Top 15 Sports Angel Investors in Mexico (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Orbelin Pineda
Angel
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2 | Mexico | Seed | Video, Soccer, Sports | $385k–$410k |
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Elias Hernández
Angel
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2 | Mexico | Seed | Video, Soccer, Sports | $385k–$410k |
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Nigel Eccles
Angel
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2 | United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sports, Blockchain, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$9M |
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Travis Kelce
Angel
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2 | United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Water, Sports | |
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Rafael Baca
Angel
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2 | Mexico | Seed | Video, Soccer, Sports | $385k–$410k |
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Iker Casillas
Angel
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1 | Mexico | Seed, Series A | Sports, Health Care, Fantasy Sports | $2.2M–$4M |
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Luis X. Barrios
Angel
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1 | Mexico, Colombia, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Apps, Gaming | $50k–$345k |
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Nicolas Vikonis
Angel
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1 | Mexico | Seed | Video, Soccer, Sports | |
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Manolo Atala
Angel
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1 | Mexico, Colombia, Chile | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $300k–$10M |
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Christian Aguirre
Angel
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1 | Mexico | Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Fitness, Wellness | |
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Miguel Layún
Angel
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1 | Mexico | Seed | Video, Soccer, Sports | |
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Pau Gasol
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, Mexico | Seed, Series C | Sports, Health Care, Fantasy Sports | $1.1M–$100M |
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Tom Petit
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A | Fitness, Software, Wellness | |
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Kevin Durant
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Sports | |
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César Azpilicueta
Angel
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1 | Spain, France, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Fantasy Sports, Gaming, Soccer | |
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Professional soccer player. Part of the Mexican National Team.
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- Industry: Video, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $385k–$410k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.
Professional soccer player,
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- Industry: Video, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $385k–$410k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.
Nigel Eccles, CEO and co-founder of Flick, an esports/gaming focused screen share application. Previously Nigel was the CEO and co-founder of FanDuel a fantasy sports application.
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- Industry: Sports, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.
- CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
- StarStock — StarStock is a marketplace for sports fans and card hobbyists to buy, sell, and invest in their favorite athletes.
Travis Michael Kelce is an American football tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL).
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Water, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.
- Kodiak Cakes — We are committed to inspiring healthier eating and active living with great-tasting products that are 100% whole grain, protein-packed, and non-GMO.
- ZenWTR — Zen Beverage offers Zenwtr, a vapor distilled alkaline water bottled in recyclable ocean-bound plastic.ZenWTR is on a mission to help reduce the amount of plastic polluting the world’s coastal environments. Each ZenWTR bottle is made from up to five plastic bottles rescued from coastal environments.It was launched in 2019 and is headquarteredin Irvine, California.
Professional soccer player.
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- Industry: Video, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $385k–$410k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.
Iker Casillas is a co-founder of Café 19.
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- Industry: Sports, Health Care, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
- Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.
Luis X Barrios is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of ArkAngeles.co. He also founded TheArkFund in 2016 and is one of the founders of The Pool in 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Mexico, Colombia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $170k–$300k; Pre-Seed $50k–$345k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
- InstaFit — Uscreen's all-in-one video membership platform enables creators to scale their businesses through web, apps, built-in community & live streaming features.
- Get Konvex — Wihom helps buildings and condominiums to solve the attention of owner service, omnichannel software to generate effective interactions.
Professional soccer player.
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- Industry: Video, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.
Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Mexico, Colombia, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $300k–$10M; Series A $1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.
Christian Aguirre - Investment Team Member @ Dalus Capital
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- Industry: SaaS, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SAFTU — SAFTU is a SaaS that allows you to efficiently manage the information of all the processes of your blood bank.
- Blooders — Blooders is a mobile application that enables its users to make online appointments and save up to 30 minutes in their next blood donation. Through the application, users have the ability to search for the closest hospital to their location, select the date they want to donate and see the available appointments, and donate blood.
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Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Video, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PITZ — Pitz combines video and commentary technology to broadcast a player’s best amateur moments on the field.Professional commentators add voice and creativity to videos making them fun, exciting and irresistible for players to share it.- Irresistibly shareable video. - Broadcasted to massive audiences. - Creators economy: Get paid for yourhighlights.2 sided marketplace: Brand segmentation portal for optimal ad placement.
Pau Gasol is an advisor, an investor and an activist in projects related to sports and well-being. He played professional basketball for 20 years in the NBA, on the Spanish National Team and in Spain’s ACB league. He is president of the Gasol Foundation, a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission, and a UNICEF GlobalChampion for Nutrition and Zero Childhood Obesity.
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- Industry: Sports, Health Care, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: United States, Spain, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series C $80M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- INDYA — INDYA is company that helps athletes to improve their performance through nuntrition and technology
- Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.
- Luzia — Access the power of AI from WhatsApp easily, without registration, and for FREE. Luzia helps you in your day to day life with thousands of tasks, whether at work, at school, in your social moments or while pursuing your passions.
Tom Petit is the Co-Founder of Landis.
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Koltin — Koltin offers preventive, accessible health plans focused on people.
- Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
- Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
Kevin Durant is a 12-year NBA veteran who plays for the Brooklyn Nets. He is a 2x NBA Champion and Finals MVP; having also won an NBA MVP Award, four NBA scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals, two NBA All-Star Game MVP Awards, and an NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He is also a ten-time NBA All-Star. Off the court, Durant is co-founder andpartner of Thirty Five Ventures. Thirty Five Ventures includes his diverse investment portfolio, including companies such as Postmates, Acorns, Overtime, & Coinbase; the media and creative development arm; and the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation.Projects under the Thirty Five Ventures umbrella include the sports business vertical “The Boardroom,” in partnership with ESPN, which examines the ins and outs of sports business and illuminates the world of sports far beyond what fans ordinarily see. Kevin also served as an executive producer on Fox Sports Films’ “Q Ball,” which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in Spring 2019. Upcoming projects include the scripted series “SWAGGER” with Imagine Entertainment and Apple. Last fall also saw the opening of The Durant Center in Suitland, Maryland, the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation’s college pipeline program in conjunction with College Track.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- The Snow League — The Snow League is the global league for snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions.
- Zelus Analytics — Unlock advanced sports analytics with Teamworks Intelligence through predictive insights, optimized rosters, and refined game strategy.
- League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.
César Azpilicueta Tanco is a professional footballer from Spain.
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- Industry: Fantasy Sports, Gaming, Soccer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Spain, France, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.
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