Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Argentina in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Argentina. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Argentina. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Argentina in December 2024

Investor	Travel Argentina investments
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde	1
Martin Migoya	1
HM Capital	1
Angel Ventures	1
Tuesday Capital	1

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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.

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.

HM Capital Partners is a sector-focused private equity firm that primarily makes control investments in the energy, food, and media industries, where the Firm has extensive experience, expertise, relationships, and access to differentiated deal flow. Since its inception, the firm has completed more than 150 transactions in these sectors for atotal transaction value in excess of $26 billion.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

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Osteal Therapeutics — Osteal Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel musculoskeletal therapeutics to treat orthopedic infections and their consequences.

Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market.