# Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Colombia in May 2026 ## Leonardo Borrero - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology Leonardo Borrero ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings. ## Sebastian Ruales - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - 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: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Justin Mateen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business. ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings ## Florian Hagenbuch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Brian Truong - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Logistics, B2B, Internet Brian Truong - Partner @ Graph Ventures ## Spencer Rascoff - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Internet Spencer Rascoff is the Co-Founder and the Chairman of Board at Pacaso. ## Ricardo Weder - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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. ## Alexander Torrenegra - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce Alexander Torrenegra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torre and a Co-Founder at Tribe Labs. He previously worked at Bunny Studio as the Co-founder and CEO. He attended Florida International University. ## Manolo Atala - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software Manolo has built several high-impact companies in the eCommerce ecosystem, as well as SaaS. Prior to FairPlay, Manolo was Partner & COO for Mountain Nazca, a Venture Capital Firm based in Mexico with focus on high-impact investments through Latin America & abroad. He was Co-founder of Pulpomatic, the first Fleet Management Technologycompany in Latin America and Europe. He served as Managing Director in Groupon México, which later took the operation of its subsidiary in Puerto Rico, remaining as Regional SVP – North Latam. He is an active angel investor in companies like Cornershop, Liftit, Justo, Kavak, Instafit, among others. ## David Vélez - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## JP Duque - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing ## Juliane Butty - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software Juliane Butty ## Hadi Partovi - Type: Angel - Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy. ## 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. ## Justin Kan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University. ## James Kraus - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software James Kraus ## 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 ## Julian Alvarez - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software Julian Alvarez is the Founder and CEO of Logixboard. Julian Alvarez attended Carnegie Mellon University. ## Jose Jair Bonilla - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Energy, Cooking Jose Jair Bonilla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chiper. ## Sergio Romo - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Marketplace Sergio Romo is a Managing Partner at Investomex. He attended Universite Jean Moulin (Lyon III) from 2008 to 2009. ## 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 ## Julio Vasconcellos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, B2B Julio Vasconcellos is a Managing Partner at Atlantico. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. ## Carlos Gotlib Micha - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Accounting, Food Delivery, Consumer Goods Carlos Gotlib Micha ## Pablo Viguera - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce Pablo Viguera is the co-CEO and co-founder of Belvo. ## Pablo Garfinkel - Type: Angel - Location: Concepcion Del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz. ## Connor Theilmann - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science. ## Kevin Moore - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates. ## Man Hei Lou - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce Man Hei Lou is the Co-Founder at Treinta ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Kevin Alvarez Fung - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Intellectual Property Passionate about designing delightful product experiences. Cofounder@Mural, Product@Digits, General Partner@Predictive VC. ## Daniel Correa - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Shipping, Software Daniel Correa ## Gonzalo Manrique - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Recruiting, B2B, Software Gonzalo Manrique is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at IronHack. ## Adalberto Flores - Type: Angel - Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Logistics, E-Commerce Adalberto the CEO of Kueski, the fastest micro-lending service for Latin America. He is a seasoned executive with experience in the financial and software industries in both the USA and Latin America. Before Kueski, Adalberto started, grew and managed all operations of Ooyala Mexico, the largest International division of Ooyala, Inc. Adalbertoopened two offices which grew to 29 employees in two different cities, encompassing software engineers, technical support, data science, sales, marketing, account management, HR, G&A, etc. Prior to Ooyala, Adalberto was the Cofounder and CEO of Inviko, a business referral engine. At Inviko, he was in charge of the fundraising, general management, sales and marketing, public relations and talent acquisition. While at Inviko, the company received several national and international awards including 1st place at the Mexico Intel Entrepreneurship Challenge. Adalberto has worked for, collaborated with and consulted on engineering, business, finance and strategy for 20+ companies & institutions in China, Brazil, the USA and Mexico. He can speak, read and write Chinese-Mandarin, Portuguese, English and Spanish. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Systems Engineering from Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM). Adalberto was awarded Mexico’s University Student of the Year for Finance by Ernst & Young and CNN-Expansion. He was also awarded the top prize in the E100 Mexico West Entrepreneurship Recognition (2012) and named the most outstanding Industrial & Systems Engineer alumni from Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Guadalajara, 2012. He was part of the initial founding team of SumaValley.mx, one of the largest entrepreneurial organizations in Mexico and has been a invited in several events including TEDx Zapopan. ## Alfonso De los Rios - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Apps, Audio Alfonso De los Rios is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nowports. ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor ## José Fernando Velez - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Apps, Logistics, E-Commerce Vélez studied economics and completed a Masters degree in Computer Science, graduating first in his class. He attended the ECLA programme for Latin American entrepreneurs at the Columbia Business School in New York, with an emphasis on operations and operational excellence. He is one of the founders of Pagosonline – a payments company originallyfrom Colombia, which was later acquired by Naspers and became part of PayU. In 2011, he was selected as an Endeavour Entrepreneur and in 2012 won the MIT’s TR35 Award – a token of recognition for young and innovative entrepreneurs. ## Liam Casey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. He has lived 23 years in China and is recognized as a thought leader in new product introductions, supply chain orchestration, sustainability and startup initiatives. He is on the boards of the California College for the Arts, and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. ## Hans Tung - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital. ## 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. ## Daniel Kan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Consumer Goods, E-Commerce Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise. He was formerly head of business development at customer-service startup UserVoice and will be running hiring and operations at Exec. ## Jeronimo Uribe - Type: Angel - Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: E-Commerce Jerónimo Uribe is Founder and CEO at La Haus. ## Gokul Rajaram - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member. ## Lluis Canadell - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce Lluis Canadell - Co-Founder & CEO @ Treinta ## 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 ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co