Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Chile in May 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Chile. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Chile. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Chile in May 2025
Investor | Retail Chile investments |
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Aurus | 2 |
Innovation Endeavors | 1 |
Canary | 1 |
Primo Capital | 1 |
José Cristián Cortés | 1 |
Ariel Lambrecht | 1 |
Alaya Capital | 1 |
Fondo Vulcano | 1 |
Bolt Ventures | 1 |
Fundación Chile | 1 |
Genesis Ventures | 1 |
MatterScale Ventures | 1 |
Manutara Ventures | 1 |
Matt Robinson | 1 |
Nazca Ventures | 1 |
Wayra | 1 |
Latitud | 1 |
Pierpaolo Barbieri | 1 |
Redwood Ventures | 1 |
Norte Ventures | 1 |
Aurus is a Chilean investment firm that manages funds in the venture capital, real estate, and capital markets.We are pioneers in Latin America’s Venture Capital industry, dedicated to developing the ecosystem and investing in the region’s most impressive talent, and scalable technologies. We believe that Chile is the best platform in which toinvest in our region because of its investment friendly policies, commitment to innovation, and industry leadership.As local investors, we realize where the biggest transformations are occurring. We add value to our portfolio companies through experience, insights, best practices, and network. Our investment decisions are aided by the advice of outstanding advisory committees for each of the funds. All of them are also LPs in the fund and a valuable resource to Aurus and our investees, both in evaluating a prospective investment and later adding value to them through our mentoring program.
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- Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Chile, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Sunamp — Thermal energy storage solutions that make homes, buildings & vehicles more energy-efficient & sustainable while reducing carbon emissions.
- TIMining — TIMining offers state-of-the-art software for the mining industry, from load and haul simulation to holographic technology.
- Ceibo — Combinamos I+D, excelencia operacional y desarrollo para crear productos que cuidan el planeta.
Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineeringhealth, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Bauplan — Bauplan provides Serverless functions + data branches directly over S3. We empower every Python developer to build AI and data applications that are portable, versioned, and reproducible with zero infrastructure management. Enterprise teams already use Bauplan to build analytics and AI applications that serve tens of millions of users daily. -Serverless. Developers can work with zero infrastructure overhead — never deal with provisioning, configuration, containers and dependency management ever again. - Designed for developers. Every developer can script the entire data lifecycle in pure Python without leaving their IDE — ingestion, transformation, modeling, testing, and CI/CD. - Built for S3 on open standards: bauplan leverages native Iceberg support for object storage, ensuring smooth integration with other data platforms and eliminating vendor lock-in.
- Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.
- Character Biosciences — Biopharmaceutical research and development company that's an affiliate of Clover Health
Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
- Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.
- Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources
Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.
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- Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shop Circle — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
- Krill Design — Krill Design is a design studio that creates circular economy projects to convert organic waste into material resources. It is a patented process that intercepts resources from the food supply chain to create zero-impact eco-designed 3D printed products.
- Pangea Aerospace — SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL MISSION In a very conservative sector, European space engineers and business experts have gathered to unlock the untapped potential of new technologies that will drastically reduce the cost of launch
Results driven leader with several years of experience helping companies to their greater potential, within crisis and turbulence, engaging stake holders, team members and customers developing collaboration, critical thinking, and determination.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery
- Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- tet4d — Tet4D is a cutting-edge SaaS platform revolutionizing logistics planning through automation. Our solution optimizes load cubic capacity, selects the ideal transportation, and determines the most efficient routes, ensuring complete traceability and visibility throughout the logistics process. Inspired by the game Tetris, Tet4D leverages advancedartificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to introduce innovative approaches in integrated logistics.Our company is dedicated to making a significant environmental impact by reducing the number of trucks on the road by 5-10%, showcasing how AI can serve humanity. We achieve remarkable reductions in costs and planning times—cutting the latter by an impressive 90%—while also contributing to a lower carbon footprint among other substantial benefits.Join us at Tet4D as we continue to push the boundaries of logistics innovation and sustainability.
Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, Chile
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- escala — la plataforma todo en uno de marketing y venta.
- Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
- Loads — Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers.Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to+20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.
Fondo Vulcano is an investment fund Created by Dadeno.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Retail
- Seed
- Chile, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Unima — Unima is decentralizing rapid testing across industries by taking diagnostics out of the lab to the place these are needed the most to secure a timely diagnostic for everyone, anywhere.Unima is solving is the centralization of lab testing, which limits the access to a timely diagnostic for billions. Current technology for diagnostics is veryprecise and can detect almost any disease known, but the problem is these require labs with expensive equipment and specialized technicians making lab testing impossible to scale up to provide universal and timely access to diagnostics.To solve this problem Unima developed Find, a rapid testing technology platform for real time diagnostics which allows anyone to diagnose a disease directly where it is needed, without using lab equipment, with results in 15 minutes or less and at a very low cost. With Find anyone can have access to a timely diagnostic even in the most remote areas of the world.The Find platform uses shark antibodies modified with genetic engineering to detect disease biomarkers in blood, saliva, urine or water samples. These shark antibodies are used in microfluidic cards and generate a visual reactions when in contact with specific biomarkers of the disease to be tested. Then to evaluate the result of the test, a picture of the testing card is taken with the proprietary Xplora smartphone app which runs image analysis process and neural network algorithms to generate an inmediate result. Then this result,along with contextual information like geolocation, date and time, is sent to a cloud server where it can be used for real time disease tracking.
- Terapi — Terapi is the most comprehensive online psychological platform for taking care of your mental health. Find psychology professionals for remote psychology sessions. Also, access resources to take care of your well-being, such as therapeutic journals, mindfulness courses, self-directed sessions, and much more.
- QMATCH - eCommerce Intelligence — QMATCH® is the most accurate eCommerce information extraction, analysis and comparison web tool on the market, thanks to its innovative data validation technology. QMATCH® searches your products in all eCommerce worldwide, extracting all the necessary information so you can use it and achieve competitive advantages.
Bolt Ventures is a team of entrepreneurs and investment specialists that offers seed and early stage financing solutions to companies focused on e-commerce, mobile, and subscription-based business models. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sports, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Chile, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Men In Blazers — Men In Blazers is a soccer-focused media company that covers sports events, leagues, and TV shows.
- Cast Iron Media — Cast Iron Sports provides unique solutions empowering clients to engage targeted audiences during live events, both at home and at the game.
- Sportlight Technology — Sportlight Technologies offers hyper-accurate LiDAR and AI technologies deliver unrivalled insights in the areas of load management, performance monitoring, talent development, technical and tactical analysis for teams.
Fundacion Chile is a private not-for-profit organization that adds economic value to Chile.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Mobile, Android
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Chile, Mexico, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Conectter — Conectter is a project portfolio management web platform that creates value for other businesses by including personalized reports and more.We are different from other ppm platforms because we offer smart visualization and simple views for tasks, team coordination and reports. We include your company KPI´s in personalized graphs for exclusivereports. We adapt to your requirements and help you align your projects with your company strategic objectives..
- AgroUrbana — Agrourbana is the Vertical Agriculture company. It produce the best vegetables by applying advanced technology and responsible processes with the environment and people.
- Digital Senses — It is a web platform to know the status and consumption in real time of communities of real estate projects, communities of buildings and industrial facilities. All this at a fraction of the cost and implementation time of a traditional system.We integrate proprietary IoT Hardware and Software technology, generating key information for industrialprocesses and asset management.
Genesis Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in entrepreneurs with a global ambition. The firm provides multi-stage venture capital to proven and innovative technology enabled businesses, as well mentoring and support to internationalize their businesses.The firm believes in social and environmental responsible investment andseeks to adhere and enforce the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).Genesis Ventures headquartered in Santiago de Chile with local teams in Bogotá, Lima, London, Edinburgh, Miami, and Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Chile, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- myTeam — Helping Sports Clubs and Academies to optimize their daily processes and communication with their members
- Kredito — Kredito is a platform that focuses on generating loans for small to medium-sized businesses.
- Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
- Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
- numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Manutara Ventures was created to become the most relevant actor in the Venture Capital industry in Chile and Latin America, based on a convergence model with a global seal and a strong emphasis on the construction of successful outlets.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Chile, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Levannta — We are growth partners and pioneers in Latam. Levannta allows companies to receive upfront their suscription's future cashflows through an integrated platform based on their most valuable asset, recurring revenue.
- Atomic Kitchens — We are AtomicKitchens, the largest digital restaurant franchise in Latin America!
- Brota Superfoods — Brota Superfoods provides organic foods and drinks that encourage healthier eating habits.
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
- Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
- Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vambe — Our AI platform allows you to efficiently manage your WhatsApp and Instagram interactions, providing an exceptional experience to your customers while reducing costs and increasing your sales.
- 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.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
- Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altis — ALTIS is a digital platform that acts as a banking correspondent to facilitate the loan contracting process.
- Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
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.
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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.
Industry-agnostic venture capital fund investing in tech startups with high growth and scalability potential.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
- 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.
- smartBeemo — smartBeemo is an online education platform focused on reducing the knowledge gap of modern skills, in the Spanish speaking communities. We created an online education platform that seeks to solve this problem through-out exceptional online programs, corporate trainings and events, developed by professionals in the industry who are entrepreneurs,influencers, marketing agency leaders, technology developers and educators.
Norte is a founder's fund created and invested by entrepreneurs
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Argentina
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- Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
- Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration
- Tempo — Tempo is a personalized assistance and payments platform that blends human support with AI to handle daily needs efficiently.
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