Top 35 SaaS VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Uruguay in December 2024
A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Saas startups based in Uruguay. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Uruguay. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 SaaS VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Uruguay in December 2024
Investor | SaaS Uruguay investments |
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IC Ventures | 3 |
Canary | 3 |
Latitud | 3 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
Angel Ventures | 2 |
NXTP Ventures | 2 |
DGF Investimentos | 2 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 2 |
ANII | 2 |
Starlight Ventures | 1 |
Globant | 1 |
Elevar Equity | 1 |
Globant Ventures | 1 |
Orok Ventures | 1 |
Asenza Capital | 1 |
Magma Partners | 1 |
Greyhound Capital | 1 |
Auria Capital | 1 |
Luxor Capital Group | 1 |
ThredUp | 1 |
Tencent | 1 |
VentureFriends | 1 |
NXTP Ventures | 1 |
Wollef Ventures | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
Valor Capital Group | 1 |
Cisneros Group | 1 |
The Rise Fund | 1 |
Grupo Axo | 1 |
El Pais | 1 |
Draco Capital | 1 |
Nazca Ventures | 1 |
Emblue Latam | 1 |
Pitanga Fund | 1 |
Kube VC | 1 |
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 Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.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 privacy at the core of every decision.
Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Conectamos — Ship with local carriers, more affordable and reliable
- Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- HappyRobot — Happyrobot is the AI that extracts quantitative data from geospatial imagery with English queries
- Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- 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.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Occosoft LLC — At Occosoft, we unlock infinite opportunities for entrepreneurship by tackling the power of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions. We collaborate with diverse clients across industries to transform their advanced experiences and enable them to reach new heights.Our Services: Managed AI Solutions: Use ourexpertise to consistently integrate AI into your operations. We handle updates, security, and framework checks, guaranteeing a smooth and secure experience.Custom Software Development with AI: Our custom software solutions are custom-fitted to your unique needs and consistently integrated with advanced AI functionalities.AI Web Development: Build a global presence with secure, universal web applications powered by AI. Access everything and work from anywhere with our intelligent online solutions.AI-Powered Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Outsmart the competition and get noticed! Our AI strategies get you to the top of search engine results organically, attracting more customers and moving your business growth.Social Media Optimization: We help you use the control of social media to manage your online profile, connect with modern clients, and build brand awareness.Features:Smart Report Processing: Automate data extraction and eliminate manual information entry tasks. Focus on what truly matters and discover the power of intelligent document processing.AI-Powered Security: Occosoft's AI security learns and adapts, creating an intelligent shield that safeguards your data from advanced attacks.Customized User Access: Our framework simplifies security while engaging your team for success. Experience streamlined collaboration without compromising information integrity.Connect us on our mission to open the genuine potential of your business with AI!
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
- Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
- R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
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 — 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
- Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.
- Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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- LinkedAI — Image Labeling platform and annotation services to accelerate the creation highest quality training data for your Computer Vision development
Orok Ventures is investing on tech, VCs, PEs, among other asset classes.
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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.
Asenza Capital is a family office based in Monterrey, Mexico that invests in real estate, public markets and private equity.
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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.
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.
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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.
- 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.
- Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.
Global growth equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled businesses improving everyday lives
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Greadamy — Greadamy is an educational technology company that revolutionizes how students learn by offering a comprehensive AI-driven platform. The platform provides personalized learning experiences through adaptive quizzes, AI-generated flashcards, and a Notion-style editor for structured note-taking. Greadamy is designed to support efficient self-study,human and AI tutoring based on fine-tuned LLM, and a collaborative learning community. Backed by regional investors and leading education technology partners, Greadamy aims to empower students globally by making learning more personalized, efficient, and accessible.
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Auria Capital is a venture firm focused on real estate development and direct investments in Mexican companies.
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- Krinwave — Krinwave is an ultrasound imaging equipment company. Kunwei Technology's original kOS imaging platform achieves the perfect combination of ultra-high penetration and deep resolution for the first time in the industry, resulting in deep super-resolution images.
- Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.
- Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!
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.
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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.
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.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital.
It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
- XP Health — XP Health is a health tech startup introducing a new kind of vision benefit for employees leveraging machine learning.Founded in 2019 by Antonio Moraes and James Wong, XP Health is an AI-powered vision benefits platform for employees and their families to get frames from the world’s leading designers like Tom Ford, Ray-Ban, Armani, Gucci, Coach.Its proprietary deep learning model uses facial recognition technology that recommends the best frames based on facial dimensions with 98% accuracy. The company is working with companies like Chegg, Zenefits, and Sequoia Consulting Group.
- Highlight — Get instant answers about anything you've seen, heard or said. Download free: highlightai.com
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.
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- Advertising, Apps, Social Media Marketing
- Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
- Brazil, Argentina, United States
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- 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.
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- Health Care, Financial Services, Software
- Series C, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, India, China
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- BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with BillEase and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
- Hayden AI — Artificial intelligence is already impacting almost every aspect of our lives. But cities still rely on outdated technologies that are too expensive to scale and unable to deliver on their promise. As a result, streets are becoming unsafe, and cities are becoming unmanageable. Hayden AI was founded on the belief that by combining mobile sensorswith artificial intelligence, we can help governments bridge the innovation gap while making traffic flow less dangerous and more efficient. Led by a team of experts in machine learning, data science, transportation, and government technology, we’ve developed the world’s first autonomous traffic management platform — simultaneously serving citizens and multi-agency missions to help cities become safer and more sustainable.
- Eruditus Executive Education — Eruditus Executive Education offers the best executive education programmes from world's top Business Schools - Columbia, INSEAD, Harvard, MIT Sloan, Wharton and more.
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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- Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
- Corporate Round
- Uruguay
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- 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.
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.
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- iOS, SaaS, Android
- Pre-Seed
- Uruguay
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- 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.
DRACO CAPITAL is a Latin American independent Investment Manager. Our management team has over 30 years of experience.
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed
- Uruguay
Nazca Ventures
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- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, Uruguay
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- Analytics, E-Commerce, Data Integration
- Seed
- Uruguay
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- 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.
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.
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- Computer, Software, Geospatial
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Uruguay, United States
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- 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
Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
- Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.
- 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
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