Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024

Investor	Travel LATAM investments
Michael Kleindl	1
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde	1
Theresa Preston-Werner	1
Marcus Dantus	1
Tim Draper	1
Martin Migoya	1
Edward Lando	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Romero Rodrigues	1
Erhan Bilici	1

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Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Reservamos — We are a multi-modal booking engine for travel based in Mexico. We cover over 90,000 routes and 3700 destinations. Reservamos is the best way to compare and book buses, flights, and ride sharing options anywhere in Mexico + US with one search.
Mediasmart — mediasmart Mobile is the first Spanish company focusing on the real time optimization of mobile advertising (both on smartphones and tablets) using its proprietary technology platform.mediasmart Mobile was one of the first movers into the mobile programmatic ecosystem, having launched in Jan 2012. It gives access to global mobile inventory -both in mobile apps and web - from more than twenty seven ad exchanges/SSPs, and it has successfully proven throughout the years that its algorithms can effectively manage big data to deliver results. A proven and scalable technology, currently handling more than 800,000 ad requests per second, mediasmart can be used directly by clients on a self-serve basis or via APIs, and it handles both RTB and programmatic direct buys.Mediasmart has offices in Madrid, London and Paris.
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Francisco Alvarez-Demalde is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital. Francisco co-heads the Firm and has built the Riverwood Capital franchise and been involved in the scalability journey of several of Riverwood’s portfolio companies since its inception in 2008.Prior to establishing Riverwood Capital, Francisco was an investmentexecutive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where he focused on private equity investments in the technology industry and other sectors, and with Eton Park and Goldman Sachs & Co.During his career, Francisco has led investments in or been actively involved in the development, operations, and growth of several successful businesses across North America, Latin America, and other geographies. He earned a Licentiate (Honors) in Economics from San Andres University, Argentina including an exchange program at the Wharton School.Francisco is a Director of Globant (NYSE: GLOB), GoIntegro, Greenhouse, Shiphero, and VTEX (NYSE: VTEX), and an investor, Board Advisor and/or former Director of several other companies, including 99, Alog Data Centers do Brasil, Billtrust (Nasdaq: BTRS), CloudBlue, Dock, Industrious, Insider, LAVCA, Mandic, MotionPoint, Navent, Nium, Pixeon, RD Station, Sensedia, SecurityScorecard, Suma, Technisys, among others. He is also active in non-profit initiatives related to education and a Global Ambassador for Endeavor.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series C, Series D
United States, Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Legion Technologies — Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement. Customers across industries including retail, hospitality, healthcare, and manufacturing use Legion WFM to reduce costs, compliance risks, and labor inefficiencies, and boost employee engagement. Legion Technologieswas founded by Sanish Mondkar, the former Chief Product Officer of SAP, and serves many innovative customers including Racetrac Petroleum, Panda Express, Cinemark, Barry's Bootcamp, Soulcycle, and Philz Coffee. The company has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and was recently included on JMP Securities’ Hot 100 List of the Best Privately Held Software Companies. Legion is backed by investors including Norwest, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, the Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures.
Aument — Launch various pricing strategies such as AI-powered promotions, clearance pricing for excess products, and dynamic pricing to boost sales velocity.
Turismocity — Turismocity is a travel search engine for Latin America and other Spanish speaking countries. Turismocity searches in hundreds of travel websites including hotels, airlines and online travel agents.The company was founded in 2013 by the same founders as Descuentocity a website that is visited by more than 4.5 million visitors per month.Turismocity is focused on local markets in countries such as Brazil, México, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú and Spain.

Theresa Preston-Werner is the Affiliate Director of a new Global Family Planning Project at Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability, U. C. Berkeley.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Marketplace
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Keteka — Keteka is an online tours and activities marketplace that lets travelers book unique, safe and authentic, tours with validated local guides from developing communities, offering dignified economic opportunity for local communities and life-changing experiences for travelers.Keteka was founded by two Peace Corps volunteers focused on helping ruraland indigenous communities in Panama actually benefit from tourism. Kyle and Jack recognized that there were thousands of local guides and communities that needed, but lacked, direct access to travelers. At the same time, there were millions of travelers searching for off the beaten path experiences, yet lacked an easy way to find and book them. Eventually, by leveraging their connection to the Peace Corps Network, they began onboarding previously marginalized guides and communities, and offering travel experiences to a small group of friends and fam

Innovative thinker with broad-based expertise in operations, business development and sales. Built solid track record of success leading start-upsProven ability to quickly identify key business drivers and develop strategies to maximize opportunities.High-integrity, energetic, and renowned for ability to envision and create successful outcomesin complex situations. Broad start-up experience. Tenacious commitment to drive sales, profits and market share growth.

Investment focus

Travel, Biometrics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

REFLY.ME — Refly is a marketplace that allows users to resale or to buy plane tickets at low prices.
Atexto — Atexto is the most powerful platform to improve speech recognition accuracy, fairness, and language support.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.

Martin Migoya has served as Chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer since 2005. He has worked in the technology industry for over 18 years, including as a trainee and technology project coordinator at Repsol-YPF, a consultant at Origin BV Holland and a business development director at Tallion. He founded our company together withMessrs. Englebienne, Nocetti and Umaran in 2003. Martin is frequently invited to lecture at various conventions and at universities like MIT and Harvard, and has been a judge at the Endeavor Entrepreneurs panel and at La Red Innova. Martin was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2005 and won a Konex Award as one of the most innovative entrepreneurs of 2008. He was selected as an Argentine Creative Individual of 2009 (Círculo de Creativos de la Argentina) and received the Security Award as one of the most distinguished Argentine businessmen of 2009. He also received in 2009 the America Economía Magazine’s “Excellence Award”, which is given to entrepreneurs and executives that contribute to the growth of Latin American businesses. In 2011, Latin Trade recognized Martin as Emerging CEO of the Year. In 2013, Martinreceived the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” from Ernst & Young. He is a member of the Young President’s Organization and a board member of Endeavor Argentina. Martin holds a degree in electronic engineering from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and a master’s degree in business administration, from the Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina. We believe that Martin is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his intimate familiarity with our company and the perspective, experience, and operational expertise in the technology services industry that he has developed during his career and as our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Travel
Series B, Seed, Angel
Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
SenseiNode — We drive the decentralization of the blockchain ecosystem in Latin America with a simple, scalable and secure node management platform.
Turismocity — Turismocity is a travel search engine for Latin America and other Spanish speaking countries. Turismocity searches in hundreds of travel websites including hotels, airlines and online travel agents.The company was founded in 2013 by the same founders as Descuentocity a website that is visited by more than 4.5 million visitors per month.Turismocity is focused on local markets in countries such as Brazil, México, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú and Spain.

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

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