# Top 25 Angel Investors in Uruguay in May 2026 ## Mariano Garcia-Valino - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Mariano Garcia-Valino ## Paulo Piccini - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke ## Sergio Oberlander - Type: Angel - Location: Montevideo, NA - Uruguay, Uruguay - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Retail, Content Sergio Oberlander ## Santiago Pinto Escalier - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Geospatial Santiago Pinto Escalier is the Coach - Strategic Advisor at Finanflix. ## Gerhard Eschelbeck - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Cyber Security, Software, Cloud Security Gerhard Eschelbeck ## Guido Grinbaum - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet Guido Grinbaum - Co Founder @ Zonacitas.com ## Diego Ponzio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Personal Finance Egresó como Contador Público en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadística de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (FCEyE – U.NR) en el año 2004. Completó su formación estudiando la Maestría en Finanzas en la misma universidad. También realizó el curso de Asesor Idóneo en Mercado de Capitales en la Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario. Se desarrollacomo asesor financiero y corporativo. Docente de grado y posgrado (U.N.R., U.A.I., U.T.N.). Conferencista y expositor en Universidades, Organizaciones, Cámaras, y en el Consejo Profesional de Ciencias Económicas de Santa Fé. Entre sus actividades profesionales más recientes se destacan las siguientes:Director de Diego Ponzio & Asociados. Consultor y Asesor de Empresas sobre Finanzas y Gestión Corporativa. Gerente de Administración y Finanzas en Grumaq SRL y Simach SRL. Director Asociado en Tu Cuota Online SA, Uruguay Síndico Societario en Atenas Ventilación SA Valuador de distintas empresas de la región Expositor y conferencista de temas de su especialidad. Docente de Finanzas en Universidades Públicas y Privadas. Tutor de Tesis en la Universidad Abierta Interamericana y la Universidad Austral. Experto PyME, a través del Ministerio de Producción de la República Argentina. ## Federico Colella - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, Retail, E-Commerce Owner & CEO, OCASA ## Sergio Fogel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery. ## Andres Bilbao - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Andres Bilbao ## Matt Fichtner - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University. ## Marcos Vercelli-Forster - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Marketplace, B2B, Retail Marcos Vercelli-Forster ## Brad Flora - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern. ## Kobi Samboursky - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology Kobi Samboursky is a Founder, Managing partner at Glilot Capital Partners.Kobi Samboursky, co-founder of Glilot Capital Partner established the VC on grounds of his vast and varied professional experience. He has held several high level positions in various companies and is a serial entrepreneur with experience founding, managing, andsuccessfully exiting his companies. Some of the companies in which he has ‘earned his stripes’ include: iWeb Technologies Ltd. (acquired by Softbank), Infogear Technology (Israel) Ltd. (acquired by Cisco), Lamda Communication Networks (Acquired by NICE Systems), and Menta Networks Ltd. ## Adam Hirsch - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consulting, Marine Technology As a global leader in Information Security, I establish the vision, strategy, and solutions to protect information assets at high growth, global organizations. I have diverse business experience managing teams in Technology, Retail, Financial Services, and Professional Services industries.Ability to implement strategies necessary to respond tochanging business conditions and accommodate rapid growth. Energetic, flexible, and hands-on leader with a diverse background with 20+ years of experience in fast-paced environmentsI actively promote information security collaboration at the industry level by serving on the Board of Directors of the Retail & Hospitality ISAC. I also serve as an investment advisor to Glillot Capital while serving on their Board of Excellence. ## Diego Dzodan - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, Retail, E-Commerce Diego became CEO of Facily in October 2018, having been an early investor and Board Member since the company's startup. In his role, he is focused on delivering on Facily's mission of making the world more convenient while creating opportunities for everyone. Previously, as Vice-President for Facebook Latin America for more than threeyears, Diego led the team to a position of regional and global relevance. His other roles include President for Latin America and several country leadership positions at German software maker SAP. He was also co-founder and CEO of Certant, a Software Developer startup in Argentina. Diego holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated in Accounting at Universidad de Belgrano. He is a part-time teacher in Organisational Behaviour at Universidsd Torcuato DiTella. ## Ariel Arrieta - Type: Angel - Location: Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Maarten Van Horenbeeck - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Security, Cloud Security, Cyber Security Maarten Van Horenbeeck is the SVP, Chief Security Officer of Adobe. He previously worked at Zendesk as an SVP and Chief Trust Officer. Maarten Van attended Columbia Business School. ## Arik Kleinstein - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Cyber Security, Security, Software Arik is a co-founder and managing partner at Glilot Capital Partners. He has vast experience in the investment, financial and operational aspects of start-ups, including raising venture capital and turning companies public.Some of Arik’s past experience includes work at Jerusalem Global, a technology investment bank and venture capital firm, aswell as financial leadership positions with Bank Hamizrachi, ECTel, VideoCodes Inc. (acquired by Thomson), and Intercure. Arik served in an R&D unit of the IDF Intelligence Corps and has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. ## Giovanni Gardelli - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media. ## Atlas Benjelloun - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughest challenges. ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech 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. ## Zohar Alon - Type: Angel - Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Consulting, Marine Technology Zohar Alon is the Chairman at Firefly Infrastructure-as-Code pioneers, Tamnoon Cloud Security and BlindSpot Security. Founded and led Dome9 Security to a successful exit to Check Point in 2018. He attended Tel Aviv University. ## Mariano De Larrobla - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, Retail, E-Commerce Founder & President, Bantotal ## Mario Sanchez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: iOS, SaaS, Android Senior Level Manager More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them. With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co