation of regional leaders and companies. Founded to collaborate with teams, backing ideas that have the potential to disrupt the status-quo and build a stronger, better, and fairer future.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Uvicuo — All in one spend control solution
Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills
Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.

Build good sh*t with Latitud

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pipeimob — Real Estate Transactional Platform that brings security, transparency and speed to everyone involved in the transaction
Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.
Conectamos — Ship with local carriers, more affordable and reliable

Venture Capital para startups de tecnologia

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

V360 — V360 is an invoice and payment management system.
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

La Haus — La Haus offers an online residential platform designed to help people to find an ideal home. Its platform lists multiple properties to choose from and provides recommendations from real estate specialists on the best alternatives that are completely free, enabling users to get an organized way to find a home and save money.The company was foundedin 2017 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia.
Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Comp — Strategy in every penny invested in your people.Comp is an agile partner that combines compensation and technology experts to align your Total Rewards strategy with business needs.From labor cost strategy to process automation, we are helping hundreds of innovative companies with job and salary management, short- and long-term incentives, meritcycles, people budgeting and more.

Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huspy — Huspy is a proptech based in Dubai redefining the home financing process through a user friendly digital experience that puts the buyer first.
Retab — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.

Partnering with relentless founders as they build solutions to real problems in Latin America

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Peru, United States, Mexico

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.
deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.

Venture Capital for Innovation

Investment focus

SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources
Pre-Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Hitch — Bad hiring is a global problem for companies with billions of dollars in annual losses. Early turnover, slow learning curves and poor productivity are some of the results of choosing the wrong candidate.Hitch is a SaaS that uses high-tech, artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a much more efficent and smart recruiting process.Multiple variables, dozens of them mixed, to get one result with that determines not only how prepared the candidate is, but also if he/she is the right candidate for the right company. Is not just about which candidate is more skilled than the other, is also about figuring out, with a data-driven tool, which one is the perfect match for the company. It’s about connecting the dots in an accurate way.We improve workplace productivity, retention rates, employee satisfaction and branding by creating a more stable base of key team members.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.

Share Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, early, middle, growth capital, and Pre-IPO investments. it primarily invests in big living, medical healthcare, and internet innovation. In medical healthcare, it seeks to invests in pharmaceuticals, innovative equipment, biotechnology, diagnostic testing equipment andreagents, anti-infectives, drug discovery, medical health service, mobile medical services, and informatization.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Depp CNC — Depp CNC is a research and development manufacturer of CNC machine tools and core accessories.
Microview — Microview is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of high-precision complex process chip packaging equipment.
Jodell Robotics — Jodell develops intelligent robotic equipment designed to serve in automotive and logistics industries.

Empower Investment was founded in 2012 in Shanghai, China. Their investment covers early-stage ventures, mid-stage growth, and securities in the public market. With headquarters in Shanghai, the company established branch offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Empower Investment has invested in over 150 high-tech and high-growthcompanies on a global scale covering regions including China, U.S, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Their portfolio companies include fast-growing industries such as internet, AI, big data, automation & robotics, financial technology, cultural creativity, advanced materials, and healthcare.The Empower team has extensive experience in both deep technologies and financial services including internet, computer science, electronic engineering, materials science, auditing and investment banking. Some team members were serial entrepreneurs. With candidness and empathy, the team is eager to find and partner with the most visionary, determined and down-to-earth entrepreneurs. It always brings great excitement and pleasure to build a bright future with them.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

SideChef — Your digital resource for all home cooking needs. Browse 18,000 step-by-step recipes personalized to your diet and taste, for every skill level.
Hongpeng Airlines — Hongpeng Airlines is committed to developing, designing, and producing low-cost airplane engines.
Xunyuan Technology — Xunyuan Technology is a bio-refining and bio-manufacturing platform company based on non-grain carbon sources.

SCM Advisors (UK) Limited is a member of SCM Group, Ukraine’s leading financial and industrial group

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — Launch AI-powered outreach in 3 clicks. From finding prospects ready to buy to value-driven omnichannel conversations with multimedia. Get your demo
SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
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.

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

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.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Branders.com — Branders.com sells instantly customizable promotional items suchs as pens, hats, magnets, etc for marketing, sales, and event planning. They provide a single source to locate, design, order, and track promotional items online. Branders.com experience also offers you the following benefits to help you with your purchase: - Provides aone-stop shop for customizing merchandise - Aids in product selection with advanced, custom search and recommendation services - Allows you to customize and decorate your own products online and in real-time - Reduces fulfillment activities - Improves corporate identity management
MOFAC Studio — MOFAC Studio is a content production company that expanded into visual storytelling by integrating creativity with advanced technology, offering VFX-based virtual platform services and IP content production.

Aimorés Investments is investing in technology companies between the Anjo and Pré-Seed stages.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vidia — Vidia is a digital marketplace that allows the purchase of surgeries by individuals without access to health plans.
Vestipago — Vesti's payment solution, specialized for the wholesale apparel sector
Meu Pescado — Meu Pescado is an agtech company.

André Street

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Recruiting
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Seed to Series B) managing more than €300M of AUM.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.
iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.

Daniel L Gleizer

Investment focus

SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com

SoftBank created the $5B SoftBank Latin America Fund to partner with the companies and entrepreneurs defining the future of the region.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
Reflexivity — Purpose-built for asset managers and capital markets. Reflexivity delivers accurate, auditable insights from verified financial data sources.

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

Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.

We are an active venture capital fund. We invest in startups with high growth potential, where we can effectively add knowledge and contribute to business’ development – We’re not just another financial fund.Since our foundation, in 2014, we built a portfolio of diversified companies. We help entrepreneurs develop their business from strategy today-to-day activities.Discipline, ethics and execution are values that are present in our corporate culture and in our startups. Therefore, we can establish strong and reliable relations to overcome the challenges of companies’ structuration and development.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Plamev — Plamev is a company which provides with pet health plans.
Poppin — Poppin is a relationship application for new dating experience based on your Facebook events. It also shows who go to the same events as you, so you can meet new people and do not even need to make a date! Besides, you're not left unmoved! In Poppin, you can see what is rolling around and even confirm presence by the application itself! Theparty starts here and now. Poppin was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Darwin Seguros — Darwin Seguros is a insurance technology company.

ArpexCapital invests in early- and growth-stage web-related businesses and is a venture capital firm based in Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Messaging, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
Podium — Podium is a computer software company that offers a customer communication platform for businesses that interact with customers on a local level. It features an interaction management platform that utilizes messaging features designed for businesses to interact with their leads, customers, and teams.The company was founded in 2014 andheadquartered in Utah, United States.
Galena — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BRXS — Real Estate investing
Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.

Empowering Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nifti — Nifti enables users to store and track products and their prices from their favorite websites.
Shore — Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system.Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.
Bidu — Bidu is an online recommendation, comparison and marketplace portal for insurance and financial services. The company helped millions of consumers compare the prices and benefits of several types of insurance, including auto, travel, home, life, and health insurance, in addition to a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financingoptions, and loans. Our mission is to help people make smart financial decisions throughout their lives by way of our technology and objective and content. Bidu was named Best of Insurance 2017, of the magazine Revista. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Solid Ventures provides growth capital to technology companies. Solid Ventures focuses on scale-up companies at the growth stage of development in the digital economy with a focus on the sectors marketplaces, digital, SaaS, sustainable mobility, smart energy and smart city solutions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
The Netherlands, Colombia, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Dwarfs — Bij Dwarfs vind je de beste cadeau's voor elk feestje. Vind inspiratie voor een huwelijkscadeau, babyborrel, kinderfeestje of een verjaardagscadeau en koop het meteen veilig op Bol.com. Cadeau's voor hem en haar tegen de scherpste prijzen.
Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
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.

Scale-Up Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in companies selected by Endeavor Brazil's hyper-growth acceleration programs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
Bull — Bull is a modular credit platform that turns customers into revenue through fast, secure Workers' Loans.
Tensec — Tensec is reimagining B2B cross-border financial services by providing the fastest and simplest way for businesses to move money across global markets.

Upload Ventures is a hands-on venture capital firm focused on investments in Latin America.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series E
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
Tipspace — Tipspace allows to any gamer monetize their matches and create new game modes on competitive games.
Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills