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Top 40 Software Angel Investors in Chile in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Chile. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Chile. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Software Angel Investors in Chile in January 2026

Investor	Software Chile investments
Ignacio Canals	4
Güimar Vaca Sittic	2
Philip O'Connor	2
Diego Stevens	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez	2
Carlos Rodriguez	2
Daniel Undurraga	2
Elad Gil	2
Eduardo Novoa	1
Matías Menich	1
Francisco Javier Restrepo	1
José Cristián Cortés	1
Matt Brown	1
Tarek Alaruri	1
Hans Tung	1
Rahul Mehta	1
Trevor Zimmerman	1
Stephanie Truan	1
Ariel Arrieta	1
Gerry Giacoman Colyer	1
Wensceslao Casares	1
Peter Fader	1
Tomás Ibáñez	1
Javier Cueto Soto	1
Thomaz Srougi	1
Samuel Lira	1
John Curtius	1
Sebastian Mejia	1
Max Valdés	1
Nico Barawid	1
Claudio Barahona	1
Mike Hennessey	1
Alan Farcas	1
Oskar Hjertonsson	1
James Park	1
Jacqueline Reses	1
Ricardo Weder	1
Diego Rivera	1
Carlos Julio Garcia	1

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Ignacio Canals is a Founder of InstaGIS. He attended Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1994.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Chile, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lexgo — Lexgo is the first automated legal service for startups in Latam, enabling founders to complete their legal processes faster and at a fraction of the cost of a lawyer. By automating legal workflows, founders can incorporate their companies, hire their employees and raise funding seamless and in different countries of the region, all from a singleplatform.
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.
Genomawork — 1,185 Followers, 148 Following, 80 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Genomawork (@genomawork)

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Examedi — Examedi is a healthcare startup that provides nurse and lab technician services directly at patients' homes for appointments. Examedi connects the availabilities of healthcare providers with patients.
Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.

Phil is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Blackhorn Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in technology that increases the resource efficiency of essential industries. Prior to Blackhorn, Phil was co-founder and CEO of PAX Pure, an industrial water treatment company. For the past five years Philip has been an investor and advisorfocusing on improving natural resource use.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Chile, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Pangeam Inc. — Pangeam is an industrial AI platform that anonymously senses human behaviors in the built environment. Pangeam Insights help organizations understand if their space is working for or against their people and prescribes low-to-no cost interventions that can significantly reduce OpEx costs all while improving the employee experience.
Ridepanda — Employer sponsored leases on the widest selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters from top brands.
Instance — Instance expertos en full commerce.

Diego Stevens

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, B2C
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

LarnU — LarnU is a mobile app that makes coding learning easy, fun, and accessible to all by enabling a gamified and bite-sized learning experience of 5-minutes a day. Within days, you'll be able to see improvements in your coding skills.
Wallstate — WallState is a diverse portfolio of tokenized properties investing platform that allows users to withdraw anytime they want with no minimums or fine print. Their goal is to make the real estate market more accessible to newcomers. They allow their users to invest in properties from all around the world using tokenized properties as a foundation.
Watermelon — Highlight a piece of code to see its historical context. Go beyond Git blame to understand your code better. Watermelon makes the experience of developing software as a team easier.

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Carlos Carrillo Alvarez - CIO & Founder @ SmartMining

Investment focus

Sensor, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

SmartMining — Somos una empresa de tecnologías de la información aplicada al mundo industrial y minero. Llevamos inteligencia a los procesos con el objetivo de optimizar el uso de recursos críticos, generando ahorros y aumento de productividad.

Carlos Rodriguez

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile, Denmark, Colombia

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.
Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Chile, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.
Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Eduardo Novoa

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, E-Commerce
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Instance — Instance expertos en full commerce.

Matias Menich is the Research Director - Latam at Kushki. He was the Co-founder and CTO at QVO SpA.

Investment focus

B2C, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Examedi — Examedi is a healthcare startup that provides nurse and lab technician services directly at patients' homes for appointments. Examedi connects the availabilities of healthcare providers with patients.
Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
Watermelon — Highlight a piece of code to see its historical context. Go beyond Git blame to understand your code better. Watermelon makes the experience of developing software as a team easier.

Francisco Javier Restrepo

Investment focus

Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

tet4d — Tet4D is a cutting-edge SaaS platform revolutionizing logistics planning through automation. Our solution optimizes load cubic capacity, selects the ideal transportation, and determines the most efficient routes, ensuring complete traceability and visibility throughout the logistics process. Inspired by the game Tetris, Tet4D leverages advancedartificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to introduce innovative approaches in integrated logistics.Our company is dedicated to making a significant environmental impact by reducing the number of trucks on the road by 5-10%, showcasing how AI can serve humanity. We achieve remarkable reductions in costs and planning times—cutting the latter by an impressive 90%—while also contributing to a lower carbon footprint among other substantial benefits.Join us at Tet4D as we continue to push the boundaries of logistics innovation and sustainability.

Results driven leader with several years of experience helping companies to their greater potential, within crisis and turbulence, engaging stake holders, team members and customers developing collaboration, critical thinking, and determination.

Investment focus

Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

tet4d — Tet4D is a cutting-edge SaaS platform revolutionizing logistics planning through automation. Our solution optimizes load cubic capacity, selects the ideal transportation, and determines the most efficient routes, ensuring complete traceability and visibility throughout the logistics process. Inspired by the game Tetris, Tet4D leverages advancedartificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to introduce innovative approaches in integrated logistics.Our company is dedicated to making a significant environmental impact by reducing the number of trucks on the road by 5-10%, showcasing how AI can serve humanity. We achieve remarkable reductions in costs and planning times—cutting the latter by an impressive 90%—while also contributing to a lower carbon footprint among other substantial benefits.Join us at Tet4D as we continue to push the boundaries of logistics innovation and sustainability.

Matt Brown is an entrepreneur and angel investor. As the VP of Product at Voxbone, he launched and scaled their Enterprise Communications platform in 38 countries with over 900 customers in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In October 2020 Voxbone was acquired by Bandwidth for $519.4 million.Matt was also the co-founder and CEO ofTengo Inc., a fintech platform serving the unbanked in ascending economies, and VP of Product at Prove, a digital identity platform trusted by 1000+ Enterprises and 500+ Financial Institutions globally.As an angel investor Matt has invested in tech startups across the globe, with portfolio companies in North America, South America, and Europe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, VoIP, Computer
Seed
Chile, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Treggo — Build for the age of eCommerce. We are empowering sellers to successfully compete & grow in the booming e-commerce market.
WeKall — WeKall Cloud based corporate telephony service simplifies the operation to only one provider saving up to 60% of the monthly spend in telephony operation.
Reversso — Platform that maximizes exchanges over returns

Tarek Alaruri is the CEO and Co-Founder at Stuut. Former Co-Founder at COO at Fairmarkit

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Chile, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atopile — Design circuit boards blazing fast - with code
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
Everstar — Everstar is an AI-powered system designed to assist with the operation and management of nuclear power plants.

Hans Tung is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital and also Board Member of Wispr Flow. Hans previously worked at Poshmark as a Board Member. Hans Tung attended the Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
Ximkart — Everything you need to import raw materials. minus the headache! For manufacturers and businesses of every scale. With Ximkart, cross border trade is as easy as buying from your local supplier. We are currently dealing with Metals, Minerals, Chemicals with having a large list of QC tested products like Silicon, Titanium, Calcium Carbonate, Styrene, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Ingots, Magnesium, Mixed Xylene, Butyl Acetate, Scrap, Alloy Wheel, MTO, GTO, Pine Oil, Rutile, 2196+, KMML, Doguide, RJ916, CPCL, BPCL, HPCL, 553, 441, 3303, DBM and many more.
Fazz — Fazz offers an online business account to help your company grow faster, by providing access to credit, payment, corporate cards, savings and more.

Rahul Mehta is a Co-Founder at DST Global.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — Launch AI-powered outreach in 3 clicks. From finding prospects ready to buy to value-driven omnichannel conversations with multimedia. Get your demo
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.

Trevor is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Unless. An engineer by training, Trevor is passionate about energy and environmental stewardship and human health. He sees entrepreneurship as one of the most effective (and enjoyable) ways to affect meaningful change, especially in these areas.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, FinTech
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
Instance — Instance expertos en full commerce.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

Stephanie Truan

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Software
Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

ADD SKIN — We are a Chilean startup born in 2021 to support you, give you knowledge and make skincare a ritual of self-love and time for you. We believe in the importance of loving you as you are and how taking care of yourself is a fundamental part of that love.We are obsessed with making you happy and everything that implies. That's why we careabout sharing knowledge with you, to then advise you so that together we can create your skincare routine.We care about having the best national and international brands; and that your routine arrives at your house and it is quite an experience to open it and then apply it (holy) to your skin.

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

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
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 Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
GradienteSur — We handle the AI complexity so LatinAmerican companies can focus on building great products. Start free, scale together. Transform with AI.

Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
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.

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
Brazil, Chile, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Tril — Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).
Pago Rural — Pago Rural is an inclusive lend and pay platform, specially designed for underserved farmers and distributors (most of them SMEs). Originally it emerged as a concrete response to the growing financial needs of agriculture and supports the growth and sustainability of producers in the long term.With Pago Rural, the agricultural producer canfinance the purchase of their inputs such as seeds, agrochemicals, fertilizers and others, in a simple, agile, and safe way. We improve the efficiency and operating margins of the entire value chain, integrating technology and structured financial products, aligning incentives, and offering a winning solution for farmers and suppliers. Pago Rural was established in 2014 and is based in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.

Peter S. Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise centers around the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. He works with firms from a wide range of industries, such as telecommunications,financial services, gaming/entertainment, retailing, and pharmaceuticals. Managerial applications focus on topics such as customer relationship management, lifetime value of the customer, and sales forecasting for new products. Much of his research highlights the consistent (but often surprising) behavioral patterns that exist across these industries and other seemingly different domains. These insights are reflected in his book, “Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage.” Professor Fader believes that marketing should not be viewed as a “soft” discipline, and he frequently works with different companies and industry associations to improve managerial perspectives in this regard. His work has been published in (and he serves on the editorial boards of) a number of leading journals in marketing, statistics, and the management sciences. He has won many awards for his teaching and research accomplishments

Investment focus

B2B, Content Creators, Enterprise Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
Fig Loans — Fig partners with Family Houston to offer you a loan that is 80% cheaper and designed to get you out of debt. Fig helps you through financial emergencies and build credit towards a better future.
Wareclouds — Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.

Tomás Ibáñez

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, E-Commerce
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Instance — Instance expertos en full commerce.

Javier Cueto Soto is the CEO of Imagine Lab and Director of Latam Ventures Club & AcelerAP.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Beeok — Beeok is a GreenTech Company that develops Software Solutions for Sustainability. Beeok is a B2B SaaS software for environmental, health and safety law compliance and other corporate sustainability solutions.
Wenu Work — Wenu Work developed IoT technology in order to help companies become more productive and sustainable, through energy efficiency. With easy-to-install sensors and user-friendly platforms, Wenu Work provides valuable tools in order to enable better decision making within companies in terms of energy efficiency, operational efficiency of criticalassets, energy cost allocation throughout the business units across a company, communication to stakeholders regarding sustainability, etc.
BioPub-WriteWise — WriteWise is a software that will help you write, analyze, and edit your next paper with intelligent feedback. By scientists for scientists, free Abstract demo.

Founder of dr. consulta

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Productivity Tools
Seed, Series A
Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Examedi — Examedi is a healthcare startup that provides nurse and lab technician services directly at patients' homes for appointments. Examedi connects the availabilities of healthcare providers with patients.
Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.

Samuel Lira

Investment focus

Web Development
Angel
Chile

Portfolio highlights

FlameSense — FlameSense employs artificial intelligence inside the forest to not only identify forest fires in record time but also prevent them from happening. FlameSense's aim as a working group is to drive change within what is already established, utilizing engineering to provide new answers.

John Curtius is a partner at Tiger Global who leads the firm's software and B2B investing practice globally.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series D
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — Simplify employee training with one subscription that delivers essential learning from 250+ providers, integrated seamlessly into your HR tech stack.
BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
Archive — Archive App automatically detects & saves Instagram posts your brand gets tagged in. Yes, Instagram Stories as well, not just feed posts.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Max Valdés

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Software
Pre-Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

ADD SKIN — We are a Chilean startup born in 2021 to support you, give you knowledge and make skincare a ritual of self-love and time for you. We believe in the importance of loving you as you are and how taking care of yourself is a fundamental part of that love.We are obsessed with making you happy and everything that implies. That's why we careabout sharing knowledge with you, to then advise you so that together we can create your skincare routine.We care about having the best national and international brands; and that your routine arrives at your house and it is quite an experience to open it and then apply it (holy) to your skin.

Nico Barawid is the Co-Founder of Tunic Pay. He previously worked at Casai as a Co-Founder and CEO. Nico Barawid attended the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Chile, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Silkhaus — Silkhaus makes living comfortable and convenient through 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge.
Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

Claudio Barahona is a Venture Capital and Innovation leader with over a decade of experience investing in and supporting high-growth startups across Latin America. He founded his first startup at the age of 18, which he successfully exited six years later. A Civil Industrial Engineer from Universidad de Chile, he has devoted much of his career topromoting innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile and the broader LATAM region.As Managing Partner at Alaya Capital, he led the fundraising and deployment of a $30M early-stage fund, building a portfolio of 20+ tech-driven companies and managing a team of nine professionals.Previously, Claudio spearheaded Telefónica’s Corporate Venture Capital strategy in Chile, investing in 45 startups and generating strategic and financial returns for the corporation—including $4M in new revenue through startup-corporate integrations in a single year.He is also the founder of ComoLevantarCapital.com, a fundraising platform that has empowered over 1,000 entrepreneurs across Latin America, and is an active angel investor and startup mentor.Deeply committed to ecosystem development, Claudio served on the board of the Chilean Venture Capital Association (ACVC) and founded the Corporate Venturing Latam Report to map and analyze CVC trends throughout the region.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Chile, United States, Peru

Portfolio highlights

Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
Carttera — Verso is a media revolution that launches, manages, and monetizes content for business. Founded in 2022, Verso is based in Zapopan, Mexico.
uPlanner — u-planner is an international technology solutions company for higher education. We seek to improve education by incorporating Data Science concepts such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence that help optimize and improve the educational system, improving the quality of education that students obtain and their final results. u-planner’smission is to empower HEI with innovative technological solutions that allows them to achieve high performance in the execution of their strategic plans. Nowadays, there is a disconnection from what is needed by students, teachers and management. Today we work in three main product lines which represent some of the biggest needs of HEI, Planning, Assessment and Student Success, in which we can, for example, score students based on their dropout probability with a 95% accuracy. This has represented a huge opportunity, and we are using these and other analytical algorithms to empower education systems with new innovative technology solutions. We have led HEIs to step out of their comfort zone, from outdated Oracle data bases and legacy systems, to analytical business tools, replacing manual processes and intuition, with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms that extract information from raw data; this has allowed institutions to avoid specific investments, leaving the architecture and implementations complexities to the provider as a first approach to a cloud based environment; changing education driving impact and insights for institutions to help students in classrooms of today to create the future of tomorrow.

Mike Hennessey

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Chile, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Orchata — Te presentamos orchata, tu super en 15 minutos. Te regalamos 100 pesos en tu primer pedido.
Wareclouds — Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.
DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. — DBM Cloud Systems is a provider of an Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine ("AIRE") which is a scalable, software-only platform for replicating object data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Co-Founder at Nazca Venture.

Investment focus

Parking, Internet, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Chile, Spain

Portfolio highlights

nubelo — Nubelo is a career marketplace for the digital workforce (developers, designers, digital marketers, product owners...). Nubelo works with clients to understand their project/team needs and custom-matches them with pre-screened professionals who join their teams on a full-time, part-time, or hourly basis.Users on the nubelo platform receiveobjective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move or collaborate into a new project. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, or available for new projects. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.Nubelo is headquartered in Barcelona (Spain) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Buscaparking — Buscaparking is a Mobile Payment for Parking in Latin America. People can find, compare and pay the parking. Available on Android and iOS.

Oskar Hjertonsson is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Cornershop.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Apps
Seed, Series A
Chile, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Kocomo — Kocomo is an early-stage proptech startup, backed by leading U.S., European, and Latin American investors. Leveraging the power of technology, Kocomo has created a transparent vertically-integrated solution that empowers people to purchase, enjoy, and sell co-ownership stakes in luxury homes, starting in Mexico. At Kocomo, we believe your memoriesdeserve a home. We are on a mission to make the dream of vacation home ownership an attainable reality for more people around the world.
Flink — Flink is a consumer trading platform that allows its users to save, spend, and invest their money. Founded in 2017 in Mexico City, it is a fintech company that intends to put the new funding to work improving its product, infrastructure, and security, as well as building a team to address scale.Flink launched its first brokerage product in June2020 and now has more than 1 million users and 800,000 brokerage accounts, with 90 percent of users being first-time traders.
Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

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Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

Jackie Reses Chairman, Economic Development Council at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Chile

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doola — Doola is a trusted partner for helping global entrepreneurs confidently form their companies in the US. We help our customers incorporate, access US payment systems, and stay legal year after year through continued support, business basics, and a global-first mindset.
Justt — Reduce revenue loss from chargebacks with Justt's AI-powered chargeback automation and friendly fraud prevention for merchants. Learn more!
Justt — Reduce revenue loss from chargebacks with Justt's AI-powered chargeback automation and friendly fraud prevention for merchants. Learn more!

Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Chile, Colombia

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Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
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.

Diego Rivera

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Software
Pre-Seed
Chile

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ADD SKIN — We are a Chilean startup born in 2021 to support you, give you knowledge and make skincare a ritual of self-love and time for you. We believe in the importance of loving you as you are and how taking care of yourself is a fundamental part of that love.We are obsessed with making you happy and everything that implies. That's why we careabout sharing knowledge with you, to then advise you so that together we can create your skincare routine.We care about having the best national and international brands; and that your routine arrives at your house and it is quite an experience to open it and then apply it (holy) to your skin.

Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak

Investment focus

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

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Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
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.
Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

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