Top 30 Social Network Startup Investors in LATAM in November 2024

Investor	Social Network LATAM investments
Nazca Ventures	7
Investo	2
DN Capital	2
BR Angels	2
Invexor Venture Partners	1
Redpoint eventures	1
Bossanova Investimentos	1
Ariel Arrieta	1
Martin Varsavsky	1
MatterScale Ventures	1
Liquid 2 Ventures	1
Algorand Foundation	1
Bzplan	1
Alec Oxenford	1
Harvard Management Company	1
CLIN	1
Justin Waldron	1
Taram Capital	1
Alejandro Ponce	1
Confrapar	1
Wayra	1
Roy Chung	1
Austen Allred	1
SparkLabs Global Ventures	1
Fabrice Grinda	1
Doug Chertok	1
Fen Ventures	1
Andréa Nogueira, CFA	1
Xeibo Ventures	1
Condor	1

Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed. Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
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

BR Angels is a private non-profit association, made up of a limited number of members, individuals, and companies that focus on promoting the development of startups. It specializes in the fields of investment management, financial services, and finance. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agidesk — We are a sophisticated platform specializing in backoffice and servicedesk process automation, designed to elevate efficiency and streamline operations for businesses of all sizes. Leveraging the power of artificial intelligence, we offer dynamic management dashboards and seamless integrations, ensuring a significant boost in team productivity. Ourplatform simplifies complex processes and provides insightful analytics, enabling you to make informed decisions and drive your business forward.It was founded in 2019 and is located in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.
Inspectral — Inspectral offers environmental consulting solutions with technology via data intelligence, monitoring, analysis, and integrated technology.
EPIC Digitais — EPIC Digitais is a corporate transmedia projects.

Since the very beginning, Invexor Venture Partners has developed a unique understanding of what it takes for a start-up to become a global success. We are all fully committed to supporting our Founders and their companies at every stage of their journey, from Chile to the World.

Investment focus

Education, Social Network, Language Learning
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Kran — Development and application of innovative and sustainable solutions with Kran nanobubbles in agriculture, aquaculture and water treatment.
Btrust — BTRUST is a SaaS company that provides Supply Chain Finance solutions for corporates and their suppliers. We create a digital ecosystem where companies can optimize their cash flow and working capital through their invoices, accessing a competitive investment funds network to fund early payments. Our simple, fast and digital experience lead usto reach the entire supplier base improving its financial health having a positive impact on the ESG metrics.
TRAINFES — TrainFES is a digital neuro-rehabilitation platform for people with paralysis, allowing patients to rehabilitate in their own home at a lower cost and with better results than traditional rehabilitation therapies.

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Housi — Housi is an online living-as-a-service on-demand housing platform.
StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.

Somos Bossa Invest

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SenseUp — SenseUp provides IoT, big data, machine learning, and computer vision for the real-time needs of the financial market. It improves the way organizations interact with data by using microintegrations to orchestrate different data sources, consumers, and data flows in support of processes and decision-making.
Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.
Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.

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

GetGloby — GetGloby is an AI-powered platform that allows you to automatically localize your ads in minutes and manage all your translations effortlessly.
Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.

Martin Varsavsky is the Founder and Chairman of Gameto. He previously worked at Fon as a Chairman. Martin Varsavsky attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Social Media, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
TympaHealth — The award-winning Tympa system is designed to empower clinicians to deliver ear and hearing healthcare within local communities.
Vitara Biomedical — Vitara Biomedical has developed a therapeutic platform to support premature infants. Vitara Biomedical's platform was inspired by natural physiological processes to transform neonatal care.

Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Argentina, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
Nodal — Nodal is a platform that efficiently connects vetted surrogates and intended parents, offering transparency, equity, education, and support for all parties on their journey.
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Kilde — Hands-off regular income with up to 11.5% returns per year. Invest in consumer and SME loans with the leading lending firms.

Bzplan is an investment manager, from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs based in Florianópolis. Focused on profiting the capital of its investors, Bzplan has developed a rigorous selection and management process that seeks to identify the best companies with high growth potential, accelerating the development of investees and building a highvalue-added model.From the start of the investment to the disinvestment phase, Bzplan's team supports entrepreneurs and startups through their solid experience, strengthening the construction and maintenance of a portfolio of successful cases, sale of companies, and fundraising.From 2010, together with FIR Capital, she became the manager of the SC Fund that invested in companies in their initial stage. The SC Fund portfolio is made up of Axado, Cata Company, Authors Club, ClicBusiness and MyReks. Axado's exit is a successful case of seed capital funds in Brazil, with a return of 426%. ClicBusiness and MyRenks were acquired by Paradigma Business Solutions and Nexera respectively.In 2016, it launched the South Fund to invest in eight early-stage companies in the states of Santa Catarina, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul. The South Fund portfolio is currently made up of companies Cata Company, MobLee, EadBox, and GoFind.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

EADBOX — Eadbox is a platform used by Education Entrepreneurs to create and sell online courses to large audiences. Through Eadbox, every day thousands of authors teaches millions of students online. Its unique value proposition aggregates three main elements:1. Technology: SaaS software for authors to easily create and sell online course, in their ownbranded website. their customer values content and video security, tools for professional certification management, live streaming and webinar technology2. Services: their unique best practices framework. Every new Eadbox customer has a customer success manager, specialists support and business intelligence. Their service team helps customers to apply the best practices in online course creation and launch it using the best digital marketing strategies.3. Lead Generation: boost sales for customers. Through affiliate strategies, digital marketing support and marketplaces, Eadbox connects customers products to large audiences helping the whole ecosystem to increase sales.
PhoneTrack — PhoneTrack is a voice and call analytics solution for Brazilian companies. We offer tools to manage and analyse marketing and sales leads.
Rede Vistorias — Rede Vistorias is an innovative solution company specialized in performing real estate surveys for rental or sale. It also provides solutions that integrate a digital platform in transparency, agility, and security to real estate companies, clients, and their builders. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School. He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

DRIC — DRIC is a data privacy and storage platform developer. Their platform is based on two-dimensional code that provides a revolution in the transmission, preservation, storage, and privacy of data, making it accessible and instantaneous.
Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
Buenbit — Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution.

Harvard Management Company is an organization that manages the financial investments of the Harvard University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.
Source — Discover SOURCE Water, a renewable, clean drinking water solution made possible by the power of Hydropanels

CLIN, Private Investment Fund, is a venture capital fund,

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, PaaS
Seed, Series A
Chile, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Viapool — En Viapool nos une la vocación por encontrar soluciones viables e innovadoras que promuevan el desarrollo sostenible de la sociedad. Así nos posicionamos logrando la confianza de nuestros clientes y convirtiéndonos en aliados estratégicos para sus operaciones. A través del uso combinado de elementos tecnológicos y sociales, fomentamos el usoeficiente y responsable del transporte corporativo, en el marco de una comunidad cooperativa.
Poliglota — Poliglota was founded in 2012 and aims at changing the way people learn languages. It gathers people in small social groups in coffee places instead of classrooms, led by expert teachers, and using a social methodology. It is based on a program of innovative and social activities, focusing on social skills that create faster and more effectivelearning progress. Poliglota won the Avonni award for Innovation, was selected by the IDB as one of the disruptive educational innovations in Latin America, and is selling over USD $2 M in language plans, while they keep expanding their model.
Instacrops — Instacrops is a AgTech platform that integrates technologies and provides services for farmers. Instacrops is a virtual assistant that combines high power Software and IoT modules to optimize irrigation, weather forecasts, detect pest and diseases, maximize fertilizers, giving real time recommendations for farmers with actionable insights.

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.

Taram Capital administra el fondo de capital de riesgo B2B Venture Growth

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Regcheq — Developer of software as a service intended for anti-money laundering regulatory compliance management. The company offers a digital solution for AML(Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC(Know Your Customer) purposes such as digital onboarding, database check, smart policies, due diligence, client management, and reporting, thereby enabling clients todigitize, centralize and automate the prevention of money laundering and comply with the regulation.
Keirón — Keiron develops software and online tools to manage healthcare services and processes. It provides digital solutions on making hospital schedules, ordering goods from pharmacies, and arranging patient information. Keiron was founded in 2019 and has operations in Mexico, Chile and Perú
HealthAtom — HealthAtom is a healthcare software platform that design innovative healthcare solutions that allow the clinical industry to advance in the use of administrative technologies. They dentalink and medilink software for better healthcare services for patients.

Alejandro Ponce is the Founder - CEO at Favo.He attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Bquate — Bquate is a full-stack premium music platform that helps established artists, songwriters, managers, labels and publishers take control of their music, content, data and most importantly, their money
Legria — Legria offers property maintenance, repairs, bill payment, and even cleaning. Their platform allows clients to own their dream homes for a fraction of the price. The company is in charge of searching for properties in vacation destinations, acquiring them, and then taking care of the entire legal process. This allows fractions to be sold, enablingclients to become owners of their second homes.
Mi Media Manzana — Mi Media Manzana is one of the leading online dating platforms in Latin America, & is seeking to accelerate its growth and strengthen its operations.Mi Media Manzana has been operating since 2014 and has since become the most downloaded mobile application on the Google Play Store in Latin America on the “Dating” in Colombia, Chile, Peru andMexico amongst many other countries in Latin America.Their platform (Android and Web based) focuses on adults over 35 years old looking for a long-term relationship. Mi Media Manzana is built on three main pillars: 1) COMPATIBILITY. They present their users, people who share their interests and passions, not just random pictures. 2) REAL PEOPLE. They work really hard to avoid fake users, fake data. This is not a mere statement, is a profound belief that has guided the building of their product for more than 5 years. 3) ONLY SINGLE USERS: They truly believe they can make people happier if they help them find a meaningful couple. This is why they legally ban and expell from their platform any user that is currently in any type of onngoing relationship. They believe in fidelity and monogamic relationships.

Confrapar invests in technology companies through four Brazilian regulated (CVM) funds with a diverse range of limited partners, including family offices, pension funds, banks and development agencies from Brazil and abroad. Confrapar invests up to $20 million USD in each company. We currently have 10 companies in our portfolio and offices inSão Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.Confrapar relies on the background and expertise of its more than 100 Market Partners in key market sectors. These relationships create unique opportunities for the portfolio companies to grow their businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Brazil, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fielo — Fielo is an Incentive and Loyalty software platform that helps channel marketers drive partner engagement, loyalty and sales performance.Fielo is growing rapidly. They invest in their people and are looking for motivated and talented individuals to join their team. If you’re interested in their mission to help companies reach their goals withcutting edge incentive and loyalty program technology.
Flapper Technologies — Flapper Technologies is Brazil's first boutique private airline. The company was born of a need for accessible on-demand private aviation services, including flights to Premium destinations inaccessible to commercial aviation. Building on the rising popularity of sharing economy, the company sells individual seats on general aviation aircraft,as well as offers on-demand charters, including helicopters, private jets and large corporate airliners.With more than 550 certified aircraft available on its charter platform Flapper boasts the most complete private aviation offer in Latin America.
SalaryFits — A platform that allows financial institutions to integrate their systems with payroll information of entities, providing access to a new risk assessment tool. All of these create a win-win scenario, which reduces the transaction costs and assures the feasibility of a sustainable personal loan credit line.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Founder & COO at Apollo.io 2-Time Y Combinator Graduate Startup, Growth and Sales Enthusiast Believer in Exceptional Culture, People, and Organizational Excellence: Unlock the best in your people, and you will succeed.

Investment focus

Education, Social Network, Language Learning
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Poliglota — Poliglota was founded in 2012 and aims at changing the way people learn languages. It gathers people in small social groups in coffee places instead of classrooms, led by expert teachers, and using a social methodology. It is based on a program of innovative and social activities, focusing on social skills that create faster and more effectivelearning progress. Poliglota won the Avonni award for Innovation, was selected by the IDB as one of the disruptive educational innovations in Latin America, and is selling over USD $2 M in language plans, while they keep expanding their model.

Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Chile

Portfolio highlights

RxDiet — We engage the most vulnerable patients with medically tailored, fresh ingredient delivery and behavioral & dietary guidance. Cost-Controlled. Distributed Anywhere.
Double — Double Finance is the best solution for investors who care about the best indexing, lowest fees, and best yields. Visit now to learn more.
Splash — We acquire and operate world-class pool cleaning companies

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Splab — Grow your influence and expand your network with events.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

Doug Chertok is the Managing Partner and Founder of Vast Ventures. Vast Ventures is a venture fund investing in disruptive companies with global impact. Investments include: ASAPP, Bark & Co, ClassPass, Clover, Diamond Foundry, Ginkgo Bioworks, Moat (acq'd by Oracle), Ripple, SweetGreen, Tala, ZocDoc.Vast Ventures Manifesto: Improveworld-wide health and happiness; Promote resource sustainability for future generations; Increase human potential and productivity; Increase knowledge, empathy and connectedness; Disrupt industries that resist these goals.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Pet, Content
Seed
United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Gobble — Gobble delivers gourmet 15-minute meal kits right to your doorstep. These chef-designed meals are easy to prepare, with simple recipe steps and fresh ingredients that have been chopped, portioned, and simmered so that dinner is both fast and flavorful.Gobble combines the convenience of takeout with the health, satisfaction, and freshness of ahome-cooked meal. Our Executive Chef Thomas Ricci carefully curates each recipe so that anyone can create a dynamic meal at home in just minutes - think of us as personal sous chefs! New, seasonal menus are released weekly, and include dishes for every palate. Whether you're looking for global cuisine, low-calorie options, comfort classics, vegetarian recipes, or kid-friendly meals, we have you covered. Plus, we think beyond dinner with delicious options for breakfast, lunch, sides, desserts, and more!Our CEO Ooshma Garg was inspired to help people cook up happiness even on the busiest evenings, and since founding Gobble in 2010, she has graced Forbes’ Top 30 Innovators Under 30 list. Our operations have grown rapidly, serving 47 states and spanning offices in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. Find out why our customers call us a life-saver on busy weeknights. We're dedicated to helping households across the country spend less time working in the kitchen, and more time at the table with the people they love. Visit www.gobble.com to check out our latest culinary creations.
BarkBox — Get a monthly box of treats, toys & products for your pup that you can't find anywhere else! Plans start as low as $23/month and all treats are made in USA or Canada.
Poliglota — Poliglota was founded in 2012 and aims at changing the way people learn languages. It gathers people in small social groups in coffee places instead of classrooms, led by expert teachers, and using a social methodology. It is based on a program of innovative and social activities, focusing on social skills that create faster and more effectivelearning progress. Poliglota won the Avonni award for Innovation, was selected by the IDB as one of the disruptive educational innovations in Latin America, and is selling over USD $2 M in language plans, while they keep expanding their model.

Fen Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Latin America that finances seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kunzapp — Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año.
Bioeutectics — Revolutionazing the solvents industry turning it into a natural, biodegradable and sustainable one.
Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market

Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures

Investment focus

Analytics, Advertising, Apps
Seed
Brazil, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SmartMEI — SmartMEI Estamos construindo um novo site | Smart Mei
StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
Back4app — Harness the power of a low-code cloud platform to rapidly launch apps and seamlessly scale to millions of users. Unlock AI-powered tools and out-of-the-box components for blazing-fast development.

Xeibo Ventures is a privately held investment and advisory firm with a focus in delivering exceptional uncorrelated returns for our investors through investments in disruptive technologies focused in Web3, Blockchain & Crypto.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Advertising, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Fanstastic — FANSTASTIC, a social app that allows content creators (designers, writers, podcasters, musicians, teachers, coaches, influencers, etc) the ability to create, share, and monetize their content under one roof, with a seamless UX, with full ownership of the distribution and content. Fanstastic aims to bridge the gap between YouTube and Patreonthrough a decentralized social media app that allows creators to bring their followers and monetize in any way they want, with no conditions. The company does this by solving the big three issues for creators: growing their audience, having an all-in-one platform, and accessing built-in monetization routes instantly and under one roof. With a simple and seamless UX, creators can instantly share and monetize their content: music lessons, coaching, hacks, digital content, NFTs, blogs, podcasts, membership access, etc.
Defiant Wallet — First self-custodial mobile wallet with a P2P and focus on stablecoins.

Condor is a venture capital investment fund.

Investment focus

Mobile, FinTech, Fitness
Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Peiky - vendoporchat.com — Peiky empowers the social commerce and provides the tools to manage and optimize the social sales cycle.
Fitpal — Los mejores gimnasios y centros fitness
Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.