# Top 40 Big Data Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Julio Vasconcellos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, B2B

Julio Vasconcellos is a Managing Partner at Atlantico. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps

Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Ariel Lambrecht

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps

Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.

## JP Duque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data

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

## Steffen Vollert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Analytics, E-Commerce

Steffen Vollert

## Martin Schrimpff
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS

Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

## Rodrigo Dantas
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services

Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.

## Diego Serebrisky
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Miguel, Hidalgo, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Mr. Serebrisky has been Managing Director at Alta Ventures Mexico. Prior to joining Alta Ventures, Diego collaborated with Advent International, a global private equity fund. He spent 12 years in their Mexico City office and then relocated to Bogota, Colombia, where he launched the office in 2011. While at Advent, Diego focused on the wholeinvestment process including new deals analysis, investment monitoring and divestments. He participated in more than 13 investments in different sectors including financial services, business services, pharmaceutical, retail and technology. Before Advent International, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Caracas, Venezuela, Johannesburg, South Africa and New York City providing strategy advice to large clients. Diego currently serves as a member of the Board of ColCapital, the Colombian Private Equity Association. He also served as a member of the Board of AMEXCAP, the Mexican Private Equity Association, where he was president during 2008 and 2009. Furthermore he collaborates as an Endeavor mentor and participates in the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystems in Colombia and Mexico. Mr. Serebrisky graduated with a degree in Computer Engineer, summa cum laude from Universidad Simon Bolivar at Caracas, Venezuela; he also holds an MBA from Sloan School of Management, MIT.

## Brian Requarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

## João Ventura
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, Advertising, B2B

João Ventura is the founder of Sling Capital.

## Martino Bagini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Analytics

Martino Bagini - Chief Corporate Development Officer @ Docebo

## Patrick Wakeham
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Enterprise Software, FinTech, Credit

Patrick Wakeham has completed over 13 startup and growth related investments since 2011, in addition to being a founding member of a digital startup in New York. An active mentor for accelerator programs in Latin America such as 500 Startups, NXTP Labs, Founders Institute and NeXT, Patrick typically spends his time meeting entrepreneurs inArgentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

## Gerry Giacoman Colyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.

## Paulo Silveira
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## Jaime Arrieta Boetsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Big Data

Jaime Arrieta Boetsch

## Alec Dickinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Big Data

Alec Dickinson - Founder & CEO @ AmberAds

## Mauricio Feldman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Sports

Co-founder & CEO at Volanty

## Marcelo Sampaio
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Software

There are the well-traveled and then there are the travelers. Born in Brazil and raised in France, Marcelo has been jumping between the developing and developed worlds his entire life, which explains his innate understanding of the two. Name a country and it’s likely that Marcelo has been there. He has traveled and worked in over 50 countries likeMozambique, China, Peru, Latvia, and Korea.Marcelo has more than a decade of experience in channel and direct sales for both private and public sectors. He graduated from PUC-Rio in Production Engineering, and discovered his passion for business and technology at Microsoft. From there he transitioned to Oracle where he became head of Sales for Brazil, winning sales awards each year he was there as one of the best global performers in management and execution. He also happened to be Oracle’s youngest sales manager in the world.

## Andréa Nogueira, CFA
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, Advertising, Apps

Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures

## Cem Garih
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, FinTech

Investor

## Mate Pencz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, B2B, Advertising

Mate is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GE32 Capital. In addition, he is a Founder and Co-CEO of Brazil's premier real estate marketplace Loft, which has raised more than $90M since its inception in July 2018. Previously, he co-founded Printi, a leading e-commerce platform for customized materials & services with operations in Braziland the United States. Printi has raised more than $70M in capital from financial and strategic investors including Cimpress (Nasdaq:CMPR). Mate is also a Co-Founder and Investment Partner at Canary, Brazil's foremost seed-stage technology investment firm. Before moving to Brazil, he worked at eminent financial firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs after receiving a degree in economics from Harvard University. In 2015, Mate and his co-founder Florian were listed on Forbes' prestigious 30 under 30 list.

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services

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.

## MARCELO BARATELLA
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: B2B, Big Data, Internet

MENTOR

## Eduardo Campos
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Fitness

Eduardo Campos currently works as the Co-Founder and CPO for Yuca. He previously worked at Parafuzo as the CEO.

## Anna Raptis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Credit, FinTech, Big Data

Anna Raptis is the Founder & Managing Partner at Amplifica Capital.

## Elisa Bustamante
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Logistics

Elisa Bustamante

## Gert Findel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Big Data

CEO at Acid Labs. He has extensive experience leading all aspects of technology operations and a wealth of experience in the management, development and scaling of enterprise and start-up software organisations and corporate IT groups.He has significant experience delivering custom solutions directly to clients with a strategic business focus,specially in the industries of retail and finances.

## Jorge Shwartzman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Big Data

Jorge Shwartzman

## Luiz Roberto Prates
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Analytics

Luiz Roberto Prates

## Markos Achar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Big Data

Markos Achar

## Abraham Achar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Big Data

Abraham Achar

## Kiko Lumack
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Identity Management

Kiko Lumack - Founder @ Valutia

## Ian Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Big Data

Ian Lee is the Examedi Co-Founder and CEO | Thiel Fellow at The Thiel Foundation. He attended University of Waterloo.

## Benjamin Langer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Big Data

Ex. VP at J.P. Morgan/Angel investor

## Wensceslao Casares
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

## Kevin Efrusy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

## Rafael Duton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile.
Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

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