Top 15 Social Startup Investors in LATAM in November 2024

Investor	Social LATAM investments
Propel	3
The Twenty Minute VC	2
Kindred Ventures	2
PeopleFund	2
Igah Ventures	2
The Twenty Minute VC	1
Tom Blomfield	1
Graph Ventures	1
Future Positive	1
Next Play Ventures	1
Acumen	1
Genesis Capital Ventures	1
Santander	1
Dhaval Chadha	1
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	1

Investing in the new financial economy

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fintoc — Fintoc is a mobile banking application that allows users to automate bank reconciliation and payment verification. The company was founded in March 2020 by Cristóbal Griffero and Lukas Zorich and is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile.
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 Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.

Welcome to 20VC. 20VC operates at the intersection of venture and media.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices

Supporting world-changing startups and the kindred spirits who create them.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, China

Portfolio highlights

Fal.ai — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
Heartbeat Health — Heartbeat Health's nationwide model, uses real-time clinical data and device connectivity to deliver same-day diagnostic reads, televisits and care programs
Particle.News — Understand more, faster.

PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companieswith the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com

Investment focus

Internet, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Guatemala, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kaptyn — Transforming the Las Vegas ride service experience for good by building a platform of sustainable vehicles and professional drivers.
Sostengo — Sostengo provides an application for insurance services.
Menlo Micro — Since 2016, Menlo Micro combines the strengths of the relay with the merits of the transistor, our revolutionary technology is smaller, faster, & more powerful.

Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm that was born from the union of forces of two successful investment platforms (e.bricks ventures and Joa Investimentos). We have a unique and complementary team of partners and an extremely qualified and experienced team.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CRMBonus — CRM & BÔNUS is a CRM consultancy and Giftback platforms.
Liqi Digital Assets — Liqi Digital Assets is an investment model, which transforms assets so that anyone can become an investor.

Welcome to 20VC. 20VC operates at the intersection of venture and media.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Athenian — Introducing the world to software engineering metrics that help teams, and improve processes. Athenian is built for GitHub and Jira users.
Waitroom — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone *Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions
Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.

Future Positive is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Rex — Share places you love with friends. Get the Rex app now!
NotCo — We are reinventing the foods we love to eat! Same great flavor, but made from plants. Meet the future of food. Why not?
Vantage Discovery — Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.

Next Play Ventures coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner & Brian Rumao.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Education
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Trala — Learn violin at any age, from anywhere in the world with Trala. Trala gives you the feedback, private lessons, and community you need to learn a new instrument.
Airspeed — Airspeed is a team-building platform for modern companies to connect digitally. Airspeed’s suite of apps offers simple and fun solutions to celebrate employee milestones, recognize colleagues with kudos, connect hybrid or remote teams, and more. Airspeed's platform serves as a system of record for culture, and helps companies build a strongculture of engagement, recognition, and collaboration.
Neura Health — Expert headache care at your fingertips

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.
Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.

Founded in 2015, Genesis Capital Ventures is a seed- and early-stage fund based in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Investment focus

Mobile, Finance, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series C
Mexico, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unima — Unima is decentralizing rapid testing across industries by taking diagnostics out of the lab to the place these are needed the most to secure a timely diagnostic for everyone, anywhere.Unima is solving is the centralization of lab testing, which limits the access to a timely diagnostic for billions. Current technology for diagnostics is veryprecise and can detect almost any disease known, but the problem is these require labs with expensive equipment and specialized technicians making lab testing impossible to scale up to provide universal and timely access to diagnostics.To solve this problem Unima developed Find, a rapid testing technology platform for real time diagnostics which allows anyone to diagnose a disease directly where it is needed, without using lab equipment, with results in 15 minutes or less and at a very low cost. With Find anyone can have access to a timely diagnostic even in the most remote areas of the world.The Find platform uses shark antibodies modified with genetic engineering to detect disease biomarkers in blood, saliva, urine or water samples. These shark antibodies are used in microfluidic cards and generate a visual reactions when in contact with specific biomarkers of the disease to be tested. Then to evaluate the result of the test, a picture of the testing card is taken with the proprietary Xplora smartphone app which runs image analysis process and neural network algorithms to generate an inmediate result. Then this result,along with contextual information like geolocation, date and time, is sent to a cloud server where it can be used for real time disease tracking.
EmpleosTI — EmpleosTI is a Software Developer, Fullstack, Java Programmer or .Net, IT Scholar, Digital Marketing, Project Manager and more.
parco — Pay, administrate your expenses and your invoices of all your Parking, Gas, High way pools, Subway and valet parking transacctions through Parcoapp

Our purpose is to help people and businesses prosper. We strive to make all we do Simple, Personal and Fair.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Debt Financing, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tebrio — At the rate that the world is growing, we’ll only have enough food to feed 50% of our future population by 2050 and introducing novel proteins into the food value chain that are rich in amino acids and use less water and arable land is the only solution forward for mankind and the planet, which is why, in 2014, Adriana Casillas and Sabas de Diegofounded Tebrio, the world’s leading carbon-negative, zero-residue insect biotechnology company, which tackles climate change and the world food crisis by breeding and transforming rich amino acid mealworms into three main co-products: (i) sustainabe premium fish, pet and animal feed (ii) biofertilizer for plant nutrition that acts as a natural pest repellent (iii) chitosan to manufacture biodegradable plastic that disolves in water. Our carbon negative pilot farm produces 500 tons of co-products a year, does not emit greenhouse gases like ammonia or methane, uses 98% less water and 90% less arable land than other animal and plant protein farms, and is the only company in our industry in Spain that has received an ISO9001 certification, which guarantees the quality of our products. Thanks to our current operations, we have secured an undisclosed Series A round, which we are using to develop a EUR 50 million insect farm that will take us from a 500 tn to a 100.000 tns production of co-products a year and will be the largest of its kind in the world. Company Key Metrics: • Tebrio has 8 industrial patents in 150 countries • Tebrio’s operations are carbon negative, zero residue, and we do not emit greenhouse gases like ammonia or methane • With the same amount of natural resources, we are able to produce 500% more protein for fishmeal and animal feed than plant protein and livestock farms • Our protein for fish and animal feed is 90% digestible, 70% protein, high in essential amino acids and unsaturated fat • Tebrio was the first certified producer in the world of mealworm protein for fish and animal feed and biofertilizer for plant nutrition • Our tech powered biofertilizer has 10x more nutrients than other organic fertilizers and thanks to its properties, acts as a natural pest repellent • We are the only Spanish company in our industry with an ISO9001 certification • We are building the world’s largest insect farm, which will produce 100.000 tons of co-products a year for animal feed and plant fertilization • We use big data and 4.0 industries to industrially produce and control the Tenebrio Molitor insect
Embraer — Embraer SA is a Brazil-based holding company primarily engaged in the manufacture of aircraft. The company’s business activities are divided into three business segments: Commercial Aviation; Defense and Security Business, and Executive Aviation. The Commercial Aviation segment is involved in the development, production, and sale of commercialjets, as well as in the provision of support services, with emphasis on the regional aviation industry and aircraft leasing. The Defense and Security Business segment mainly includes the research, development, production and modification of defense aircrafts as well systems and software design. Through the Executive Aviation segment, the company is active in the development, production, and sale of business jets, the provision of support services related to this sector of the market, and aircraft leasing. Embraer has subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and representative offices in Brazil, the United States, France, Holland, and China, among others.
El Corte Ingles — El Corte Inglés is a business group with more than 80 years of history, upholding the same values as always. Our steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct allow us to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalisation, diversification and sustainability. This has meant a progress in the transformation of El CorteInglés from a retailer to a unique ecosystem. Without ever taking our eyes off the product and service quality, expertise, curated selections, guarantees and innovation we offer with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.

CEO at @Justos • Formerly CEO @Vivo (acquired) • Head of Latam @ClassPass • @Harvard University

Investment focus

Social, Finance, Payments
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Noh — Noh simplifies shared payments

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.