Top 5 Retail Startup Investors in Argentina in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Argentina. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Argentina. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Retail Startup Investors in Argentina in January 2026
| Investor | Retail Argentina investments |
|---|---|
| Wollef Ventures | 2 |
| Innogen Capital | 1 |
| Nazca Ventures | 1 |
| Quasar Builders | 1 |
| Mercado Libre Fund | 1 |
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
Innogen Capital is a LATAM venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth companies. It focuses on proven business models, including companies with a social impact mission, Innogen Capital also seeks to provide its partners with expertise and exposure via a network of professionals in diverse fields.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Mexico, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
- Koibanx — Koibanx is a blockchain solutions company that offers payment infrastructure, transactional core, Web3 integration, and crypto capabilities.
- Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.
Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
- Desteia — Desteia uses highly-specialized AI to give you clean data, live freight status, and seamless customs clearance - with zero manual upkeep.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
We are the first company builder in LATAM. We create businesses from scratch, identifying the industry, choosing the team, and guiding it through execution.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Sales
- Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Avenida Compras — Avenida Compras operates an e-commerce site to sell products online. The products include home products, clothing and some electronic devices. Alan Kraus, Andres Freire, Federico Malek, Pablo Orlando, Pablo Simon Casarino, and Santiago Bilinkis founded Avenida Compras on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Buenos Aires in Argentina. Itoperates as a subsidiary of Avenida.
- TROCAFONE — Trocafone is the first end-to-end e-commerce marketplace of LATAM that enable people to buy and sell used electronics hassle free, focused on smartphones in Brazil. At Trocafone they improve the selling and buying experience by acquiring the devices from sellers, refurbishing and re-selling them as pre-owned certified. Buyers enjoy the greatdeals of a peer-to-peer marketplace combined with the service, convenience, and safety of a retail store. Sellers enjoy a streamlined experience since It takes seconds to sell an item, and shipping is effortless with Trocafone's pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.
- OpenZeppelin — The standard for secure blockchain applications
Mercado Libre Fund is the Corporate Venture Capital Fund of Mercado Libre.They support innovation and the development of companies that boost the e-commerce and tech ecosystem in Latin America:
Investing smart money in seed, early and growth stage companies with great teams
Accompanying entrepreneurs in the scaling process of their businessAdding value as strategic partner: fostering synergies between their portfolio companies and MELIWhat they invest on
They differentiate their investments into two funds which differ in scope, stage and investment criteriaTheir Business Development Fund invests in seed stage companies that provide a great product and have a clear potential impact on MELI´s ecosystem
Their Opportunities Fund invests in early and growth stage companies that have developed innovative solutions through the use of technology. They seek tech companies with great teams and outstanding execution capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- CXC — CXC delivers AI-driven structured finance solutions with real-time asset tracking, verification, and trusted servicing across Latin America.
- Cilia — Cilia is a software firm that designs and develops budgeting, workshop regulation and claims management software.
- Simetrik — Simetrik offer big data solutions for financial control and automation services for corporate companies.
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