Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Uruguay

Investor	SaaS Uruguay investments
Latitud	3
Canary	3
ANII	2
Endeavor Catalyst	2
IC Ventures	2
Andreessen Horowitz	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Angel Ventures	2
Grupo Axo	1
Luxor Capital Group	1
Pitanga Fund	1
Greyhound Capital	1
Valor Capital Group	1
Tencent	1
Wollef Ventures	1
Dalus Capital	1
Auria Capital	1
El Pais	1
Mario Sanchez	1
Andres Bilbao	1
Matt Fichtner	1
Pedro Arnt	1
Atlas Benjelloun	1
Globant	1
FJ Labs	1
Brad Flora	1
ThredUp	1
Elevar Equity	1
Sergio Fogel	1
Giovanni Gardelli	1
Ariel Arrieta	1
Magma Partners	1
Kube VC	1
Globant Ventures	1
Martin Naor	1
Cisneros Group	1
The Rise Fund	1
Nazca Ventures	1
Eduardo Mangarelli	1
Orok Ventures	1
Draco Capital	1
Asenza Capital	1
Sebastian Mejia	1
NXTP Ventures	1
Santiago Pinto Escalier	1
Guido Grinbaum	1
Emblue Latam	1
VentureFriends	1
Starlight Ventures	1
Maria Raga	1

Build good sh*t with Latitud

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pulpos — Pulpos es el mejor punto de Venta para tu Tienda. Crear tu catalogo online, gestionar tu inventario y facturacion en linea nunca fue tan facil. El sistema ideal para tu negocio, a un precio accesible.
Mika Health — Streamline the boring, focus on the extraordinary
Hyperplane AI — The Hyperplane platform enables financial institutions to launch personalized consumer experiences through specialized foundation models (LLMs).

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

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.
Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
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.

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.

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 — We are a team that has excelled in software, pedagogy, video games, the publishing world, and very motivated to positively impact the lives of millions of children. We have created Boki, a tool that is improving the learning experience in schools in Uruguay, Chile, and México, returning the natural enthusiasm to learn of thousands of schoolchildren. Boki can be understood as a “Netflix” with educational content, which includes challenging and really fun activities and exercises that help children learn while enjoying, in a playful and interactive way. Boki helps teachers to prepare the class, it is compatible with multiple platforms and easily adapts to national curricula.
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.

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Tamara — Tamara is a fintech startup that offers a buy now, pay later platform that enables customers to pay on an installment basis, helping merchants to grow their sales. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and mobile apps.In 2020, Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Turki Bin Zarah, and Abdulmohsen Albabtain co-established the company inRiyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
Uruguay, 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.
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 — Polyhedra Network is constructing the infrastructure for Web3 interoperability through the use of advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pulpos — Pulpos es el mejor punto de Venta para tu Tienda. Crear tu catalogo online, gestionar tu inventario y facturacion en linea nunca fue tan facil. El sistema ideal para tu negocio, a un precio accesible.
Lil Snack — New pop-culture games & puzzles every day!
Splitting Me — Welcome to Splitting Me, the first technology startup to apply blockchain technology to the field of real estate investment in the direction of NFT in the world.Through our workflow, Splitting Me allows users to own as much real estate as they want without the declaration to any individual or institution. With blockchain technology and the Law ofBusiness, we sure that our clients’ properties ownership is completely legal and confidential."In fact, because each investor does not have sufficient financial capability, there are many cases of people pooling their funds into a “pooled funds” to invest in the same real estate. Although they are acquainted, for some reason, the person holding the pool disappears or goes bankrupt, the remaining people will lose all their money. And we are the best solution to this story."More than that, let discover me on our official website: https://splitting.me/

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Mexico, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
Frizata — Frizata is the first digitally native, vertical brand in the flexitarian frozen food space.
Capitalizarme — Capitalizarme.com is an E2E marketplace, just like Amazon or MeLi, but for real estate assets. They basically choose the best investment options and simplify the process to make a responsible investment. Discover opportunities and investment guidance, buy and manage online with just a few clicks using state-of-the-art tech.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Pitanga Fund invests in innovative companies with high growth potential.The fund's goal is to work with early stage start-ups and to help entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to build their business.The innovation that the firm wishes to support involves innovative business models or the development and deployment of newtechnologies.Pitanga looks for businesses that aim to address large markets and can capture a significant fraction of these markets in a short time. To achieve these goals the companies must deploy a set of innovations capable of generating a wide competitive advantage.If these conditions are met, Pitanga is prepared to provide the capital necessary to develop and implement new technologies or business models.The firm contributes the necessary capital and is prepared to provide assistance by participating on the board of directors.Pitanga Fund has no limitations regarding sectors or geographies. However, prefers to invest in Brazilian companies or companies that have a significant presence in Brazil.Over the next four years Pitanga intends to invest in a limited number of companies, these will be chosen via a rigorous selection process.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Geospatial
Seed, Series A
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Collokia — Collokia uses Artificial Intelligence to expose your Knowledge Management Content to the right people at the right time and boosts your knowledge management system ROI.
Satellogic — Making Earth Observation imagery accessible and affordable to solve the world's most pressing problems

Global growth equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled businesses improving everyday lives

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Series B, Seed, Series D
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Toss — Toss is a South Korea-based mobile financial service platform operated by fintech startup Viva Republica. Its application offers peer-to-peer money transfers, manages credit scores and bank accounts, access loan and insurance plans, split bill options, QR payment and other similar services that enable users to manage their finance.
Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
Lunar — Get a free account and card - just like 850,000 others. Spend smart. Achieve financial peace of mind. Sign up in minutes.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Incognia — Prevent account takeover and protect against mobile fraud with Incognia's frictionless mobile identity authentication and multi-factor authentication.
Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
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.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
Sinovent — Founded in 2016, Sinovent is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation. Sinovent is centered around global standard excellence through its advanced biotechnology platform, decades of management experience, as well as financial support. Sinovent uniquely combines its expertise in science, management and finance, to develop and promoteadvanced treatment methods to solve worldwide healthcare problems. Currently, the company has 12 products in development, primarily in oncology, auto-immune diseases, and infectious diseases.
Pocket FM — Listen to Audio Books, Podcasts and read Novels on Pocket FM. We bring you over 10k+ popular audio shows in multi languages. Best audiobooks app

Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.

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.

Investing in innovation & growth in Latin America

Investment focus

Information Technology, Logistics, Developer Platform
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Mecanizou — Mecanizou is a distributor of automobile parts. They offer products that include filters, lubricantes, scanners, correias, arrefecimento, frenagem, and baterias.
UnDosTres — UnDosTres is revolutionizing the consumer payments landscape in Mexico. We are building the country's leading platform that allows Mexican's to pay for anything and everything at the tap of a button! We are amongst the fastest-growing startups in Mexico and were recently crowned the Best Fintech Startup in Emerging Markets.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

Auria Capital is a venture firm focused on real estate development and direct investments in Mexican companies.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Internet
Series A, Seed
Mexico, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Carrot — Carrot is Mexico’s first car sharing service that provides fuel-efficient automobile reservations to members, billable by the hour or day. Carrot members pay a monthly membership fee in addition to car reservation charges which include gas and insurance. Carrot’s service is the first of its kind in Mexico, giving rise to an agreement with theMexico City government for special parking permits and access to electric cars. At the end of 2015, Carrot had a fleet of 82 cars in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Puebla.
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.
Inventive Power — Inventive Power develops innovative technologies in generation and efficient use of energy, aimed to maximize the reduction of energy costs in the commercial and industrial sector. Their IP technology is a solar concentrator that generates useful thermal energy in industrial or commercial applications where large amounts of hot water, steam or heatinput are required; at a much lower cost to generate it with fossil fuels and with a significant reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases.

El Pais is a newspaper company with a large national circulation and audience. The company introduced the modality of distributing special and collectible editorial products nationally and internationally. The company focuses in the improvement of Uruguayan society. The carry out dozens of extraordinary publications and historical investigations.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Android
Pre-Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions.  POP Material implementation.  Products expiring date.  Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.

Senior Level Manager More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them. With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Android
Pre-Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions.  POP Material implementation.  Products expiring date.  Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.

Andres Bilbao

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

Investment focus

Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Meitre — Meitre is a guest manager for restaurants to book tables based on demand trends, rotate tables efficiently, introduce dynamic pricing techinques, host events, and book tables with credit cards Half of the Latin America Top 50 list–including 2 of the top 10 restaurants in the World–use Meitre to increase profit as much as 30% by optimizing tableallocation, limiting low margin bookings at peak hours, and eliminating no-shows using tickets, deposits and credit card guarantees.

Pedro Arnt is the current Co-Chief Executive Officer of dLocal. He previously worked at MercadoLibre as a Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Pedro Arnt attended the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Series A
Mexico, Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
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.
Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.

Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Argentina, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
ping — messageLOUD is a patented app that automatically reads text messages, emails, WhatsApp, Slack and all other message types out LOUD without any action from the user.Think about your daily commute. Focused on safety, productivity and convenience, the service reads all major message types out loud when touching your phone is unsafe, inconvenient orillegal.Distracted Driving costs $129 billion per year and 11 lives per day. messageLOUD not only saves lives, but also enhances productivity. There are more than 800 million app users of streaming audio services, running, cycling and other activity-based apps where users would prefer to hear their texts and emails read out LOUD rather than checking their phones.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Wallets Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

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.

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.

Elevar Equity fuels the economic resilience and vibrancy of underserved customers and low income communities by investing early growth capital in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of inclusivity, affordability and massive scale. Led by an entrepreneurial emerging markets team passionate about addressing issues of access and inequity, Elevar invests in businesses that demonstrate a direct correlation between high impact and returns. So far in its 15-year journey, the Elevar Method of investing has democratized essential products and services for over 45 million households and catalyzed billions of dollars of capital into 40+ companies across India and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series C
India, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
TapFin — Tapfin is a sustainability platform that focuses on offering several services, including financing and insurance, to startups and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the sustainability ecosystem.

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

Investment focus

Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Tuvis — Tuvis enables companies to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with business interactions over unofficial channels like WhatsApp and iMessage.
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.

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.

Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Argentina, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

dCustody — 2PI is a two sided transactional platforms that connects DeFi with Fintechs
GetGloby — GetGloby is an AI-powered platform that allows you to automatically localize your ads in minutes and manage all your translations effortlessly.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance is building a seamless global banking solution for Startups, beginning in LatAm. We help Startups bring funding into local operations with a better, cheaper and faster alternative.

Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development

We invest in visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent business through the lens of AI, Blockchain, and Future of Work technologies. Our DNA is that of our founders, and our venture fund targets investment from Seed stage to Series B, while bringing to bear the expertise, scale, and passion of our global network.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Argentina, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Fivvy — In the dynamic world of financial technology, Fivvy stands at the forefront, enabling banks to surpass the competition by leveraging cutting-edge, data-driven models and tailored customer engagement strategies. Fivvy’s innovative solutions unlock the immense value hidden within financial data, propelling banks of all sizes toward unparalleledcustomer experiences. With Fivvy's streamlined implementation process, banks can quickly turn into data driven and customer centric organizations in as little as 3 months. Overall, Fivvy empowers banks to offer a more customer-centric approach, while unlocking the full value of their data.
Polemix — 1 hour - Roundtable live video conversation - Only 5 spots. Join the waitlist.
LinkedAI — Image Labeling platform and annotation services to accelerate the creation highest quality training data for your Computer Vision development

Martin Naor - Founder and CEO @ Bankingly

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Shipping
Pre-Seed, Series A
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

MonkeyLearn — No-Code Text Analytics. Get started for free!
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.

The Cisneros Group is a global media and entertainment leader focused on the vibrant and fast-growing Hispanic market. The Cisneros Group produce and distribute some of the world’s most popular Spanish-language programming, reaching 550 million viewers in more than 100 countries.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Social Media Marketing
Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
Brazil, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

FLUVIP — Fluvip is an influencer marketing company in Latin America and the United States. It offers a technology platform that allows advertisers to identify the right social content influencers for their campaigns based on artificial intelligence systems; and brands to connect with social content influencers in the world through multi-channels, such asTwitter, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and Blogs. Fluvip measures the reactions and behaviors of users in social networks to obtain segmentation results and to achieve effective campaigns. Sebastian Jasminoy founded it on July 10, 2013, with its headquarters in Bogotá in Colombia.
Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.

The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change.The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is bothachievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information, and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Software
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

UBQ Materials — UBQ Materials envisions a world where finite resources are infinitely reused. It aims to help rescue the planet. The UBQ proprietary process converts Residual Municipal Solid Waste, destined to landfills, into novel bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday durable products - with a reduced carbon footprint.The company was foundedin 2012 and is headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
RefleXion Medical — RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT),stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.
Bicara Therapeutics — Bicara enables access to the thriving innovation ecosystem which accelerates our development of therapies for cancer. Synergies between the Bicara teams in Boston and Bengaluru will pioneer breakthrough innovation.

Nazca Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Datanomik — Datanomik is a B2B Open Finance API platform that allows businesses to get their financial information in a simpler, seamless way.
Miora — Online platform for beauty services.

Eduardo Mangarelli - Founder @ Qool

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Shipping
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tryolabs —
MonkeyLearn — No-Code Text Analytics. Get started for free!
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.

Orok Ventures is investing on tech, VCs, PEs, among other asset classes.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Information Technology
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.

DRACO CAPITAL is a Latin American independent Investment Manager. Our management team has over 30 years of experience.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.

Asenza Capital is a family office based in Monterrey, Mexico that invests in real estate, public markets and private equity.

Investment focus

SaaS, Medical, Internet
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Chile, Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Webdox — Webdox is a SaaS CLM focused on large and medium companies in LATAM and the US. Webdox control automates and optimizes the entire contract lifecycle for all kinds of contract types with different features for the whole contract lifecycle, including contract request, contract drafting, validation, e-signature, contract execution, contract changemanagement, contract repository, and reports.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Region Metropolitana, Chile.
gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simpliﬁes the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing eﬃciency and transparency.
Onko Solutions — Onko Solutions is committed to the development of accurate and innovative solutions that contribute to the detection, prevention and treatment of cancer in underserved communities.

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Santiago Pinto Escalier is the Coach - Strategic Advisor at Finanflix.

Investment focus

Geospatial
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Satellogic — Making Earth Observation imagery accessible and affordable to solve the world's most pressing problems

Guido Grinbaum - Co Founder @ Zonacitas.com

Investment focus

Internet
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Block Academy — Internet Marketplace Platforms

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Investment focus

Analytics, E-Commerce, Data Integration
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

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.

We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.

Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Finland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Tynt Technologies — Tynt Technologies, Inc. - The Future of Dynamic Windows - RME (reversible metal electrodeposition) Technology out of Stanford University

Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last threeyears alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop - now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace

Investment focus

Video, Retail, Travel
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.