# Top 30 Gaming Angel Investors in Colombia in October 2023

## Saurabh Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series C, Series D, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

## Leonardo Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology

Leonardo Borrero

## Carolina Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Polanco, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food Delivery

Carolina Garcia is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Chiper.

## Isabella Fernández
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Isabella Fernández

## Samvit Ramadurgam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berkeley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Analytics

Samvit went through the Y Combinator program and started his first venture-backed company when he was nineteen years old. Prior to starting Equidate, Samvit co-founded Streem, a cloud storage company which was acquired by Box in 2014. Samvit is an active angel investor and frequently invests in startups through S2 Capital, where he serves asfounding partner. His previous work spans numerous startups,most recently including Asana where he built out distributed systems infrastructure and Livemagic where he developed audio fingerprinting algorithms. In a previous life, he conducted research on high temperature superconductivity at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Samvit holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

## Nilam Ganenthiran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Restaurants

Nilam Ganenthiran is a partner at D1 Capital. He was previously President of Instacart.

## Harold Primat
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Sports, Nutrition

Investor and former professional racing driver. Currently, he is a president of the Primland estate.

## Camilo Clavijo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Camilo Clavijo

## Felipe Villamarin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources

Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Pierpaolo Barbieri
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

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.

## Sebastian Ruales
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Paulo Santos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Real Estate

Paulo Santos is the co-founder and managing partner at WiseNext.

## Carlos Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Ignacio Vilela
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Cyber Security

Ignacio Vilela - Partner @ Junipero Capital

## Walid Aradi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Sujay Tyle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Chris Burch
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods

Christopher Burch is Founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital. Mr. Burch is an active investor in a variety of businesses spanning a wide range of industries and is the co-founder of the luxury fashion brand, Tory Burch. Mr. Burch has always been devoted to the power of branding, and currently applies his keen sense of marketing and sales tobusiness interests spanning apparel, financial services, hospitality, technology and consumer products.

## Zak Tanjeloff
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Energy, FinTech

Zak Tanjeloff is an angel investor and movie producer.

## Simon Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Juan Pablo Ortega
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Restaurants

Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.

## Stefan Krautwald
- Type: Angel
- Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Stefan Krautwald is a General Partner at Latin Leap and a longtime tech entrepreneur turned into investor active in Latin America.

## Jun Hwang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, Restaurants, Sustainability

Ex-Tesla head of product (solar), engineering manager. Ex-Google, Apple and Disney.

## Julián Núñez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Julián Núñez is a co-founder at Yuno, a payments company based in Latam. Before founding Yuno in 2022, he was an early employee at Rappi, where he led the E-Commerce business unit and built Rappi’s one-click checkout solution.

## Juan Luis Londoño Arias
- Type: Angel
- Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery

Juan Luis Londoño Arias, known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age and began recording songs at age sixteen.

## Carlos Gotlib Micha
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Accounting, Food Delivery, Consumer Goods

Carlos Gotlib Micha

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

## Ding Zhou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Transportation, E-Commerce, CRM

Ding Zhou is the Head of Content Engineering of Snap Inc. He previosuly worked as a Head of Ads Engineering at Pinterest. Mr. Zhou received a bachelor of science in Computer Science at Fudan University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Penn State Great Valley.

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