Top 10 Beauty Startup Investors in Mexico in September 2023

Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that focuses on investing in business software. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds. The team is made up of founders who understand the journey of building companies having founded and taken a company public.Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton formed the fund in Los Angeles, California in2016.Act One Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.Focus areas include e-commerce infrastructure software, Vertical SaaS and Fintech

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Kriptos — Kriptos uses AI to ensure accurate classification for your company. Kriptos helps businesses locate their most critical information and prevent data leakage through software that analyzes, classifies, and labels documents automatically.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is the fastest growing on-demand delivery management software for restaurants and beyond. We help businesses to launch a delivery program in-house or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure.
Heard Technologies — Heard combines smart software with real humans to handle accounting, payroll and taxes. We act as a trusted financial advisor for your private practice.

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Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!

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Prasanna Srikhanta

Investment focus

Security, Software, Analytics
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Hakimo — Hakimo automatically resolves false alarms so that your existing GSOC operators can handle more alarms as your company grows.

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Nina Khosla

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer, Wellness
Funding Round
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Beauty, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
Latitud — Latitud provides community, infrastructure, and capital to tech companies. It was founded in 2020 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

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Federico Casas Alatriste - Partner @ 0BS

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Mobile
Angel
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

STYLERZ — There are different marketplaces for beauty salons online but still 99% of bookings are done by phone because nobody has realized that the real problem is not finding a salon but finding the right stylist. What’s unique about our platform is that you can find and book with each stylist, because they are the star attraction of the salon, and you canactually see the salon profile, ranking, examples of their work with pictures of their customers, and you can look for the best stylist in every salon near you. The salon owner can add their team and show their talent to attract new clients.

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Spice Capital is funding businesses solving problems for the next generation of internet-native consumers.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Publishing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
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.
Symphony — Symphony is the easiest way to grow your views, streams, and subscribers. Smart automated marketing, all on-the-go.

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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)

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Restaurants
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

ZenHub — ZenHub helps your teams get more done faster with time-saving agile automations, fewer meetings, and more visibility in GitHub.
Sabio.la — Sabio coding bootcamp will prepare you to be an industry-ready software engineer so that you can transition to a successful career in tech.
Nextbite — No more tablets! All online orders, one printer. Generate More Orders & Revenue For Your Restaurant! $0 To Startup / Free Setup / $0 Hardware/month / Risk-Free / 24/7 Support / No Commitments.

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