Top 50 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Uruguay in January 2025

Investor	Uruguay investments
IC Ventures	5
ANII	5
NXTP Ventures	4
Latitud	4
Magma Partners	4
Endeavor Catalyst	3
Caravela Capital	3
Canary	3
NXTP Ventures	3
Broadhaven Capital Partners	3
Olist	3
Mouro Capital	2
Angel Ventures	2
Andreessen Horowitz	2
DGF Investimentos	2
Cometa	2
Cometa	2
Quona Capital	2
Zentynel Frontier Investments	1
Cisneros Group	1
Greyhound Capital	1
The Rise Fund	1
17Sigma	1
Elevar Equity	1
Draco Capital	1
Kaszek	1
Globant Ventures	1
Starlight Ventures	1
El Pais	1
VentureFriends	1
NDLATAM	1
Gilgamesh Ventures	1
Nazca Ventures	1
ThredUp	1
Wollef Ventures	1
Luxor Capital Group	1
MyAsia VC	1
Simma Capital	1
Dalus Capital	1
General Atlantic	1
Alexia Ventures	1
DST Global	1
Addition	1
Igah Ventures	1
Orok Ventures	1
Grupo Axo	1
Globant	1
Right Side Capital Management	1
iThink VC	1
PayPal Ventures	1

IC Ventures selects startups with potential for disruption, scaling, and value generation in technology applied to financial services (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).ICV members have acquired extensive experience in providing effective and relevant support to entrepreneurs that reduces or neutralizes some of the most frequent risksthat lead to the failure of entrepreneurs and allows them to make the most of the opportunities that are they present them both for business and for securing financing.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Polyhedra Network — Trust, safety, and privacy at the core of every decision.

The National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) is a government agency that promotes research and application of new knowledge to productive and social reality of the country. ANII available to the public funding for research projects, scholarships national and international graduate programs and incentive programs for innovativeentrepreneurship and culture, both in the private and public sectors.ANII developed the National Research System, a program of national economic researchers categorized based on a strict evaluation system incentives. He also created the Portal Timbo, which allows free access to all kinds of scientific publications worldwide for all Uruguayans.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Uruguay, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Boki — We are a team that has excelled in software, pedagogy, video games, the publishing world, and very motivated to positively impact the lives of millions of children. We have created Boki, a tool that is improving the learning experience in schools in Uruguay, Chile, and México, returning the natural enthusiasm to learn of thousands of schoolchildren. Boki can be understood as a “Netflix” with educational content, which includes challenging and really fun activities and exercises that help children learn while enjoying, in a playful and interactive way. Boki helps teachers to prepare the class, it is compatible with multiple platforms and easily adapts to national curricula.
TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.

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.

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.

Build good sh*t with Latitud

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Conectamos — Ship with local carriers, more affordable and reliable
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.
Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Buk — Software de Recursos Humanos para atender todas las necesidades de tus colaboradores. Desde el pago de sus remuneraciones hasta su desarrollo profesional.
R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.

Brazilian Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage companies in Latam

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
SuaQuadra — Quadra is a commercial real estate marketplace. Major technology and real estate investors' support, including Kaszek, Canary, ONEVC, and the Cyrela family.

Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery

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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Broadhaven is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Brinta — Tax Compliance Solution for Latin America. Calculate, report and file your taxes in real-time with Brinta
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Bondaval — Bondaval secures receivables for the world's best credit teams, so they can extend more credit, win more business and get better financing terms.

Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

xFarm Technologies — The agricultural business is becoming more and more complex due to legal requirements and product certification. On the other hand, technologies evolve and create opportunity. xFarm is a startup that aims at the digitization of agriculture, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain's stakeholders in themanagement of their companies. Created by farmers and tailored to the agricultural sector, its main focus is on ease of use, intuitiveness and complete adaptability to agricultural realities. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, a dashboard Analytics dedicated to professionals and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized and connected by xFarm.
Remofirst — All-in-one platform to hire anyone from anywhere with one click. Same-day onboarding. Available in 150+ countries
Skyflow — Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
Occosoft LLC — At Occosoft, we unlock infinite opportunities for entrepreneurship by tackling the power of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions. We collaborate with diverse clients across industries to transform their advanced experiences and enable them to reach new heights.Our Services: Managed AI Solutions: Use ourexpertise to consistently integrate AI into your operations. We handle updates, security, and framework checks, guaranteeing a smooth and secure experience.Custom Software Development with AI: Our custom software solutions are custom-fitted to your unique needs and consistently integrated with advanced AI functionalities.AI Web Development: Build a global presence with secure, universal web applications powered by AI. Access everything and work from anywhere with our intelligent online solutions.AI-Powered Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Outsmart the competition and get noticed! Our AI strategies get you to the top of search engine results organically, attracting more customers and moving your business growth.Social Media Optimization: We help you use the control of social media to manage your online profile, connect with modern clients, and build brand awareness.Features:Smart Report Processing: Automate data extraction and eliminate manual information entry tasks. Focus on what truly matters and discover the power of intelligent document processing.AI-Powered Security: Occosoft's AI security learns and adapts, creating an intelligent shield that safeguards your data from advanced attacks.Customized User Access: Our framework simplifies security while engaging your team for success. Experience streamlined collaboration without compromising information integrity.Connect us on our mission to open the genuine potential of your business with AI!

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

Zentynel Frontier is a investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Baby, Fitness
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Samay — Respira Labs is developing the first wearable device to measure “trapped air,” an early marker of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). No reliable and validated methods currently exist to detect COPD exacerbations in time for early intervention and prevention. By leveraging the power of non-invasive acoustic sensors, audio signalprocessing, machine learning and Acoustic Resonance Index Analysis (ARIA), our device will fundamentally revolutionize COPD management by predicting and preventing attacks at the patient’s home, significantly improving health outcomes and patient quality of life while dramatically lowering health care costs.
Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market
Harmony Baby Nutrition — Harmony Baby Nutrition is a food-tech company providing next-generation of human breast milk-based formulas. Their formulas are dairy-free, allergy-free, environmentally friendly, and impact the whole baby food industry by changing the main structure of current baby products. The company is helping to improve the quality of life of babies aroundthe world by making the next generation of baby formulas containing human breast milk proteins as the base, instead of cow’s milk. Harmony Baby Nutrition was established in 2018 and is based in Boston, MA.

The Cisneros Group is a global media and entertainment leader focused on the vibrant and fast-growing Hispanic market. The Cisneros Group produce and distribute some of the world’s most popular Spanish-language programming, reaching 550 million viewers in more than 100 countries.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Social Media Marketing
Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
Brazil, Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

FLUVIP — Fluvip is an influencer marketing company in Latin America and the United States. It offers a technology platform that allows advertisers to identify the right social content influencers for their campaigns based on artificial intelligence systems; and brands to connect with social content influencers in the world through multi-channels, such asTwitter, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, and Blogs. Fluvip measures the reactions and behaviors of users in social networks to obtain segmentation results and to achieve effective campaigns. Sebastian Jasminoy founded it on July 10, 2013, with its headquarters in Bogotá in Colombia.
Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.

Global growth equity investment firm focused on technology-enabled businesses improving everyday lives

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Series B, Series D
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Greadamy — Greadamy is an educational technology company that revolutionizes how students learn by offering a comprehensive AI-driven platform. The platform provides personalized learning experiences through adaptive quizzes, AI-generated flashcards, and a Notion-style editor for structured note-taking. Greadamy is designed to support efficient self-study,human and AI tutoring based on fine-tuned LLM, and a collaborative learning community. Backed by regional investors and leading education technology partners, Greadamy aims to empower students globally by making learning more personalized, efficient, and accessible.
Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change.The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is bothachievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information, and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Software
Series C, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with BillEase and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
Hayden AI — Artificial intelligence is already impacting almost every aspect of our lives. But cities still rely on outdated technologies that are too expensive to scale and unable to deliver on their promise. As a result, streets are becoming unsafe, and cities are becoming unmanageable. Hayden AI was founded on the belief that by combining mobile sensorswith artificial intelligence, we can help governments bridge the innovation gap while making traffic flow less dangerous and more efficient. Led by a team of experts in machine learning, data science, transportation, and government technology, we’ve developed the world’s first autonomous traffic management platform — simultaneously serving citizens and multi-agency missions to help cities become safer and more sustainable.
Eruditus Executive Education — Eruditus Executive Education offers the best executive education programmes from world's top Business Schools - Columbia, INSEAD, Harvard, MIT Sloan, Wharton and more.

At 17Sigma we support disruptive and innovative Latin American entrepreneurs in their early stages to push forward the next generation of regional leaders and companies. Founded to collaborate with teams, backing ideas that have the potential to disrupt the status-quo and build a stronger, better, and fairer future.17Sigma will primarily focus onembryonic startups looking to raise Pre-seed and Seed rounds.We are firm believers in the potential of Latin America to achieve 17Sigma results, understood as extremely rare and statistically unlikely events. We are here to bet on that magic!

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Patagon AI — Patagon AI specializes in AI for sales, helping Marketing Managers transform their sales process into a scalable, efficient engine. Reimagine your strategy and achieve confident growth.

Elevar Equity fuels the economic resilience and vibrancy of underserved customers and low income communities by investing early growth capital in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of inclusivity, affordability and massive scale. Led by an entrepreneurial emerging markets team passionate about addressing issues of access and inequity, Elevar invests in businesses that demonstrate a direct correlation between high impact and returns. So far in its 15-year journey, the Elevar Method of investing has democratized essential products and services for over 45 million households and catalyzed billions of dollars of capital into 40+ companies across India and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

FinX — A Leading Platform For BFSI Learning & Career Growth. Expand Your Knowledge With Skill Based Courses & Explore Job Opportunities In The BFSI Sector.
SarvaGram — Empowering Rural India
Cloudphysician — Cloudphysician provides a cloud-based health diagnosis platform intended to monitor health conditions of neonatal and emergency ward infants. Its cloud-based platform combines artificial intelligence, IoT, and predictive analytics to integrate real-time clinical data from connected devices within the laboratory with bedside observational data andrecords and monitors the immunization schedule, health, growth, and developmental profile of a newborn from birth to the age of 12 years, enabling doctors to reduce neonatal infant mortality rate through early stage diagnosis of critical diseases in neonates.

DRACO CAPITAL is a Latin American independent Investment Manager with a strong presence in the region. Our management team has over 30 years of experience and specializes in different Latam asset classes.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

DeepAgro — Artificial Intelligence applied to agriculture
Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Sofía — Improving the way millions of people take care of their health
Zig — Zig is the first funtech in the technology market for live entertainment with worldwide operations.
Cometa — Cometa provides technological and financial tools to increase access to quality education in Mexico and Latin America. Take off with the most recent developments in school administration. Maintain complete control over your reconciliation, billing, and operations.

We invest in visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent business through the lens of AI, Blockchain, and Future of Work technologies. Our DNA is that of our founders, and our venture fund targets investment from Seed stage to Series B, while bringing to bear the expertise, scale, and passion of our global network.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Argentina, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Fivvy — In the dynamic world of financial technology, Fivvy stands at the forefront, enabling banks to surpass the competition by leveraging cutting-edge, data-driven models and tailored customer engagement strategies. Fivvy’s innovative solutions unlock the immense value hidden within financial data, propelling banks of all sizes toward unparalleledcustomer experiences. With Fivvy's streamlined implementation process, banks can quickly turn into data driven and customer centric organizations in as little as 3 months. Overall, Fivvy empowers banks to offer a more customer-centric approach, while unlocking the full value of their data.
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LinkedAI — Image Labeling platform and annotation services to accelerate the creation highest quality training data for your Computer Vision development

Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Finland, Spain

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AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.

El Pais is a newspaper company with a large national circulation and audience. The company introduced the modality of distributing special and collectible editorial products nationally and internationally. The company focuses in the improvement of Uruguayan society. The carry out dozens of extraordinary publications and historical investigations.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Android
Pre-Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS . Out of stock . Price s. Promo executions.  POP Material implementation.  Products expiring date.  Returns . Assortment by RE and cluster . Planogram compliance . Competitive activity.

We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cube AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.

NDLATAM specializes in M&A, financing, and restructuring.

Investment focus

Pet, Veterinary, Therapeutics
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market

Gilgamesh Ventures is a investment fund focused on fintech.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Brinta — Tax Compliance Solution for Latin America. Calculate, report and file your taxes in real-time with Brinta
Baselayer — Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud in the financial sector. It offers services such as business verification (KYB), fraud detection, business onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring & alerting, and workflow automation. Baselayer empowers 100s of financial institutions, governmentagencies, lenders, and fintech to unlock instant trust with any business in America.
Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.

Nazca Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Datanomik — Datanomik is a B2B Open Finance API platform that allows businesses to get their financial information in a simpler, seamless way.
Miora — Online platform for beauty services.

thredUP is an online consignment and thrift store where you can buy and sell high-quality secondhand clothes. Find your favorite brands at up to 90% off.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
Corporate Round
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.

Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Argentina, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
Vioo — Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace for companies on demand. The solution automates the creation of visual content.
Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.

Luxor Capital Group is a hedge fund that offers equity and fixed income investments. It also provides its customers with investment advisory services. Luxor Capital Group was founded by Christian Leone and is based in New York.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Logistics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
Volta Trucks — Electric trucks for sustainable cities, with people at the heart of everything we do.
VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

MyAsia VC

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.

We invest in early and growth-stage companies that are cofounded by outstanding teams, are scalable, have solid unit economics, and are connected with Colombia and the rest of Latin America

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Colombia, United States, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

Morado — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
smartBeemo — smartBeemo is an online education platform focused on reducing the knowledge gap of modern skills, in the Spanish speaking communities. We created an online education platform that seeks to solve this problem through-out exceptional online programs, corporate trainings and events, developed by professionals in the industry who are entrepreneurs,influencers, marketing agency leaders, technology developers and educators.

Investing in innovation & growth in Latin America

Investment focus

Information Technology, Logistics, Developer Platform
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Mecanizou — Mecanizou is a distributor of automobile parts. They offer products that include filters, lubricantes, scanners, correias, arrefecimento, frenagem, and baterias.
UnDosTres — UnDosTres is revolutionizing the consumer payments landscape in Mexico. We are building the country's leading platform that allows Mexican's to pay for anything and everything at the tap of a button! We are amongst the fastest-growing startups in Mexico and were recently crowned the Best Fintech Startup in Emerging Markets.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

We partner with leading entrepreneurs and innovative growth companies to deliver value for our family and institutional capital partners.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Private Equity, Series B, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

QI Tech — QI TECH is a fintech that will disrupt the credit market, headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.Much more than providing efficiency for a complex, outdated and bureaucratic financial industry, we are focused on developing a new (and truly digital) way of raising money and investing in credit assets. From the companies perspective, we are building adigital platform and redesigning the lending experience. For the investors, we will facilitate access to the unexplored credit market, providing easy access to strongly collateralized credit assets.Improving access to both sides of this market will increase the overall industry efficiency and consequently we foster the entire economic growth.Culture is one of our most important assets and it is built by people. We need engagement and people that actually change the world with strong opinions and actions, participating in the building process and always thinking on the client. We strongly believe that only with strong values we will reach impact we desire.
Transcendia — Transcendia, formerly known as Transilwrap Company, Inc. was founded in 1931 and was one of the first converter/distributors of film in the plastics industry. From the beginning, Transcendia has transcended the industry with their innovation, technology and commitment to giving customers the customized plastic films they need.
ThreatLocker — Cybersecurity Tools, Application Whitelisting, Ringfencing | ThreatLocker Inc

Alexia Ventures is an early-stage (series A) value-add investor for top entrepreneurs from Brazil and Latin America. We focus in disruptive business models that are driven by software platforms and data / artificial intelligence technologies (A.I.). Alexia Ventures believes that the best founders from Latin America are as good as the topfounders around the world – and can create companies that are global technology leaders. Many of the top talents that its founders have worked with over the past 20+ years, in both LatAm and Silicon Valley, are part of our network. Alexia Ventures was created to help outstanding founders catalyze human potential through data and technology, while building a better future and inspiring the region with a new definition of what is possible.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Winnin — Cultural Relevance powered by AI. Winnin AI transforms cross-platform video behavioral data into game-changing predictive insights
Inner AI — Inner is an AI-Native workspace to organize your thoughts, be more creative, and accomplish your tasks faster.
Lexter.ai — Lexter.ai is the first SaaS platform that helps legal teams in Brazil gain efficiency by automating documents' analysis and revision using AI. Lexter's technology is capable of automatically reviewing contracts based on each client's strategy and is already being used by companies such as Gerdau, Votorantim Cimentos and Suzano.

DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on late-stage ventures in the Internet sector. The firm has invested in several rapidly growing companies. Its offices are in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series C, Series B, Series D
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Databricks — Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. It also provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inSan Francisco, California.
Kast — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.

We invest in early & growth stage technology companies. We were founded with a mission to support visionaries in building impactful & enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
Chapter — Chapter provides consultation on the appropriate medical services to get. It offers advise on recommended medical card programs and benefits for every person. Chapter is based in New York.
Onehouse — Open storage, continuous pipelines, and automatic optimizations across table formats, engines, clouds. Automated data platform across Hudi, Delta, and Iceberg.

Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm that was born from the union of forces of two successful investment platforms (e.bricks ventures and Joa Investimentos). We have a unique and complementary team of partners and an extremely qualified and experienced team.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CRMBonus — CRM & BÔNUS is a CRM consultancy and Giftback platforms.
Liqi Digital Assets — Liqi Digital Assets is an investment model, which transforms assets so that anyone can become an investor.

Orok Ventures is investing on tech, VCs, PEs, among other asset classes.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Information Technology
Seed
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.

Grupo Axo is a leading multi-brand company in Mexico for apparel, footwear, beauty, accessories and home furniture. Today the company is a reference and a reliable resource for brands that want to build a successful platform within Latin America. With a solid retail and wholesale experience for over 23 years, its expertise comes from representing,elevating equity, distributing and operating brands through a multi-channel approach. As of 2017, Grupo Axo operates more than 3,100 points of sale within major department stores and over 500 retail points of sale in both Mexico and Chile, and solid and successful e-commerce platforms in both mono-brand and multi-brand formats.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
Corporate Round
Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.

We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Argentina, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
Bunker DB — Analyze your marketing actions within all your paid and social platforms, measure your investment, visualize your consumers sentiment, study your competition and much more.
ping — messageLOUD is a patented app that automatically reads text messages, emails, WhatsApp, Slack and all other message types out LOUD without any action from the user.Think about your daily commute. Focused on safety, productivity and convenience, the service reads all major message types out loud when touching your phone is unsafe, inconvenient orillegal.Distracted Driving costs $129 billion per year and 11 lives per day. messageLOUD not only saves lives, but also enhances productivity. There are more than 800 million app users of streaming audio services, running, cycling and other activity-based apps where users would prefer to hear their texts and emails read out LOUD rather than checking their phones.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy helps you budget, spend less and offers a concierge service to handle tasks like negotiating bills, canceling subscriptions, saving you time and money.

iThink VC is investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who are solving our region's structural challenges through technology.

Investment focus

SaaS, Shipping, Software
Series A
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
BucksApp — BucksApp is a SaaS company that provides business intelligence solutions to financial institutions through our in-house-developed API
Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market

PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return.Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial systemthat is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.