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Top 25 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Venezuela in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 25 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Venezuela. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Venezuela. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Venezuela in December 2024

Investor	Venezuela investments
JAM Fund	4
Anthos Capital	3
First Check Ventures	3
Canary	2
Flucas Ventures	2
Soma Capital	2
Epakon Capital	2
Diverse Angels	2
Simma Capital	2
Hustle Fund	2
Necessary Ventures	2
Litani Ventures	1
Vital Ventures	1
WIND Ventures	1
Sequoia Capital Israel	1
Graph Ventures	1
North Base Media	1
Ethos VC	1
Lehman Holdings	1
NXTP Ventures	1
GE32 Capital	1
Dart Capital & Co.	1
Vang Capital	1
Nicoya Ventures	1
Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund)	1

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JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.

Anthos Capital partners with innovative consumer and technology companies shaping the future.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.

First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
Veikul — Veikul is a marketplace that connects ride-hailing and delivery platforms with gig workers and provides them with a vehicle to do their jobs. It provides both the vehicles and the gasoline required, allowing drivers and couriers to make additional revenue.

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.
Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.

Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

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.

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.

Diverse Angels is an angel group for current & aspiring investors from underrepresented and diverse backgrounds (People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+) to come together and share access to opportunities for ownership in early-stage tech companies.The mission to increase representation of diverse investors as a means to address the systemic wealthgaps, notably the racial wealth gap in the US. With a focus on bridging wealth gaps & disparities, Diverse Angels is a B-Corporation that is supported 100% by volunteers and charges no fees to the community though its 0/00 model. This innovative 0/00 model (0% management fees are charged and 0% of carried interest - i.e. profit) was put into place to remove barriers and costs that could prevent diverse angels (especially first-timers) from participating in deals. The 0/00 model also ensures that the angels’ maximum amount of capital is deployed to allow for the maximum amount of upside.In search of the best founders, Diverse Angels leverages the size, strength, and diversity of its member base to maintain high standards of investment rigor. There are intentional efforts to source & meet founders from all backgrounds and it is a priority that the majority of Diverse Angels’ investments are made into Diverse Founders (People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+).

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Yakoa — Harness AI to detect and address infringements, effortlessly. Eliminate manual searches, experience ecosystem-wide forensics and Proactively screen violations.
54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
Safe — Over 10,000+ links generated

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.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

Necessary Ventures focuses on investing in what the world needs. They work with the founders to build the most scalable solutions.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Nigeria, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

Nevoya — Nevoya's focus on zero-emission freight transport is a significant step toward sustainability in the logistics industry. Nevoya is an electric truckload carriers can help reduce the carbon footprint of shipping while also potentially lowering operational costs in the long run.
Plural Energy — Invest in high yielding clean energy infrastructure around the world on Plural. As little as $500 can deliver some of the highest returns on-chain
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Litani Ventures is a consumer investment company for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

Notissia — Smart Search Your Documents. Built For Financial Due Diligence.
X (formerly Twitter) — X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.

Vital Ventures is a Japan-based investor.

Investment focus

Medical, Consumer, Internet
Seed, Series B
Japan, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

bitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

WIND Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm specializing in the new mobility, energy, and retail sectors for startups and scaleups. The firm leverages COPEC's significant resources to accelerate startups and scaleups in realizing new growth. It also invests in entrepreneurs working to build tomorrow’s energy, mobility, and retailcompanies. WIND Ventures aims to build a sizeable investment portfolio of strategic startups and scale-ups where COPEC's significant resources accelerate the exploration or realization of new growth. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Energy Efficiency
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
ClearFlame Engines — ClearFlame's clean engine technology equips diesel engines to quickly and cost-effectively reduce CO2 emissions, lower costs & break free from fossil fuels.

Sequoia Capital Israel is a VC firm focused on seed stage, mid stage, late stage, and growth investments in the fintech sector. Sequoia Capital Israel prefers to invest in Israel. The firm typically invests between $100,000 and $1 million in seed companies, between $1 million and $10 million in early venture, and between $10 million and $100million in growth investments.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Analytics
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Israel, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Forter — Forter is the leader in Identity Intelligence for digital commerce. We provide real-time decisions for every customer interaction.
Vibrant Gastro — Discover Vibrant - innovative non-drug treatment for chronic constipation patients. The future of constipation treatment is already here.
Personetics — Data-driven personalized customer engagement platform for financial services. Want to explore how your bank can harness the power of AI to engage and serve customers? We work with banks of all sizes across all geographies and will be happy to see how we can help.

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone *Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions
Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

Ethos empowers visionary entrepreneurs to bring their transformative ideas to life, fueling innovation and pushing society forward.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Funding Round, Series D
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Setscale — Setscale simplifies trade & empower companies to scale with Purchase Order Financing. Setscale only get paid once you do! We fund Supply. You meet demand.
Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

Lehman Brothers was a global financial services firm that was founded in 1850 and went bankrupt in 2008. Barclays acquired Lehman Brothers' North American investment banking and capital markets businesses for $250 million.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications
Series B, Series D, Funding Round
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

MyShape — MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.
ExaGrid — ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based backup solutions in the United States. It also offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions, as well as disk-based backup systems for information technology companies. In addition, the company provides backup applications for backups and restores. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was formerly known asInflection Systems, Inc.The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has satellite offices in the United States and internationally.
AOptix Technologies — AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as bordersecurity, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

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.
Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

Dart Capital & Co. (DC&C) is a private equity firm providing strategic investments across multiple asset classes, robust data and economic analysis, and various social impact and ESG advisory services. At DC&C, we believe capital can offer exceptional returns to its clients without sacrificing ethics, considering all partners'impact across the value chain.Working alongside first-in-class partners, we keep our vision focused on what's next, working passionately to create a future that works for everyone.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Peru, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
Connect Homes — The Connect Homes housing system comes from a decade of research on making high-modern, green architecture affordable to the mass market. The results are low-cost modular prefab homes that mimic the spatial and aesthetic qualities of mid-century modern California residential architecture. These homes can be shipped anywhere, adapted to anyenvironment, and are move-in ready a few weeks later. Connect Homes modules emerge from our San Bernardino factory 95% complete -- with all interior and exterior finishes, doors, windows, appliances, plumbing, mechanical, fire sprinkler systems, finish flooring, and roofing already installed. The homes can be shipped worldwide on the intermodal shipping container network and can be installed in as little as two weeks.

We are Vang Capital, strategic high-risk investors with success building scale and investing across industries.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, B2B
Pre-Seed, Angel
Venezuela, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
Zest — Zest helps create and manage Investment DAOs, backed by a real-world LLC. We're a full-suite concierge, offering DAO tooling alongside back-office and compliance support. We remove the inherent complexities surrounding Investment DAOs so members can form a global community that compliantly coordinates capital to maximize investmentopportunities together.
Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.

Nicoya Ventures is a privately owned and financed venture capital fund based out of Toronto, Ontario, primarily focused on applying an Operator-Sponsored approach to early-stage companies looking for strategic growth capital and ongoing advisory services to help commercialize their models.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, EdTech, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Series C
Canada, Sweden, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

LUB Foods — Luthman Backlund Foods AB was started in 2013 by Carl Backlund and Niclas Luthman. Since then they have built a team of dedicated and hard-working people around us that all share the same vision - creating snacks and confectionery that is actually good for you and the people you love.THeir ambition is to create a global brand and a wide range ofproducts that adds to the quality of life and well-being of all the snacks and candy-loving people of the world.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
NICK’S — Swedish-style ice cream is so creamy, so light and so Swedish. Swedish-style is low fat, low calorie, and keto friendly ice cream. But most importantly it's CREAMY ice cream that has only 4-7g of net carbs per serving.

Digital News Ventures makes seed investments in news and information start-upsWe foster innovation in the creation of useful news and information. We invest in entrepreneurs who are creating the platforms, tools and services that news businesses need to be viable in the digital age. See some of our portfolio businesses here.MDIF has longbeen active in the digital media space. We have financed some of the most respected and successful online news sites in the developing world, including Malaysiakini.com and South Africa’s M&G Online. Digital News Ventures is the next evolution of our investment strategy. It extends the scope of our activity beyond media companies to include platforms, tools, and services that news businesses need to be viable in the digital age.

Investment focus

News, Digital Media, Advertising
Seed
United States, Ecuador, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

El Cambur — El Medio del Centro
El Meme — Agencia de Marketing Digital / Productora de Contenidos Digitales Audiovisuales | El Meme
GkillCity — GKillCity is a digital, countercultural citizens’ communication project. It was founded in 2011, in Guayaquil, and 152 editions have been published since, with contributions of over 290 collaborators from all over the world. New media in Ecuador is almost unexplored, and Gkillcity.com wants become the iconic digital media of Ecuador. It aims tocreate more audio content and mobile applications, and also make use of digital TV channels.

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