Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Argentina in October 2023

Martin Migoya has served as Chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer since 2005. He has worked in the technology industry for over 18 years, including as a trainee and technology project coordinator at Repsol-YPF, a consultant at Origin BV Holland and a business development director at Tallion. He founded our company together withMessrs. Englebienne, Nocetti and Umaran in 2003. Martin is frequently invited to lecture at various conventions and at universities like MIT and Harvard, and has been a judge at the Endeavor Entrepreneurs panel and at La Red Innova. Martin was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2005 and won a Konex Award as one of the most innovative entrepreneurs of 2008. He was selected as an Argentine Creative Individual of 2009 (Círculo de Creativos de la Argentina) and received the Security Award as one of the most distinguished Argentine businessmen of 2009. He also received in 2009 the America Economía Magazine’s “Excellence Award”, which is given to entrepreneurs and executives that contribute to the growth of Latin American businesses. In 2011, Latin Trade recognized Martin as Emerging CEO of the Year. In 2013, Martinreceived the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” from Ernst & Young. He is a member of the Young President’s Organization and a board member of Endeavor Argentina. Martin holds a degree in electronic engineering from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and a master’s degree in business administration, from the Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina. We believe that Martin is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his intimate familiarity with our company and the perspective, experience, and operational expertise in the technology services industry that he has developed during his career and as our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Travel, Corporate Training
Series B, Seed, Angel
Argentina, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ripio — Ripio is a bitcoin and digital payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America.
SenseiNode — We drive the decentralization of the blockchain ecosystem in Latin America with a simple, scalable and secure node management platform.
Turismocity — Turismocity is a travel search engine for Latin America and other Spanish speaking countries. Turismocity searches in hundreds of travel websites including hotels, airlines and online travel agents.The company was founded in 2013 by the same founders as Descuentocity a website that is visited by more than 4.5 million visitors per month.Turismocity is focused on local markets in countries such as Brazil, México, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú and Spain.

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Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Mexico, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Frizata — Frizata is the first digitally native, vertical brand in the flexitarian frozen food space.
Capitalizarme — Capitalizarme.com is an E2E marketplace, just like Amazon or MeLi, but for real estate assets. They basically choose the best investment options and simplify the process to make a responsible investment. Discover opportunities and investment guidance, buy and manage online with just a few clicks using state-of-the-art tech.
Katapult Commerce — Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.

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Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
ConﬁAbogado — ConﬁAbogado is an online legal firm that provides legal solutions to low-income people.

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HM Capital Partners is a sector-focused private equity firm that primarily makes control investments in the energy, food, and media industries, where the Firm has extensive experience, expertise, relationships, and access to differentiated deal flow. Since its inception, the firm has completed more than 150 transactions in these sectors for atotal transaction value in excess of $26 billion.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Sagimet Biosciences — Sagimet Biosciences better reflects our expertise in fatty acid metabolism and current focus on developing ground-breaking therapeutics to treat the liver disease NASH.
Porton Advanced Solutions — WHO WE ARE Innately innovative At Porton Advanced Solutions, we are committed to accelerating delivery of life-changing advanced therapies to patients. As a Cell and Gene Therapy CDMO company, we
Osteal Therapeutics — Osteal Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel musculoskeletal therapeutics to treat orthopedic infections and their consequences.

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