Top 5 Startup Investors in Colombia in October 2023

Kai Schmitz is Investment Lead for the Global FinTech Investment Group of IFC, the largest Fintech investor in emerging markets. He is responsible for equity and debt investments in emerging market Fintech companies, with focus on Payments and Online Lenders. In Latin America, he worked on Fintech investments in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexio,and Uruguay. Kai is a Board member or advisor at different FinTech and financial services companies in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the US, including companies in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Before joining IFC, Kai worked at the Payment Systems Development Group of the World Bank, advising central banks, other government agencies and multilateral organizations such as the G20 DWG on payment market regulation. Previously he was co-founder and Executive Vice President/COO of MFIC, a financial services platform in the US targeted at immigrants from Latin America, and co-founded a remittance company in London called Money Systems. Originally a lawyer, he worked at law firms in London and Hamburg.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Neivor — Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities.
Minka — minka is an open network that enables organizations to move money in real time
Contabilizei — Contabilizei offers an online accounting service for small and micro enterprises. The company positively impacted the lives of thousands of micro and small businesses by implementing cost-effective, intelligent online accounting. Fábio Bacarin and Vitor Torres founded it in January 2014, with its headquarters in Curitiba in Brazil.

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We back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
Mauve — Fully Compliant, Non-Custodial Exchange

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Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

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We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
SuaQuadra — Quadra is a commercial real estate marketplace. Major technology and real estate investors' support, including Kaszek, Canary, ONEVC, and the Cyrela family.
Comp — Compareemcasa is a comparison website developed to help consumers when deciding what services to hire online. It enables consumers to compare insurance services, loans, and more. The company's focus is on financial products and services enabling Latin American households to save time and money.Compareemcasa is headquartered in São Paulo,Brazil and was founded on 2009.

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