Top 5 Venture Capital Startup Investors in Chile

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in Chile. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Chile. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Venture Capital Startup Investors in Chile

Investor	Venture Capital Chile investments
Aurus	3
Francisco Larrain	1
Nathan Lustig	1
Nazca Ventures	1
Magma Partners	1

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Aurus is a Chilean investment firm that manages funds in the venture capital, real estate, and capital markets.We are pioneers in Latin America’s Venture Capital industry, dedicated to developing the ecosystem and investing in the region’s most impressive talent, and scalable technologies. We believe that Chile is the best platform in which toinvest in our region because of its investment friendly policies, commitment to innovation, and industry leadership.As local investors, we realize where the biggest transformations are occurring. We add value to our portfolio companies through experience, insights, best practices, and network. Our investment decisions are aided by the advice of outstanding advisory committees for each of the funds. All of them are also LPs in the fund and a valuable resource to Aurus and our investees, both in evaluating a prospective investment and later adding value to them through our mentoring program.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Chile, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sunamp — Thermal energy storage solutions that make homes, buildings & vehicles more energy-efficient & sustainable while reducing carbon emissions.
TIMining — TIMining offers state-of-the-art software for the mining industry, from load and haul simulation to holographic technology.
Ceibo — Combinamos I+D, excelencia operacional y desarrollo para crear productos que cuidan el planeta.

Francisco Larrain is the Co-Founder & CTO at Topsort.

Investment focus

Information Technology, iOS, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Statsbot — Cube, the universal semantic layer that makes it easy to connect BI silos, embed analytics, and power your 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.

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

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FounderList — FounderList is an online platform to invest in high impact Latin American startups.

Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
Wonder brands — Wonder Brands is a Latin American startup specialized in partnering with successful digital brands to boost their growth. The implementation of its strategy is achieved by injecting into associated companies a significant investment to exponentially increase working capital, marketing and equipment, as well as providing added value in the areas oftechnology, digital marketing, supply chain and administration.

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