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Top 50 Angel Investors in LATAM in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Venture Capital LATAM investments
Sergio Fogel	3
Sebastian Mejia	3
David Vélez	3
Matias Woloski	3
Daniel Undurraga	3
Sergio Furio	3
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	2
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	2
Gerry Giacoman Colyer	2
Sergio Fogel	2
Carlos Garcia	2
Paulo Silveira	2
Loreanne Garcia	2
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	1
Rafael Duton	1
Fernando Fabre	1
Nathan Lustig	1
Mario Augusto Sá	1
Ricardo Weder	1
ANA CASTRILLON	1
Erica Fridman Stul	1
Oriana Fuentes	1
Paulo Veras	1
Ariel Arrieta	1
Marcelo Sampaio	1
Patrick Wakeham	1
Alex Torrenegra	1
Melissa Toledo	1
Chelsea Burns	1
Kallie Parchman	1
Angela Strange	1
Isabel Penzini	1
Laura Fingal-Surma	1
Tanya Filer	1
Andrea Ponce	1
Kim Machlup	1
Guilherme Bonifacio	1
Immad Akhund	1
Ana Paula González	1
Tania Zapata	1
Kai Schmitz	1
Pablo Gutierrez	1
Mike Krieger	1
Lolita Taub	1
Diego Gomes	1
Jose Bonilla	1
Daniel Vogel	1
Rodrigo Dantas	1
Simon Borrero	1
Katie Shea	1

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Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Argentina, United States, Spain

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.
Keycard — Build and deploy secure AI agents with Keycard. Our unified identity infrastructure delivers real-time access control, compliance, and trust for the agent-native world.
Luzid — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
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.

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.

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

Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005.

Investment focus

B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Spain, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Inventa — Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers and offers them flexible payment terms
Inventa — Inventa is a wholesale marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers across Latin America.

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kiro — Kiro is a non-alcoholic beverage brand for adults.
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.

Loreanne Garcia is a Co-Founder & Chief People Officer at Kavak. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Paisa — Paisa builds financial security for families who receive remittances.
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Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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.

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.

Fernando Fabre iss the Managing Partner, Matterscale Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Torre.ai — 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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Chile, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

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.

Global marketing leader, trusted advisor, and innovator equipped with a highly creative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and over a decade of success, directing the development and end-to-end execution of dynamic integrated marketing and communications strategies. Extensive experience gained through hands-on roles within multibillion-dollartechnology organizations and mission-based startups. Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish and ability to work seamlessly and effectively with international teams in LATAM, EMEA, and US markets. Track record of partnering with key stakeholders and decision-makers to create comprehensive marketing plans that increase awareness, generate demand, increase engagement, accelerate pipelines, and grow sales. Proven experience building and leading world-class cross-functional teams and building rapport with company executives and customers to drive forward the overall business and marketing strategy.

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Erica Fridman Stul

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Oriana Fuentes is the Co-Founder and COO at Emptor. She is a former Specialty Finance (FIG) Banking at JP Morgan. She attended Syracuse University and Columbia University in the City of New York.

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Latitud provides community, infrastructure, and capital to tech companies. It was founded in 2020 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Paulo Veras

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

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.

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 Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
GradienteSur — We handle the AI complexity so LatinAmerican companies can focus on building great products. Start free, scale together. Transform with AI.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Torrenegra

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Melissa Toledo

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Chelsea Burns

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Kallie Parchman

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.
Valon Technologies — We're here to support you throughout your homeownership journey. Manage your mortgage with ease and explore flexible lending solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Laura Fingal-Surma

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Tanya Filer - Founder and CEO @ StateUp

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Andrea Ponce

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Kim Machlup

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Natural — Payments for AI agents.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
Orbital Operations — Orbital Operations is developing high thrust space vehicles for satellite defense.

Ana Paula González

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.

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

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.

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.

Pablo Gutierrez

Investment focus

Incubators, Venture Capital, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Entrepreneur, angel investor and SaaS expert.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deskfy — Deskfy is a brand portal that enables centralize your brand management and get a complete picture of your marketing processes, your entire team and your agency in one place. Is a brand automation platform that enables marketers to work together in the management, distribution, customization and validation of communication materials.
Acquire.com — Buy or sell a profitable online business in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, & more.
Conta Simples — Conta Simples is the all-in-one finance plataform. The union of checking account, expense management software and corporate cards in one place. We bring peace to finance teams and entrepreneurs. Control, visibility, autonomy and decentralization of payments for SMBs in Latam.

Jose Bonilla

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kiro — Kiro is a non-alcoholic beverage brand for adults.
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.

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Consumer Goods, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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