# Top 50 Angel Investors in Argentina in May 2026

## Pablo Garfinkel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Concepcion Del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B

Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz.

## Alec Oxenford
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School.
He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School.

## Patricio Jutard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Retail Technology, Software, SaaS

Patricio Jutard is a Co-founder of MURAL, based in Buenos Aires. He is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with deep experience in software design, architecture, and development as well as team leadership and project management. Previously, he co-founded the video game studio Three Melons with Mariano Suarez-Battan and served as its CTO before it wasacquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney. Patricio also runs the angel fund Inspirit Angels, which has invested in over 20 startups based primarily in Latin America but targeting global markets. In 2015, he was honored with the Innovators under 35 Award by MIT Technology Review.

## Arash Ferdowsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

## Guillermo Rauch
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.

## Ariel Arrieta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain

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.

## Lee Fixel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Lee Fixel is the Investor of Addition. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.

## Marco Giberti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, EdTech

Marco Giberti is the Co-Founder and Board Member at The LAB Miami. He attended Harvard Business School in 2004.

## Santiago Schettini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Mobile

Santiago Schettini - Co-Founder @ Future Leaders World

## Marcos Galperin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B

Marcos Galperin is a co-founder of Mercadolibre, Inc. and has served as its chairman, president and chief executive officer since October 1999. Marcos is a board member of Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit organization that is leading the global movement to catalyze long term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the besthigh impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marcos received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Marcos is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his comprehensive knowledge and experience in the technology industry and experience serving as a director of other companies.

## Matias Woloski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software

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

## Martin Varsavski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Credit Cards, Financial Services

Martin Varsavski

## Santiago Caniggia Bengolea
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Fashion, Women's

Co-Founder at Nazca Ventures
Managing Partner Mountain Partners
Angel investor
Master in Innovation at Columbia Business School

## Matias Nisenson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet

Matias Nisenson - Co-Founder & CEO @ Experimental

## Max Levchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile

Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information.Levchin co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also foundedNetMeridian Software, a developer of early Internet applications Levchin also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.

## Angela Strange
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## Biz Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Messaging, Mobile

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

## Jan Deepen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Internet

Before Zeitgold, Jan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief commercial officer. Before SumUp, he was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group. Jan received his doctorate from the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Stefan Jeschonnek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Internet

Before Zeitgold, Stefan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief product officer. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of St. Gallen.

## Kevin Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Real Estate, Health Care, E-Commerce

Kevin Ryan is the Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp,

## Sergio Asis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Digital Marketing

Sergio Asis

## Pierpaolo Barbieri
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Juan Pablo Ingrassia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet

I am passionate about technology, startups, and dogs - Growth at Santex and Incutex - I have pets in my family

## Alexia Keglevich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Alexia Keglevich

## Jun Ueki
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Jun Ueki is the CEO at Keiretsu Forum Japan.

## Pablo Pla
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Pablo Pla is the Chief Executive Officer of San Miguel. He Previously worked at Ingredion Incorporated as a President and General Manager. Pablo Pla attended Columbia Business School.

## Eduardo della Maggiora
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Denver Area, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Software

Eduardo della Maggiora is the Founder & CEO of Betterfly.

## Luciano Nicora
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software

Luciano Nicora - Founder @ Asarcob

## Matias Recchia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Matias Recchia - Co-Founder & CEO @ IguanaFix

## Pablo Arrebola
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Agriculture, Mobile Apps

Pablo Garcia Arrebola is Director of Business Development at NordelEnergy S.A..He is Investor & Board of Director at Booster.

## James Park
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, 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.

## Klaas Kersting
- Type: Angel
- Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce

Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.

## Prabhkiran Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: DIY, Logistics, Manufacturing

Prabhkiran Singh - CEO, Co-Founder @ Bewakoof

## Luis Ureta Saenz Peña
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Luis Ureta Saenz Peña is the Regional Business Strategy VP GLOBANT EMEA at Globant.

## Dan Rumennik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Delivery

Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

## Francisco Coronel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Call Center, Virtual Assistant

Francisco Coronel

## Tomas Pando
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software

Tomas Pando - Co-Founder @ Master Me Up

## Alejandro Ayestarán
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Alejandro Ayestarán

## Marcos Ayestarán
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Marcos Ayestarán - CEO @ Agilis

## Christina Cacioppo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SEO, Lead Management

Christina Cacioppo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vanta. She previously worked at Dropbox as a Product Management. Christina Cacioppo attended Stanford University.

## Randy Reddig
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Excellent wedding dancer

## Steve Zurcher
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Steve Zurcher

## Rodrigo Teijeiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Rodrigo Teijeiro is a tech entrepreneur, CEO & Founder of RecargaPay. He received the MIT's TR35 2012 Awardee and is YGL 2014 honoree from the World Economic Forum.Rodrigo has founded and lead many online businesses, all of them under the Company Builder named Fnbox. Social Network Sonico.com with over 53 million registered users (Soldto match.com/IAC), Tarjetastelefonicas.com with over 1 billion voip minutes sold, Cuponica a daily deal business that runs in Brazil, Argentina, México and Colombia as well as Winkal with over 5MM unique visitors per month. Fnbox has raised 6 million in US venture capital and added renowned angel investors such as Martin Varsavsky, Fabrice Grinda and Romero Rodriguez.In 1997 he won, among 700 teams, "The Business Junior Achievement Contest" whose final round took place in Japan. Rodrigo was part of the Group of 2.0 Leaders at the 2009 and 2010 edition of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was both a panelist and speaker. He also presented to the MBA in the MIT Sloan Latin Conference, an event that gathers more than 500 influential leaders. Rodrigo participates in several NGOs, is the President of EO Argentina and has lectured on entrepreneurship, internet and innovation in Stanford, MIT, MBA Udesa and MBA Cema.He graduated as Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Southern California (United States) and also studied Economics at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina).Rodrigo loves "impossible" challenges and enjoys flying his kiteboard since 2000.

## Juan Manuel Collado
- Type: Angel
- Location: Salta, Salta, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software

Juan Manuel Collado - Co-Founder & Director @ Tapebicua group

## Aleksan Buyuk Kurt
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Employment

Mentor & Advisor, Startup Investor, Professor (Confirmed!), Trying to add value to entrepreneurs in Argentina.

## Miguel Ángel Peña
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Miguel Ángel Peña

## Santiago Lorenzo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Santiago Lorenzo

## Tom Blomfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

## Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Banking

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

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