# Top 50 Platforms Startup Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Bossanova Investimentos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

## Monashees
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Monashees is a Brazilian venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs committed to creating innovative solutions for a new world. They invest in the beginning stages and follow alongside the companies that are revolutionizing markets, creating value, and improving people’s lives through technology, such as ContaAzul, Jusbrasil, Loggi,MadeiraMadeira, Enjoei, Petlove, Rappi, and Hi Technologies.

## Andreas Penna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

## MAYA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America. 

## Ignacio Vilela
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Cyber Security

Ignacio Vilela - Partner @ Junipero Capital

## CORFO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

CORFO is an executing agency of government policy in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, through tools and instruments compatible with the central tendencies of a social market economy, creating the conditions to achieve building a society of opportunities.

## Kevin Efrusy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

## XFactor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Wellness, Health Care

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

## Augusta Investments LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Seed/Early Technology Investments

## FC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Video

FC Partners is an investment and management advisory boutique, focused in family owned businesses. Since its inception FCP has worked with more than 110 companies from different sizes, sectors and locations.
It is structured in four business units: financial advisory (mergers and aquisitions, business planning, capital raising and valuation),family owned businesses consulting, venture capital and proprietary investments.

## NFX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

## Adeyemi Ajao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

## The Ark Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goalto prepare them for their next investment round.Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes.By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies. TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

## Andres Bilbao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Andres Bilbao

## Grupo FAME
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Payments

One of the main car dealers in Mexico and Latin America

## B Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

BVC is a venture capital fund investing in Latin American startups at the seed and pre-seed stages. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs to build world-changing companies.

## Tnt Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Retail

Tnt Ventures helps enterprise software founders and other technical professionals with fundraising services to increase capital.

## Imaginable Futures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Higher Education

Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment firm driven by impact and the belief that learning is key to well-being and equitable, healthy systems.

## Sente Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

## Jonathan Swanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Jonathan Swanson is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Thumbtack. Before Thumbtack, Jonathan was a White House staffer working in the West Wing on financial market policy. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

## Angel Losada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Naucalpan, Mexico, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Payments

Angel Alverde Losada is the Chief Executive Officer at Gigante Grupo Inmobiliario. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Office Depot, a subsidiary of Grupo Gigante, S.A.B. de C.V. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Masters degree in Finance and Marketing From JL Kellog Graduate School ofManagement.

## Greg Waldorf
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Internet

Greg Waldorf is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the former CEO of Invoice2go, the mobile app that helps small businesses manage their cash flow through easy-to-use invoicing, expense tracking and simple reporting tools. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Gregwas affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony for five years from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide.He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.

## DOT Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Analytics

Dot Capital is a New York City-based boutique venture capital firm focused on the digital economy. The firm has built a portfolio containing investments in the technology sub-sectors of; mobile marketing, SaaS, Internet of Things, and Internet infrastructure. It leverages over 50 years of cumulative experience as professional investors in theVenture Capital industry to target investments in disruptive growth companies.Dot Capital was established in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.

## Erdem Yurdanur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

## 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.

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

## El Pais
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Android

El Pais is a newspaper company with a large national circulation and audience. The company introduced the modality of distributing special and collectible editorial products nationally and internationally.
The company focuses in the improvement of Uruguayan society. The carry out dozens of extraordinary publications and historical investigations.

## FEMSA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Mobile Payments

FEMSA Ventures is a venture capital.

## Roberto Souviron
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Operating Systems, Financial Services

Roberto Souviron is a Founder at Win Win Ventures. Roberto attended Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business.

## UpWest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed fund investing in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. UpWest is focused on a hands-on approach to supercharge the growth of its startups, providing the essential ingredients for success: seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, and a supportive community of talented peers. For moreinformation, visit upwest.vc.

## Chris Thomas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Automotive

Chris Thomas is a co-founder and partner of Assembly Ventures.Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Previous to this, Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While atFontinalis he served as a Board Member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a Board Observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis Chris served in the U.S. Army as a Communications Officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an Investment Banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a Senior Advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a Co-Owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously advised a number of mobility startups around the globe; served as the Chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States; and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems.
Chris earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Economics and International Relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the City of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life.

## August Hill
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Payments

August Hill is an investment firm.

## Mario Sanchez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Android

Senior Level Manager
More than 20 years of experience in senior level leadership at regional and world wide companies. Today, active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentos, angel investor at several startups, still turning in a one of the entrepreneur in some of them.
With a hi knowhow in building relationships with senior managers andbusiness owners to gain the confidence of potential customers and analysis of complex business environments, to find and create business opportunities.Skills and Abilities
Dynamic and analytic, with team work abilities, developing a valued based leadership. Aptitude to orient the work to measurable and achievable objectives.

## Fundación Chile
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Android

Fundacion Chile is a private not-for-profit organization that adds economic value to Chile.

## James Cash
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Marketplace

While on the faculty of Harvard Business School from 1976 to 2003, James served as the senior associate dean and chairman of HBS Publishing, as well as the chairman of the MBA Program. At HBS, his research focused on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector, specifically the development of a performance measurement systemfor large information technology organizations. He earned an advanced degree in accounting and has been published extensively in accounting and information technology journals.Currently, he provides management development and consulting services through The Cash Catalyst, LLC, which he formed in 2009. He is also a director of The Chubb Corporation, where he began serving in 1996, and General Electric Company, where he began serving in 1997. James has been a director of a number of other public companies, including Phase Forward Incorporated from 2003 to 2009, and Microsoft Corporation from 2001 to 2009. He has also served on the audit committees of several public companies.

## Wollef Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Kevin Carter
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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".

## Broom Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services

Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.

## Francisco Medina
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Payments

Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame.

## Mastercard
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Purchase, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

## Santander
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Our purpose is to help people and businesses prosper. We strive to make all we do Simple, Personal and Fair.

## Katrina Lake
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Fashion, Information Technology, Education

Katrina is passionate about helping women achieve everyday confidence. She founded Stitch Fix to help women everywhere discover and explore their style through a truly client-focused shopping experience.Prior to founding Stitch Fix, Katrina developed extensive experience at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology. She managed theblogger platform at venture-backed social commerce company Polyvore and consulted with a variety of e-commerce and traditional retailers during her time at The Parthenon Group. Additionally, she has invested in and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and start-ups at Leader Ventures.Katrina holds a B.S. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Cedro Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Cedro Capital is an independent asset management firm located in Brasília-DF with a geographical focus in the Central region of Brazil. Cedro Capital is the leading asset manager firm in the Center-West, connecting companies and projects in the region with qualified institutional investors through alternative investment funds. Cedro Capital isformed by professionals with strong track record and proven experience within the Brazilian capital market.

## DILA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## PeopleFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Renewable Energy, E-Commerce

PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companieswith the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com

## Fabian Gomez Gutierrez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, B2B, Beauty

Founder & CEO of Frubana. Former Rappi Expansion Leader. Former McKinsey consultant.

## Qualcomm Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

As a global corporate venture firm, we invest in entrepreneurs who are building revolutionary businesses that redefine the world around us.

## Hans Tung
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

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