# Top 30 Community Startup Investors in Colombia in October 2023

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## JAM Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

## Pear VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Pioneer Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

## First Check Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

First Check Ventures - Investing in Early Stage Startups Across the Globe

## Outbound Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software

We invest in our generation. Millennials not only represent the largest buying group in US history, but are also reshaping the way business is done.

## Flucas Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.

## Hans Tung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

## Rodrigo Vieira
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Pet, Retail, Education

Rodrigo Vieira is the partner at Caravela Capital. He attended Northeastern University

## Streamlined Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders who are building the next generation of transformational technology companies.

## Palm Drive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

We are an NYC-based venture capital fund built on the belief that innovators are everywhere.

## GRUPO BANCOLOMBIA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Lending

Bancolombia SA is a Colombia-based financial institution primarily engaged, together with its subsidiaries, in the banking sector. The Company provides a range of financial products and services to individual and corporate customers, which include stock brokerage, investment banking, leasing, factoring, consumer finance, fiduciary and trustservices, asset management, and insurance, among others. The Company is a parent of Grupo Bancolombia, a group present in Central America, with El Salvador's bank, Banagricola SA, off-shore banking subsidiaries in Panama, Cayman and Puerto Rico, as well as an agency in Miami. In April 2014, the Company acquired assets, liabilities and contracts of Factoring Bancolombia; as a result the Company holds 99.99% stake in Factoring Bancolombia.

## MGV Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

We are a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in fintech, consumer internet, and enterprise software.

## Brynne Rojas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Communities

Brynne McNulty Rojas is a Co-Founder and CEO at Habi.

## Daniel Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Consumer Goods, E-Commerce

Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise. He was formerly head of business development at customer-service startup UserVoice and will be running hiring and operations at Exec.

## Leonardo Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology

Leonardo Borrero

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

## Mana Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Virtual Reality

Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.

## Simon Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

## Felipe Villamarin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

## Monashees
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Monashees is a Brazilian venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs committed to creating innovative solutions for a new world. They invest in the beginning stages and follow alongside the companies that are revolutionizing markets, creating value, and improving people’s lives through technology, such as ContaAzul, Jusbrasil, Loggi,MadeiraMadeira, Enjoei, Petlove, Rappi, and Hi Technologies.

## Huey Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.

## HappyShiba
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Daintree.VC home page.

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Fabian Gomez Gutierrez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, B2B, Beauty

Founder & CEO of Frubana. Former Rappi Expansion Leader. Former McKinsey consultant.

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