# Top 35 Restaurants Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023 ## 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. ## 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". ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain. ## Francisco Medina - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, Payments Francisco Medina is the Chairman at Grupo Fame. ## Ralf Wenzel - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University. ## Fernando Meirelles - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. ## Patrice Etlin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, Restaurants Patrice Etlin joined Advent International in 1997 and started the firm’s investment activities in Brazil. He has 19 years of private equity experience. From 1994 to 1997, Patrice was a partner at International Venture Partners in São Paulo, where he was responsible for the overall operation of a media and communications fund focused on Brazil.Previously, he spent five years with Matra Marconi Space, initially as a systems engineer on a project to develop a European military observation satellite. In 1990, he was promoted to general representative for Brazil, in charge of setting up a private telecommunications satellite system providing services to Mercosul countries.Patrice is also Chairman of the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA). ## Saurabh Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series D, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global. ## Juan Luis Londoño Arias - Type: Angel - Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Delivery, Restaurants, Food Delivery Juan Luis Londoño Arias, known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age and began recording songs at age sixteen. ## Carolina Garcia - Type: Angel - Location: Polanco, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food Delivery Carolina Garcia is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Chiper. ## Julián Núñez - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage Julián Núñez is a co-founder at Yuno, a payments company based in Latam. Before founding Yuno in 2022, he was an early employee at Rappi, where he led the E-Commerce business unit and built Rappi’s one-click checkout solution. ## Dick Boyce - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Food Delivery, Restaurants, Food and Beverage Mr. Boyce is a partner of TPG, head of TPG's Operating Group and a member of the firm's leadership committees. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Boyce was President of CAF, Inc., a consulting firm that provided operating oversight and support to various companies owned by TPG. During much of this period, he served as the Chief Executive Officerof clothing retailer J. Crew Group, Inc., while providing operating oversight to the remainder of the TPG portfolio. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Boyce was employed by PepsiCo, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for Pepsi-Cola North America. Other roles at PepsiCo, Inc. included Chief Financial Officer, General Manager of the Canadian Business Unit, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Planning. Mr. Boyce was previously a partner at Bain & Company and worked in sales and marketing at Union Carbide Corporation before business school. Mr. Boyce received a B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of directors of Burger King Corporation. Mr. Boyce has previously served on the boards of directors of Gate Gourmet International, J. Crew Group, Inc., Kraton Polymers LLC, ON Semiconductor Corporation and Network General Corporation. ## 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. ## 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. ## Diego Libanio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery Diego Libanio - Founder & CEO @ Mercê do Bairro ## Santiago Caniggia Bengolea - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Fashion, Women's Co-Founder at Nazca Ventures Managing Partner Mountain Partners Angel investor Master in Innovation at Columbia Business School ## 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. ## Flavia Buchmann - Type: Angel - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketing, Restaurants, Food Delivery Flavia Buchmann is the CMO at NotCo. ## 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. ## Nilam Ganenthiran - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Restaurants Nilam Ganenthiran is a partner at D1 Capital. He was previously President of Instacart. ## 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 ## Jun Hwang - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Energy, Restaurants, Sustainability Ex-Tesla head of product (solar), engineering manager. Ex-Google, Apple and Disney. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Juan Pablo Ortega - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Restaurants Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University. ## Simon Borrero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management. ## 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. ## 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. ## Isabella Fernández - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage Isabella Fernández ## Steve Salis - Type: Angel - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Restaurants, Retail Steve Salis is the Chairman and CEO of SIZZLE Acquisition and founder and CEO of Salis Holdings. ## Pierpaolo Barbieri - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates. ## Bernardo de Barros Franco - Type: Angel - Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: CRM, SMS, SaaS Bernardo de Barros Franco is a Serial entrepreneur and angel investor on the IT sector. Bernardo previously worked at u.sit as a Co-founder and CEO. He attended Harvard Business School. Ibmec, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. ## Carlos Garcia - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005. ## Gabriel Cherubini - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery Gabriel Cherubini # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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