# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023 ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 26 - 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. ## Ariel Lambrecht - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech Ariel Lambrecht ## Romero Rodrigues - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 13 - 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. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings. ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings ## Ricardo Weder - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 12 - 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. ## David Vélez - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## Leonardo Teixeira - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Internet I am one of the partners of Iporanga Ventures running our Pre-Seed Stage fund. Prior to That I spent 6 years investing my own money in tech startups as an angel investor. ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## Manolo Atala - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Simon Borrero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## Paulo Silveira - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology CEO and founder at Caelum Alura ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Rodrigo Dantas - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country. ## Marcelo Sampaio - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Apps, Software There are the well-traveled and then there are the travelers. Born in Brazil and raised in France, Marcelo has been jumping between the developing and developed worlds his entire life, which explains his innate understanding of the two. Name a country and it’s likely that Marcelo has been there. He has traveled and worked in over 50 countries likeMozambique, China, Peru, Latvia, and Korea.Marcelo has more than a decade of experience in channel and direct sales for both private and public sectors. He graduated from PUC-Rio in Production Engineering, and discovered his passion for business and technology at Microsoft. From there he transitioned to Oracle where he became head of Sales for Brazil, winning sales awards each year he was there as one of the best global performers in management and execution. He also happened to be Oracle’s youngest sales manager in the world. ## Hans Tung - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital. ## Carlos Julio Garcia - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, Information Technology Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 8 - 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. ## JP Duque - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 7 - 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 ## Florian Hagenbuch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Mario Letelier - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps Mario Letelier - Investor and Advisor @ EvoBooks ## Felipe Villamarin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi. ## Kevin Efrusy - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Sebastian Ruales - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Sergio Furio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Payments, SaaS Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente ## Mauricio Feldman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Sports Co-founder & CEO at Volanty ## Arash Ferdowsi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Pablo Garfinkel - Type: Angel - Location: Concepcion Del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Güimar Vaca Sittic - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs. ## Lee Fixel - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Lee Fixel is the Investor of Addition. He attended Washington University in St. Louis. ## Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Analytics, Advertising, Apps Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures ## Ariel Arrieta - Type: Angel - Location: Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain Ariel Arrieta is a Venture Capital investor and serial entrepreneur, as he likes to present himself. He founded and founded several companies. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, one of the most active funds in the region and has invested in more than 200 technology companies throughout Latin America. He has worked in Internetcompanies since 1994 and several of the companies he founded were sold to Fox International Channels (News Corporation). He is a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and Harvard Business School OPM (class 41). He collaborates with the NGOs Ecosistema Emprendedor, Junior Achievement, Endeavor and Ruta 40. He is also the author of the books "Aprender a Emprender" and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2013. and and "El Sentido Común Emprendedor", published in 2018. ## Justin Mateen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Diego Gomes - Type: Angel - Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Entrepreneur, angel investor and SaaS expert. ## Fabrice Grinda - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com. ## Patricio Jutard - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail Technology, Software, SaaS Patricio Jutard is a Co-founder of MURAL, based in Buenos Aires. He is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with deep experience in software design, architecture, and development as well as team leadership and project management. Previously, he co-founded the video game studio Three Melons with Mariano Suarez-Battan and served as its CTO before it wasacquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney. Patricio also runs the angel fund Inspirit Angels, which has invested in over 20 startups based primarily in Latin America but targeting global markets. In 2015, he was honored with the Innovators under 35 Award by MIT Technology Review. ## Alec Oxenford - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: SaaS, E-Commerce, Information Technology Alec Oxenford is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Alpha Capital Acquisition Company. Alec previously worked at OLX & letgo as a Co-Founder. He is an experienced founder and CEO at various companies. He attended Harvard Business School. He took business administration at UC and mastered at Harvard Business School. ## Ariel Poler - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children. ## Matias Woloski - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires. ## Florian Otto - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce Florian is Co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform by health systems. Previously, Florian founded a daily deal company in Brazil(ClubeUrbano) that was sold to Groupon. After the acquisition, he became CEO of Groupon Brazil. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds an M.D., D.D.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany. ## Mike Hennessey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Mike Hennessey ## Wensceslao Casares - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. ## Julio Vasconcellos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Alexander Torrenegra - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Leonardo Borrero - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology Leonardo Borrero ## Martin Schrimpff - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales. ## Ignacio Canals - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Ignacio Canals is a Founder of InstaGIS. He attended Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1994. ## Marcos Galperin - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B Marcos Galperin is a co-founder of Mercadolibre, Inc. and has served as its chairman, president and chief executive officer since October 1999. Marcos is a board member of Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit organization that is leading the global movement to catalyze long term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the besthigh impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marcos received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Marcos is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his comprehensive knowledge and experience in the technology industry and experience serving as a director of other companies. ## Travis Foxhall - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Payments, Banking, Real Estate Travis Foxhall is an Operating Partner at Point72 Ventures. He works with portfolio companies aiming to optimize their outcomes, with a focus on fundraising and corporate development. He is also responsible for evaluating and executing investments in the fintech space, specializing in emerging markets. Before joining Point72 Ventures, Travis wasChief of Staff at Neon, a leading digital bank in Brazil, where he worked with senior management on corporate strategy, business development, and fundraising initiatives. Prior to that, he was a venture investor with Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in Latin America. Travis began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorgan Chase and Thomson Reuters. ## Kees Koolen - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Infrastructure Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout. # 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