# Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Daniel Undurraga
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

## Sebastian Mejia
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## David Vélez
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Matias Woloski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Sergio Fogel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

## 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.

## Sergio Furio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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

## 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.

## Gerry Giacoman Colyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.

## 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

## Carlos Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005.

## Loreanne Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Loreanne Garcia is a Co-Founder & Chief People Officer at Kavak. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## David de Picciotto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

David de Picciotto - Co-Founder & CEO @ Pledge

## Eduardo Kupper
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

17+ years of experience in several industries and sectors, including entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Management consulting and Investment Banking. Founder @ Airborne Ventures, an Early Stage VC fund and Managing partner @ VIPe, a Financial institution focused on offering products and services through payroll for theunderserved/underbanked population.
Former Head of VC at Bradesco Venture Capital arm, responsible for 2 funds totaling R$ 800mm of invested capital and R$ 1,7billion AUM. Experienced VC investor with 50+ deals across several stages and industries over the last 6 years. Founded and co-founded several companies including Helpling, Remessa Online, Finpass, and MAR Ventures. Several successful exits including +1bi BRL sale and 1 Nasdaq IPO. Board member at several companies in different sector and stages.Professional with an extensive network and close relationships and co-investments with several VC funds and entrepreneurs. Wharton MBA | The Lauder Institute MA | UPenn Grad
Electrical engineer B.eng. | Unicamp - BrazilSpecialties: Finance, General Management, Strategy, capital structuring, Angel Investing, M&A, Fundraising, Business development, Tech start-ups (Healthtech, Marketplaces, Fintech, Edtech, Mobility) Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, FMCG, project management, Private equity, Investment Banking, Career advisory.

## Alvaro Taiar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Accounting, Financial Services

Alvaro Taiar is an Angel Investor and Startup Mentor at GR8 Ventures.

## Scott Sandell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner at NEA. A General Partner since 2000, and Co-Managing General Partner from 2015 - 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments inindustry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.Scott is currently a director of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and a number of private companies including Automation Anywhere, Branch, Cloudflare, Coursera, Enigma, Expanse (fka Qadium), Hello Alfred, One Concern, Robinhood, Sentons, Transfix, and WaterBit. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup).

## Arash Ferdowsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

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

Ignacio Canals is a Founder of InstaGIS. He attended Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1994.

## Tasso Luiz Pereira da Silva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Financial Services

Tasso Luiz Pereira da Silva

## Rodrigo Weigand
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Financial Services

Rodrigo Weigand

## Felipe Capella
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software

Co-founded Loadsmart and responsible for all product strategy and development from day one. Working with a team of 60+ amazing people to revolutionize the logistics industry. First to launch truckload instant pricing/booking in the US (2015); first to launch One-Click load acceptance app for carriers (2015); first to launch instant pricing APIfor TMS integrations (2016).Advised companies on corporate strategy and M&A in Brazil and New York for 8 years. Joined the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington to advise on sovereign guaranteed development projects for Latin American countries. Founded, developed and launched an online contest startup. Co-founded Loadsmart to help build a revolutionary product. Felipe holds Master degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (valedictorian), from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Spain - full scholarship) and an MBA from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). He taught Enterprise Recovery and Restructuring for senior students during 2 years at the Federal University of Santa Catarina at age 25, where he was granted a Professorship Honor from the students. Passed the Brazilian Bar Exam among the top 6% and the New York Bar Exam among the Top 3%, working for one of the Top 5 most prestigious law firms in the United States.He won for Loadsmart, together with its Lead Designer, the DOGA award for interaction design in Olso, Norway.Felipe is an amateur photographer, plays guitar, piano and Brazilian cavaquinho, has been to 44 countries and was granted the Extraordinary Ability in Business visa from the US Immigration Department. He is always ready to discuss and learn from behavioral and evolutionary psychology, economics and development, history and art (but not the modern one).Random fact: his UPenn colleagues granted him the Funniest Person award, and voted him to a first-place-draw as Best Cook and Most Likely to Appear on the Cover of Times Magazine.

## Stelleo Tolda
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Stelleo Tolda is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MercadoLibre, Inc. since April 1, 2009. In addition, he served as Country Manager in Brazil between 1999 and 2010.In the latter role MercadoLibre has led to his current leadership position in e-commerce in the country.Before joining MercadoLibre, Tolda worked in the financial market, withcompanies such as Lehman Brothers, Inc. in the U.S. and Banco Pactual and Banco Icatu, Brazil.With an MBA in school business administration from Stanford University, in the United States, the executive is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and also holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution.Born in Brazil, Tolda speaks fluent English, Spanish and French as well as Portuguese.

## Kim Machlup
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Kim Machlup

## Tania Zapata
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Tania I. Zapata is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Akily. He previously worked at Voice123 as a Board Member. He attended the City University of New York.

## Bootstrapped Debt Financing
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

## Immad Akhund
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

## Kallie Parchman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Kallie Parchman

## Tatiana Kondratieva
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Tatiana Kondratieva

## Randy Reddig
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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## Laura Fingal-Surma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Laura Fingal-Surma

## Daniel Vogel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Daniel holds two degrees from Stanford (BA in Economics, BS in Computer Systems Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously he built Quantcast's Real Time Bidding system, which became the company's main revenue-generating product-line.

## Michael Reyes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Michael Reyes

## Melissa Toledo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Melissa Toledo

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

Mike Krieger is the CTO and co-founder of Instagram, a global community that shares more than 70 million photos every day. As the head of engineering, Mike focuses on building products that bring out the creativity in all of us. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Mike holds an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Prior to foundingInstagram, he worked at Meebo as a user experience designer and front-end engineer.

## Jose Bonilla
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Jose Bonilla

## Tanya Filer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Tanya Filer - Founder and CEO @ StateUp

## Alex Torrenegra
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Alex Torrenegra

## 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.

## Craig Fuller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Craig Fuller is the CEO and founder of FreightWaves,

## Alanna Gregory
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, FinTech, Finance

Alanna Gregory is a Sr. Director and Global Head of Engagement at Afterpay.

## 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

## ANA CASTRILLON
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Global marketing leader, trusted advisor, and innovator equipped with a highly creative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and over a decade of success, directing the development and end-to-end execution of dynamic integrated marketing and communications strategies. Extensive experience gained through hands-on roles within multibillion-dollartechnology organizations and mission-based startups. Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish and ability to work seamlessly and effectively with international teams in LATAM, EMEA, and US markets. Track record of partnering with key stakeholders and decision-makers to create comprehensive marketing plans that increase awareness, generate demand, increase engagement, accelerate pipelines, and grow sales. Proven experience building and leading world-class cross-functional teams and building rapport with company executives and customers to drive forward the overall business and marketing strategy.

## Alexis Patjane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software

Alexis Patjane is a Co Founder/CEO at 99minutos.com. He attended Y Combinator.

## Paulo Veras
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, B2B, B2C

Paulo Veras

## Oriana Fuentes
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Oriana Fuentes is the Co-Founder and COO at Emptor. She is a former Specialty Finance (FIG) Banking at JP Morgan. She attended Syracuse University and Columbia University in the City of New York.

## 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.

## Lev Ekster
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle

Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.

## Katie Shea
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Retail, Food and Beverage

Katie Shea is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Divergent Capital and an Angel investor. Before that, she was the General Partner at K50 Ventures and Kairos.

## Isabel Penzini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Isabel Penzini was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied Psychology and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and is certified in Portfolio Management from the Wharton School of Business. She worked in marketing and advertising technology at Visa for Latin America and most recently led the strategy for global dataproducts. She is the founder of OLA, whose mission is to enable Latin Americans to grow their wealth by investing, saving, and learning. In addition, she is a volunteer for INVEDIN Foundation, which provides children in Venezuela access to education.

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