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Top 35 Restaurants Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Restaurants startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Restaurants Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024

Investor	Restaurants LATAM investments
Ryan Simonetti	2
Guilherme Bonifacio	2
Steve Salis	2
Kevin Carter	2
Gabriel Cherubini	1
Juan Luis Londoño Arias	1
Francisco Medina	1
Brad Flora	1
Isabella Fernández	1
Julián Núñez	1
Simon Borrero	1
Angel Losada	1
Patrice Etlin	1
Felipe Villamarin	1
Dick Boyce	1
Santiago Caniggia Bengolea	1
Jun Hwang	1
Flavia Buchmann	1
Bernardo de Barros Franco	1
Iñaki Arrola	1
Juan Pablo Ortega	1
Sujay Tyle	1
Saurabh Gupta	1
Ralf Wenzel	1
Nilam Ganenthiran	1
Romero Rodrigues	1
Fernando Meirelles	1
Matt Fichtner	1
Pierpaolo Barbieri	1
Carlos Garcia	1
Diego Libanio	1
Carolina Garcia	1
Michael Kleindl	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Andres Bilbao	1

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Ryan Simonetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Convene. He previously worked at Gramercy Capital Corp as a Vice President. Ryan attended Villanova University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Branch — Branch sells premium office furniture for teams of all sizes. Standing desks, workstations, ergonomic chairs and filing cabinets, sold direct to save you money. Space planning, delivery and assembly come standard.
Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.

Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

Steve Salis is the Chairman and CEO of SIZZLE Acquisition and founder and CEO of Salis Holdings.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Financial Services, Retail
Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

75 & Sunny — 75 & Sunny is Spencer Rascoff's investment firm and startup lab. In 2020, 75 & Sunny Ventures invested in 39 companies, 25 of which are based in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, 75 & Sunny Labs launched two startups: dot.LA and Pacaso. In 2021, 75 & Sunny Ventures is on track to invest in more than 25 startups, and 75 & Sunny Labswill launch two new companies. Spencer — who co-founded Hotwire and Zillow, and who was CEO of Zillow for more than a decade — started 75 & Sunny to support and mentor startups and their leaders in LA and beyond. Its team provides 75 & Sunny companies with a broad range of support, including leadership coaching; marketing and PR advice; brand amplification; product strategy; recruiting; access to our broad network of partners that include top venture capital and private equity firms; overall mentorship; and help with subsequent fundraising. Spencer is an investor in over 55 venture capital funds, many of which use 75 & Sunny for informal deal-sourcing at the earlier stage.
Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.

Kevin Carter is the Founder and General Partner of Night Capital. He previously worked at SV Angel as a General Partner. Kevin Carter attended Santa Clara University.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, France

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?

Gabriel Cherubini

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Delivery
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.

Juan Luis Londoño Arias, known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age and began recording songs at age sixteen.

Investment focus

Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Series A
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.

Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Payments
Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.

Isabella Fernández

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.

Julián Núñez is a co-founder at Yuno, a payments company based in Latam. Before founding Yuno in 2022, he was an early employee at Rappi, where he led the E-Commerce business unit and built Rappi’s one-click checkout solution.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.

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.
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

Angel Alverde Losada is the Chief Executive Officer at Gigante Grupo Inmobiliario. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Office Depot, a subsidiary of Grupo Gigante, S.A.B. de C.V. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Masters degree in Finance and Marketing From JL Kellog Graduate School ofManagement.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Payments
Seed
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.

Patrice Etlin joined Advent International in 1997 and started the firm’s investment activities in Brazil. He has 19 years of private equity experience. From 1994 to 1997, Patrice was a partner at International Venture Partners in São Paulo, where he was responsible for the overall operation of a media and communications fund focused on Brazil.Previously, he spent five years with Matra Marconi Space, initially as a systems engineer on a project to develop a European military observation satellite. In 1990, he was promoted to general representative for Brazil, in charge of setting up a private telecommunications satellite system providing services to Mercosul countries.Patrice is also Chairman of the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA).

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Restaurants
Private Equity, Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CI&T — CI&T employs agile methodologies and Lean principles to deliver nearshore web and mobile application development and management services, software product engineering and digital marketing services. With high performance development teams that are collaborative, enthusiastic and committed to skills mastery and have a strong commitment toinnovation, CI&T is constantly on the forefront of discovering new ways to deliver value and eliminate waste to help clients reduce costs and improve quality, speed and business agility.Consistently listed on the IAOP Global Outsourcing 100, CI&T has been recognized by the IAOP/Fortune Magazine as a symbol of innovation in outsourcing. CI&T has also been ranked one of the 100 best companies to work for by the Great Place to Work Institute for the past five years.CI&T is headquartered in Campinas, Brazil, with additional offices in Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Jersey, New York City, London and Tokyo. CI&T's CMMI-5 competency centers are located in Brazil, Argentina and China, serving customers around the globe, including Citibank, Coca-Cola, Dow Jones, Johnson & Johnson, MetLife, Panasonic, Rhodia, Saint-Gobain and Yahoo!.
Tigre — Tigre is synonymous with innovation and pioneering spirit. The brand offers products for the building, infrastructure, irrigation, and industrial markets. The company operates in around 40 countries, has 7,000 employees, nine plants in Brazil, and 13 abroad. Besides pipes and fittings, the Tigre Tools for Painting and Tigre-ADS brands are also partof the portfolio, as are HDPE pipes for sanitation and drainage.
Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.

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

Mr. Boyce is a partner of TPG, head of TPG's Operating Group and a member of the firm's leadership committees. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Boyce was President of CAF, Inc., a consulting firm that provided operating oversight and support to various companies owned by TPG. During much of this period, he served as the Chief Executive Officerof clothing retailer J. Crew Group, Inc., while providing operating oversight to the remainder of the TPG portfolio. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Boyce was employed by PepsiCo, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for Pepsi-Cola North America. Other roles at PepsiCo, Inc. included Chief Financial Officer, General Manager of the Canadian Business Unit, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Planning. Mr. Boyce was previously a partner at Bain & Company and worked in sales and marketing at Union Carbide Corporation before business school. Mr. Boyce received a B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of directors of Burger King Corporation. Mr. Boyce has previously served on the boards of directors of Gate Gourmet International, J. Crew Group, Inc., Kraton Polymers LLC, ON Semiconductor Corporation and Network General Corporation.

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
Coco — Coco Robot Delivery | Food Delivered Cheaper, Faster, and Fresher. Every Time.
Proteus Motion — The Proteus system by Proteus Motion Inc. (formerly Boston Biomotion) is a new category of intelligent exercise and rehab equipment designed to strengthen, optimize, and restore movements using patented 3D resistance and 3D measurement. One system is used to train and measure any movement during post-op through peak performance, and enhancemovement efficiency through a unique neuromuscular stimulation that can only be achieved by moving in water or mud. Compared to traditional tools like free weights and cable machines, 3D resistance produces up to 3x more muscle stimulation, lower strain on the joints, and greater neuromuscular stimulation to accelerate "muscle memory" and more efficient movement patterns. Subscription software profiles strength for users using a new and comprehensive way to measure muscle performance, offers personalized insights and recommendations, and tracks progress across a suite of 6 proprietary metrics.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Co-Founder at Nazca Ventures Managing Partner Mountain Partners Angel investor Master in Innovation at Columbia Business School

Investment focus

Internet, Fashion, Women's
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Argentina, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Wimet — Wimet is the platform that helps companies manage workspaces in a flexible way, allowing people to work from anywhere. - Booking desks and rooms in the office. - Access to workspaces on-demand - Data insights and reports. Easy. Simple. Flexible!
Resermap — Resermap is the leading online restaurant reservation company in Latin America. The service allows restaurants to manage their reservations and guests in an efficient way and fill tables at off-peak times.
Cranberry Chic — 158K Followers, 3,692 Following, 4,571 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cranberry Chic (@cranberry_chic)

Ex-Tesla head of product (solar), engineering manager. Ex-Google, Apple and Disney.

Investment focus

Energy, Restaurants, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Flavia Buchmann is the CMO at NotCo.

Investment focus

Marketing, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Faster — Faster is a graphic design subscription service that unlocks the full potential of your marketing team!
Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.

Bernardo de Barros Franco is a Serial entrepreneur and angel investor on the IT sector. Bernardo previously worked at u.sit as a Co-founder and CEO. He attended Harvard Business School. Ibmec, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

Investment focus

CRM, SMS, SaaS
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

u.sit — Gamer sejati baik veteran hingga pemula banyak bermain di Batman138, situs permain online legend di Indonesia, tetap tampil 24 jam menjelang 2025.
Aulalivre — The Aulalivre Project is a preparatory course for entrance exams and Enem, distributed free of charge through the internet. Its objective is to bring to the greatest number of Brazilians the knowledge necessary to reach a university position, giving equal chances to those who do not have the time and / or money to invest in their owneducation.

Iñaki Arrola founded coches.com as entrepreneur in 2003. He invested as BA during some years and raised two funds. Vitamina K in 2011 and in 2016 K Fund.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saluspot — Daftar akun togel resmi Hondatoto untuk mendapatkan hadiah 4d 10 juta terbesar, mainkan pasaran toto wla terlengkap di situs togel terpercaya Honda toto online.
Lingokids — Voted #1 Kids Learning App, Lingokids is the best app for kids 2-8 years old! Because when learning is fun, kids love to learn! Check it out!
Startupxplore — Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.

Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Series A
Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Trully — Trully
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series C, Series D, Seed
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool is the leading hedge fund launch, administration, and investor experience platform for emerging managers. Learn more.
Connectly.ai — Our easy-to-use tools promote meaningful 2-way conversations in the channels your customers use the most. Businesses of all sizes can deliver personalized, automated alerts and notifications, simplifying how you find new customers, sell your products & services, and manage the myriad tasks associated with the customer experience.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University.

Investment focus

Retail, Grocery, Delivery
Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Nilam Ganenthiran is a partner at D1 Capital. He was previously President of Instacart.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
Ascend — Ascend is an online payments platform that automates insurance payments end-to-end: from online customer payments and financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables.

Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.

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.

Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Delivery
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

Investment focus

Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.

Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005.

Investment focus

B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Spain, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Inventa — Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers and offers them flexible payment terms
Inventa — Inventa is a wholesale marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers across Latin America.

Diego Libanio - Founder & CEO @ Mercê do Bairro

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Delivery
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.

Carolina Garcia is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Chiper.

Investment focus

Software, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

CLUVI — Cluvi digitalize the sales channels of restaurants and turn their data into a potential tool to increase their sales
QuantPi — QuantPi creates automated and scalable solutions for AI model explainability and robustness auditing.
zulu — zulu is a cross-border payments paytech that was founded in 2021 in Colombia by Esteban Villegas, the current CEO, and Julián Delgado, who serves as the CTO. The company is approaching its first US$100 million processed from over 400 clients and already has connections with more than 50 countries worldwide.

Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Reservamos — We are a multi-modal booking engine for travel based in Mexico. We cover over 90,000 routes and 3700 destinations. Reservamos is the best way to compare and book buses, flights, and ride sharing options anywhere in Mexico + US with one search.
Mediasmart — mediasmart Mobile is the first Spanish company focusing on the real time optimization of mobile advertising (both on smartphones and tablets) using its proprietary technology platform.mediasmart Mobile was one of the first movers into the mobile programmatic ecosystem, having launched in Jan 2012. It gives access to global mobile inventory -both in mobile apps and web - from more than twenty seven ad exchanges/SSPs, and it has successfully proven throughout the years that its algorithms can effectively manage big data to deliver results. A proven and scalable technology, currently handling more than 800,000 ad requests per second, mediasmart can be used directly by clients on a self-serve basis or via APIs, and it handles both RTB and programmatic direct buys.Mediasmart has offices in Madrid, London and Paris.
Giant Swarm — Implement and manage your Kubernetes infrastructure with Giant Swarm. We will guide you along the Kubernetes learning curve. Get your containers in production.

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

Andres Bilbao

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
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
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

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