# Top 50 Biotechnology VC (Venture Capital) Funds in LATAM in October 2023 ## SP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Software Portfolio (Fundo de Inovação Paulista)Launched in 2014, Fundo de Inovação Paulista (FIP) is a R$ 105 Million Venture Capital Fund that counts with top tier Limited Partners: Desenvolve SP, FINEP, FAPESP, Sebrae-SP, CAF, and Jive Investments. FIP is focused on technology-based startups located in the state of São Paulo, the most importanteconomic pole in Brazil. Investment tickets vary from R$ 2 Million to R$ 6 Million per company, on average, but can reach R$ 15 Million including follow-ons.Track-Record (Fundo Criatec I)SP Ventures was established in 2007 as the Venture Capital firm responsible for Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Criatec I was a cornerstone in Brazilian Venture Capital Industry led by BNDES and BNB. From 2007 to 2013, over 1,200 companies were analyzed and 8 investments were made by SP Ventures.EntrepreneursWe back technology-based companies in the segments of Agricultural Technologies; Information and Communication Technologies; Health Technologies; New Materials; and Nanotechnologies.We seek investment opportunities with the following profile:- Passionate entrepreneurs with solid technical background and market-orientated attitude- Proprietary technology with high scalability potential- Large proportions targeted-market- São Paulo based- Annual Revenue inferior to R$ 18 Million" ## Venturance Alternative Assets - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vitacura, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, AgTech As a fund manager and consultancy firm, Endurance focus exclusively on alternative assets. With ten years of experience, we deliver value through a hands-on approach and a close relationship with our investors. We are a team of 20 people from different backgrounds with a strong commitment to excellence. Since 2010, our team has provided strategicadvice to more than 50 companies and as of today, Endurance manages up to +$USD 250 millions AUM througth a diversified classes of real asset, including Real State, Private Equity, Private Debt and Venture Capital ## CORFO - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS CORFO is an executing agency of government policy in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, through tools and instruments compatible with the central tendencies of a social market economy, creating the conditions to achieve building a society of opportunities. ## Angel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market. ## Sofinnova Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise. ## The Yield Lab LATAM - Type: VC Fund - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming We are the AgriFoodTech Venture Capital firm with the largest presence and experience across Latin America.Founded in 2017 and with offices in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, our team is investing in companies based in Latin America in the whole food and agriculture innovation spectrum, from farm to fork.The Yield Lab Latam is part of The YieldLab, a global network of Venture Capital funds, which initiated activities in 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri. Now has regional operations across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. ## ALLVP - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech Founded in 2012 by Federico Antoni, ALLVP is the first institutional fund seed and early venture capital of its kind in Mexico, formed to invest in entrepreneurs with strong components and scalable models of innovation. Across three funds, the firm has invested in more than 30 highly innovative and successful startups throughout Latin America :Cornershop scaled its unique on-demand marketplace from Chile to Canada; Flink provides access to free trading to nearly 2 million small investors; Nuvocargo enables thousands of cross-border shipments in the world's most active trade corridor; Robinfood is building the largest network of ghost restaurants in the region and Yana is the world's fastest-growing mental health app with over 6 million downloads.ALLVP is targeting companies led by founders who share our vision to democratize access to services and fix large inefficient industries such as Healthcare, Financial technology, Consumer Internet and Smart cities & Mobility.The firm is a member of the Latin-American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA), the Mexican Private Equity Association (AMEXCAP) and Endeavor Investor Network. ## The Yield Lab - Type: VC Fund - Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M. ## HALLEY Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lafayette, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Cannabis, Health Care HALLEY is focused on building elite companies in the legal cannabis, hemp and traditional agriculture spaces and is investing early in these truly life-changing trends. ## Grupo Bimbo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, AgTech, Grocery Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV is an international baking-products manufacturer. ## Crescera Investimentos (f/k/a Bozano Investimentos) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education Crescera Investimentos is an alternative asset management firm created by the merger of the Bozano Group with three leading and complementary investment firms, BR Investimentos, Mercatto Gestão de Recursos and Trapezus Asset Management, resulting in a unique platform for investors, clients and partners. Structured as a partnership, CresceraInvestimentos is able to attract, retain and develop the best talents in each specialty.Our investment philosophy builds on trust and knowledge. We offer to our clients, investors and investees companies consistent and distinguished returns through diversified financial products and strategies. Founded with approximately R$ 4 billion in AUM, Bozano Investimentos aims to become the most successful alternative investment management firm in Latin America.BR Investimentos` private equity business combines industry knowledge and specialized teams in well-defined circles of competence to successfully invest in privately held Brazilian growth companies. Mercatto Gestão de Recursos has been delivering solid returns through its managed public equities and fixed income portfolios based on strictly fundamental analysis. Lastly, Trapezus Asset Management offers innovative and high alpha quantitative strategies, based on academic research and development.Crescera Investimentos also benefits from the vision of Mr. Julio Bozano - founder of the Bozano Group. Through Banco Bozano, Simonsen, the Bozano Group was recognized as one of the most important investment banking organizations in Brazil for more than 40 years with a very successful track record in long-term proprietary investments. The Group`s expertise in aligning clients` interests with outstanding performance drives the basis of Bozano Investimentos` activities.Our goal is to offer solutions that create long-standing value for our investors, the society at large and the companies we invest in and to perpetuate Bozano Group`s legacy. Crescera Investimentos has a team of over 70 executives, employees, consultants, and senior advisors, including more than 40 partners in offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. ## Bossanova Investimentos - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList. ## GridX - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milpitas, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Farming, Animal Feed We make it easy for utilities and their customers to know the exact value of clean energy choices. We are the catalyst for our clean energy future. ## KPTL - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, AgTech KPTL is the result of the merger between A5 Capital Partners and Inseed Investimentos, two of the most experienced VC firms in Brazil. ## Criatec 2 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing The Criatec 2 fund is the second fund from a series of funds sponsored by BNDES, which started in 2006 with the Criatec 1 fund. The Criatec 2 has Bozano Investments as the Nationa Manager and Triaxis Capital as Operational Advisor. The fund management structure also includes six regional managers.Criatec 2 is the largest venture capital fundcurrently in operation in Brazil, in both size and national coverage. ## Alaya Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology About Us We invest in the next generation of Latin American digital entrepreneurs who will impact the world. Invest in FUTURE + TALENT + TECH + LATAM with Positive Impact Funds Invested Startups Exits Investors Portfolio Meet the founders that are building a new ## Cavallo Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology Cavallo Ventures, VC arm of Wilbur Ellis, introducing technologies across all four divisions and markets of Wilbur-Ellis globally ## Carao Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San José, San Jose, Costa Rica - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Enterprise Software, Software They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures. ## Fen Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Fen Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Latin America that finances seed and early stage investments. ## Amplifica Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Personal Finance Amplifica Capital is the first VC fund in Mexico with a gender lens. We invest in seed-stage, scalable, tech-based companies that increase the opportunities and participation of women in the economy. ## Inseed Investimentos - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Agriculture, AgTech Inseed is a Brazilian venture capital firm that invests in seed and early stages.It manages three of the largest brazilian VC funds:- Criatec, with R$100 million, invested seed money in 36 innovative tech companies from all sectors throughout Brazil. It is closed for new investments and focused on increasing the portfolio companies value;-FIMA, with R$150 million, invested in 11 early stage cleantech companies, specially on waste management, renewable energy, agriculture and building materials industries. The fund started on January 2013. It is closed for investmentsand focused on increasing the portfolio companies value;- Criatec 3, with R$220 million, started investing on January 2016. It's focused on innovative hard tech startups. Invested in 14 companies and still open with R$3 million as the target ticket for Seed or Series A rounds.Inseed has offices on Belo Horizonte and São Paulo. ## Ponderosa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology We believe that a radical change to our food, agriculture, and ocean sectors is necessary to meet our climate, biodiversity, water, and human health goals. ## Draper Cygnus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Internet, Blockchain We invest in supporting extraordinary entrepreneurs who have developed technology and business models that can positively transform our society. Our focus is on –Fintech, Food & Agtech, Bio & Nanotech and Cleantech– in Series A and Seed rounds of the most enabling Argentina-founded companies. ## Builders VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology Builders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries including healthcare, agriculture, industrials and real-estate. ## Inmobiliaria e Inversiones el Coigue - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vitacura, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Farming, FinTech, Chemical Inmobiliaria e Inversiones el Coigue is a part of the Investment Firms Industry. ## Sociedad de Inversiones Celta - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Farming, Chemical, Agriculture Sociedad de Inversiones Celta is a investor. ## Performa Investimentos - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Medical, Chemical FORS Capital is an independent and pioneering ESG investment company based in Brazil ## SoFi - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Apps, Biotechnology, Information Technology SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, andprotect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. ## VIB - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care Strategic research in on life sciences and biotechnology ## PMV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Do and dare company ## Noa Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B Noa Capital is an investment advisory firm. Noa Capital combines Capital, Network, and Trust to build technology-focused businesses that can grow with support. ## Sigma Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology Sigma Partners is a venture capital firm, founded in 1984, that has invested in over a hundred early stage companies and has over $2 billion under management. In 2007, it raised $500 million for its most recent fund, named Sigma Partners 8. ## New Luna Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage New Luna Ventures is a leading impact venture capital advisor and investor in the food 2.0, agriculture, energy, community enrichment, and enabling software industries. We help entrepreneurs build sustainable ventures and connect disruptive ideas with investors and partners. Together, we provide actionable plans, enhanced communications, andexpanded access to markets. ## CLIN - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, AgTech, PaaS CLIN, Private Investment Fund, is a venture capital fund, ## Fondo Vulcano - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Retail Fondo Vulcano is an investment fund Created by Dadeno. ## Hummingbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't. ## Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Fruit, AgTech, Agriculture Impact offers undergraduate, graduate, and extension courses that are one of the most respected in the area of ​​technology. ## NTT Data - Type: VC Fund - Location: Koto, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Series B - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Marketing NTT DATA provides broad range of IT services and solutions, including consulting, systems integration and IT outsourcing, for major financial, public administration and enterprise sectors. NTT DATA Group has established global support network that covers 53 countries worldwide. ## COREangels Pacific - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Biotechnology We aim to participate in bustling technologically based ventures that will easily escalate within the "Ring of Fire" region, leveraging our experience & network as successful entrepreneurs and angel investors. ## Flambeau Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Delaware, Ohio, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Biotechnology Flambeau Capital Partners is an investment firm specializing in funding technological startups seeking scalability. ## Goshen Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Biotechnology Goshen Capital engages in assisting companies from various sectors in structuring and raising funds for its projects. ## Siddhi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing Siddhi Capital is the growth equity partner for convention-crushing food and beverage companies. ## Portfolia - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software Investing Funds Designed for Women Backing Innovative Companies We Want in the World - For Returns and Impact ## DRADS Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series D - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care DRADS Capital is a Boston-based venture fund investing in life sciences, biotechnology, and A.I. companies focused on extending the boundaries of biomedical sciences. Our unique approach merges breakthrough science and technology from top academic laboratories and hospitals with strong leadership teams that are transforming how we treat and improveneurological health. Our portfolio of companies are unlocking human potential in treating neurodegenerative disease, improving mind-body wellness, and quantifying brain health. ## Genesis Consortium - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Fashion, Architecture An alliance of venture funds and corporations to promote human and planetary health. ## CVENTURES - Type: VC Fund - Location: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Our mission is to develop these ventures from capital assets, networking and mentoring in reference to innovation environments in the country, such as universities, research institutes, incubators and technology parks. ## Cedro Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS Cedro Capital is an independent asset management firm located in Brasília-DF with a geographical focus in the Central region of Brazil. Cedro Capital is the leading asset manager firm in the Center-West, connecting companies and projects in the region with qualified institutional investors through alternative investment funds. Cedro Capital isformed by professionals with strong track record and proven experience within the Brazilian capital market. ## Be8 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing Be8 is a growth stage venture capital fund focusing on food & beverage chain (Innovative Food, E-Grocery, Retail & Gastro Tech, Packaging). ## BTG Pactual - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software BTG Pactual is a global financial company that operates in the markets of Investment Banking, Corporate Lending, Sales & Trading, Wealth Management, and Asset Management. It offers advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, wealth planning, loans, and financings, as well as investment solutions and market analyses.The company’s globalpresence, based on a dominant fully-fledged Latin America Investment Bank, Global Asset and Wealth Management platform, enables it to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to a global client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments and high net worth individuals. It's the biggest investment bank in Latin America and the Caribbean. Also the 5th biggest bank in Brazil.In 2019, BTG Pactual has already been recognized with more than 10 awards, including "Best Private Bank in Brazil" by the magazine World Finance, "Best Private Bank in Latin America" by Global Finance, and "Best Private Banking Services Overall" by the Euromoney. ## Supply Change Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 Supply Change Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of food, culture, and technology. The firm is led by two GPs, Noramay Cadena and Shayna Harris, who combine food domain expertise with tech and investing experience. The firm was founded in 2020 and is based in Chicago and Los Angeles. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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