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Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Colombia in December 2024

A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Colombia in December 2024

Investor Retail Colombia investments
Vertical Partners 3
Justin Mateen 2
JAM Fund 2
Outbound Ventures 1
Winnipeg Capital 1
Streamlined Ventures 1
Leonardo Borrero 1
AngelHub Ventures 1
Cometa 1
Wayra 1
Daniel Kan 1
Rodrigo Vieira 1
Soma Capital 1
Cometa 1
Manutara Ventures 1
Palm Drive Capital 1
INVX 1
Justin Kan 1
Imagine Ventures 1
Andeo Capital 1
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Vertical Partners VC Fund · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Vertical Partners monitors and investigates global business trends in a wide range of industries before having investments. Vertical Partners is headquartered in Medellín, Colombia.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Retail, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Quipu Bank — Quipu is a marketplace-platform aimed to ease and increase trade of goods and services between people living in low-income communities. Quipu is a digital community market that seeks to facilitate the exchange of goods and services between people who depend on the popular economy.
  • Planet Oliver — Haz tu mercado semanal al 60% de descuento! Acabemos con el Desperdicio de Alimentos.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Justin Mateen Angel
Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
  • Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
  • Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.
JAM Fund VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
  • Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
  • Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.
Outbound Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
We invest in our generation. Millennials not only represent the largest buying group in US history, but are also reshaping the way business is done.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
  • Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
  • Worky — At Worky, we are revolutionizing the way HR is managed at Small and Medium Companies. We want to disrupt the way these firms communicate with their employees, and these employees’ financial health
Winnipeg Capital VC Fund · Lima, Lima, Peru
Winnipeg Capital (WC) is an investment and financial services firm that helps connect high potential companies and startups with growth opportunities through customized financial services, strategy advisory and smart capital.We believe Latin American offers a powerful platform to develop and scale solutions to fundamental problems that affect thebase of the pyramid . For this reason at our WC Startup Fund we invest in and support the best Latin American entrepreneurs to launch and scale regionally. Winnipeg invests across a variety of industries and sectors, including EdTech, AgTech and SaaS.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, EdTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Peru, Colombia, Chile
Portfolio highlights
  • Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
  • 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.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Streamlined Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders who are building the next generation of transformational technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • FLYR — Helping airlines and hospitality businesses around the globe improve revenue performance, reduce cost, and modernize their e-commerce experience.
  • Cimphony — Cimphony is revolutionizing the legal landscape for businesses! Our cutting-edge Gen AI technology platform, combined with our legal expert providers, offers fixed price or à la carte legal solutions that are up to 10x faster, more affordable, and predictably priced than traditional law firms. Our mission? To supercharge your business'sgrowth by delivering full-stack legal support for every stage of your journey - from incorporation and launch to commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. With Cimphony, you can ditch the tedious legal legwork and laser-focus on what matters most: building your dream company. Cimphony is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.
Leonardo Borrero Angel
Leonardo Borrero
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
  • Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
  • TuPlaza
AngelHub Ventures VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Cometa VC Fund · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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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.
Wayra VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Daniel Kan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder of Exec, along with his brother, Justin Kan. He was formerly head of business development at customer-service startup UserVoice and will be running hiring and operations at Exec.
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Investment focus
  • Pet, Retail, Medical
  • Seed, Series B
  • United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
  • Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
  • Aquarium — Machine learning models are only as good as the data they're trained on. Aquarium helps you improve your models by improving your datasets.
Rodrigo Vieira Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rodrigo Vieira is the partner at Caravela Capital. He attended Northeastern University
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Investment focus
  • Pet, Retail, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
  • Amigo Edu — Amigo Edu offers digital fundraising and scholarships by facilitating digital examinations to eligible merits for higher education.
Soma Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 34 investments in the past 12 months
Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
  • PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
  • Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
Cometa VC Fund · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Mexico, Colombia, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
  • Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
  • 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.
Manutara Ventures VC Fund · Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Palm Drive Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
We’ve partnered with entrepreneurs globally who have created technology firms with over one trillion dollars of combined market cap to help you grow your business.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Colombia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
  • Stanly — Join Stanly, the fan app connecting you with stars. Access exclusive content, engage with the community, and experience fandom like never before. Available on iOS and Android.
  • Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
INVX VC Fund · Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Sales, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
  • 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.
  • Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.
Justin Kan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Imagine Ventures VC Fund · Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Generating an impact on the future and challenges of Latam through partnerships with the best startups and founders!
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • WeKall — WeKall Cloud based corporate telephony service simplifies the operation to only one provider saving up to 60% of the monthly spend in telephony operation.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Andeo Capital VC Fund · Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
ANDEO Capital is an Angel Smart Capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with great qualities, a global mindset, and an early growth stage company.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Colombia, Peru
Portfolio highlights
  • Escappy Travel — ESCAPPY TRAVEL es una Travel Tech que por medio de experiencias 100% personalizadas (Automatizados), Virtuales (Realidad Virtual) y viajes Sorpresa (Travel to Surprise) hacemos el match perfecto entre deseos y el mejor plan/experiencia. Por medio de tecnología y analítica de datos se logra entender, analizar y conectar con aliados, generandovalor en el Match realizado. Pionera en Latam con este modelo de negocio disruptivo y escalable.
  • Enterapia — Enterapia transform the way Latino Spanish-speaking contributors live, ensuring that companies obtain the ideal potential of the members of the organization, achieving an increase in productivity rates and optimizing investment in human talent.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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