# Top 40 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Loren Roosendaal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports, Blockchain, Online Games

Loren Roosendaal is the Founder and Chairman of Knowingo.

## Nicholas Vale
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed

Nicholas Vale

## Matias Nisenson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet

Matias Nisenson - Co-Founder & CEO @ Experimental

## David J. Namdar
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Juan, NA - Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services

David J. Namdar is the Co-Founder of NFT.com. Attended at University of Southern California.

## Ariel Arrieta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain

Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018.

## Sep Kamvar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Blockchain

Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens.

## Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

## Pankaj Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile

Pankaj Shah is the current Founder of Pacecar, Inc. He previously worked at Streamlined Ventures as an Advisor. Pankaj Shah attended Bentley University.

## Vincent Pineau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Mobile Apps

Vincent Pineau - Partner @ Axeleo

## Philippe Teixeira da Mota
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Credit

Partner at Hedosophia

## Blake Irving
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Luis Obispo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency

In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: •	Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.•	Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. •	Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA.

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

Co-founder & CEO at Volanty

## Alec Oxenford
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School.
He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

## 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

## George Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

## Marc Bejarano
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Mobile Apps

Marc Bejarano

## Jonathan Chu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform

Jonathan is co-founder and managing partner of Protofund. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles

## Patricio Jutard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Retail Technology, Software, SaaS

Patricio Jutard is a Co-founder of MURAL, based in Buenos Aires. He is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with deep experience in software design, architecture, and development as well as team leadership and project management. Previously, he co-founded the video game studio Three Melons with Mariano Suarez-Battan and served as its CTO before it wasacquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney. Patricio also runs the angel fund Inspirit Angels, which has invested in over 20 startups based primarily in Latin America but targeting global markets. In 2015, he was honored with the Innovators under 35 Award by MIT Technology Review.

## Matias Woloski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

## Burak Buyukdemir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Burak Buyukdemir is the founder at Etohum.

## Patricio Worthalter
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art

Patricio Worthalter

## Oliver Jung
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

## 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.

## Dan Rumennik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Delivery

Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

## Sumit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising

Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M

## Kevin Han
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series E
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Trading Platform

Currently, Kevin is CFO of Biological Dynamics, a biotech company, based out of San Diego, CA, where he leads financial operations and efforts for general IPO Readiness and oversees the company’s strategy and long-term planning initiatives. Prior, Kevin led investor relations, corporate communications, and corporate sustainability strategies atBio-Rad Laboratories. During his tenure, he developed and implemented a comprehensive investor relations program and served as a strategic thought partner on corporate strategy, business development, forecasting, and long-term planning. Prior to Bio-Rad, Kevin was a Portfolio Manager for various asset management firms, including Lombard Odier, BlueCrest and Visium, having led diligence on numerous IPOs and equity financing transactions. Kevin started his career at Morgan Stanley, and later Goldman Sachs, where he covered the medical technology and diagnostics sectors, and contributed to teams named #1 and Best Up & Comer by Institutional Investor. Kevin holds a BS in Business Administration from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, was pre-med at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has completed executive education business leadership programs at London Business School and Harvard Business School.

## Santiago Ardisonne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, FinTech, Agriculture

Santiago Ardisonne

## Sebastian Delgado
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech

Sebastian Delgado Cofounder at Fei Protocol

## Nicolás Mindlin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Nicolás Mindlin

## Ed Moncada
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ed Moncada

## Aleksander Leonard Larsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

## Scott Wood
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Blockchain

Scott Wood is Founder & COO at Simpleview.

## Ariel Sbdar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ariel Sbdar

## Bernardo Faria
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, EdTech, Mobile

Bernardo Faria

## Jeffrey Zirlin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.

## Richard Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

CEO of Quantstamp, Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, YCombinator Alumni, Former Quantitative Strategist at Tower Research Capital

## Kieran Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Kieran Warwick Co-Founder at Illuvium

## Don Stockwell
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency

Don Stockwell serves as Global Marketing Specialist at Costa Vida Presenta.

## Danish Chaudhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Startup enthusiast and coffee addict

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