# Top 10 Social Media Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Florian Otto
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Vinicius Marchini
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Content, Social Media, Search Engine

Vinicius Marchini - CEO / Co-Founder @ Brilia

## Leonardo Teixeira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Martin Varsavsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Social Media, Health Care, Mobile

Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, founder of ten companies over the course of his career.
In 1984, while still in college, Martin started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, one of the early leaders of the loft movement in downtown Manhattan.
This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadianbiotechnology company, a pioneer in AIDS and PSA testing.
Martin's third business, Viatel Ltd., Martin’s first venture into the world of telecom, was founded in 1990. This company is best known for inventing call back and building the first pan European fiber optic network ahead of liberalization. Martin’s best-known ventures were founded during the last decade. In 1998, Martin started Jazz Telecomunicaciones (Jazztel), Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator.
In 1999 Martin founded Ya.com, Spain’s third largest internet web site/DSL provider that includes the second largest Spanish language web agency www.viajar.com. But not all of Martin’s companies were successful.
In 2000, Martin started Germany’s leading cloud computing company, Einsteinet, and the company was sold in 2003 at no return to him or investors. In 2005, Martin founded Fon. With over 23 million hotspots, Fon is the largest WiFi network in the world. The company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain but its customers are worldwide. Its investors include Atomico, British Telecom, Coral Group, Skype, Google, and Index Ventures. In 2014 Martin joined the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer, the largest media company in Germany. In 2015, Martin founded Prelude Fertility, which raised $200M in financing and is now one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States. Prelude Fertility offers egg freezing, IVF, and egg donation. In 2017, Martin started VAS Ventures in partnership with Axel Springer to invest in early stage ventures across Europe and the USA. In 2019, Martin launched the MVB fund, a $200M fund of funds based in Spain. MVB invests in top performing venture capital funds and pre-IPO technology companies. Martin also manages the Varsavsky Foundation and is best known as the founder of two large educational projects in Latin America – Educ.ar (Argentina) and EducarChile (Chile) and the Safe Democracy Foundation.
Martin was Ambassador at Large of Argentina from 2001 to 2005. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, and is a Member of the Board of Directors at Instituto de Empresa, Spain’s leading business school, where he taught entrepreneurship for eight years. Since 2012 he teaches entrepreneurship at Columbia University and New York University.
Martin has written numerous articles on business and international relations that have been published in several international publications including El Pais and Newsweek. Martin is also a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and an active blogger. He is the recipient of various honors and rewards.
Martin received his BA, from New York University, and holds a MA, in International Affairs and an MBA from Columbia University. In his spare time, Martin enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, piloting, photography and sailing.
Martin is married to Nina Varsavsky and has seven children.

## Brian Requarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## O.D. Kobo
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Broadcasting, Video

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

## Mario Letelier
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps

Mario Letelier - Investor and Advisor @ EvoBooks

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Ariel Lambrecht

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

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

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