# Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Mexico in May 2026 ## IGNIA - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Pedro, Nuevo Leon, Mexico - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet IGNIA is a Mexico based early-to-late stage venture capital firm that invests in innovative solutions for the emerging middle class, representing 70% of the population. Founded in 2007, IGNIA has two funds with US$200 million capital raised. IGNIA invests in sectors such as healthcare, fintech, financial services, education and basic services. ## Picus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow. ## Angel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market. ## Pioneer Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce 300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups ## Broom Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors. ## FinTech Collective - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software We back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world. ## JAM Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm. ## Cometa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets ## FoundersX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence FoundersX Ventures is a cross-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, with strong investment focus on game-changing technologies in high growth industries, including Biotech, digital healthcare, enterprise AI, fintech and foodtech. ## NXTP Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America. As one of the oldest VC firms in Latin America active since 2011, NXTP puts its extensive network of mentors, investors and industry specialists to work for its portfolio companies. We are particularly passionate about SaaS, logistics,and other services primed to create efficiencies in business workflows by introducing new technology. NXTP Ventures was an early investor in business such as AuthO, CargoX, Trocafone, Satellogic, Cobli, Liftit, VU Security and many more. ## Dux Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Dux capital Invests in the new generation of Latinx heroes ## True Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services TRUE Cresset Wealth Management & Family Office for Pro Athletes & Entertainers. Achieve your financial goals and build generational wealth. ## DILA Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners. ## Ricardo Weder - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Wollef Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America. ## Mouro Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America. ## Digital Currency Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. ## Capital Invent - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Mexican-based early stage VC investing in consumer internet startups ## Portage Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact. ## Scott Sandell - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS 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). ## Ariel Lambrecht - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech Ariel Lambrecht ## GSV Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future. ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Antonia Rojas Eing - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Enterprise Software, B2B, Payments Antonia is a partner in Manutara Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital fund from Chile, focused on highly scalable tech ventures that want to expand across Latinamerica and the U.S. Previously, she worked as head of investment at Trigono S.A, where she oversaw the real estate and private equity division, and opened the Venture Capital verticalof the company. ## Homebrew - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet Seed venture capital and operational expertise for mission-driven entrepreneurs ## Tribe Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services We are a $1.6B+ AUM venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. ## Gokul Rajaram - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Brendan Dickinson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software Brendan Dickinson is a General Partner at Canaan. ## FEMSA Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Restaurants, Mobile Payments FEMSA Ventures is a venture capital. ## Federico Ranero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Rental Federico Ranero COO at Kavak ## Ryan Simonetti - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Ryan Simonetti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Convene. He previously worked at Gramercy Capital Corp as a Vice President. Ryan attended Villanova University. ## Redwood Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Payments Industry-agnostic venture capital fund investing in tech startups with high growth and scalability potential. ## Arash Ferdowsi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services 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. ## Zeno Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience. ## TeleSoft Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Telecommunications, Manufacturing TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies. Our focus is to help entrepreneurs benefit from our knowledge, contacts and experience -- to help you Make-It-Happen. Over the last two decades, TeleSoft has helped build over 75 companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquiredor gone public. ## Pomona Impact - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Mobile Payments, Banking Pomona Impact ## Seaya - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, FinTech Seaya Ventures is a Spanish venture fund investing in early and growth-stage Internet and technology-enabled companies in Spain and Latin America. The firm seeks to transform early and growth-stage companies into category leaders, with a focus on innovative businesses that require growth or expansion capital and can build lasting value.Itsinvestments are focused on products and services that facilitate the migration to a digital world such as digital marketplaces, consumer and internet media, consumer and mobile media, enterprise, and consumer software and services, and Payment: Internet and Mobile. ## MVP - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Mobile Payments Family Office based in Mexico ## Hard Yaka - Type: VC Fund - Location: Crystal Bay, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments A set of rules that govern how data is transmitted or processed in a network that is designed to be open, permissionless, decentralized,transparent, interoperable and inclusive. Protocols power everything from our societies to our biology. At Hard Yaka, we believe in the potential and principles of protocols. ## Accion Venture Lab - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support. ## Kevin Carter - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Retail Kevin Carter is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined the firm upon launch in 2009. At SV Angel, Kevin originated investments in Snapchat, Pinterest, and GroupMe (acquired by Skype), and works particularly close with Sunrise, Inbox, FlightCar, FarmLogs and Optimizely. He was included in Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 in 2012 and 2013. Heis also on the Engineering Advisory Board at Santa Clara University (EAB). Prior to SV Angel, he worked in the Private Equity Group at Silicon Valley Bank. At SVB he was a part of the Entrepreneur Services and Venture Capital Relationship Management Groups and helped with diligence and cross platform relationship efforts. Before SVB, Kevin worked at Affinity Circles, Inc. where he performed sales and client account management. Kevin graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Finance. While at SCU, he worked closely with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and was awarded "Outstanding Student Entrepreneur". ## 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. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## SVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward. ## Kube VC - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies. ## Tnt Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Restaurants, Retail Tnt Ventures helps enterprise software founders and other technical professionals with fundraising services to increase capital. ## Investo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed. Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale. ## Xochi Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS Xochi Ventures operates as an early-stage venture capital firm. It focuses on investing in innovative companies, making a difference in Latin America and the US. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mexico City. ## Canary - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology Canary is the first partner of the best founders in Latam. ## Scott Belsky - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco. # 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