# Top 15 EdTech Startup Investors in Chile in May 2026

## CORFO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Nazca Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.

## Ibtikar Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramallah, West Bank, Palestinian Territory
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

## Harvard Management Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Harvard Management Company is an organization that manages the financial investments of the Harvard University.

## Dadneo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Service Industry, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Dadneo enhances the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation by connecting early-stage startups with the venture capital LatAm industry. Through their investment model using Smart Capital, they offer their entrepreneurs disposition of their network and all necessary measures to contribute to the success of their project tools.Dadneo wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

## Doug Chertok
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Pet, Content

Doug Chertok is the Managing Partner and Founder of Vast Ventures. Vast Ventures is a venture fund investing in disruptive companies with global impact. Investments include: ASAPP, Bark & Co, ClassPass, Clover, Diamond Foundry, Ginkgo Bioworks, Moat (acq'd by Oracle), Ripple, SweetGreen, Tala, ZocDoc.Vast Ventures Manifesto:
Improveworld-wide health and happiness;
Promote resource sustainability for future generations;
Increase human potential and productivity;
Increase knowledge, empathy and connectedness;
Disrupt industries that resist these goals.

## Magma Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Magma specializes in finding, investing, and support the best technology startups in Latin America that want to launch and scale in the US and Latin America.

## Invexor Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Social Network, Language Learning

Since the very beginning, Invexor Venture Partners has developed a unique understanding of what it takes for a start-up to become a global success. We are all fully committed to supporting our Founders and their companies at every stage of their journey, from Chile to the World.

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

Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

## Roy Chung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Social Network, Language Learning

Founder & COO at Apollo.io
2-Time Y Combinator Graduate
Startup, Growth and Sales Enthusiast
Believer in Exceptional Culture, People, and Organizational Excellence: Unlock the best in your people, and you will succeed.


## Investo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed.
Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale.

## Diego Stevens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, B2C

Diego Stevens

## Manutara Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Manutara Ventures was created to become the most relevant actor in the Venture Capital industry in Chile and Latin America, based on a convergence model with a global seal and a strong emphasis on the construction of successful outlets.


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