Top 20 Finance Angel Investors in Mexico in October 2023
Top 20 Finance Angel Investors in Mexico in October 2023
| Investor | Finance Mexico investments |
|---|---|
| David Vélez | 2 |
| Guilherme Bonifacio | 2 |
| Arash Ferdowsi | 2 |
| Scott Sandell | 2 |
| Gokul Rajaram | 1 |
| Felipe Capella | 1 |
| Alexis Patjane | 1 |
| JP Duque | 1 |
| James Sowers | 1 |
| Travis Foxhall | 1 |
| Angel Cisneros | 1 |
| Ricardo Weder | 1 |
| Sebastian Mejia | 1 |
| Ron Pragides | 1 |
| Pierpaolo Barbieri | 1 |
| Bootstrapped Debt Financing | 1 |
| David de Picciotto | 1 |
| Craig Fuller | 1 |
| David Rusenko | 1 |
| Harsh Sinha | 1 |
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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.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Elicit — Elicit is an artificial intelligence research assistant that uses language models to help users automate research workflows. This research assistant finds relevant papers without a perfect keyword match, summarizes takeaways from the papers, and extracts key information from the papers.
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).
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- Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Germany, China
Portfolio highlights
- Somewear Labs — Somewear is a satellite communications solution designed for the increasingly digital world. Somewear is building a satellite-powered platform to keep people safe. Somewear gives any remote operative a reliable line to safety and keeps organizations compliant at a fraction of the traditional cost with a combination of compact satellite hotspots andsoftware designed for low-bandwidth applications.It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Braintrust — Our tutors help your children become better learners for a lifetime. Click here to learn more about Braintrust Tutors and how we can help!
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
- Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
- Kinetic Automation — Effortless modern vehicle maintenance. Service electric and autonomous vehicles at scale with effortless speed and precision using our all-in-one, in-the-box digital vehicle maintenance solution.
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.
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- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed
- Mexico
Alexis Patjane is a Co Founder/CEO at 99minutos.com. He attended Y Combinator.
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- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Seed
- Mexico
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- Spot² — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Mexico, Colombia, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
- Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
- Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com
James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
- United States, Switzerland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- BitPay — BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
- Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
- Yield Guild Games — Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!
Travis Foxhall is a Vice President on the Investment Team at Point72 Ventures, responsible for evaluating and executing investments in the fintech space. Before joining Point72 Ventures, Travis was Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digital bank in Brazil, where he worked with senior management on corporate strategy, business development, andfundraising initiatives. Prior to that, he was a venture investor with Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorgan Chase and Thomson Reuters.
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- Payments, Banking, Real Estate
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Mexico
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- Casai — Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.
- Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
- Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.
Angel is and entrepreneur and co-founder of Quiubas Mobile where he serves as CEO. He has also founded companies in the software development and transportation sector. Angel has also started acting a seed investor on tech based companies.In 2007 Angel developed www.quiubas.com, serving as one of the only 2 free Mexico SMS networks.As anentrepreneur Angel Cisneros has been invited to present lectures and conferences for Software Related Business and Entrepreneurship in the most recognized universities in Mexico.Angel has interacted with world-recognized and defining leaders in the political, software and economical fields.Quiubas Mobile is the Mexico's leading SMS messaging provider. The main focus is A2P messaging, which now include delivering SMS to Colombia and Ecuador.
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- Mobile, Finance, Telecommunications
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Pig.gi — Farrow Ventures offers Pig.gi, an app where users win Pig.gi Coins in exchange for engaging with brands and sharing their consumer data. Coins are exchangeable for airtime from any mobile operator. The app was launched in June 2016 in Mexico. Later that year it was launched in Colombia.
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.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mexico, Colombia, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.
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.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
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- Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
- Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
- Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.CV: • Senior Vice President of Engineering at Trustly. Leading a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards. • Vice President of Engineering at Carta responsible for its flagship product. Led aglobal team of Engineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo.• Vice President of Engineering at AppDirect. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.• Senior Vice President of Engineering at BigCommerce. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin.• Director of Engineering at Twitter from 2012 thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.• In 2004, joined pre-IPO Salesforce when team was ~36 in Engineering. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MetaMap — Metamaps are customisable trust workflows that empower service providers to reach more customers.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.
Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
- Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
- Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
David de Picciotto - Co-Founder & CEO @ Pledge
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Quansa — Changing the way workers access financial services.
- Sundayapp — Our solution is the world's fastest and easiest way to pay at restaurants. Your customers scan a QR code and pay in 10 seconds
- FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.
Craig Fuller is the CEO and founder of FreightWaves,
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- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- SmartHop — SmartHop is a business-in-a-box platform that empowers small trucking companies and owner-operators to earn more while doing less. By using artificial intelligence to deliver smart load recommendations, full-service back-office support, and low-cost operational services, SmartHop enables customers to operate with better capabilities than theleading carriers. It transforms the way drivers make a living through the nation’s largest network for truckers.Founded in 2018, SmartHop is backed by Equal Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Greycroft, RyderVentures, and Las Olas VC. It is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
- ConverSight — ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customerreport generation costs by over 50%.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis.
David Rusenko is the general manager of e-commerce at Square. He was the founder and CEO of Weebly.
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- Software, Mobile Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Phil — Phil is an affordable, next-generation market access platform delivering unprecedented outcomes for patients, prescribers, manufacturers and all other stakeholders.
- Huckleberry — At Huckleberry, they’re on a mission to give small business owners back time. Over the last decade, software has replaced most paper-based business management systems – from accounting, to tax preparation, to payments. But commercial insurance is still bought and managed almost entirely offline, in a process that can involve layers of bureaucracyand take weeks to complete.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Harsh Sinha is CTO at TransferWise - the international money transfer platform enabling people to send, receive and manage money across borders cheaply and easily. Prior to TransferWise, he was Director of Product at PayPal. During his tenure at PayPal and eBay prior to that, Harsh built various global product experiences and teams including PayPalmobile, eBay Motors, eBay Local and Milo (an eBay acquisition).Harsh is also an angel investor and advises early stage start up on product market fit and team scaling problems.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Belvo — Belvo is the leading Open Banking API platform in Latin America and the easiest way for users to connect their account to an app
- Compa — Payment platform for construction projects
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
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