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Top 25 Retail Startup Investors in Colombia in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 25 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 25 Retail Startup Investors in Colombia in September 2025

Investor	Retail Colombia investments
Vertical Partners	3
Amador Holdings	2
JAM Fund	2
Justin Mateen	2
Kuiper	2
Marathon Ventures	2
AngelHub Ventures	1
Rodrigo Vieira	1
Palm Drive Capital	1
Imagine Ventures	1
Pioneer Fund	1
Leonardo Borrero	1
Winnipeg Capital	1
Manutara Ventures	1
INVX	1
Streamlined Ventures	1
Justin Kan	1
Wayra	1
Andeo Capital	1
MrPink VC	1
Daniel Kan	1
güil Mobility Ventures	1
Cometa	1
Cometa	1
Soma Capital	1

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Vertical Partners monitors and investigates global business trends in a wide range of industries before having investments. Vertical Partners is headquartered in Medellín, Colombia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quipu Bank — QUIPU consists in a platform that enables digital local markets in informal settlements, using blockchain applications.
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.

Amador Holdings is an investment holding company providing growth capital and support to small and medium-sized businesses serving the urban middle classes. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Panama, Colombia.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Colombia, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Finnecto — Procure-to-pay (P2P) SaaS Solution. Finnecto automates purchase requests, policy reviews, approval workflows, vendor quotation digitalization and comparison, and purchase orders matching, effectively reducing manual and repetitive tasks. Finnecto makes procurement and daily operations of companies faster, cheaper, and more transparent whilekeeping spending under control.
Moonflow — Mejora tus procesos de cobranzas y ahorra hasta un 75%. Software de Gestion de Cobranzas para Empresas,
Karrot — Karrot is a cloud-based software suite solutions that provides omnichannel retail solutions.

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.

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.
Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

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.

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.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

Kuiper invests in pre-seed technology startups transforming the Spanish-Speaking world.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Colombia, Chile, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Karrot — Karrot is a cloud-based software suite solutions that provides omnichannel retail solutions.
Monato — Monato is a fintech that builds modular, scalable financial infrastructure that allows companies to integrate financial services in compliance with regulations.
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.

Our mission is to maximize the potential of the best talent in the region in the long run

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yolo Bank — Yolo Bank is a fintech company that uses artificial intelligence to help universities minimize tuition defaults. This approach increases revenue for educational institutions and benefits students. We offer a SaaS for bad debt management and a dedicated digital account for students to manage their monthly payments.
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Karrot — Karrot is a cloud-based software suite solutions that provides omnichannel retail solutions.

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.

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.

Rodrigo Vieira is the partner at Caravela Capital. He attended Northeastern University

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Colombia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Keye — Perform better diligence in less time with AI. Empower deal teams with cutting edge LLMs. Now in beta.
Aurelian — Aurelian is an AI platform designed to automate routes, triage, and resolve non-emergency police calls.
Inspiration Moment — Inspiration Moments connects millions of artists worldwide, offering work sharing, publishing, communication, and monetization services.

Generating an impact on the future and challenges of Latam through partnerships with the best startups and founders!

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.
Xpendit — Xpendit es una plataforma que te permite controlar, gestionar y automatizar los gastos de tu empresa, mediante WhatsApp e Inteligencia Artificial
Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.

Leonardo Borrero

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 — We are a technology startup developing and trading small farm production to urban centers for households, restaurants, and groceries looking for healthy and sustainable fresh goods.TuPlaza ensures market access and technical support for small farmers, assuring fair value for their products and supporting what, how, and when to crop, whileconsumers can access and check product origin, farmer they are contributing for, and healthy and certified fresh products.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America

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.

Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders who are building the next generation of transformational technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Matey — Matey AI brings attorneys from evidence to answers in minutes, not months. Our AI can transform your legal operations, accelerate investigations, and automate complex reviews with unmatched speed, accuracy, and transparency.
Lava — Lava is the credit and wallet infrastructure that enables the internet to finance artificial intelligence. We enable businesses to track usage, issue credits, and receive payment for any pricing model, including subscription, prepaid, and usage-based. Without developing unique charging systems, entrepreneurs may monetize in minutes with a single,easy integration.
AdsGency AI — AdsGencyAI - The all-in-one platform for powerful advertising

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art
ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kunzapp — Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año.
Remuner — Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Remuner is the sales compensation software that automate your commissions and drive performance.
Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.

ANDEO Capital is an Angel Smart Capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with great qualities, a global mindset, and an early growth stage company.

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.

Future of Work, Education, and Food, powered by technology

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Peru, Colombia, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Quix — Quix helps companies create AI-powered training programs by turning internal content into interactive learning.
Xoul — XOUL is a health-tech platform that leverages phenotyping AI to help parents understand their children’s emotional state through digital behavior analysis. By passively monitoring content interactions, social app usage, and behavioral patterns, XOUL identifies early signs of anxiety, depression, and other emotional challenges. Our insights empowerparents with meaningful data to foster open conversations, strengthen family bonds, and support early intervention. With a strong focus on privacy and ethical AI, XOUL ensures responsible data processing while delivering actionable intelligence to improve children’s mental well-being in the digital age.
NeverGiveUp — NeverGiveUp is a podcast platform that provides AI-generated motivational podcasts and new audio for athletes' motivation.

Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise. He was formerly head of business development at customer-service startup UserVoice and will be running hiring and operations at Exec.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Goods, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Greece, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.
Delian Alliance Industries — Building the digital backbone for the age of autonomous warfare.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

güil mobility ventures is a CVC that focuses on developing and co-creating extraordinary mobility startups in Latin America.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, Software
Seed, Series A
Chile, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Seiff — Seiff simplifica las transacciones de autos usados entre particulares gestionando el trabajo desde la transferencia, financiamiento y pagos, asegurando una experiencia segura y sin complicaciones para compradores y vendedores
DriFin — DriFin is an online tools that helps in managing finances for quick and easy access of credits options for vehicles and services.
Oway — Join thousands that ship freight instantly with Oway's rideshare freight platform and save up to 50% on your shipping. Pickups in just 1 hour, delivered overnight with insurance and tracking included on all shipments.

Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Simetrik — Automate repetitive data reconciliation processes without any coding knowledge
Simetrik — Simetrik offer big data solutions for financial control and automation services for corporate 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.

Cometa is an investment firm that invests in early stage technology companies. COMETA is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
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.
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.

Welcome to Soma Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Circuit — Make digital assets recoverable
Oway — Join thousands that ship freight instantly with Oway's rideshare freight platform and save up to 50% on your shipping. Pickups in just 1 hour, delivered overnight with insurance and tracking included on all shipments.
Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.

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