Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Uruguay in July 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in Uruguay. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Uruguay. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Uruguay in July 2025
Investor | Software Uruguay investments |
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IC Ventures | 3 |
ANII | 2 |
DGF | 2 |
Sergio Fogel | 2 |
Wayra Hispam | 1 |
Guido Grinbaum | 1 |
Globant Ventures | 1 |
Pedro Arnt | 1 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
Atlas Benjelloun | 1 |
Hugo Romay | 1 |
Andres Bilbao | 1 |
Sergio Fogel | 1 |
Globant | 1 |
Emblue Latam | 1 |
Mario Sanchez | 1 |
Cisneros Group | 1 |
El Pais | 1 |
Draco Capital | 1 |
Canary | 1 |
IC Ventures selects startups with potential for disruption, scaling, and value generation in technology applied to financial services (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).ICV members have acquired extensive experience in providing effective and relevant support to entrepreneurs that reduces or neutralizes some of the most frequent risksthat lead to the failure of entrepreneurs and allows them to make the most of the opportunities that are they present them both for business and for securing financing.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Uruguay, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
- Polyhedra Network — Trust, safety, and data privacy at the core of every decision.
The National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) is a government agency that promotes research and application of new knowledge to productive and social reality of the country. ANII available to the public funding for research projects, scholarships national and international graduate programs and incentive programs for innovativeentrepreneurship and culture, both in the private and public sectors.ANII developed the National Research System, a program of national economic researchers categorized based on a strict evaluation system incentives. He also created the Portal Timbo, which allows free access to all kinds of scientific publications worldwide for all Uruguayans.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Uruguay, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- Boki — LOGAMTOTO merupakan penyedia layanan resmi situs toto online 4D terbesar dan terpercaya saat ini, mari login dan daftar bersama Logam Toto untuk dapatkan hadiah terbesar setiap harinya.
- TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.
DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Uruguay
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- Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
- Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Experienced Latin American internet entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO, Astropay LLP. Organizer, Punta Tech Meetup. Sergio Fogel is one of the most recognized internet entrepreneurs in Uruguay and in Latin America in general. He founded several companies, among them Astropay (the leading alternative payments processor in Latam), Uniotel (LongDistance Carrier in Uruguay) and JetNumbers.com. Sergio is also the original founder and organizer of Punta Tech Meetup, a gathering of tech entrepreneurs held every January in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Sergio holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master's degree in computer science from the Technion. He previously worked as reseracher in IBM's Haifa Research Labs, as well as in sales for Oracle Corp.
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- Financial Services, Software, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Uruguay, Israel, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
- Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market
Wayra Hispam is the investment arm, open innovation and support for entrepreneurship of Telefónica Movistar in Latin America
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Retail Technology, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed
- 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.
- Chaindots — Chaindots provides an AI-powered collaborative risk management platform. It enables companies to connect with third parties, share information, and facilitate business operations in an agile and secure manner. The platform helps organizations improve their risk management strategies by offering data-driven insights and suggestions. Chaindots aimsto enhance collaboration and competitiveness among businesses, particularly in the Latin American market.
Guido Grinbaum is a Co-Founder and Chairman at POK Proof of knowledge. He previously worked at Wabi Project as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Guido Grinbaum attended the Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- POK — POK is a document issuer platform that offers documents such as badges, certificates, diplomas, micro-credentials, verifiable credentials, and proof of assistance as NFTs in the blockchain. In this platform where institutions issue verifiable diplomas on the Blockchain. They specialize in education, professional development, and accomplishments andreceive lifelong recognition.
- Block Academy — Internet Marketplace Platforms
We invest in visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent business through the lens of AI, Blockchain, and Future of Work technologies. Our DNA is that of our founders, and our venture fund targets investment from Seed stage to Series B, while bringing to bear the expertise, scale, and passion of our global network.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Argentina, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Fivvy — In the dynamic world of financial technology, Fivvy stands at the forefront, enabling banks to surpass the competition by leveraging cutting-edge, data-driven models and tailored customer engagement strategies. Fivvy’s innovative solutions unlock the immense value hidden within financial data, propelling banks of all sizes toward unparalleledcustomer experiences. With Fivvy's streamlined implementation process, banks can quickly turn into data driven and customer centric organizations in as little as 3 months. Overall, Fivvy empowers banks to offer a more customer-centric approach, while unlocking the full value of their data.
- Polemix — Dewanalo Satu-satunya Situs Toto Online Terbesar dan Agen Togel Online Resmi Terpercaya No #1 Se-Indonesia.
- LinkedAI — Image Labeling platform and annotation services to accelerate the creation highest quality training data for your Computer Vision development
Pedro Arnt is the current Co-Chief Executive Officer of dLocal. He previously worked at MercadoLibre as a Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Pedro Arnt attended the University of Oxford.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed
- Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- OpenRouter — OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing.
- Shield USDT — Shield is the first B2B cryptocurrency exchange designed for international businesses. Access a US-based virtual bank account to buy, sell, and transfer crypto.
- Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, Morocco, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
- Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
- Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Hugo Romay is the Board Member of Endeavor.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, E-Commerce, Data Integration
- Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Andres Bilbao
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
- Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, Brazil, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Tuvis — Ensure the protection of communication Whatsapp Telegram iMessage Line weChat Voice call SMS..
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Argentina, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
- Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
- ping — messageLOUD is a patented app that automatically reads text messages, emails, WhatsApp, Slack and all other message types out LOUD without any action from the user.Think about your daily commute. Focused on safety, productivity and convenience, the service reads all major message types out loud when touching your phone is unsafe, inconvenient orillegal.Distracted Driving costs $129 billion per year and 11 lives per day. messageLOUD not only saves lives, but also enhances productivity. There are more than 800 million app users of streaming audio services, running, cycling and other activity-based apps where users would prefer to hear their texts and emails read out LOUD rather than checking their phones.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, E-Commerce, Data Integration
- Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Senior Level Manager
More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them.
With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities
Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives.
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Investment focus
- iOS, SaaS, Android
- Pre-Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions. POP Material implementation. Products expiring date. Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.
The Cisneros Group is a global media and entertainment leader focused on the vibrant and fast-growing Hispanic market.
The Cisneros Group produce and distribute some of the world’s most popular Spanish-language programming, reaching 550 million viewers in more than 100 countries.
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Investment focus
- Advertising, Apps, Social Media Marketing
- Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
- Brazil, Argentina, United States
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- FLUVIP — Fluvip is an influencer marketing company in Latin America and the United States. It offers a technology platform that allows advertisers to identify the right social content influencers for their campaigns based on artificial intelligence systems; and brands to connect with social content influencers in the world through multi-channels, such asTwitter, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and Blogs. Fluvip measures the reactions and behaviors of users in social networks to obtain segmentation results and to achieve effective campaigns. Sebastian Jasminoy founded it on July 10, 2013, with its headquarters in Bogotá in Colombia.
- Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
- AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.
El Pais is a newspaper company with a large national circulation and audience. The company introduced the modality of distributing special and collectible editorial products nationally and internationally.
The company focuses in the improvement of Uruguayan society. The carry out dozens of extraordinary publications and historical investigations.
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Investment focus
- iOS, SaaS, Android
- Pre-Seed
- Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions. POP Material implementation. Products expiring date. Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.
DRACO CAPITAL is a Latin American independent Investment Manager with a strong presence in the region. Our management team has over 30 years of experience and specializes in different Latam asset classes.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed
- Uruguay
Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
- Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.
- Liora Energia — Energy platform, leveraging technology to reduce electricity costs, promote smart consumption, and enable access to renewable energy sources
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