Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Uruguay in April 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Uruguay. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Uruguay. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Uruguay in April 2025
Investor | Retail Uruguay investments |
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Olist | 3 |
Caravela Capital | 3 |
Marcos Vercelli-Forster | 2 |
ANII | 2 |
Quona Capital | 2 |
Broadhaven Capital Partners | 2 |
Paulo Piccini | 2 |
IC Ventures | 2 |
Mouro Capital | 2 |
Diego Dzodan | 1 |
Grupo Axo | 1 |
Wollef Ventures | 1 |
Luxor Capital Group | 1 |
Sergio Oberlander | 1 |
Federico Colella | 1 |
Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe.
This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions.
(1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries.
(2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil.
(3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Brazil, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Brazilian Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage companies in Latam
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Uruguay, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Destaxa — Épico provides a financial services marketplace to brick and mortar retailers.
- CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
- PX.Center — PX.Center offers logistics solution by providing trained drivers and assistants to ensure one's operation never stops.
Marcos Vercelli-Forster
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, B2B, Retail
- Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
The National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) is a government agency that promotes research and application of new knowledge to productive and social reality of the country. ANII available to the public funding for research projects, scholarships national and international graduate programs and incentive programs for innovativeentrepreneurship and culture, both in the private and public sectors.ANII developed the National Research System, a program of national economic researchers categorized based on a strict evaluation system incentives. He also created the Portal Timbo, which allows free access to all kinds of scientific publications worldwide for all Uruguayans.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Uruguay, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- Boki — LOGAMTOTO merupakan penyedia layanan resmi situs toto online 4D terbesar dan terpercaya saat ini, mari login dan daftar bersama Logam Toto untuk dapatkan hadiah terbesar setiap harinya.
- TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Brazil, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
- Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
Broadhaven is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Brinta — Tax Compliance Solution for Latin America. Calculate, report and file your taxes in real-time with Brinta
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- Bondaval — Bondaval secures receivables for the world's best credit teams, so they can extend more credit, win more business and get better financing terms.
Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.
IC Ventures selects startups with potential for disruption, scaling, and value generation in technology applied to financial services (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).ICV members have acquired extensive experience in providing effective and relevant support to entrepreneurs that reduces or neutralizes some of the most frequent risksthat lead to the failure of entrepreneurs and allows them to make the most of the opportunities that are they present them both for business and for securing financing.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Uruguay, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
- Polyhedra Network — Trust, safety, and data privacy at the core of every decision.
Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- xFarm Technologies — The agricultural business is becoming more and more complex due to legal requirements and product certification. On the other hand, technologies evolve and create opportunity. xFarm is a startup that aims at the digitization of agriculture, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain's stakeholders in themanagement of their companies. Created by farmers and tailored to the agricultural sector, its main focus is on ease of use, intuitiveness and complete adaptability to agricultural realities. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, a dashboard Analytics dedicated to professionals and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized and connected by xFarm.
- Colektia — Colektia is a digital platform that helps financial institutions create new digital collections models, based on artificial intelligence. They predict the best communication strategy for companies to contact debtors (best channel / best time / best day) and use robots to do so. The platform generates portals so that users can generatetheir payments, refinance and schedule payment promises.Colektia uses predictive models throughout the management process in key stages such as segmentation, validation, and management of management channels. Their artificial intelligence processes allow them to develop the best strategy to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency in the collection. They integrate new channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc., Expanding the management capacity and improving the contact ability.Colektia was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.
- Burbank — Burbank's technology creates the most seamless customer experience by enabling authentication of users anytime, at any time, using the widely known "Tap and PIN." Burbank gives companies the ability to produce the remarkable.
Diego became CEO of Facily in October 2018, having been an early investor and Board Member since the company's startup. In his role, he is focused on delivering on Facily's mission of making the world more convenient while creating opportunities for everyone.
Previously, as Vice-President for Facebook Latin America for more than threeyears, Diego led the team to a position of regional and global relevance.
His other roles include President for Latin America and several country leadership positions at German software maker SAP. He was also co-founder and CEO of Certant, a Software Developer startup in Argentina. Diego holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated in Accounting at Universidad de Belgrano. He is a part-time teacher in Organisational Behaviour at Universidsd Torcuato DiTella.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Start selling in the largest cross-border store in Latin America and reach 485 million consumers in less than 48 hours.
Grupo Axo is a leading multi-brand company in Mexico for apparel, footwear, beauty, accessories and home furniture. Today the company is a reference and a reliable resource for brands that want to build a successful platform within Latin America. With a solid retail and wholesale experience for over 23 years, its expertise comes from representing,elevating equity, distributing and operating brands through a multi-channel approach. As of 2017, Grupo Axo operates more than 3,100 points of sale within major department stores and over 500 retail points of sale in both Mexico and Chile, and solid and successful e-commerce platforms in both mono-brand and multi-brand formats.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
- Corporate Round
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Argentina, 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.
- Vioo — Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace for companies on demand. The solution automates the creation of visual content.
- Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
Luxor Capital Group is a hedge fund that offers equity and fixed income investments. It also provides its customers with investment advisory services.
Luxor Capital Group was founded by Christian Leone and is based in New York.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Logistics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Spain, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Volta Trucks — Electric trucks for sustainable cities, with people at the heart of everything we do.
- VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.
Sergio Oberlander
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- befit — Our goal is to inspire people to have a healthier life&style. We understood we could do it democratizing access to quality workout content. We structured befit’s streaming on-demand platform with exclusive content classified across different categories such as yoga, pilates, functional, dancing, barre, and abs, among others. Sessions have beenrun by well-regarded Latin American trainers with users being able to narrow and filter workout sessions by intensity level, time duration, coach preference, and equipment needed. By offering a diverse set of workouts, users’ are able to personalize their exercise routines as they move towards their respective fitness goals.
Owner & CEO, OCASA
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Start selling in the largest cross-border store in Latin America and reach 485 million consumers in less than 48 hours.
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