Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Costa Rica in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 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 July 2025

Investor	Sports Costa Rica investments
Nazca Ventures	2
Dean Thomas	1
GEM Digital	1
Marc van der Chijs	1
Richard Ma	1
Hardbank	1
SOSV	1
Jonathan Lee	1
Ethan Yau	1
Joseph Cheong	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 — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
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.

Dean Thomas

Investment focus

Sports, Gambling
Seed
Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow the peer-to-peer sports prediction market. Set custom odds, compete with other users directly, and win - all without a house advantage.

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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.
Open Meta City — Open Meta City operates as a virtual real estate platform.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow the peer-to-peer sports prediction market. Set custom odds, compete with other users directly, and win - all without a house advantage.
Blade — The last-mile solution to enable broad merchant acceptance of virtual currencies, built by payments experts.
PeerReach — Peerreach is an Amsterdam-based social media startup that provides an influence metric that measures your influence within different areas of expertise. The Peerreach algorithm is similar to the pagerank algorithm that Google uses to identify influential websites.

Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
YOAKE Entertainment — YOAKE Entertainment is a music studio that specializes in the planning, production, and development of entertainment content.

Hardbank operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow the peer-to-peer sports prediction market. Set custom odds, compete with other users directly, and win - all without a house advantage.
Zeek Network — Zeek Network is a decentralized network for on-chain social bounty and reputation.

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.