Top 5 Web3 Angel Investors in Colombia in October 2023

Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Simpol — We make Simpol to everyone in LATAM buy, hold and sell stable coins and access to DeFi benefits to get better yielding than traditional financial system.
Shalder — Shalder is a flexible work community, allowing businesses across LATAM access the workforce they need, on-demand, to achieve their business goals. No bidding, prize competition, powered by IA.
Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.

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Burak Buyukdemir is the founder at Etohum.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.

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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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In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: • Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.• Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. • Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
Dondo — Get what you want giving what you have

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