# Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Manolo Atala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software

Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Ariel Lambrecht

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Thorsten Schroeder
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Electronics, Children, Life Science

Thorsten Schroeder

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

## Rodrigo Borges
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Rodrigo Borges is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at DOMO Invest.

## Eduardo Castro Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: Incline Village, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Software

Eduardo Castro-Wright is a private investor. He was the former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and president and CEO of Global e-Commerce and Global Sourcing. Prior to this, Eduardo was president and CEO of Walmart U.S., where he led the transformation of stores, improvements in the customer experience, and the development of a strongleadership team. Before joining Walmart, Eduardo was president and CEO of Honeywell Transportation and Power Systems Worldwide and prior to that he was President and CEO of Nabisco Asia-Pacific. He holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

## In Hsieh
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace

In Hsieh is the Co-Founder at OOOOO.

## Rei Carvalho
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Sales Automation, Mobile

Rei Carvalho is a computer scientist and stands out as the visionary founder and CEO of Emailage , a world-leading online fraud prevention company acquired by RELX/Lexis in March 2020. Rei's entrepreneurial journey further includes the founding of Wealth Inc (wealth.com) in 2020. With a track record as a serial entrepreneur, Rei nowchannels his expertise and passion as an investor through Bela Juju Ventures, his esteemed VC arm. Through Bela Juju Ventures, Rei offers invaluable insights, resources, and unwavering support to founders and fellow investors alike, driving innovation and success in the startup ecosystem.

## Juscelino Martins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery

Juscelino Martins

## Eduardo Steiner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Fashion, Lifestyle

Eduardo Steiner is Regional CFO at Publicis Worldwide.

## Dimiter Tschawow
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

Dimiter Tschawow

## Arielle Zuckerberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Analytics, Productivity Tools, Gaming

Arielle Zuckerberg the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2015, in a bid by the firm to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. (TechCrunch)

## Alfred Chuang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Alfred Chuang is the General Partner of Race Capital, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital fund.
Previously, Mr. Chuang was a founder of BEA Systems Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure middleware products.
Alfred graduated from the University of San Francisco and UC Davis.

## 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

## Lolita Taub
- Type: Angel
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Beauty, B2B

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.

## Stephanie Truan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software

Stephanie Truan

## 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.

## 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

## Max Valdés
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software

Max Valdés

## Silvio Genesini
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Convertible Note
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Internet

Silvio Genesini is a Member of the Board of Directors at Infracommerce.

## Nina Khosla
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Wellness

Nina Khosla

## Juan Pablo Ortega
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Restaurants

Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.

## Carlos Gotlib Micha
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Accounting, Food Delivery, Consumer Goods

Carlos Gotlib Micha

## Sung Ho Choi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Music, FinTech

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

## Sebastian Kreis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2C, FinTech, Real Estate

Sebastian Kreis is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Xepelin.

## Jose de la Luz Lopez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Marketplace

Jose de la Luz Lopez is the Founder and CEO of delt.ai. He attended Y Combinator.

## Alan Weschler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, E-Commerce

Alan Weschler

## Victor Lazarte
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Payments

Victor Lazarte holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from USP and École Centrale de Paris and a degree in Owner/President Management from Harvard Business School. He began his career at JP Morgan London but decided to return to Brazil in 2010 to start Wildlife with his brother Arthur. Victor has an active role in business strategy andorganization building. He currently lives in the U.S.

## Edith Yeung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Information Technology

Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.

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

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

## Saurabh Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series D, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

## Santiago Lira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2C, FinTech, Information Technology

Santiago Lira - Founder and Director @ Buk

## Donato Ramos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Beauty, E-Commerce, Internet

Donato Ramos

## David Geisen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology

David leads as VP Marketplace the country operation of Mercado Libre Mexico, the largest e-commerce and fintech company in Latin America and Mexico.
Besides his role at Mercado Libre, David is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in various tech companies in Europe, Latin America and the US. With his ample experience in e-commerce and scalingup businesses, he also serves as advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs both nationally and internationally. David co-founded and led the Mexican E-Commerce Chamber (AMVO) and initiated the largest Mexican annual online sales event: Hot Sale. Currently, he is actively involved as a member of the association’s supervisory board, representing the interests of 400+ e-tailers in Mexico. Before initiating AMVO, David co-founded and was the CEO of two Mexican e-commerce Startups, clickOnero and Dafiti. David started his career at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division in London. Prior to joining Mercado Libre, he developed the omnichannel strategy for Europe’s largest consumer electronics retailer, Media Markt, for the Iberian market (Spain & Portugal). David invests as Limited Partner in VC funds in the US, Europe and Mexico. He also participates as an investment committee member at two venture capital funds: Latin Leap and Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund II.

## James Park
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

## Henrique Dubugras
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

Henrique Dubugras is Founder and Co-CEO of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique soldPagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.

## Matias Muchnick
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Sustainability, B2C

Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo.

## Arya Bolurfrushan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Education

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

## Matt Brown
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, VoIP, Computer

Matt Brown is an entrepreneur and angel investor. As the VP of Product at Voxbone, he launched and scaled their Enterprise Communications platform in 38 countries with over 900 customers in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In October 2020 Voxbone was acquired by Bandwidth for $519.4 million.Matt was also the co-founder and CEO ofTengo Inc., a fintech platform serving the unbanked in ascending economies, and VP of Product at Prove, a digital identity platform trusted by 1000+ Enterprises and 500+ Financial Institutions globally.As an angel investor Matt has invested in tech startups across the globe, with portfolio companies in North America, South America, and Europe.

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

Leonardo Borrero

## Lucas Lameiras
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Banking, Marketplace

Lucas Lameiras

## Francisco Forbes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Drones, Hardware

Francisco Forbes is the Global Director | Investments	at Global Director | Investments. Attended Santa Cruz College.

## Hans Hickler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

Hans Hickler

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