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Top 35 Web3 Startup Investors in Colombia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Web3 startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Web3 Startup Investors in Colombia in November 2024

Investor	Web3 Colombia investments
Mercy Corps Ventures	3
Castle Island Ventures	2
Circle Ventures	2
IDEO CoLab Ventures	2
GoBeyond	1
Ruttenberg Gordon Investments	1
Awesome People Ventures	1
Burak Buyukdemir	1
Toy Ventures	1
Tiger Global Management	1
Soma Capital	1
First Check Ventures	1
Volt Capital	1
POMP	1
Sep Kamvar	1
Blockchange Ventures	1
INVX	1
Colle Capital Partners	1
166 2nd Financial Services	1
Sebastian Delgado	1
Don Stockwell	1
Orange DAO	1
Kaszek	1
Circle	1
Multicoin Capital	1
FinTech Collective	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Blake Irving	1
Flori Ventures	1
Magma Partners	1
JAM Fund	1
Kai Schmitz	1
Hard Yaka	1
Coinbase Ventures	1
BG, LLC	1

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Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

Castle Island Ventures is a Cambridge, MA based early stage venture firm investing in startups building in the public blockchain industry.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Hata — Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io
Delta — global state, local customizability
Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card

Circle Ventures invests in projects that accelerate global crypto innovation and adoption in service. They foster crypto innovation by assisting founders and teams that are committed to open access, financial inclusivity, and programmable commerce, all of which may contribute to global economic success.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Playtron — The Operating System for Gaming
Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.

Where venture capital meets design. We invest in big ideas and good humans. We partner with visionary founders at the earliest stages to help them create products and protocols that people love.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
Karma3 Labs — Building trust and reputation for the open web
Cork Protocol — Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset.

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Medical, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

Ruttenberg Gordon Investments (RGI) is a private company specializing in equity investments in real estate, venture capital and private equity as well as loans secured by hard assets such as real estate. RGI's two founding partners, David L. Ruttenberg and Jonathan D. Gordon, have deep experience ac

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

VividQ — Our holographic technology is uniquely positioned to enable truly immersive AR gaming experiences through four key features.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.
Dandi Fertility — A new kind of fertility care is here. The Dandi IVF Care Kit was designed with doctors and patients to bring comfort and peace of mind to every step of the injection process. Add on-demand, personalized support from a Fertility Nurse with Dandi Care. We're here for you, every step of the way.

Focused on the way we live and work. Founded by Julia Lipton.

Investment focus

Health Care, Robotics, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
Treeswift — Treeswift utilizes robotic and machine learning technology to build forestry tools.
El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.

Burak Buyukdemir is the founder at Etohum.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Bitcoin
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, India, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.
CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.

Toy Ventures is an operator led early stage venture fund.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Latvia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool is the leading hedge fund launch, administration, and investor experience platform for emerging managers. Learn more.
Drip — Drip is your home for entertaining live shoppable events for collectors and craft lovers
Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
Foundersuite — Foundersuite Makes Awesome Tools For Awesome Startups
Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.

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

Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
Manifest — Manifest is an anchor for a generation seeking direction.
Third Dimension AI — Third Dimension's focus on immersive quality suggests they prioritize creating engaging and realistic experiences, which can be particularly beneficial for fields like gaming, virtual reality, architecture, and simulation training.

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.

Volt Capital is a digital financial platform. They provide services for market cycles, ecosystems, and networks. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
Spire — Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.

POMP is the european on-demand fuel delivery service for companies and individuals. They created POMP because they wanted to offer drivers and companies a new way to refuel. A modern and convenient way that frees up time in busy days for their users and eliminates a chore that is a pleasure for no one…. And most of the time a constraint. Days arefilled with priorities, wasted time and stress. POMP eliminates all obligations linked to refueling.Whether it is a detour once in awhile or a daily obligation for companies, the traffic and fuel consumption that produces the need to refuel are real. They launched the service in the Paris area where they know the reality of traffic and pollution. Each vehicle or fleet they refuel is a vehicle that will do less distance. Adding all these eliminated trips to the fuel station equals to a real decrease of CO2 emissions.POMP objective is to contribute, at their level, to a better life experience, but also accessible to everyone. Their distribution channels and logistical chain allow them to offer affordable prices to their users.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Health Care
Seed
Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Simpol — We make Simpol to everyone in LATAM buy, hold and sell stable coins and access to DeFi benefits to get better yielding than traditional financial system.
Shalder — Shalder is a flexible work community, allowing businesses across LATAM access the workforce they need, on-demand, to achieve their business goals. No bidding, prize competition, powered by IA.
Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.

Blockchange Ventures is a venture capital firm investing exclusively in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications that are trying to make a dent in the universe. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, NY, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
UpLink — UpLink is a Telecommunications company that empowers the spread of The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper.UpLink believes that connectivity is a human right, an enabler of growth, and an equalizer of opportunities. They envision a world where the Internet is more accessible, inclusive, and affordable. Founded by Carlos Lei Santosand Andre Francisco in 2016 and is located in New York, NY.
Smashing — The smartest way to read articles

Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sales, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Colombia, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.

Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Seam AI — Chat with all of your sales and marketing data. Answer questions, get summaries, and sync information across GTM tools.
Sensydia — The Sensydia Cardiac Performance System (CPS) enables the rapid assessment of critical care and heart failure patients by non-invasively measuring key hemodynamic metrics.
Vergent Bioscience — Targeting cancer through enhanced tumor visualization

166 2nd Financial Services is Adam and Rebekah Neumann’s family office, focused on investing in and launching innovative businesses -- with a current portfolio consisting of multi-family real estate and various venture investments including fintech, proptech, crypto and health-tech companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Personal Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

AiVF — AIVF offers AI-powered IVF solutions to enhance the IVF journey. Harness the power of data and AI for better embryo grading and patient outcomes.
R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Flowcarbon — Flow Carbon uses blockchain technology to put carbon offset credits on-chain, accelerating the creativity and scalability of climate change solutions. Flow Carbon is headquartered in New York, United States and was founded in 2021.

Sebastian Delgado Cofounder at Fei Protocol

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Don Stockwell serves as Global Marketing Specialist at Costa Vida Presenta.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
United States, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kiki World — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
Lumino — Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup whose mission is to enable the power of AI for every human.
Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Winnin — Cultural Relevance powered by AI. Winnin AI transforms cross-platform video behavioral data into game-changing predictive insights

Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Rhinestone — Infrastructure for modular account abstraction
Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.
Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
Permissionless Labs — Permissionless Labs is redefining digital content distribution by pioneering the free and safe movement of content around the world.

We back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Diesta — Next Generation Reconciliation Engine for Insurance
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: • Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.• Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. • Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
Dondo — Elevate your e-commerce with Dondo's AI-driven tool. Automate listing creation, scoring, and deployment across channels.

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your documents into bite-sized learning modules to enjoy on the phone.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.
Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.

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

Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.

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.

It's your identity, your data, and your money

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CFX Labs — Technology, relationships, and compliance leadership in service of consumer safety & protection.
Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a pioneering platform that enables secure execution of open-source models, employs agentic reasoning, and facilitates application deployment without permission.
Trendies — Trendies is a provider of the Base Ecosystem Token Launch Platform, which is primarily designed for token holders.

Private equity investment firm.

Investment focus

Sports, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
Colombia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
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