# Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Colombia in October 2023 ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - 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. ## Flucas Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor. ## K50 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software K50 Ventures is the most trusted first-check investor for mission-driven founders building a better future for the 99% in the US and LATAM. ## Monashees - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Wollef Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America. ## Wayra - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense. ## Simon Borrero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Oikocredit International - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves. ## Kaszek - Type: VC Fund - Location: Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America. ## Kayyak Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Las Condes, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services Venture Capital and Impact Investing company with a focus on Seed and Series A investments mainly based in Latin America. ## NFX - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies. ## Andeo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, SaaS ANDEO Capital is an Angel Smart Capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with great qualities, a global mindset, and an early growth stage company. ## Incofin Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people wholive in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector. ## EWA Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Financial Services, SaaS We invest in early stage companies with disruptive models in which technology is an enabler to solve socio-economic conditions in Latam. ## Arrebol Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet Born in Colombia. Envisioned in Silicon Valley and Switzerland. Deployed in Latin America. ## GE32 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy. ## Felipe Villamarin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi. ## H20 Capital Innovation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS H20 Capital Innovation is a cross border early-stage venture capital fund with operations in the USA and Latin America. We actively invest in entrepreneurs that are using technology to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones in the B2B Marketplace and B2B Enterprise IT sectors. ## Veronorte - Type: VC Fund - Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: SaaS, Health Care, Mobile Apps Our vision at Veronorte is to transform Latin America. If this is as important to you, as it is for us. ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings ## Globant - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We help organizations lead change through digital and cognitive transformation. We are the first player to deliver engineering, innovation, and design. ## FJ Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups. ## Magma Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Andreessen Horowitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology. ## Maria Echeverri Gomez - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Security Maria Echeverri Gomez is the Founder at Muni Tienda. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. ## Alexander Torrenegra - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Alpha4 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Delaware, Ohio, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Alpha4 Ventures GP LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, early stage and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in the technology sector among the spheres of e-commerce, fintech, marketplaces/saas and high tech. The firm invests in Latin America. ## TheVentureCity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow. ## Sebastian Ruales - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Ricardo Weder - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Huey Lin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## The Ark Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better. ## INVX - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Human Resources, Sales Angel Investment Fund located in Colombia focused on early stage startups in Latin America ## Latin Leap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Latin Leap is a Venture Capital Studio (VC Studio) that was established to create a unique impact investment platform to soft-land purpose-driven tech companies in Latin America and provide market access for international scale-ups to deploy in the region. The VC Studio also supports the Latin American entrepreneurship ecosystem with global humanand financial commitment and contributes to quality education by fostering knowledge-intensive businesses in the region. ## Florian Hagenbuch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Kalei Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Velez Sarsfield, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Logistics, SaaS Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs building global category leaders within the region. ## Sujay Tyle - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Clocktower Technology Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology. ## Globant Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology We invest in visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to reinvent business through the lens of AI, Blockchain, and Future of Work technologies. Our DNA is that of our founders, and our venture fund targets investment from Seed stage to Series B, while bringing to bear the expertise, scale, and passion of our global network. ## Angela Borrero - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Security, Developer Platform, Information Services Angela Borrero is a Founder at Morado. ## Chile Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS Admiramos a los fundadores ## Kerry Wang - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Security, Developer Platform, Information Services Kerry Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Searchlight. She was a Course Assistant for From Play to Innovation at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school ). Kerry received a Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service in Human Biology and The Leader Award. Ms. Wang holds a master's degree in computer science and a bachelor'sdegree with distinction in Human Biology - Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Human Behavior at Stanford University. ## Amador Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ciudad De Panamá, Panama, Panama - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce Amador Holdings is an investment holding company providing growth capital and support to small and medium-sized businesses serving the urban middle classes. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Panama, Colombia. ## KepalaBergetar TV - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Malay website serving the people of Malaysia and all other nations with a need for live filem and Malay dramas that people love and react to with emotion, ready to push all boundaries. ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Citius - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech Citius is a global investment firm that funds technology companies ## Cometa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets ## Impulsum Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Lending Impulsum Ventures is a seed capital group specializing in early stage Colombian startups with global ambitions. They aim to bridge the early stage and VC investment gap that currently exists in the country. The group expects to achieve this objective by combining capital with expertise, mentor networks and accelerator partnerships. ## Enlaces - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Enlaces is an Angel Investors Network that promotes and facilitates investment in dynamic ventures in the Dominican Republic. Their work is aimed at identifying investment opportunities with high growth potential, analyzing and advising their entrepreneurs, and carrying out structuring work with the aim of facilitating the investment process.Theyseek to develop the entrepreneurial capital ecosystem in the Dominican Republic, with the vision of stimulating wealth generation, innovation, and quality employment. It promotes and facilitates access to financing for ventures with high growth potential, and provides investment opportunities to its member investors.Currently, it has fifty (50) member investors, and more than USD 1.5M invested in fifteen (15) ventures. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co