Top 50 Angel Investors in LATAM in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Angel Investors in LATAM in May 2025
Investor | Venture Capital LATAM investments |
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Sergio Fogel | 3 |
Matias Woloski | 3 |
Sebastian Mejia | 3 |
Sergio Furio | 3 |
Daniel Undurraga | 3 |
David Vélez | 3 |
Carlos Garcia | 2 |
Loreanne Garcia | 2 |
Paulo Silveira | 2 |
Sergio Fogel | 2 |
Gerry Giacoman Colyer | 2 |
Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 2 |
Claire Diaz-Ortiz | 2 |
Ana Paula González | 1 |
Tania Zapata | 1 |
Kallie Parchman | 1 |
Parker Treacy | 1 |
Philippe Teixeira da Mota | 1 |
Rafael Duton | 1 |
Kai Schmitz | 1 |
Fernando Fabre | 1 |
Angela Strange | 1 |
Dileep Thazhmon | 1 |
Stelleo Tolda | 1 |
Benjamin Gleason | 1 |
Paulo Veras | 1 |
Nathan Lustig | 1 |
Isabel Penzini | 1 |
Ariel Arrieta | 1 |
Laura Fingal-Surma | 1 |
Oliver Jung | 1 |
Mike Krieger | 1 |
Marcelo Sampaio | 1 |
Patrick Wakeham | 1 |
Francisco Larrain | 1 |
Daniel Vogel | 1 |
Mario Augusto Sá | 1 |
Ricardo Weder | 1 |
Rodrigo Dantas | 1 |
Guilherme Bonifacio | 1 |
Tanya Filer | 1 |
Andrea Ponce | 1 |
Alex Torrenegra | 1 |
Kim Machlup | 1 |
Pablo Gutierrez | 1 |
Simon Borrero | 1 |
Luis X. Barrios | 1 |
Katie Shea | 1 |
Tiago Dalvi | 1 |
Lolita Taub | 1 |
Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, Brazil, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
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- Tuvis — Ensure the protection of communication Whatsapp Telegram iMessage Line weChat Voice call SMS..
- 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.
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
- Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
- Num Finance — Mint fully backed tokenized Real World Assets on-chain. Explore Stocks, Commodities and Fixed Income, with the highest security and compliance standards.
Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Payments, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Chile, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
- Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.
- Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Beep Saúde — Application that lets you find high quality healthcare services where you need.
- 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.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Spain, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
Loreanne Garcia is a Co-Founder & Chief People Officer at Kavak. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
CEO and founder at Caelum Alura
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
- Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.
- Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.
Experienced Latin American internet entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO, Astropay LLP. Organizer, Punta Tech Meetup. Sergio Fogel is one of the most recognized internet entrepreneurs in Uruguay and in Latin America in general. He founded several companies, among them Astropay (the leading alternative payments processor in Latam), Uniotel (LongDistance Carrier in Uruguay) and JetNumbers.com. Sergio is also the original founder and organizer of Punta Tech Meetup, a gathering of tech entrepreneurs held every January in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Sergio holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master's degree in computer science from the Technion. He previously worked as reseracher in IBM's Haifa Research Labs, as well as in sales for Oracle Corp.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Uruguay, Israel, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- 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.
- Xeptiva Therapeutics — Xeptiva Therapeutics is an innovative biotech that develops novel therapies for the veterinary market
Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Chile, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
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- Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Vaas — Software
- Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Vaas — Software
- Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
Ana Paula González
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Tania I. Zapata is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Akily. He previously worked at Voice123 as a Board Member. He attended the City University of New York.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Kallie Parchman
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Founder at Cobli.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
- Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile.
Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Hash — Hash allows B2B companies to provide financial, payments, and banking solutions to their merchant partners. With a fully customizable product, its platform enables clients to absorb financial transaction flows from all their buyers.The company was certified by the Great Place to Work and is on PEGN Magazine's "100 Startups toWatch" list. Earlier this year, it also made the “Top Fintech Companies in Brazil 2021” list, by the British magazine Daily Finance. Recently, Hash was selected by StartupCity magazine for the "Top Startups in Brazil 2021" list, and also made it to “The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Companies Of 2021”, by CB Insights.João Miranda founded the company in 2017.
- JurisHand — Top 1 Legal Vade Mecum App in Brazil.
- 180 Seguros — Uma nova forma de distribuir e consumir seguros no Brasil.
Kai Schmitz is Investment Lead for the Global FinTech Investment Group of IFC, the largest Fintech investor in emerging markets. He is responsible for equity and debt investments in emerging market Fintech companies, with focus on Payments and Online Lenders. In Latin America, he worked on Fintech investments in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexio,and Uruguay. Kai is a Board member or advisor at different FinTech and financial services companies in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the US, including companies in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Before joining IFC, Kai worked at the Payment Systems Development Group of the World Bank, advising central banks, other government agencies and multilateral organizations such as the G20 DWG on payment market regulation. Previously he was co-founder and Executive Vice President/COO of MFIC, a financial services platform in the US targeted at immigrants from Latin America, and co-founded a remittance company in London called Money Systems. Originally a lawyer, he worked at law firms in London and Hamburg.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Neivor — Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities.
- Minka — A cloud based platform that allows to move money in real time to build the financial solutions of today and future. Real time payments, alias directory, payment switch, ledger as a service and more.
- Contabilizei — Contabilizei offers an online accounting service for small and micro enterprises. The company positively impacted the lives of thousands of micro and small businesses by implementing cost-effective, intelligent online accounting. Fábio Bacarin and Vitor Torres founded it in January 2014, with its headquarters in Curitiba in Brazil.
Fernando Fabre iss the Managing Partner, Matterscale Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, EdTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
- Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
- The Pool - Entrepreneurship Club — The Pool is an entrepreneurial environment that provides its clients with coworking spaces. It serves as a business center as well as providing coworking spaces and offices for startups and companies in growth potential. The Pool was founded in 2013 by Luis X. Barrios and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
Angela Strange is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on investments in financial services including insurance, real estate & increasing inclusivity. She is currently a board observer for the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Branch, Earnin, HealthIQ, Mayvenn, PeerStreet, and Point. Angela joined the firmin 2014.Prior to joining a16z, Angela was a product manager at Google where she launched and grew Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS into two of Google's most successful mobile products. Previously, she was the director of product management and business development at Ruba.com (acquired by Google) and a senior associate partner at Bay Partners where she focused on the consumer internet sector. Prior to that, Angela was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting in Toronto.Angela is a proud Canadian and served as co-chair of the C100, a non-profit that bridges Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley, and on the Canadian Finance Minister Morneau's Economic Growth Council. Angela has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Queen's University, in Canada, and an MBA from Stanford. Angela is a world-class athlete and spent two years training professionally as a runner; she has won several marathons and achieved a seventh place national ranking in Canada.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Dileep Thazhmon is the Co-Founder and CEO at Jeeves.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, B2B, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- Colombia, India, Brazil
Stelleo Tolda is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MercadoLibre, Inc. since April 1, 2009. In addition, he served as Country Manager in Brazil between 1999 and 2010.In the latter role MercadoLibre has led to his current leadership position in e-commerce in the country.Before joining MercadoLibre, Tolda worked in the financial market, withcompanies such as Lehman Brothers, Inc. in the U.S. and Banco Pactual and Banco Icatu, Brazil.With an MBA in school business administration from Stanford University, in the United States, the executive is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and also holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution.Born in Brazil, Tolda speaks fluent English, Spanish and French as well as Portuguese.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Benjamin Gleason is the Founder and Angel Investor of Beta Ventures. He previously worked at Groupon Brasil as a Managing Director and CFO. Benjamin Gleason attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.
- Beacon Founders — Beacon is the exclusive private banking service designed for tech founders in LATAM. Our services include Equity Pool, Wealth Management, and Digital Family Office. Request an invitation today.
- Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling
Paulo Veras
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, B2B, B2C
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Nathan Lustig is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund based in US, Latin America and China that invests in fintech, insurtech and blockchain startups in Latin America and global startups with Latin American tech teams that target the US market. Originally from the US, he is a two-time entrepreneur withtwo exits and participated in the pilot round of Start-Up Chile, which brought him to Chile in 2010. Magma Partners has invested US$4M+ in 38 companies in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico Peru, and Argentina alongside partners from Chile, the US, and China.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Comrad — Energizing compression socks for women and men. Boost circulation with 15-25mmHg graduated compression. More energy and comfort. Prevent swelling, varicose veins, and pain. 30-Day Risk Free. Free Shipping and Exchanges. Wearable wellness that works.
- S-Save — Be smart, be sustainable
- FounderList — FounderList is an online platform to invest in high impact Latin American startups.
Isabel Penzini was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied Psychology and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and is certified in Portfolio Management from the Wharton School of Business. She worked in marketing and advertising technology at Visa for Latin America and most recently led the strategy for global dataproducts. She is the founder of OLA, whose mission is to enable Latin Americans to grow their wealth by investing, saving, and learning. In addition, she is a volunteer for INVEDIN Foundation, which provides children in Venezuela access to education.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Argentina, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- GetGloby — GetGloby is an AI-powered platform that allows you to automatically localize your ads in minutes and manage all your translations effortlessly.
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- GradienteSur — We are an AI infrastructure company focused on LatAm, with 3 main pillars: 1. Model serving infrastructure built on top of cloud providers2. AIaaS platform, oriented on tasks rather than models, with comprehensive usage dashboards, model testing playground and documentation. 3. Models and workflows customized to serve the needs of ourregion, both proprietary and open source. We are the same team that trained Tango-70b, the first 70b model from LatAm (https://tangoia.com/), and that started the open source AI R&D community SandboxAI (https://sandbox-labs.ai/)We also contribute to LatAm's AI community by providing opensource models, datasets and benchmarks, together with open documentation on how to build these.
Laura Fingal-Surma
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Investment focus
- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Circleback — AI-powered meeting notes and automations. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, and in-person conversations. Get started for free.
Mike Krieger is the CTO and co-founder of Instagram, a global community that shares more than 70 million photos every day. As the head of engineering, Mike focuses on building products that bring out the creativity in all of us. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Mike holds an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Prior to foundingInstagram, he worked at Meebo as a user experience designer and front-end engineer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
- Udio — Discover, create, and share music with the world. Use the latest technology to create AI music in seconds.
- Codegen — Transform the way you solve problems, improve efficiency, and advance your coding capabilities. Give GPT-4 complete codebase context with Codegen.
There are the well-traveled and then there are the travelers. Born in Brazil and raised in France, Marcelo has been jumping between the developing and developed worlds his entire life, which explains his innate understanding of the two. Name a country and it’s likely that Marcelo has been there. He has traveled and worked in over 50 countries likeMozambique, China, Peru, Latvia, and Korea.Marcelo has more than a decade of experience in channel and direct sales for both private and public sectors. He graduated from PUC-Rio in Production Engineering, and discovered his passion for business and technology at Microsoft. From there he transitioned to Oracle where he became head of Sales for Brazil, winning sales awards each year he was there as one of the best global performers in management and execution. He also happened to be Oracle’s youngest sales manager in the world.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Linker — Linker is a digital platform that refers to a variety of payment and financial services as digital banking.
- Cloud Humans — Cloud Humans is a platform that connects professionals to employers for outsourcing business.
- Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.
Patrick Wakeham has completed over 13 startup and growth related investments since 2011, in addition to being a founding member of a digital startup in New York. An active mentor for accelerator programs in Latin America such as 500 Startups, NXTP Labs, Founders Institute and NeXT, Patrick typically spends his time meeting entrepreneurs inArgentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
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Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, FinTech, Credit
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Mexico, Peru, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nubity — Nubity make companies more technologically efficient and productive. We provide cloud management services throughout Latin America.
- Escala.vc — Micro Venture Capital for Latin America. We support post incubator startups with fast founder friendly capital. Current investments: Nubity Shopeando SoloStocks MejoresMudanzas Vontravel Oja.la Acquired: TasteSpace
- Rocket.La — We provide value to our users through free financial advising. We are able to prepare personalized financial product suggestions for our customers, which are based on data we collect from the Credit Bureau and other alternative sources.
Francisco Larrain is the Co-Founder & CTO at Topsort.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, iOS, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Statsbot — Cube, the universal semantic layer, makes it easy to connect BI silos, embed analytics, and power your data data apps and AI with context.
- Capitalizarme — Capitalizarme.com is an E2E marketplace, just like Amazon or MeLi, but for real estate assets. They basically choose the best investment options and simplify the process to make a responsible investment. Discover opportunities and investment guidance, buy and manage online with just a few clicks using state-of-the-art tech.
- Cargo Produce — Cargo Produce is a platform for import and export management systems.
Daniel holds two degrees from Stanford (BA in Economics, BS in Computer Systems Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously he built Quantcast's Real Time Bidding system, which became the company's main revenue-generating product-line.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Mexico, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- REWORTH — En Reworth conectamos a instituciones financieras y comercios para ofrecer a los consumidores el programa de cashback personalizado mas efectivo.
- Nowports — Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real time.The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows to request a quote, register the products andproviders that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.
- Wemerang — Wemerang is a creator economy designed to help everyday heroes who like to lead their own grassroots actions to help the planet, people, and animals mobilize and monetize.Wemerang helps you: easily create, co-create, join, share & complete your own challenges and workshops, find and mobilize fellow everyday heroes to help, earn points,visibility, status and recognition, receive donations/subscriptions from friends, fans, and supporters, charge entry fees to your challenges/workshops, get sponsored by brands.
26 years old entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO of CASH. We are building a future where every Gen Z has control over their financial life at NG.CASH. | Forbes Under 30Previously:- Co-Founded Trampolin, a Banking-as-a-Service startup. Exit to a NASDAQ-listed firm;- Co-Founded Neagle, one of Brazil’s Top 100 YouTube Channels (+8MM subscribers);- Co-Founded FanStar, a Talent Agency company focused on Gen Z digital influencers.I’m also an early Crypto-adopter and active Angel Investor.Made in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Jungle — Jungle is a new web3 gaming studio. We develop and publish hybrid games that are mobile first and blockchain-enabled.
- Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.
- Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling
Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Chile, Colombia
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.
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- FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Brazil
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- Zazos — Allow companies to create their own people management tools and offer a unique experience to their employees.
- Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
- Cardeal.app — Cardeal, a proptech that aims to unleash the potential of distressed real estate assets, managing all the complexities and simplifying access to ownership, whether for investment or residential purposes.
Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
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- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Tanya Filer - Founder and CEO @ StateUp
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- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Andrea Ponce
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- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Alex Torrenegra
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- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Kim Machlup
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- Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Pablo Gutierrez
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- Incubators, Venture Capital, Business Development
- Pre-Seed
- Argentina
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- KOI Ventures — KOI is a holding group that aspires to foster a thriving network of visionary entrepreneurs with a focus on catalyzing business growth through acceleration and strategic impact investments.
Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Brazil, United States
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- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
- Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
Luis X Barrios is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of ArkAngeles.co. He also founded TheArkFund in 2016 and is one of the founders of The Pool in 2013.
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- Apps, Photography, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, United States
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- STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
- InstaFit — INSTAFIT is an online fitness startup based in Mexico City and co-founded by international entrepreneurs Oswaldo Trava and Natalia Amaya. We make it exciting to work out from home by offering on-demand audio & video fitness classes that combine the guidance of a professional trainer, intelligent programming and fun social interactions to createa truly engaging experience for our users.We make it possible to get professional fitness training from top coaches without leaving your home for less than half the price of the cheapest gym. We produce awesome long format workouts led by the world’s best trainers from yoga to functional training to treadmill workouts, with new content published every week and available offline for unparalleled flexibilityThe InstaFit app was launched in late 2016 and has paying users in 37 countries. It has a 4.4 star rating, is the #1 ranked health and fitness app in 15 countries, and was selected as best of 2016 by Apple. The company attacks the region´s most important health issue, obesity, through the use of world class technology, creative marketing and lean startup practices in an internet market with a 5 year CAGR of over 30%.
- The Pool - Entrepreneurship Club — The Pool is an entrepreneurial environment that provides its clients with coworking spaces. It serves as a business center as well as providing coworking spaces and offices for startups and companies in growth potential. The Pool was founded in 2013 by Luis X. Barrios and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
Katie Shea is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Divergent Capital and an Angel investor. Before that, she was the General Partner at K50 Ventures and Kairos.
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- Health Care, Consumer Goods, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Topicals — Let Topicals transform the way you feel about skin. A science backed skincare brand you don't have to hide. Bring us along by your side, in the street, in your pocket.
- Tough Day — Tough Day enables companies to provide employees with a safe place for candid conversation and expert guidance to resolve their workplace issues before they become messy, costly problems.When work gets tough, the tough get working.
Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.
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- FinTech, Fruit, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
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- Destaxa — Épico provides a financial services marketplace to brick and mortar retailers.
- Diferente — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
Lolita Taub is a General Partner and Founder of Ganas Ventures, a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an Enterprise Fund Investment Partner at Portfolia.Lolita is also a Co-Founder of the Startup-Investor Matching Tool, a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and an LP at Operators Collective. Forbes and Inc Magazine have featuredher as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders.She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.
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- Software, Beauty, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Brazil
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- Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
- Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
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