Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Costa Rica in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Costa rica. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Costa rica. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Costa Rica in February 2025

Investor	Sports Costa Rica investments
Nazca Ventures	2
SOSV	1
Dean Thomas	1
Jonathan Lee	1
Joseph Cheong	1
GEM Digital	1
Hardbank	1
Marc van der Chijs	1
Richard Ma	1
Ethan Yau	1

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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.

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 — Revolutionize your supply chain operations with cutting-edge technology. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance visibility, optimize your logistics, and fuel your growth plan.
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.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Dean Thomas

Investment focus

Sports, Gambling
Seed
Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.

Jonathan Lee

Investment focus

Sports, Gambling, PC Games
Seed
Costa Rica, United States

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
Million on Mars — Play, Build and Own with Million on Mars An MMO open sandbox city builder where you decide on your homestead's location, and build out your settlement on the highest-fidelity in-game Mars terrain! Painstakingly created from NASA/JPL topographical data, your location is as close to reality as you can get.

Joseph Cheong

Investment focus

Sports, Gambling
Seed
Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, FinTech
Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering, Series A
Belize, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trrue — Trrue is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) compliance and the tokenization of physical assets. It aims to integrate sustainable practices into blockchain technology while enabling the digitization and trading of real-world assets, such as real estate and commodities.
Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
Vitreus Chain — Vitreus Chain is a novel evolution of Layer 0 blockchains not unlike Polkadot or Cosmos. The core digital asset of the chain portion of VITREUS, used with our proof of stake derived consensus method, Proof of Stake (PoS).

Hardbank operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
Zeek Network — Zeek Network is a decentralized network for on-chain social bounty and reputation.

Marc van der Chijs is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of First Block Capital. He Previously worked at Care Protocol as a Co-Founder and Director. Marc van der Chijs attended Maastricht University.