Top 35 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Costa Rica in January 2025
A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Costa rica. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Costa rica. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Costa Rica in January 2025
Investor | Costa Rica investments |
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Carao Ventures | 15 |
Nazca Ventures | 2 |
SOSV | 2 |
GEM Digital | 1 |
C² Ventures | 1 |
Cluster Capital | 1 |
devlabs | 1 |
Avalancha Ventures | 1 |
Preface Ventures | 1 |
LambdaClass | 1 |
International Finance Corporation | 1 |
Hardbank | 1 |
Epakon Capital | 1 |
BitScale | 1 |
Imaginable Futures | 1 |
GridX | 1 |
NFX | 1 |
Caricaco VC | 1 |
Net Zero Technology Centre | 1 |
NXTP Ventures | 1 |
Broom Ventures | 1 |
Collab+Currency | 1 |
Alaya Capital | 1 |
HEM ANGELS | 1 |
Loyal VC | 1 |
Metaverse Ventures | 1 |
Gagra Ventures | 1 |
NDRC | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 |
AU21 Capital | 1 |
Innogen Venture Capital | 1 |
The LegalTech Fund | 1 |
Private Family Office | 1 |
280 Capital | 1 |
They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- WeKall — WeKall Cloud based corporate telephony service simplifies the operation to only one provider saving up to 60% of the monthly spend in telephony operation.
- FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vambe — Vambe is a multi-channel AI sales representative who handles customer interactions at all stages of the sales process. Vambe interfaces with sales tools and CRMs, generates extensive customer profiles from chat habits, and recommends items based on customer requirements.
- Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
- 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
- Vitreus Chain — Vitreus Chain is a novel evolution of Layer 0 blockchains not unlike Polkadot or Cosmos. The core digital asset of the chain portion of VITREUS, used with our proof of stake derived consensus method, Proof of Stake (PoS).
Founded by Ciara Sun, C² Ventures is a chain-agnostic blockchain investment company focuses on empowering builders with the capital and operational expertise to build and scale the next generation of Web3 and metaverse primitives.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, France
Portfolio highlights
- Jamix — Cut through the noise with unified enterprise data and custom AI agents.
- Breakout — Breakout is a crypto-native prop business that trades on the most liquid centralized exchanges.
- Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
Cluster Capital is a global network of crypto investors, media influencers, and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shadow War — Shadow War is a 5v5 competitive PvP action game for PC and Console. Fight online in a futuristic cyberpunk world
- Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
- Metropolis World Ltd — Welcome to Metropolis, an ecosystem merging gamified commerce, RWAs, gaming, cutting-edge AI technology, and culture into a vibrant virtual hub where the boundaries between digital and physical realities blur.
We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Chile, Peru, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
- ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
Early stage venture capital fund that invests in unique teams building extraordinary companies which, with the use of technology, innovate to deliver efficient and cost-effective products and services for the wider population.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Mexico, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Carryt — Carryt performs efficient last mile deliveries by empowering gig economy drivers with our route optimization technology and impact strategy.
- Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
- Axify — On Axify we offer prepayment installment plans to acquire services, like a "tanda" of the digital age. The company is seeing huge potential and interest in different industries: travel, e-commerce, insurance, hospitals, health, and beauty centers. The company focuses on helping people who lack resources or even a credit card acquire aquality product without the predatory lending rates, which are very expensive and generate a huge burden on Mexican and LatAm families. That said we give prepayment plans to people and help them, by creating a pre-payment plan, acquire the products and services in a sustainable free-of-debt manner. We are seeing a tendency to avoid debt all over Mexico and we have already helped more than 7000 families acquire products or services without any kind of debt.
The capital before your story. Early stage investments for founders building the frontier of enterprise infrastructure and software.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- IP Copilot — Discover, capture, and protect your best ideas with responsible AI.
LambdaClass is a software development firm that specializes in building scalable backends with functional programming languages.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clave — One click onboarding to future of finance
- Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
- Yet Another Company — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Promigas — Promigas builds and operates pipelines for the distribution of natural gas. They design, construct, and maintain the natural gas transmission and distribution infrastructure. They provide integrated solutions for the hydrocarbon industry.
- Yondr Group — We are Yondr, a global developer, owner and operator of hyperscale data centers. Our mission is: global capacity responsible delivery.
- Banco Daycoval — Banco Daycoval is a financial solutions firm that provides investments, vehicle financing, payroll, business and individual credits.
Hardbank operates as an investment firm.
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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.
Epakon Capital is a high growth, early-stage (pre-seed to seed) venture capital fund investing in category-defining businesses across emerging markets. For founders, by founders.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Venezuela, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
- UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
- Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | Effortless AI Ads for Mobile Game Studios.
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
- Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment firm driven by impact and the belief that learning is key to well-being and equitable, healthy systems.
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Investment focus
- Non Profit, Education, Communities
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- LIFT — LIFT is a national nonprofit that empowers families to break the cycle of poverty.
- California Competes — California Competes is a nonpartisan policy and research organization for critical higher education and workforce issues
- American Council on Education — The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice.
We make it easy for utilities and their customers to know the exact value of clean energy choices. We are the catalyst for our clean energy future.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Farming, Animal Feed
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- FeedVax — Transforming fish vaccines with a simple and profitable solution.
- Bioeutectics — Revolutionazing the solvents industry turning it into a natural, biodegradable and sustainable one.
- Tomorrow Foods — Producción de proteínas en base vegetal
We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
- Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
CARICACO is a startup powerhouse. We support the best entrepreneurs in Central America with capital, mentors and connections. We seek to be the bridge that connects early stage startups with new markets and the best investment funds/accelerators.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Banking
- Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, El Salvador
Portfolio highlights
- Avify — Avify is the best platform that takes the D2C model to the next level. Due to Pandemic, sales through social media and E-commerce channels in Latin America, increased almost 40%, and business owners have to manage multiple sales channels everyday like Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, their own E-commerce, Mercado Libre, Etsy, Amazon and more, causinga huge problem with inventories that are not synchronized and jumping from one channel to the other answering questions, printing shipping labels and is so hard to grow the business when all this job is manual. That's why we created Avify, the Centralized Backoffice for E-commerce in Latin America. Our customers can save a lot of hours per week doing manual tasks and invest that time growing the business and acquiring more clients. Avify provides an agnostic layer where our customers integrate any delivery service, payment gateway or invoicing tool, creating a powerful workflow to take the business to the next level of automation.
- Ábaco Capital — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
The Net Zero Technology Centre is developing and deploying technologies for an affordable net zero energy industry.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Power Grid, Wind Energy
- Pre-Seed, Grant
- United Kingdom, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- ACUA Ocean — The world's first hydrogen powered uncrewed surface vessel (H-USV) for ocean protection, data collection and monitoring.
- WaveX — WaveX is a consultancy for international enterprises that focuses on the development of commercial partnerships.
- Myriad Wind Energy Systems — Myriad wind energy systems is an early stage start up building high performance modular wind tubrines around the multi-rotor wind turbine concept.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Cofactr — Whether managing shortages today or planning for next year, Cofactr is the place to get all the parts you need, when you need them.
- Fanki — The Fanki platform brings together sports fans and sports organizations in an ecosystem where they can find a choice of products and services ranging from a digital wallet and a personalized Mastercard to loyalty programs. great perks and experiences.
- Kento Health — Kento offers a digital solution for comprehensive cardiac care, designed for individuals with heart disease. Leveraging medical AI for personalized programs, our platform bridges the gap between acute cardiac events and ongoing heart health, ensuring optimal patient engagement and improved outcomes
Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dria — FirstBatch enables the path to Safe AGI through collaboration. We democratize access to synthetic data for AI/ML models through Dria - an AI agent network.
- Today — Today is a Web3 social simulation game, offering interactions with GenAI backed NPCs, and no-code tools for virtual world development.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, Chile, United States
Portfolio highlights
- escala — la plataforma todo en uno de marketing y venta.
- Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
- Loads — Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers.Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to+20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.
Hem Angels is a part of Hem Securities Limited, which holds experience of 4 decades in Financial Markets. Hem Angels as an angel investment platform intends to co-invest along with the lead investors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Apps, Education
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- QpiAI — QpiAI vertically integrates quantum computing and AI for solutions in manufacturing, industrial, transportation, finance, pharmaceuticals, and materials with diverse software platforms and products and provides impactful advances to generative AI and various industry verticals.
- REGRIP — Regrip tyres are a high-performance alternative to fresh tyres for big commercial vehicles' dummies and drive axles. Regrip's inexpensive, dependable, and ecological product line assists fleet owners in saving significant money on tyre use.
- WiseDrive — Car repair marketplace that connects car owners with trustworthy garages
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Edept — Edept empowers students with global opportunities and academic excellence, bridging industry and academia to develop skilled citizens.
- UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
- The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.
Metaverse Ventures invests in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Blockchain
- Series A, Funding Round
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
- Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.
Gagra Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the blockchain area.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
- Yet Another Company — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
- Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
- Soda Health — We are a healthcare technology company dedicated to eliminating health inequities through social determinants of health. Our services include supplemental benefit administration, highly customizable member benefit programs with restricted spending and multi-balance capabilities, and robust member data analytics with benefit design recommendations.
- Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.
Innogen Capital is a LATAM venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth companies. It focuses on proven business models, including companies with a social impact mission, Innogen Capital also seeks to provide its partners with expertise and exposure via a network of professionals in diverse fields.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Mexico, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
- Koibanx — Koibanx is a blockchain solutions company that offers payment infrastructure, transactional core, Web3 integration, and crypto capabilities.
- Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.
Investing in companies transforming the world of law
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Investment focus
- Legal Tech, Software, Legal
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- LawPro.ai — LawPro.ai is increasing visibility into important case details to have the best outcomes for their clients. Law firms are using LawPro.ai's proprietary contextualized Large Language Model for the Legal Industry so they can automate resource-intensive tasks
- OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
- Noetica AI — Instant benchmarking for the terms of your next deal. Leveraging the industry's largest knowledge graph of corporate debt, securities, and M&A transaction terms.
Private Family Office
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.
280 Capital serves as the Web3 investment arm of the Huang, Liu, and Chen Family Office, managing a $2 billion portfolio. With roots the Web3 domain since 2014, the family currently manages a $400 million digital assets portfolio, anchored by an early acquisition of Bitcoin, showcasing a profound commitment to advancing the blockchain industry.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Spain
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- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
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