Top 15 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Uruguay (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Caravela Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Brazil, Mexico, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $340k–$86M |
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IC Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Uruguay | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Banking, FinTech | $100k–$7M |
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Olist
VC Fund
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3 | Brazil, Uruguay | Pre-Seed, Seed | B2B, Retail, Software | $650k–$7M |
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Broadhaven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $2.5M–$104M |
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Mouro Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Series B, Series A, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $5M–$150M |
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Quona Capital
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $3M–$87M |
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ANII
VC Fund
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2 | Uruguay, Chile, Brazil | Pre-Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance | Software, Information Technology, Retail | $5k–$200k |
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Grupo Axo
VC Fund
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2 | Uruguay | Seed, Corporate Round | Retail, Fashion, Online Portals | |
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IGNIA
VC Fund
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1 | Mexico, United States, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $387k–$42M |
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Essential Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, SaaS, Mining | $3.5M–$100M |
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Cencosud Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil | Seed | SaaS, Retail, E-Commerce | |
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Wollef Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Mexico, Argentina, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $500k–$40M |
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Luxor Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Spain, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Logistics, Food Delivery | $219k–$68M |
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $5.5M–$200M |
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ThredUp
VC Fund
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1 | Uruguay | Corporate Round | Retail, Fashion, Online Portals | |
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Brazilian Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage companies in Latam
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Mexico, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $340k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.3M; Series A $3M–$86M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Robbin — Robbin is leading a revolution to change how 21 million SMBs fund $2.5 trillions in B2B Payments. Employing an innovative underwriting approach, Robbin leverages BRL 3 trillion in card receivables as collateral to underwrite a one-of-a-kind business credit card for underserved entrepreneurs.
- Trinio — Creating new experiences and technologies that empower merchants to build better and lasting relationship directly with their clients
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $100k–$7M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Akua — Transformative payments infrastructure, Akua's cloud-native platform offers acquiring-as-a-service for all payment rails
- 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 protection at the core of every decision.
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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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Pre-Seed $650k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Start selling in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico & LATAM marketplaces with one integration. nocnoc handles compliance, logistics, payments & operations.
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Broadhaven is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.5M; Series A $7.5M–$65M; Series B $20M–$104M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Conta Simples — Conta Simples is the all-in-one finance plataform. The union of checking account, expense management software and corporate cards in one place. We bring peace to finance teams and entrepreneurs. Control, visibility, autonomy and decentralization of payments for SMBs in Latam.
- MRP — MRP is a healthcare technology and marketplace platform helping aesthetic providers buy, sell, finance, service, and scale with new and pre-owned medical devices.
- Pluto Financial Technologies — Pluto unlocks liquidity for investors in alternative assets. Access a non-recourse credit line without selling your portfolio.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $14M–$68M; Series C $32M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
- Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
- Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a company that offers banking and financial services.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
- AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
- Cordant — A single operational picture across every system money moves through. Your team acts on what's happening, not what already happened.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Uruguay, Chile, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Grant $20k–$100k; Pre-Seed $25k–$200k; Non-Equity Assistance $5k–$70k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Conic — Conic AI Employee Onboarding is an AI-powered platform designed to streamline employee onboarding and training for companies of all sizes. By leveraging conversational AI, Conic automates onboarding processes, answers employee questions, delivers interactive training materials, and provides performance analytics to enhance knowledge retention.
- Trivium ai — Trivium, an education-focused SaaS, offers comprehensive school management and bullying detection software.
- StyleDesigner — StylesDesigner is an AI-powered app that transforms fashion shopping with personalized cross-brand recommendations. It understands users' tastes to suggest tailored outfits, making shopping efficient and enjoyable. It caters to online shoppers, budget-conscious individuals, and those seeking unique styles. Key features include AIrecommendations, outfit completion and generation, multimodal-based search, and support for small brands, ensuring an inclusive and innovative shopping experience
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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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
IGNIA is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in global entrepreneurs who are developing innovative technology solutions that address fundamental pain points in Latin America.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Mexico, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $387k–$12M; Series A $3.7M–$14M; Series B $2M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- BackChannel — BackChannel is an online B2B platform for inventory transactions and for buying and selling online goods.
Essential Capital is a global venture investor and an early backer of industry-transforming businesses.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, SaaS, Mining
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$8.5M; Series A $17M–$20M; Series B $41M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elvy — Geofy AI platform provides home owners control over their energy needs with subscription of solar, heat pump and battery system.
- Endolith — Endolith is a biotech company transforming sustainable mining by leveraging microbes, synthetic biology, and cloud computing to extract more critical minerals like copper from low-grade ores. Working with the many of the leading mining companies, Endolith is advancing its innovative technology to commercial scale. Recognized as a finalist in theBHP Unearthed BioMetals cohort and a member of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative, Endolith is driving the future of mining with sustainable, efficient, and responsible solutions for the clean energy transition.
- Transition Metal Solutions — Transition harnesses wild microbial communities to recover copper and other critical metals from low-grade mining resources.
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Browse database — It's Free!Cencosud Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Cencosud, creates, funds, and accelerates startups that shape the future of retail.We aim to leverage and accelerate startups regionally, and strategically important to our business units, by generating and strengthening core competitive advantages. We pursue strategic returns by investing indisruptive technologies that accelerate the future of retail, payments, mobile experience, fintech, logistics and the supply chain.Cencosud is one of the largest multi-format retailers in the Americas. It operates in Chile, the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Additionally, it has offices in Uruguay and China. Its main business units are supermarkets, department stores, home improvement and financial retail.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
- Mimo Live Sales — Mimo is a Live Commerce platform pioneer in the Latam Market.
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.3M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- MiChamba — MiChamba is a Software Development firm offering an AI based personal assistant for automation
- 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.
- Ginia — Somos el ecosistema que conecta empresas, instituciones educativas y estudiantes, usando la inteligencia artificial para potenciar la empleabilidad.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Food Delivery
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Spain, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $219k–$16M; Series A $12M–$50M; Series B $10M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- TON Strategy Company — VERB Technology Company is a software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, applications platform developer. Its platform is comprised of sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis. The applications are available in both mobile and desktop versions. It includes verbCRM, Customer Relationship Management application, verbLEARN,Learning Management System application, and verbLIVE, its Live Broadcast Video Webinar application.
- Montage Hotels & Resorts — Montage Hotels & Resorts, a hotel management company, consists of a collection of luxury hotels, resorts and residences that are perfect for vacations. Take advantage of both world class service and accommodations at each location.
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 445
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $23M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
- Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
- Circeus — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
thredUP is an online consignment and thrift store where you can buy and sell high-quality secondhand clothes. Find your favorite brands at up to 90% off.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
- Stage:Corporate Round
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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.
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