# Top 10 Sustainability Startup Investors in Guatemala in October 2023

## PeopleFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## FMO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

## Fernando Pontaza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala, Guatemala
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care

Fernando Pontaza is a Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Invariantes Fund.

## Tom Chi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Environmental Engineering, Industrial, Solar

Tom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. Tom is a co-creator of OK/Cancel, and has published over200 comic strips about user experience in a variety of online and printed publications.

## E10
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency

E 10 is a venture capital firm base in Guatemala City addressing emerging markets energy challenges

## Matias de Tezanos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series E
- Focus: Semiconductor, Advertising, Food and Beverage

Matias de Tezanos is the Investor & Board Director at Getaround.

## Wayra
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

## Proparco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

## Oikocredit International
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.

## Opes Impact Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

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