Top 10 Sports Startup Investors in Costa Rica in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

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

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Revolutionary Empowerment for Founders in Latin America.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ethan Yau

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.
aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
Open Meta City — Open Meta City operates as a virtual real estate platform.

Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.

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.