# Top 35 Wellness Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Kevin Hale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services

Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.

## Oso Trava
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Audio, Podcast

Oso Trava

## Jeff Danley
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Wellness, Human Resources

Jeff Danley

## Jesse Damstra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Developer Platform

Jesse Damstra is a General Manager of Philips Mexico.

## Mario Solari
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Wellness, FinTech, Sports

Mario Solari is a Partner at Genesis Investment Management.

## Helena Polyblank
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Wellness

Helena Polyblank is the Co-Founder & CPO Mendel from 2021.

## Lorena Ochoa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Audio, Podcast

Lorena Ochoa

## Leonid Gluzman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Wellness

Leonid Gluzman

## Bruno Soares
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness

Bruno Soares is a Brazilian Tennis player and owns fund MadFish.

## Alfonso De los Rios
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Apps, Audio

Alfonso De los Rios is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nowports.

## Luis Roberto Marinelli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Training

Luis is a highly analytical and goal-driven professional, focused on finding simple and innovative solutions to complex problems.With a strong background in Corporate Finance, Data Analytics and Business Strategy, Luis worked in the Financial Services Industry for more than 10 years in which he served in key positions such as CFO in GrupoGuatePrenda/Maxiefectivo (GPMX) and Head of Corporate Risk in BAM (Grupo Bancolombia), two of the most important lending institutions in the region. During his time in GPMX, Luis led a complex turnaround for a Corporation with more than 50 companies in 4 countries, resulting on an EBITDA growth of 250%+. Subsequently, he had a key role on the sale of the company to EZCORP (NASDAQ: EZPW).After some time pursuing new adventures, Luis co-founded Vana, a high-growth FinTech with the mission of providing access to financial services to the unbanked and underbanked population in LATAM. Luis holds a CPA and Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship from Universidad Francisco Marroquín and completed his Executive Master in Business Analytics from ESADE. He also holds a Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst certification (FMVA®) from the Corporate Finance Institute and multiple certifications on Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Visualization.

## Eric Rea
- Type: Angel
- Location: Provo, Utah, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, FinTech, Productivity Tools

Eric Rea is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Podium.

## Dylan Field
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

## Alejandro Galvez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Banking, Payments

Angel investor

## Jason Evans
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Wellness, Communities

Jason Evans is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at OXIO.

## Lolita Taub
- Type: Angel
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Beauty, B2B

Lolita Taub is a General Partner and Founder of Ganas Ventures, a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an Enterprise Fund Investment Partner at Portfolia.Lolita is also a Co-Founder of the Startup-Investor Matching Tool, a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and an LP at Operators Collective. Forbes and Inc Magazine have featuredher as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders.She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.

## Roger Laughlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Payments, Real Estate

Roger Laughlin - Founder & COO @ Kavak

## Nicolas Girard
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Wellness, Communities

CEO / Founder @ OXIO -
3rd time entrepreneur -
Innovator in Mobile Communication -
Past life as network security experts for gov agencies. Top Secret Security Clearance

## James Park
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

## Mike Shoemaker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Wellness, Freelance

Michael Shoemaker is the chief operating officer of Roofstock.
He previously worked as the Director, Global Ridesharing Product Operations at Uber.

## Neil Thanedar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Flint, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Apps

Neil Thanedar is the Founder and GP of Utopic Ventures and the Founder and Chairman of Labdoor and Air to All.Previously, Neil was the Founder and President of Avomeen Analytical Services, a chemical analysis and product development laboratory.He has also served as Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, StateRepresentative, and US Congress in Michigan.Neil graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with degrees in Molecular Biology and Business Administration.

## Sergio Oberlander
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montevideo, NA - Uruguay, Uruguay
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Content

Sergio Oberlander

## Sergio Furio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Payments, SaaS

Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente

## Sam Altman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.

## Christian Aguirre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Christian Aguirre - Investment Team Member @ Dalus Capital

## Nina Khosla
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Beauty, Consumer, Wellness

Nina Khosla

## Emanuel Pleitez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Restaurants

Emanuel is a founding partner of East Los Capital, a technology-enabled private equity firm. Prior to East Los Capital, he invested at Sunstone Partners focusing on cloud, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, internet, and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he was a Commissioner for Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions.Emanuel's early career experiences include stints at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. Emanuel’s public sector experiences include serving in the U.S. Army and as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.Current investments of East Los Capital team: 66Degrees (66degrees.com), BeTheBeast (bethebeast.com), Breadware (breadware.com), Bump by Ownors (usebump.com), Caylent (caylent.com), DiDi (didiglobal.com), dotstudioPRO (dotstudiopro.com), Everyset (everyset.com), Fernish (fernish.com), Finix (finix.com), FLYR (flyrlabs.com), Functional Finance (functionalfi.com), Glitzi (glitzi.com.mx), Lorals (mylorals.com) Lynx Biosciences (lynx.bio), MagicLinks (magiclinks.com), myLAB Box (mylabbox.com), Nadine West (nadinewest.com), Nevados Engineering (nevados.co), Orca Inventory (orcainventory.com), Ordermark (ordermark.com), RealKey (realkey.com), Repurpose (repurpose.com), Revry (revry.tv), Rosalind Bio (rosalind.bio), Sabio (sabio.la), Signalwire (signalwire.com), Synctera (synctera.com), Tampon Tribe (tampontribe.com), Tradewell (tradewell.app), TRM Labs (trmlabs.com), ZenHub (zenhub.com)Team exited investments: Basepaws (Zoetis acq), Capillary Biomedical (Tandem Diabetes Care acq), IKizmet (ClubReady acq), Passfolio (SproutFi acq), Pasturebird (Perdue Farms acq)

## Avichal Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stanford, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

## Martin Torres Cava
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lima, Lima, Peru
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care

Doctor specialized in Diagnostic Imaging with more than 25 years of experience, also specialized in Breast Radiology, Occupational Health and Health Management, as well as in technological developments

## Mercedes Bent
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Apps, Financial Services

Mercedes Bent is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in the Bay Area. Previously she served as an executive at a VR startup and a General Manager at General Assembly (acquired, 2018) where she oversaw a multi-million dollar business line. She has an MBA and a Masters in Education from Stanford University andan AB from Harvard University. She serves as a board member for the non-profit Birthright AFRICA and in her free time she enjoys off-roading in her Jeep. She is an African American of Bermudian, Grenadian, and Colombian heritage and was named a 40 under 40 for Tech Diversity.

## Jorge Mazal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Audio, Podcast

Jorge Mazal, CPO at Duolingo.

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