# Top 45 Enterprise Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Brian Requarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Ariel Lambrecht

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Ricardo Weder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.

## Manolo Atala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Simon Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Leonardo Teixeira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Internet

I am one of the partners of Iporanga Ventures running our Pre-Seed Stage fund. Prior to That I spent 6 years investing my own money in tech startups as an angel investor.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Mauricio Feldman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Sports

Co-founder & CEO at Volanty

## Marcelo Sampaio
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Sebastian Mejia
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Diego Gomes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Entrepreneur, angel investor and SaaS expert.

## David Vélez
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nubank, a Brazilian financial technology company. Before founding Nubank in 2013, David was a Partner at Sequoia Capital in charge of the firm’s Latin American investments. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. David has a BSin Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Carlos Julio Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, Information Technology

Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak

## Sebastian Ruales
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services

Sebastian is Co-Founder and CEO of Bia.Energy, company aiming to empower LatAm with cheap, sustainable and smart energy, through a consumer centric technology platform.He is founding team member of LatAm´s SuperApp Rappi -YC 16’, Sequoia, SoftBank, DST, T.RowePrice - Where he built from scratch and developed the Monetization model of the company,Business Development and New Businesses. He additionally served as an independent consultant to several StartUps in the region, advising on product and commercial strategy. He is advisor to 8VC, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Opera Ventures, and VP of MatterScale Ventures. He is also Speaker -Including TEDTalks. Prior to tech and VC, he had marketing and commercial strategy roles in the CPG industry, where he worked for L´Oreal, Quala and Johnson & Johnson.Sebastian has an MBA from Tulane University and an EP from Singularity University.

## Julio Vasconcellos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, B2B

Julio Vasconcellos is a Managing Partner at Atlantico. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

## Felipe Villamarin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

## Andréa Nogueira, CFA
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, Advertising, Apps

Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Ariel Arrieta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Paulo Silveira
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

## Florian Otto
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce

Florian is Co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform by health systems. Previously, Florian founded a daily deal company in Brazil(ClubeUrbano) that was sold to Groupon. After the acquisition, he became CEO of Groupon Brazil. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds an M.D., D.D.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

## Alexander Torrenegra
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Alexander Torrenegra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torre and a Co-Founder at Tribe Labs. He previously worked at Bunny Studio as the Co-founder and CEO. He attended Florida International University.

## Kees Koolen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Infrastructure

Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.

## Sergio Furio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Payments, SaaS

Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente

## Hans Tung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

## JP Duque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

## Kevin Efrusy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

## Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Pablo Garfinkel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Concepcion Del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B

Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz.

## Rafael Duton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile.
Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Wensceslao Casares
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

## Sujay Tyle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, B2B

Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.

## Brad Flora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

## Lee Fixel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Lee Fixel is the Investor of Addition. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.

## Patrick Sigrist
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech

Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth…

## Alec Oxenford
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Rodrigo Dantas
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services

Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.

## Mike Hennessey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

Mike Hennessey

## Gokul Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

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