# Top 40 Wellness Angel Investors in LATAM in June 2026 ## Bhavik Bajaj - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech Bhavik Bajaj ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School. ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech 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. ## Kevin Hale - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended ## Jeff Danley - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Wellness, Human Resources Jeff Danley ## Nick Telson-Sillett - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster - Pitch Deck ## Jason Evans - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Wellness, Communities Jason Evans is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at OXIO. ## Nicolas Girard - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Wellness, Communities CEO / Founder @ OXIO - 3rd time entrepreneur - Innovator in Mobile Communication - Past life as network security experts for gov agencies. Top Secret Security Clearance ## Mercedes Bent - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps Mercedes Bent is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in the Bay Area. Previously she served as an executive at a VR startup and a General Manager at General Assembly (acquired, 2018) where she oversaw a multi-million dollar business line. She has an MBA and a Masters in Education from Stanford University andan AB from Harvard University. She serves as a board member for the non-profit Birthright AFRICA and in her free time she enjoys off-roading in her Jeep. She is an African American of Bermudian, Grenadian, and Colombian heritage and was named a 40 under 40 for Tech Diversity. ## Mario Solari - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Wellness, Sports Mario Solari is a Partner at Genesis Investment Management. ## Eric Rea - Type: Angel - Location: Provo, Utah, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Enterprise Software, SaaS, FinTech Eric Rea is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Podium. ## Lorena Ochoa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Apps, Audio, Podcast Lorena Ochoa ## Lolita Taub - Type: Angel - Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Beauty, B2B 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. ## Sergio Zimerman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Wellness Sergio Zimerman is the founder of Petz. ## Leonid Gluzman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Beauty, FinTech, Consumer Leonid Gluzman ## Alfonso De los Rios - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Apps, Audio Alfonso De los Rios is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nowports. ## Martin Torres Cava - Type: Angel - Location: Lima, Lima, Peru - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care Doctor specialized in Diagnostic Imaging with more than 25 years of experience, also specialized in Breast Radiology, Occupational Health and Health Management, as well as in technological developments ## Emanuel Pleitez - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, Beauty Emanuel is a founding partner of East Los Capital, a technology-enabled private equity firm. Prior to East Los Capital, he invested at Sunstone Partners focusing on cloud, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, internet, and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he was a Commissioner for Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions.Emanuel's early career experiences include stints at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. Emanuel’s public sector experiences include serving in the U.S. Army and as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.Current investments of East Los Capital team: 66Degrees (66degrees.com), BeTheBeast (bethebeast.com), Breadware (breadware.com), Bump by Ownors (usebump.com), Caylent (caylent.com), DiDi (didiglobal.com), dotstudioPRO (dotstudiopro.com), Everyset (everyset.com), Fernish (fernish.com), Finix (finix.com), FLYR (flyrlabs.com), Functional Finance (functionalfi.com), Glitzi (glitzi.com.mx), Lorals (mylorals.com) Lynx Biosciences (lynx.bio), MagicLinks (magiclinks.com), myLAB Box (mylabbox.com), Nadine West (nadinewest.com), Nevados Engineering (nevados.co), Orca Inventory (orcainventory.com), Ordermark (ordermark.com), RealKey (realkey.com), Repurpose (repurpose.com), Revry (revry.tv), Rosalind Bio (rosalind.bio), Sabio (sabio.la), Signalwire (signalwire.com), Synctera (synctera.com), Tampon Tribe (tampontribe.com), Tradewell (tradewell.app), TRM Labs (trmlabs.com), ZenHub (zenhub.com)Team exited investments: Basepaws (Zoetis acq), Capillary Biomedical (Tandem Diabetes Care acq), IKizmet (ClubReady acq), Passfolio (SproutFi acq), Pasturebird (Perdue Farms acq) ## Mike Shoemaker - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Wellness, Freelance Michael Shoemaker is the chief operating officer of Roofstock. He previously worked as the Director, Global Ridesharing Product Operations at Uber. ## Bruno Soares - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Fitness, Wellness Bruno Soares is a Brazilian Tennis player and owns fund MadFish. ## Oso Trava - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Audio, Credit Oso Trava ## Sergio Monsalve - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Apps Sergio Monsalve is the current Founding Partner of Roble Ventures. He previously worked at Udemy as a Board Member and Investor. Sergio Monsalve attended Stanford University. ## Luis Roberto Marinelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Training Luis is a highly analytical and goal-driven professional, focused on finding simple and innovative solutions to complex problems.With a strong background in Corporate Finance, Data Analytics and Business Strategy, Luis worked in the Financial Services Industry for more than 10 years in which he served in key positions such as CFO in GrupoGuatePrenda/Maxiefectivo (GPMX) and Head of Corporate Risk in BAM (Grupo Bancolombia), two of the most important lending institutions in the region. During his time in GPMX, Luis led a complex turnaround for a Corporation with more than 50 companies in 4 countries, resulting on an EBITDA growth of 250%+. Subsequently, he had a key role on the sale of the company to EZCORP (NASDAQ: EZPW).After some time pursuing new adventures, Luis co-founded Vana, a high-growth FinTech with the mission of providing access to financial services to the unbanked and underbanked population in LATAM. Luis holds a CPA and Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship from Universidad Francisco Marroquín and completed his Executive Master in Business Analytics from ESADE. He also holds a Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst certification (FMVA®) from the Corporate Finance Institute and multiple certifications on Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Visualization. ## James Park - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO. ## Jesse Damstra - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Developer Platform Jesse Damstra is a General Manager of Philips Mexico. ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Internet 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. ## Sergio Oberlander - Type: Angel - Location: Montevideo, NA - Uruguay, Uruguay - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Retail, Content Sergio Oberlander ## Avichal Garg - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Internet Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects. ## Sam Altman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University. ## Sergio Furio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS Sergio Furio is based out of São Paulo, São Paulo, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Sergio previously worked at Juntos Somos Mais as a Board Member. Sergio Furio attended the Esade. Sergio Furio has received the Kaszek Innovation and Leadership Program certificate. ## Jorge Mazal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Apps, Audio, Podcast Jorge Mazal, CPO at Duolingo. ## Neil Thanedar - Type: Angel - Location: Flint, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Apps Neil Thanedar is the Founder and GP of Utopic Ventures and the Founder and Chairman of Labdoor and Air to All.Previously, Neil was the Founder and President of Avomeen Analytical Services, a chemical analysis and product development laboratory.He has also served as Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, StateRepresentative, and US Congress in Michigan.Neil graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with degrees in Molecular Biology and Business Administration. ## Nina Khosla - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Wellness Nina Khosla ## Sung Ho Choi - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago. ## Tom Petit - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Tom Petit is the Co-Founder of Landis. ## Prasanna Srikhanta - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Security Prasanna Srikhanta ## Helena Polyblank - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Wellness Helena Polyblank is the Co-Founder & CPO Mendel from 2021. ## Alejandro Galvez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Banking, Payments Angel investor