Top 15 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Costa Rica in April 2025
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in Costa rica. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Costa rica. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Costa Rica in April 2025
Investor | Software Costa Rica investments |
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Carao Ventures | 4 |
Cluster Capital | 1 |
Metaverse Ventures | 1 |
Private Family Office | 1 |
Imaginable Futures | 1 |
Caricaco VC | 1 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 |
Collab+Currency | 1 |
NDRC | 1 |
Broom Ventures | 1 |
devlabs | 1 |
NXTP Ventures | 1 |
BitScale | 1 |
Epakon Capital | 1 |
AU21 Capital | 1 |
They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Cluster Capital is a global network of crypto investors, media influencers, and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shadow War — Shadow War is a 5v5 competitive PvP action game for PC and Console. Fight online in a futuristic cyberpunk world
- Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
- Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).
Metaverse Ventures invests in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Blockchain
- Series A, Funding Round
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
- Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.
Private Family Office
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.
Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment firm driven by impact and the belief that learning is key to well-being and equitable, healthy systems.
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Investment focus
- Non Profit, Education, Communities
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- LIFT — LIFT is a national nonprofit that empowers families to break the cycle of poverty.
- California Competes — California Competes is a nonpartisan policy and research organization for critical higher education and workforce issues
- American Council on Education — The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice.
Julio Javier Pastore
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Banking
- Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, El Salvador
Portfolio highlights
- Avify — Avify is the best platform that takes the D2C model to the next level. Due to Pandemic, sales through social media and E-commerce channels in Latin America, increased almost 40%, and business owners have to manage multiple sales channels everyday like Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, their own E-commerce, Mercado Libre, Etsy, Amazon and more, causinga huge problem with inventories that are not synchronized and jumping from one channel to the other answering questions, printing shipping labels and is so hard to grow the business when all this job is manual. That's why we created Avify, the Centralized Backoffice for E-commerce in Latin America. Our customers can save a lot of hours per week doing manual tasks and invest that time growing the business and acquiring more clients. Avify provides an agnostic layer where our customers integrate any delivery service, payment gateway or invoicing tool, creating a powerful workflow to take the business to the next level of automation.
- Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- RedotPay — RedotPay is a leading crypto fintech bridging Web3 and traditional finance through innovative, cost-efficient blockchain solutions. Our intuitive crypto payment products enable millions of users globally to easily spend and send digital assets. We foster financial inclusion for the unbanked and serve crypto enthusiasts, advancing global adoption offast, accessible crypto payments.
- Crossmint — Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade developer platform to build onchain. Crossmint's suite of products includes wallets, tokenization, payments, and more; and powers 40,000+ companies and developers, including Fortune 500 companies and major brands like Mastercard, Adidas, Red Bull, Coinbase, Phantom, and more.
- Nexthop AI — Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their networkperformance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.
Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dria — FirstBatch enables the path to Safe AGI through collaboration. We democratize access to synthetic data for AI/ML models through Dria - an AI agent network.
- Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Sytrex — We help Financial Institutions to save money and get to market faster with their products
- Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
- Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.
We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Chile, Peru, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Capim — Capim is a Vertical SaaS for dental clinics with embedded financial solutions, including Payments and Credit in the POS for patients
- Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
- Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Epakon Capital is a high growth, early-stage (pre-seed to seed) venture capital fund investing in category-defining businesses across emerging markets. For founders, by founders.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Venezuela, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
- UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
- Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.
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