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Top 15 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Costa Rica in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Software Costa Rica investments
Carao Ventures	4
Cluster Capital	1
Lightspeed Venture Partners	1
Collab+Currency	1
NDRC	1
devlabs	1
NXTP Ventures	1
BitScale	1
Epakon Capital	1
Dadneo	1
Metaverse Ventures	1
Private Family Office	1
Imaginable Futures	1
Caricaco VC	1
Broom Ventures	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Costa Rica, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Floid — Open Finance para conectar de forma segura con los datos financieros de tus clientes
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.
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.

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).

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Seel — Peace of mind for shoppers and increased conversion rate for merchants. Available on Shopify App Store.
Virtue AI — Virtue AI operates as an AI security and compliance platform for applications.
Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NPC Labs — NPC Labs is a core contributor to B3 - a Base gaming ecosystem
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
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.

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.

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

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).

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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
Nuvia — Nuvia is an artificial Intelligence automation platform that helps with sales process, lead generation and hyper-personalized conversions
Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

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.

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

Dadneo enhances the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation by connecting early-stage startups with the venture capital LatAm industry. Through their investment model using Smart Capital, they offer their entrepreneurs disposition of their network and all necessary measures to contribute to the success of their project tools.Dadneo wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

Investment focus

Service Industry, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Chile, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Slik — Slik es la plataforma para medir, analizar y accionar la Experiencia y Compromiso del Empleado en tiempo real.
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.
Wheel the World — Wheel the World is a social startup with the purpose of making the world accessible. By building a cutting-edge model of accessibility data, which is extracted, organized, and displayed on www.gowheeltheworld.com, we allow people with disabilities to find and book accessible travel experiences including hotels, tours, and activities with theaccessibility information they need in the most amazing destinations in the world.We believe that people with disabilities should experience the world like anyone else. Governments, travel companies, and tourism professionals are all joining the accessible travel movement given the exponential growth of people with disabilities traveling around the world. Our commitment is to provide detailed information about what is accessible and specialized customer support involved through the entire experience.An accessible destination is a combination of accessible accommodation, transportation, and activities. This is why we are partnering with local travel businesses creating 100% accessible services together that we offer online. We want to allow millions of people to travel to thousands of destinations!

Metaverse Ventures invests in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse.

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

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.

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

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.

Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.

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.

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