# Top 15 Hospitality Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Roger Laughlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Real Estate

Roger Laughlin - Founder & COO @ Kavak

## Carlos Julio Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, Information Technology

Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Giovanni Gardelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

## Dan Rumennik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Delivery

Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

## Mate Pencz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, B2B, Advertising

Mate is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GE32 Capital. In addition, he is a Founder and Co-CEO of Brazil's premier real estate marketplace Loft, which has raised more than $90M since its inception in July 2018. Previously, he co-founded Printi, a leading e-commerce platform for customized materials & services with operations in Braziland the United States. Printi has raised more than $70M in capital from financial and strategic investors including Cimpress (Nasdaq:CMPR). Mate is also a Co-Founder and Investment Partner at Canary, Brazil's foremost seed-stage technology investment firm. Before moving to Brazil, he worked at eminent financial firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs after receiving a degree in economics from Harvard University. In 2015, Mate and his co-founder Florian were listed on Forbes' prestigious 30 under 30 list.

## Nicky Goulimis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Credit Cards, FinTech, B2B

Nicky Goulimis is the co-founder and COO of Nova Credit, the world’s cross-border consumer reporting agency.

## Iñaki Arrola
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Iñaki Arrola founded coches.com as entrepreneur in 2003. He invested as BA during some years and raised two funds. Vitamina K in 2011 and in 2016 K Fund.

## Matt Fichtner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Hospitality, Restaurants

Matt Fichtner is the Group Design Manager at Snap Inc. Matt Fichtner attended Biola University.

## Brad Flora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Rafael Duton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Michael Kleindl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet

Michael Kleindl (53) is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good Ventures, a Swiss-based climate-first Venture Capital platform. Collateral Good seeks to transform the existing food, food waste, fashion, packaging and building systems towards a sustainable future through technological innovations and partnering with best-in-classentrepreneurial teams. Doing Collateral Good is the essence of what we do.Michael has been a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor for many years. His track record includes 2 IPOs, and numerous exits of invested startups to prestigious buyers such RTL (Antena 3), Amazon, Axel Springer AG, Deutsche Post DHL, Just Eat, Pernod Ricard, Michelin and Unified Post Group, amongst others. In addition, he has been serving as a board member of various public companies.Michael holds a university degree in Business Administration from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, (Germany) and completed a 2-year management-training program in one of Germany´s most prominent public banking institutions. He is married to a wonderful woman and has four kids. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland and enjoys all kinds of outdoor sports.Co-founder and CEO of AdLINK Internet Media AG, which he took public in 2000, being the youngest CEO of any German IPO and public company at the time.As a Business Angel investor or a VC investor with Seaya Ventures, Michael has successfully invested in and exited companies such as Zanox.de AG to Axel Springer AG, Europe’s largest media company; United MailSolutions AG to Experian Ltd, one of the world’s largest marketing services company; Buy VIP S.L. to Amazon Inc., the world largest ecommerce company; Adcloud GmbH to Deutsche Post DHL Group, Germany’s largest corporate company; Smartclip to Adconion Media Group, a globally leading digital marketing company; first Sindelantal Spain and afterwards Sindelantal Mexico to Just Eat Inc., Bodeboca to Pernor Ricard and Crossinx to Unifiedpost Group amongst others.Currently active as a partner at KOMM Investment and Collateral Good Ventures, two Zurich based VC firms that invest globally in sustainability, mainly in food tech and sustainable materials.His current Tech portfolio includes leading companies in digital marketing, deep tech and fintech.

## Travis Foxhall
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Payments, Banking, Real Estate

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.

## Guilherme Weege
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Rental, E-Commerce

Guilherme Weege - Board Member @ Infracommerce

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