Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in LATAM

Last updated: Apr 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

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

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Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

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.

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.

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 build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

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, Private Equity
Brazil, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
Aument — Aument optimizes repurchase rates and AOV with AI-driven predictions for Supplement and Skincare Shopify Plus brands.
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.

Risk Management professional, experienced in Stress Testing and Capital Planning. Economist, Investment Analyst, Financial Consultant. Interested in FinTech.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Nada — Finance, Invest and Bank your real estate.
DigiBuild — DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology. It captures transactions from all of the different systems being utilized on the project and puts them into a filterable, searchable, and comparable project timeline to remove the waste and fraud for better data insights and decision making that will stopbudget overages.
Upright — Meet Upright, the good for you go-to. Our first product is a category-defining high-protein, allergen-free Instant Oatmilk in three creamy, delicious flavors: original, vanilla, and chocolate. Each tasty cup of our oatmilk packs the same key nutrients as dairy, without the unwanted allergens or environmental impact.

Michael Kleindl (53) is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good Ventures, a Swiss-based climate-first Venture Capital platform. Collateral Good seeks to transform the existing food, food waste, fashion, packaging and building systems towards a sustainable future through technological innovations and partnering with best-in-classentrepreneurial teams. Doing Collateral Good is the essence of what we do.Michael has been a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor for many years. His track record includes 2 IPOs, and numerous exits of invested startups to prestigious buyers such RTL (Antena 3), Amazon, Axel Springer AG, Deutsche Post DHL, Just Eat, Pernod Ricard, Michelin and Unified Post Group, amongst others. In addition, he has been serving as a board member of various public companies.Michael holds a university degree in Business Administration from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, (Germany) and completed a 2-year management-training program in one of Germany´s most prominent public banking institutions. He is married to a wonderful woman and has four kids. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland and enjoys all kinds of outdoor sports.Co-founder and CEO of AdLINK Internet Media AG, which he took public in 2000, being the youngest CEO of any German IPO and public company at the time.As a Business Angel investor or a VC investor with Seaya Ventures, Michael has successfully invested in and exited companies such as Zanox.de AG to Axel Springer AG, Europe’s largest media company; United MailSolutions AG to Experian Ltd, one of the world’s largest marketing services company; Buy VIP S.L. to Amazon Inc., the world largest ecommerce company; Adcloud GmbH to Deutsche Post DHL Group, Germany’s largest corporate company; Smartclip to Adconion Media Group, a globally leading digital marketing company; first Sindelantal Spain and afterwards Sindelantal Mexico to Just Eat Inc., Bodeboca to Pernor Ricard and Crossinx to Unifiedpost Group amongst others.Currently active as a partner at KOMM Investment and Collateral Good Ventures, two Zurich based VC firms that invest globally in sustainability, mainly in food tech and sustainable materials.His current Tech portfolio includes leading companies in digital marketing, deep tech and fintech.

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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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

Bitcoin, Travel, Corporate Training
Series B, Seed, Angel
Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ripio — Ripio is a bitcoin and digital payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America.
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.

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

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

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!
SUN ZU Lab — SUN ZU Lab is a leading independent provider of Quantitative Analytics for Crypto Professionals.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

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.