Top 5 Life Science Startup Investors in Mexico in October 2023

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

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QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.

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Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

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Matter. — We are an innovation company pioneering technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics.
Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

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Jason Burke is the Co-founder, Managing Director, and Investor of TBD Angels and the VP of Strategy and Business Development of Xandr. Prior to that, he was the Chief Strategy Officer for clypd, a Boston-based startup building an advertising technology platform exclusively for the TV industry and designed to empower media companies with actionablesales tools. In his role, Burke focuses on a forward-looking platform and business strategy, corporate development, partnerships, and management of clypd's strategic commercial deals.As one of the first employees at clypd, Burke spent over 3 years as VP, Product leading the product & operations teams in bringing innovative products to the $180B television advertising market. Prior to clypd, Burke spent six years building ad technology products for online video at ScanScout and Tremor Video where he had responsibility for product management, technical strategy and operations efforts.Jason is a leader with the unique experience of working with executive customer teams and internal product development/engineering groups to drive business while also solving software and implementation challenges with internal and external technical teams. He is also a frequent contributor to industry publications and participant on advertising technology and media conference presentations and panels. Jason holds several software patents focused on inventions in advertising technology and media.Jason is also an investor in early-stage companies across several verticals. He feels privileged to invest in and collaborate with talented founding teams seeking to change the world with innovative products & businesses.Jason is based in Boston and has degrees in Computer Science and Engineering Psychology from Tufts University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Eva — Eva develops an accessible and non-invasive wearable device designed to detect breast cancer risks. The company's wearable device is equipped with tactile sensors which are designed to map the surface of the breast and surrounding areas, allowing women to keep a track on the changes in breast temperature, size, and weight, with the help ofbiosensors inside the cup which constantly monitors information.
Wrangle — Wrangle organizes requests in your Slack team channel. Automatically assign approvals and tasks for your team to follow up and track their status.
WorkAround — WorkAround is the accurate, scalable solution for adding human input to your data using an untapped workforce of domain experts.WorkAround's platform enables simple, quick annotation of data. Anything from classifying expenses into tax codes, annotating breast tissue to identify regions of interest, to identifying drug combinations fromclinical trial reports. We have the domain experts and a platform to facilitate a simple, secure processing of customer data and annotations.Companies that using WorkAround services not only save time and get quality service, but are also contributing to a more socially just and productive world where talent knows no boundaries, opportunity doesn’t ask for status, and work is rewarded with fair pay.

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Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders.Y Combinator was the first of the new startup “incubators” that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YChas funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Education, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Mexico

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Balto — Balto, the sports gaming platform made for the casual, everyday fan. We’re thrilled to have you. As a quick intro, we’re Nick Montana, Spencer Cassidy and Joel Karacozoff, three individuals with a passion for gaming and an affinity for bringing people together. As driven co-founders to deliver the best experience, They have set out to create asimple, social and fun gaming interface for all.
Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
Hype and Vice — Hype and Vice combines on-trend fashion with University brands to create officially licensed college apparel women! Cool college apparel to wear for tailgates and gamedays or to lounge around your dorm.

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