Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Mexico in May 2026
Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Mexico in May 2026
| Investor | Retail Mexico investments |
|---|---|
| DILA Capital | 4 |
| Capital Invent | 4 |
| FEMSA Ventures | 3 |
| AngelHub VC | 3 |
| Pierpaolo Barbieri | 2 |
| Wollef Ventures | 2 |
| Kevin Carter | 2 |
| Hi Ventures | 2 |
| Hive Hatch | 2 |
| Tnt Ventures | 2 |
| Sandbox Studios | 2 |
| Avalancha Ventures | 2 |
| Ryan Simonetti | 2 |
| Guilherme Bonifacio | 2 |
| Steve Salis | 2 |
| Arrebol Capital | 1 |
| True Capital Management | 1 |
| MGV Capital | 1 |
| Semilla Ventures | 1 |
| Morgan Creek Capital Management | 1 |
| Gaw Capital Partners | 1 |
| IDB Invest | 1 |
| Francisco Medina | 1 |
| Blue Zone Ventures | 1 |
| Markos Achar | 1 |
| Kalpa Ventures | 1 |
| Cubo Capital | 1 |
| FJ Labs | 1 |
| Nazca Ventures | 1 |
| MAYA Capital | 1 |
| Fabio Mondini de Focatiis | 1 |
| Balderton Capital | 1 |
| TEV Ventures | 1 |
| LEAP Global Partners | 1 |
| HV Capital | 1 |
| Cometa | 1 |
| Valor Capital Group | 1 |
| Rise Capital | 1 |
| Cometa | 1 |
| Capital Invest | 1 |
| Concentric | 1 |
| Endeavor Catalyst | 1 |
| Canary | 1 |
| First Check Ventures | 1 |
| Angel Hub | 1 |
| Hyve Ventures | 1 |
| Abraham Achar | 1 |
| Angel Losada | 1 |
| Jose de la Luz Lopez | 1 |
| Chris Thomas | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
- Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
- Futura Labs — Futura Labs is a digital dental lab modernizing clinics with tech-driven orthodontics and prosthetics across Latin America.
Mexican-based early stage VC investing in consumer internet startups
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- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Odetta — Odetta is a digital platform that enables individuals to buy and sell used cars safely and at a fair price, from the comfort of their homes.
- Parkimovil — We're a platform that smartly manages and processes interactions and payments with different mobility nodes.
- HAMOC — HAMOC uses cutting-edge tech to provide unparalleled Lease Underwriting & Management Services to make our customers feel both supported and relaxed, the HAMOC way .
FEMSA Ventures is a venture capital.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Colombia, Chile
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.
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
- 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.
Angel Hub is a club of angel investors that empowers entrepreneurs and businessmen with innovative and scalable projects with global reach. Angel Hub invests in projects in Latinamerica, which offers access to important investment opportunities in high-potential startups. Angel Hub is based in San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico.
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- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- lapzo — Lernit is a SaaS that offers a learning experience platform system for organizations that seek to develop their staff through relevant micro-content, effectively, and available at any time through any device. It utilizes and provides its user with the development of different skills through short and engaging learning courses, instead of thetraditional long content modules.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
- CuidaMiMascota — In Cuidamimascota.com, pet owners can navigate through hundreds of pet sitters near them and see their qualifications, rates, services provided, home photos, customer reviews and more. The owner selects the sitter and books online. Sitters treats the guest like family while his owner is away. We have a strict no cage rule, a premium insurance thatprotects the guest and sitter, and a photo and video update policy.
- metaBIX Biotech — Changing the game in how the world deals with diseases in plants, animals, and humans, metaBIX Biotech leads with innovation in disease prediction. Our integrated solution, combining the latest in biotechnology, AI, and advanced software, not only anticipates the impact of viruses and bacteria but also offers proactive strategies to preventoutbreaks. With a focus on precision and speed, we stand out for our ability to provide early alerts and effective control measures, significantly reducing the risk and impact of diseases in our ecosystems and communities.
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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- 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.
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Retail, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Mexico
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- Studio — Studio is giving everyone their own private reality shows—through our group camcorder app.
- 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?
Hi Ventures is the fund seed and early venture capital, formed to invest in entrepreneurs with strong components and scalable models of innovation.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Clau — Clau is a leading real estate platform that simplifies buying, selling, and remodeling properties. It acts as a real estate superapp combining a property marketplace with CRM tools for brokers, mortgage brokerage services, renovation connections, and a data platform for market insights. It serves homebuyers, brokers, sellers, and investors seekingstreamlined property transactions and market data.
- 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.
- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Hive Hatch, a venture capital firm and studio, invests financial, human, and social capital in early stage founders to help them validate, build, and launch their SaaS startups.
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- Software, SaaS, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Estonia
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- 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.
- ILUMA — ILUMA is building the autonomous solution to onboard, manage, engage and support the next 1M DAO communities in web3.
- Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.
Tnt Ventures helps enterprise software founders and other technical professionals with fundraising services to increase capital.
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- Software, Retail, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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- 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.
- Blip — Blip unlocks personalized, engaging, and powerful bill management experiences for fintech and bank customers.
- Ariglad — Ariglad saves time by automatically capturing HR communication and organizing it into a ticketing system. By offering AI-powered analytics and SLAs with key personnel data, leaders are empowered to make informed data-driven strategic decisions.
Sandbox Studios is an LA-based venture fund which invests in celebrity-founded consumer brands across a number of different verticals including beauty, VMS, eCommerce, F&B and more. As a key strategic investor, Sandbox Studios supports founders in best-in-class marketing tactics and leverages their unique network for growth.
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- Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico
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- Safely — Safely's plant-powered safe cleaning products smell great and actually work. Founded by supermom Kris Jenner and developed by experts.
- Superfiliate — Word of mouth, meet 2023
- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
Early stage venture capital fund that invests in unique teams building extraordinary companies which, with the use of technology, innovate to deliver efficient and cost-effective products and services for the wider population.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Mexico, Spain
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- Carryt — Carryt performs efficient last mile deliveries by empowering gig economy drivers with our route optimization technology and impact strategy.
- Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
- Axify — On Axify we offer prepayment installment plans to acquire services, like a "tanda" of the digital age. The company is seeing huge potential and interest in different industries: travel, e-commerce, insurance, hospitals, health, and beauty centers. The company focuses on helping people who lack resources or even a credit card acquire aquality product without the predatory lending rates, which are very expensive and generate a huge burden on Mexican and LatAm families. That said we give prepayment plans to people and help them, by creating a pre-payment plan, acquire the products and services in a sustainable free-of-debt manner. We are seeing a tendency to avoid debt all over Mexico and we have already helped more than 7000 families acquire products or services without any kind of debt.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico
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- 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.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
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- 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.
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- Restaurants, Retail, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, Mexico
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- 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.
Born in Colombia. Envisioned in Silicon Valley and Switzerland. Deployed in Latin America.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Mexico
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- Monto — Monto is a mobile application that offers staff the flexibility to collect their already worked salary before the company's payday. Monto reduces financial stress and improves the quality of life of employees. Monto improves satisfaction, productivity, and retention in the workforce.
- goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Canada
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- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
We are a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in fintech, consumer internet, and enterprise software.
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- Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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- Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
- Foccuz — Foccuzz offers software that automates all operations by connecting multiple data sources, allowing for real-time visibility, increased efficiency, more revenue, and faster data-driven decision-making.
- Airbag Technologies — Analiza, retroalimenta y premia a tus conductores
Semilla ventures es un fondo VC que invierte en startups en etapa pre-seed y seed a lo largo de LATAM hispanohablante.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Sales Automation
- Pre-Seed
- Peru
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- YaVendio — YaVendió is a SaaS platform that increases sales for online stores selling through social media using AI sales reps. From chat to checkout, it boosts sales by 34% at 20% of the cost. The founders bring tech, product, and GTM experience from Silicon Valley AI startups, top Latin American companies, and AI research (MLCommons, BUK, Belcorp, BCP,Vozy, and Stanford).The AI rep learns about the business, its products, checkout process, and selling style. It then connects to your social media platforms, understanding consumer intent through the messages they send, turning those messages into purchases and also upselling.
- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
- Helix Earth Technologies — We create accelerated liquid-gas chemical processes for hyper efficient commerical HVAC and CO2 capture devices to help make the built world a cooler, cleaner place.
Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. They provide a customized investment solution to clients in need of a targeted investment program, as well as discretionary strategies to assist clients in building investment programs based onthe University Endowment Model. They provide asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction.Morgan Creek was founded in July 2004 by Mark W. Yusko, former Chief Investment Officer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC") Endowment. The core of the Morgan Creek investment team has worked together in a fiduciary capacity for many years managing one of the most complex endowment management programs in the country. Mr. Yusko and Managing Director Mike Hennessy were responsible for building the Investment Office and subsequent Management Company operations for the UNC Endowment, and they worked closely with the Investment Fund Board to develop investment policy, set goals and objectives, establish a strategic framework, select investment managers and manage portfolio risk.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, France, Israel
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- SKRIBER — Skriber is a medical transcription and summarization SaaS company. Our platform uses advanced AI to automate the documentation process for healthcare providers, reducing the time spent on paperwork and improving accuracy.
- Capa — 24/7 FX and payment platform connecting LATAM to the rest of the world through an API, SDK or dashboard.
- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
Gaw Capital Partners is a positioned private equity fund management company that focuses in real estate markets in greater China and other high barrier-to-entry markets globally. Their services includes gateway real estate funds, separate account investments, venture capital, private equity investment and credit investments.
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- Real Estate, Property Management, Hospitality
- Series A, Series C, Seed
- China, Singapore, United States
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- Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
- NPX Point Avenue — NPX Point Avenue is an education technology company focused on the fast-growing K-12 private international school market and K-12 after-school training market.
IDB Invest finances sustainable companies and projects to achieve financial results and maximize economic, social, and environmental development in the region. It seeks to be the private sector solution bank for Latin America and the Caribbean. It supports projects to advance clean energy, modernize agriculture, strengthen transport systems, expandaccess to financing. Projects that have a significant impact and contribute to the sustainable development of the region.IDB Invest is a member of the Inter-American Development Bank, a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series C
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
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- Netwey — Netwey is a telecommunications company that offers services including mobile internet, internet home, and telephony.
- Molinos Agro — Molinos Agro is a publicly traded firm that works in the agriculture and fisheries sectors. Commodities, animal feed, farm services, biodiesel, and bulk export are the company's five main segments. Many grains are sold wholesale by the commodities section. Products for animal nutrition are available in the animal feed sector. The agriculturalservices branch offers grain sacks, agrochemicals, seeds, fertilizers, and funding for agricultural projects. The division that handles biodiesel delivers the fuel made there. Export sales of flour, oils, biodiesel, lecithin and glycerin are part of the bulk export sector.
- Banco de Occidente, S.A. — Banco de Occidente is the fifth largest bank in Colombia by asset level and portfolio at June 30, 2016. It has national coverage and a portfolio of integrated products and services, offered through a network of 241 offices and 336 ATMs 9,671 banking correspondents and other features.
Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame.
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- SaaS, Retail, Payments
- Seed
- Mexico
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- 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.
As Blue Zone Ventures we invest in Healthcare, Fintech and Edtech LATAM startups.
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- Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, SaaS
- Pre-Seed
- Mexico
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- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
- healf.mx — Not every health insurance is built the same. At healf, we're reducing the gap of misinformation in health ecosystem. healf empowers the insured by providing comprehensive insights into their policy details, enabling informed decision-making in their interactions with insurers. Simultaneously, healf serves as a trusted healthcare ally forbrokers and doctors, streamlining their communication channels and automating processes for enhanced transparency and traceability for insurers.
- Leracom AI — Inteligencia Artificial para centros de contacto que capacita y automatiza equipos de ventas, cobranza o soporte.
Markos Achar
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- SaaS, Retail, Big Data
- Seed
- Mexico
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- Crunch Dna — Own CrunchDNA.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
Kalpa Ventures is an investment firm that has provided financial support for various technology start up companies in Silicon Valley.
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- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Mexico
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- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
A VC firm based in Mexico City
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- Retail, Furniture, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Mexico
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- GAIA — GAIA is a furniture eCommerce platform for the sale of home products and design accessories. It offers a range of products such as sofas, chairs, drawers, dressers, tables, desks, rugs, and textiles that let consumers purchase home furnishing products at affordable prices.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
- Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
- 1Buy.AI — Decision-grade AI driven intelligence for electronics procurement. Real-time market intelligence and risk analysis for the semiconductor industry.
Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
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- Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
- nubelo — Nubelo is a career marketplace for the digital workforce (developers, designers, digital marketers, product owners...). Nubelo works with clients to understand their project/team needs and custom-matches them with pre-screened professionals who join their teams on a full-time, part-time, or hourly basis.Users on the nubelo platform receiveobjective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move or collaborate into a new project. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, or available for new projects. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.Nubelo is headquartered in Barcelona (Spain) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Desteia — Desteia turns fragmented trade data into clean, validated information - and automates the workflows that keep freight moving, compliance airtight, and teams aligned.
An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
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- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- Alice — Alice is reinventing health insurance in Brazil. It created a new end-to-end healthcare system based on (i) tech and data, (ii) world-class proprietary primary care, and (iii) value-based agreements with health providers, delivering personalized, data-driven longitudinal care, improving clinical outcomes, with an astonishing experience at lowercosts.
- Start Carreiras — Vetto has two engines: Vetto Core turns research intent into AI-ready data. Vetto Labs runs frontier research on how models learn better from data.
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy, France, United Kingdom
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- Icohup — The aim of Icohup is the development of pollution sensors with high performance yet low costs.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
- Keyless — Reverify and authenticate your users in a glance, without storing biometric data. PingOne Recognize delivers private, fraud-resistant biometric authentication.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
- Dash0 — Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
- Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Germany, Australia, United States
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- COMPEON — COMPEON is Germany’s leading financing portal for SMEs. Companies can obtain tailored offers from various financing partners for their planned projects by submitting a query free of charge at www.compeon.de. COMPEON works with more than 220 banks, leasing companies and special providers and handles financing enquiries with a total volume of €2.5billion every year. In addition to credit, loans and leasing agreements, the firm brokers also factoring and alternative financing products – such as mezzanine capital, purchase and project financing or private debt.The fintech company has been on the market since 2013. In addition to its three founders and managing directors Kai Böringschulte, Dr Nico Peters and Dr Frank Wüller, COMPEON is owned by DvH Ventures, b-to-v and Tengelmann Ventures.
- Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
- Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
LEAP Global Partners Catalazing the next wave of global innovation by investing in underrepresented founders across the Americas. We are a diverse led VC that partners with underrepresented founders challenging the status quo in Fintech, Marketplaces and SaaS. We focus on LatinX markets given secular growth opportunities that are oftenoverlooked by tradicional VCs.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico
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- Leal — Leal is the largest and fastest growing loyalty network in Colombia with over 400 participating brands.For affiliated merchants, Leal provides the technology they need to compete in a digital world. Their digital platform combines business analytics, a powerful CRM, and Point of Sale (POS) system integration to enable merchants to grow theirbusiness and communicate effectively with their customers.For registered users, Leal brings together multiple loyalty programs in a single app/card that allows them to earn rewards for their purchases at their favorite merchants.
- 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
- Finix — Finix Payments is a payment infrastructure platform that gives businesses an alternate way to own, manage, and monetize their entire payments experience without the headaches or expenses associated with building an in-house system from scratch. Payments are the lifeblood of every business, and it is critical to company revenue and customerexperience that companies get the underlying technology right. Through its Visa partnership, Finix also facilitates real-time push-to-card payments.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
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
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
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- 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.
Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
- Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
- Crown — Crown issues BRLV, a real-backed stablecoin pegged to the Brazilian real, designed to maximize security and liquidity while ensuring compliance with institutional-grade regulations.
Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Egypt
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- SaveIN — SaveIN is your all-in-one Pay Later platform for healthcare, furniture, lifestyle, travel, consumer durables and more. Shop with 7000+ trusted merchants, split payments into No-cost EMIs, and enjoy seamless financing with zero down payment.
- Homzmart — Homzmart is an e-commerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting, and home supplies. The company specializes in the fields of home improvement, eCommerce, home directory, technology, and home shopping. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
- InstaCarro — InstaCarro is an online platform that enables individuals to buy and sell cars. The company aims to add value both to individuals who want to sell their cars and to resellers.For individuals who want to sell, InstaCarro delivers the convenience of online quotes, higher than average prices and immediate payment after inspection. For buyers, itoffers online access to the large inventory of cars previously inspected and guarantees immediate return if a car purchased is in different conditions than reported. It was launched by Diego Fischer and Luca Cafici in July 2015 and is operated from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, Colombia, United States
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- 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.
Capital Invest is a company that provides retirement plans and community foundation solutions.
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- Pet, Energy, Retail
- Series B, Funding Round
- Mexico, Germany
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- Petsy — Petsy.mx is Mexico's premier petcare e-tailer. It offers a wide selection of products across a broad variety of pet types, helping its customers avoid the hassle of walking to and from the store and the convenience of having the widest assortment of pet supplies in the country right at their fingertips. The company operates daily to offer petsa variety of quality products and an excellent delivery experience directly to a home and at a good price.Petsy.mx was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Mexico.
- Sonnen — Sonnen offers solutions which are much more than only storage and includes many additional benefits like active energy management, smart metering and virtual power plant integration. Different system sizes are offered, optimally customized to the requirements of residential homes, agricultural farms and commercial firms. Sonnenbatterie wasintroduced to the German and Austrian markets in January 2011 as one of the first proven and transportable intelligent lithium storage systems.
We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.
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- Financial Services, Software, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
- LN Markets — The first Lightning-native Bitcoin derivatives trading platform.
- aeon.life — Preventive healthcare platform that equips people with personalized insights and expert guidance for proactive whole-body health
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- ZAR — ZAR is a financial software company that develops a digital dollar wallet designed to bridge the gap between cash-based economies and Web3.
- Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.
- Comp — Strategy in every penny invested in your people.Comp is an agile partner that combines compensation and technology experts to align your Total Rewards strategy with business needs.From labor cost strategy to process automation, we are helping hundreds of innovative companies with job and salary management, short- and long-term incentives, meritcycles, people budgeting and more.
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, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
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- Bull — Bull is a modular credit platform that turns customers into revenue through fast, secure Workers' Loans.
- Alice — Alice is reinventing health insurance in Brazil. It created a new end-to-end healthcare system based on (i) tech and data, (ii) world-class proprietary primary care, and (iii) value-based agreements with health providers, delivering personalized, data-driven longitudinal care, improving clinical outcomes, with an astonishing experience at lowercosts.
- Comp — Strategy in every penny invested in your people.Comp is an agile partner that combines compensation and technology experts to align your Total Rewards strategy with business needs.From labor cost strategy to process automation, we are helping hundreds of innovative companies with job and salary management, short- and long-term incentives, meritcycles, people budgeting and more.
First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
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- Palla — Palla is a REST API that lets banks empower their customers to request, receive and manage international inward remittances. Its product is built to allow its partners to fully customize the experience within their app and includes tailored reporting to drive customer insights and engagement.
- Batech — Batech, SaaS B2B that improves up to 30% the productivity and security of companies through AI-VISION transforming images from your current cameras into data for decision making. We convert any type of camera from 2 megapixels to intelligent, detecting behavior patterns and generating alerts and reports in real time. Mitigating 3 problems,pilferage, accidents and insecurity that represent losses of more than 451B usd annually in LatAm. central operation in Mexico, and through partners in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Costa Rica.
- Mango — Mango offers suppliers and contractors in the construction industry real-time risk analytics, automated B2B payments, and embedded credit.
Angel Hub is a club of angel investors that empower entrepreneurs and businessmen with innovative and scalable projects with global reach. Angel Hub invests in projects throughout Mexico and abroad which offers access to important investment opportunities in high-potential startups. Angel Hub is headquartered in San Pedro, Mexico.
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- AgTech, Retail, Fashion
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Mexico
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- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
- Verqor — Verqor is a platform that disrupts the agricultural sector with finances and technology. We give farmers access to cashless credits that can be used for purchasing supplies and technology, everything through our platform. Verqor uses an alternative data-driven credit scoring criteria, for reaching financial inclusion and technifying the fields.
- Vivanta — Know your risks. Improve your health. Live better.
Hyve Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in disruptive companies within the beauty, wellness, and consumer health sectors. Hyve Ventures is based in New York, NY, and operates as a privately held venture capital and private equity firm. The fund targets innovative startups in these specific industries to supporttheir growth and development
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- Retail, Fashion, Cosmetics
- Seed
- Mexico
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- SARELLY SARELLY — SARELLY SARELLY is a gender-neutral and transparent fashion brand, offering affordable luxury to the Hispanic Gen Z community.
Abraham Achar
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- SaaS, Retail, Big Data
- Seed
- Mexico
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- Crunch Dna — Own CrunchDNA.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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.
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- SaaS, Retail, Payments
- Seed
- Mexico
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- 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.
Jose de la Luz Lopez is the Founder and CEO of delt.ai. He attended Y Combinator.
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- Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Mexico
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- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
Chris Thomas is a co-founder and partner of Assembly Ventures.Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Previous to this, Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While atFontinalis he served as a Board Member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a Board Observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis Chris served in the U.S. Army as a Communications Officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an Investment Banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a Senior Advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a Co-Owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously advised a number of mobility startups around the globe; served as the Chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States; and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems. Chris earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Economics and International Relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the City of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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- Software, Mobile, Automotive
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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- 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.
- Kall Morris Inc — Kall Morris Inc orbital debris research and development, consulting experts.
- Buddy's Pizza — Buddy's Pizza is a widely recognized as the originator of detroit-style pizza.
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