Cap Ventures

Cap Ventures was a venture capital firm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that specialized in a range of investment stages, including seed, early, mid, and late-stage funding. The firm focused on acquiring minority stakes in companies within the agribusiness and technology sectors, typically investing amounts between ARS 0.2 million and ARS 12 million per transaction. Cap Ventures aimed to support companies with high growth potential and preferred to take a seat on the Board of Directors of its portfolio companies. Founded in 2007, the firm is no longer actively investing.

Manuel Mauer

Managing Partner

Federico Nicolás Weil

Founder, Chairman of the Board

13 past transactions

Avenida Compras

Series A in 2013
Avenida Compras operates an e-commerce site to sell products online. The products include home products, clothing and some electronic devices. Alan Kraus, Andres Freire, Federico Malek, Pablo Orlando, Pablo Simon Casarino, and Santiago Bilinkis founded Avenida Compras on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Buenos Aires in Argentina. It operates as a subsidiary of Avenida.

WeHostels

Seed Round in 2012
WeHostels is a mobile app that helps young and budget-conscious travelers find and book value accommodations around the world, while also helping them connecting with other travelers right from their mobile devices.

AwayFind

Seed Round in 2011
AwayFind, Inc. provides a Web application that finds and delivers timely email messages. Its Web application scans the user’s email inbox for new messages; and sends an alert with the first few lines of the message when a timely email arrives, as well as stores the email messages that are specifically asked to route for the clients. It supports various cell phone providers in the world. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

Hunt Mobile Ads

Series B in 2011
HUNT Mobile Ads is the leading Mobile Advertising Network Company focusing on Latin American and Hispanic market. LatAm has 460 MM mobile phone users. Advertisers knows the strength of this channel for advertising to consumers, but do not have a way to reach them. Publishers, Mobile Operators and App Developers know that this channels can represent a new, and probably the best, revenue generador, but they do not know the way to explode such potencial. HUNT borns as the first Mobile advertsing network focused on Latin America to develop this oportunity and fulfill the gap taking chance of this great Business opportunity. HUNT is building a strong relationship with Mobile operators, big publishers, app developers, advertisers and agencies in the region, that will take the company to expand operations and grow the Business in a rapid and successful way. Our objective is to serve billions of personalized ads, specially thinked for Mobile web, converting HUNT in the main Mobile advertising network in Latinamerica.

BioScience

Seed Round in 2011
BioScience develops Medical Equipment for Neurodiagnostics and Telemedicine

AwayFind

Angel Round in 2010
AwayFind, Inc. provides a Web application that finds and delivers timely email messages. Its Web application scans the user’s email inbox for new messages; and sends an alert with the first few lines of the message when a timely email arrives, as well as stores the email messages that are specifically asked to route for the clients. It supports various cell phone providers in the world. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

HeyWire

Series D in 2004
HeyWire provides the LiveText messaging channel that today’s customers prefer, and businesses need in order to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. HeyWire’s award-winning solutions for Salesforce-powered businesses directly connect customers to brands by LiveText-enabling existing 1-800 and business phone numbers. Available in the AppExchange, these solutions support conversational text messaging, either initiated by the customer or business, from start to completion. HeyWire’s proven full-stack, messaging cloud solution supports both SMS and other mobile messaging formats, and has delivered 8 billion messages and counting. HeyWire is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Relegence

Series D in 2002
Relegence sells subscription-based services that offer real-time discovery, notification and delivery of information, connecting customers to cross-media content from remote locations. Using proprietary technology, Relegence simultaneously monitors, indexes, and filters live content streams - local and international newswires, television and cable networks such as CNBC, regulatory feeds such as EDGAR and RNS, corporate and information web sites, bulletin boards - and filters only the information which is relevant to his or her individual search criteria directly to the user's desktop . Relegence integrates a corporation's internal content streams, such as research, with external content in order to enable management and utilization of information in their day-to-day activities. Relegence was acquired by AOL in 2006, and continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary.

HeyWire

Series C in 2002
HeyWire provides the LiveText messaging channel that today’s customers prefer, and businesses need in order to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. HeyWire’s award-winning solutions for Salesforce-powered businesses directly connect customers to brands by LiveText-enabling existing 1-800 and business phone numbers. Available in the AppExchange, these solutions support conversational text messaging, either initiated by the customer or business, from start to completion. HeyWire’s proven full-stack, messaging cloud solution supports both SMS and other mobile messaging formats, and has delivered 8 billion messages and counting. HeyWire is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Relegence

Series C in 2001
Relegence sells subscription-based services that offer real-time discovery, notification and delivery of information, connecting customers to cross-media content from remote locations. Using proprietary technology, Relegence simultaneously monitors, indexes, and filters live content streams - local and international newswires, television and cable networks such as CNBC, regulatory feeds such as EDGAR and RNS, corporate and information web sites, bulletin boards - and filters only the information which is relevant to his or her individual search criteria directly to the user's desktop . Relegence integrates a corporation's internal content streams, such as research, with external content in order to enable management and utilization of information in their day-to-day activities. Relegence was acquired by AOL in 2006, and continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary.

HeyWire

Series B in 2001
HeyWire provides the LiveText messaging channel that today’s customers prefer, and businesses need in order to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. HeyWire’s award-winning solutions for Salesforce-powered businesses directly connect customers to brands by LiveText-enabling existing 1-800 and business phone numbers. Available in the AppExchange, these solutions support conversational text messaging, either initiated by the customer or business, from start to completion. HeyWire’s proven full-stack, messaging cloud solution supports both SMS and other mobile messaging formats, and has delivered 8 billion messages and counting. HeyWire is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Aduva

Venture Round in 2001
As of March 27, 2006, Aduva, Inc. was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Aduva, Inc. operates as a business-to-business Internet service provider. The company provides solution that eases the management of open and mixed source server stacks. It offers Aduva OnStage product, which is a life-cycle management application relying on Aduva’s dependency knowledgebase to detect, analyze, and resolve various deviation, conflicts, or drift from compliance, ensuring security, and system availability. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

HeyWire

Series A in 2000
HeyWire provides the LiveText messaging channel that today’s customers prefer, and businesses need in order to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. HeyWire’s award-winning solutions for Salesforce-powered businesses directly connect customers to brands by LiveText-enabling existing 1-800 and business phone numbers. Available in the AppExchange, these solutions support conversational text messaging, either initiated by the customer or business, from start to completion. HeyWire’s proven full-stack, messaging cloud solution supports both SMS and other mobile messaging formats, and has delivered 8 billion messages and counting. HeyWire is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.