Top 15 Sports Startup Investors in Argentina in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Argentina. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Argentina. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Sports Startup Investors in Argentina in May 2025
Investor | Sports Argentina investments |
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Mercado Libre Fund | 2 |
Nazca Ventures | 2 |
OKX Ventures | 1 |
Ariel Arrieta | 1 |
Morningstar Ventures | 1 |
Blackberry | 1 |
Krypital Group | 1 |
OKX Ventures | 1 |
Spark Digital Capital | 1 |
NXTP Ventures | 1 |
AU21 Capital | 1 |
LD Capital | 1 |
Taureon | 1 |
hype partners | 1 |
Sfermion | 1 |
Mercado Libre Fund is the Corporate Venture Capital Fund of Mercado Libre.They support innovation and the development of companies that boost the e-commerce and tech ecosystem in Latin America:
Investing smart money in seed, early and growth stage companies with great teams
Accompanying entrepreneurs in the scaling process of their businessAdding value as strategic partner: fostering synergies between their portfolio companies and MELIWhat they invest on
They differentiate their investments into two funds which differ in scope, stage and investment criteriaTheir Business Development Fund invests in seed stage companies that provide a great product and have a clear potential impact on MELI´s ecosystem
Their Opportunities Fund invests in early and growth stage companies that have developed innovative solutions through the use of technology. They seek tech companies with great teams and outstanding execution capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vambe — Our AI platform allows you to efficiently manage your WhatsApp and Instagram interactions, providing an exceptional experience to your customers while reducing costs and increasing your sales.
- Desteia — Desteia uses highly-specialized AI to give you clean data, live freight status, and seamless customs clearance - with zero manual upkeep.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- FUNX — FUNX is a virtual reality game platform for relaxation use. They use a cloud gaming app or web browser to connect remotely to a virtual PC and play the game from there. There isn't any hardware, wires, installation or download time for games, firmware updating, or anything else that is often associated with playing games locally on a PS5, XboxSeries X, or laptop.
- ShareX — ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
- SignalPlus — Access your SignalPlus dashboard to view your portfolio, trading history, and market insights.
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.
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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 — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- GradienteSur — We are an AI infrastructure company focused on LatAm, with 3 main pillars: 1. Model serving infrastructure built on top of cloud providers2. AIaaS platform, oriented on tasks rather than models, with comprehensive usage dashboards, model testing playground and documentation. 3. Models and workflows customized to serve the needs of ourregion, both proprietary and open source. We are the same team that trained Tango-70b, the first 70b model from LatAm (https://tangoia.com/), and that started the open source AI R&D community SandboxAI (https://sandbox-labs.ai/)We also contribute to LatAm's AI community by providing opensource models, datasets and benchmarks, together with open documentation on how to build these.
We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- FereAI — Unlock real-time AI crypto insights and automated trading with FereAI. Discover top crypto trends, optimize investments, and start trading smarter with your personal AI team.
- SYNTHR — SYNTHR utilizes omnichain synthetic assets to power a zero-slippage execution environment. The protocol brings together a combination of pull and push oracles, a zero-slippage omnichain liquidity layer, and multiple independent consensus layers, providing you with a unique cross-chain solution.
- Arknet — Join Arknet, the distributed internet platform for secure, private communication, and advanced blockchain technology. Discover AI, neural networks, and Bitcoin integration.
BlackBerry provides organizations and governments with the software and services they need to secure the Internet of Things. Learn how BlackBerry Cybersecurity powered by Cylance AI can protect your people, network, and data.
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- CEREBRUMX — CEREBRUMXs preventive car maintenance & telematics solutions help maintain cars & prevent costly repairs with real-time monitoring & predictive analytics.
- CorrActions — CorrActions' driver analyser connects to any in-cabin motion sensor such as the steering wheel, a smart watch, a smart phone etc. The driver analyser asseses the drivers' cognitive state in real time.
- Electra Vehicles, Inc. — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.
Founded in 2017, Krypital Group is a leading global venture capital firm and blockchain incubator. Vested in a complete blockchain ecosystem, the company has specific investment funds for both primary and secondary markets, as well as providing end-to-end services such as project incubation, brand management and technical advisory. To date,Krypital Group has active arms in North American, Asia and Latin American.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
- Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
- Cygnus Finance — Cygnus is a tool that helps different blockchains work together by allowing to share security and keep their networks safe.
Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
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, 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.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- 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.
- NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
- Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup
Since the creation of Bitcoin, decentralized systems and applications have been integral to innovation in countless industries. Taureon is a leading investment manager and consulting firm in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem committed to furthering its disruption, implementation, and use.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, France
Portfolio highlights
- VRRB Labs — VRRB is a startup that is building a new, innovative, computationally lightweight block mining and consensus algorithm known as Proof of Claim. Proof of Claim allows for fast, decentralized, fair validation of transactions and block mining. Due to the lightweight nature of the algorithm, launching and running a node will simply be accessible toanyone with a computer. Proof of Claim is a consensus algorithm that aims to solve many of the issues currently present with both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake.
- CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.
- Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game
Hype Partners is the industry-leading partner for blockchain projects looking to grow their community
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Ethereum
- Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Italy, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- TradeStars — Embrace the game-changing Fantasy Sports Game! Master Cricket & Football lineups, outplay friends, and prove your sports expertise. Time to shine!
- DeFIRE — deFire - a smart order routing engine built on Cardano and powered by Changelly
Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, France
Portfolio highlights
- FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
- 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.
- Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
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