DILA Capital

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of our partners.
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Ryan Albert

Associate

Alejandro Diez Barroso

Managing Partner

Eduardo Clavé

Managing Partner

JF

John Farrell

Venture Partner

Past deals in Mexico

Ben & Frank

Seed Round in 2018
Ben & Frank provides an online optical store intended to disrupt the traditional optical market. Its portal offers fashionable glasses of various types such as anti-reflective, polycarbonate, anti-scratch, polarized, and UV resistant glasses as well as vision testing system, enabling consumers to have access to affordable glasses.

Incode Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
Incode Technologies Inc. develops Incode Omni, an omnichannel biometric identity platform, that offers services, such as opening accounts, authenticate identity, and making payments. The company offers incode hello, a chat and video conference solution; incode welcome, it enables to apply for a new bank account or credit card; incode facepay, a face powered transaction verification system; incode talk, a face authentication for apps; and incode greet. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.

Someone Somewhere

Venture Round in 2020
Someone Somewhere is a lifestyle brand on a mission to get millions of artisans out of poverty. Combining traditional embroidery with fresh products aimed at the millennial market, Someone Somewhere is a digitally native vertical brand that provides employment to artisans in Mexico’s poorest villages.

Tu Canton

Angel Round in 2014
Tu Canton is a leading PropTech player developing a real estate full-stack marketplace in Mexico. Through its scalable, tech-first solution the company focuses on helping clients buy and sell their homes in the easiest possible way. Focused on the region's largest economic segments (C-D), the company is using technology to empower those most in need.

Alana

Seed Round in 2019
Alana is a jobs marketplace for Hotels, Stores, and Restaurants in LATAM. It is created to match companies with the right talent, and diminish employee turnover and loss of time (+money) in the recruiting process. Through a web and mobile app, the company match great talent with the right job opportunities in real time. It simplifies communication between companies and candidates through a chatbot and facilitate scheduling through an automatic internal agenda. Also, Alana generate live reports for companies to track their HR process such as time spent in recruiting, turnover rate, current staff satisfaction, among others.

Sistema.bio

Series A in 2019
Sistema.bio is a hybrid reactor biodigester that transforms the manure of animals into biogas and a potent, natural fertilizer. By inputting the manure in the system on a daily basis, you will be able to develop and grow your activities on the farm, improve your energy security, and protect the environment. Transforming your animals’ manure into resource will provide you with a better quality of life!

KUSHKI S.A.

Series B in 2021
Kushki is a payment platform tailor-made for Latin America that uses local logic and pricing and can be rapidly integrated. It connects LATAM through payments. Kushki offers clients an integrated payments platform and omnichannel solutions for e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical stores. The startup’s API standardizes the ecosystem’s fragmented payments landscape, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks with over 300,000 physical points of payment. Founded in New York City in 2016, by serial entrepreneurs, Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, the company has operations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, USA and Canada.

KUSHKI S.A.

Series B in 2022
Kushki is a payment platform tailor-made for Latin America that uses local logic and pricing and can be rapidly integrated. It connects LATAM through payments. Kushki offers clients an integrated payments platform and omnichannel solutions for e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical stores. The startup’s API standardizes the ecosystem’s fragmented payments landscape, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks with over 300,000 physical points of payment. Founded in New York City in 2016, by serial entrepreneurs, Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, the company has operations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, USA and Canada.

Slang

Series A in 2021
Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers proficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.

Sistema.bio

Series C in 2019
Sistema.bio is a hybrid reactor biodigester that transforms the manure of animals into biogas and a potent, natural fertilizer. By inputting the manure in the system on a daily basis, you will be able to develop and grow your activities on the farm, improve your energy security, and protect the environment. Transforming your animals’ manure into resource will provide you with a better quality of life!

Fairplay

Series A in 2022
Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.

Incode Technologies

Series B in 2021
Incode Technologies Inc. develops Incode Omni, an omnichannel biometric identity platform, that offers services, such as opening accounts, authenticate identity, and making payments. The company offers incode hello, a chat and video conference solution; incode welcome, it enables to apply for a new bank account or credit card; incode facepay, a face powered transaction verification system; incode talk, a face authentication for apps; and incode greet. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.

iVoy

Seed Round in 2016
iVoy is the first online delivery service in Mexico within 90 minutes you can monitor in real time from the comfort of your smartphone or computer. Through a business model based on collaborative economy (Crowdsourcing) and by technological developments (app and web) they provide the fastest and efficient logistics to their customers while generating new jobs that allows independent financial support to vulnerable social groups or individuals searching to generate an extra income. If you are an E-commerce looking to make same-day deliveries to meet and engage your customers, you have an offline business model and you need to manage your product shipments, supplies, and documents; or you are an individual who needs to send or collect an item on specific in 90 minutes or less, iVoy is for you. We were born in 2011 as an offline start-up whose goal was to facilitate the logistics service in such a chaotic and complicated place like Mexico City, today we moved their operations to online platforms whose mission is to revolutionize the market for local deliveries through app digital systems and web, using the GPS technology we provide a system of real-time tracking of sent packages, allowing us to provide maximum satisfaction and confidence to their customers and their deliveries. Currently, iVoy makes deliveries in Mexico City and Guadalajara and projects a rapid national and international expansion. It has more than 250 motorcyclists associated, micro-entrepreneurs who are owners of a motorcycle to which they are given the opportunity to obtain a source of income between 14 and 15 thousand pesos per month and the possibility to get integrated into the formal economy. iVoy is available for iOS systems and is expected to release the Android version in late February 2016.

Aliada

Seed Round in 2015
Aliada is a marketplace for finding a trusted cleaning professional and improving the working conditions of the domestic service industry. With Aliada, in under one minute, you will be matched with a reference-checked, and quality assured cleaning professional who will leave you a happy and clean home. Aliada makes your life easier, at the same time it helps Mexican women build a better life for themselves. At an affordable price and without contracts or hidden fees, customers will receive a trusted highly rated aliada. For their cleaning professionals, becoming an aliada can be a life changing opportunity. All of their aliadas receive medical insurance, economic incentives, and educational opportunities for their professional and personal advancement. At aliada, their mission is to impact over 2 million domestic workers who work in sub-optimal conditions. They believe that by investing in women who are committed to their own advancement and that of their families, They can do their part to contribute to a better Mexican society.

Ben & Frank

Venture Round in 2021
Ben & Frank provides an online optical store intended to disrupt the traditional optical market. Its portal offers fashionable glasses of various types such as anti-reflective, polycarbonate, anti-scratch, polarized, and UV resistant glasses as well as vision testing system, enabling consumers to have access to affordable glasses.

Kinedu SAPI de CV

Convertible Note in 2017
Kinedu is an app that provides fun and age-based daily activity ideas to do with your little one. Each activity targets a key developmental area, helping your baby reach every milestone.

Incode Technologies

Series A in 2021
Incode Technologies Inc. develops Incode Omni, an omnichannel biometric identity platform, that offers services, such as opening accounts, authenticate identity, and making payments. The company offers incode hello, a chat and video conference solution; incode welcome, it enables to apply for a new bank account or credit card; incode facepay, a face powered transaction verification system; incode talk, a face authentication for apps; and incode greet. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.

Henry

Series A in 2022
Henry trains software developers for free and helps them find a job in exchange for a share of their future income. The company is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tu Canton

Seed Round in 2014
Tu Canton is a leading PropTech player developing a real estate full-stack marketplace in Mexico. Through its scalable, tech-first solution the company focuses on helping clients buy and sell their homes in the easiest possible way. Focused on the region's largest economic segments (C-D), the company is using technology to empower those most in need.

Urbvan

Convertible Note in 2018
Urbvan is an App-based mass transit mobility network that smartly connects inner-city commuting by providing a safe, comfortable, and efficient commute. Founded in 2016, Urbvan is a daily commute transportation system that aims to make commuting in LATAM more efficient, secure, and comfortable all through a mobile app. Urbvan provides express routes service with no intermediary stops and with selected close-to-each-other pickup and drop-off locations.

moons

Series A in 2021
Moons is a health, wellness, and fitness company that offers dental services. Its services feature a new way to straighten teeth without using braces by providing transparent aligners. they create a 3D model of teeth, then, one of their specialists will design treatment. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.

KUSHKI S.A.

Series B in 2021
Kushki is a payment platform tailor-made for Latin America that uses local logic and pricing and can be rapidly integrated. It connects LATAM through payments. Kushki offers clients an integrated payments platform and omnichannel solutions for e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical stores. The startup’s API standardizes the ecosystem’s fragmented payments landscape, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks with over 300,000 physical points of payment. Founded in New York City in 2016, by serial entrepreneurs, Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, the company has operations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, USA and Canada.

Urbvan

Seed Round in 2017
Urbvan is an App-based mass transit mobility network that smartly connects inner-city commuting by providing a safe, comfortable, and efficient commute. Founded in 2016, Urbvan is a daily commute transportation system that aims to make commuting in LATAM more efficient, secure, and comfortable all through a mobile app. Urbvan provides express routes service with no intermediary stops and with selected close-to-each-other pickup and drop-off locations.

Tu Canton

Angel Round in 2015
Tu Canton is a leading PropTech player developing a real estate full-stack marketplace in Mexico. Through its scalable, tech-first solution the company focuses on helping clients buy and sell their homes in the easiest possible way. Focused on the region's largest economic segments (C-D), the company is using technology to empower those most in need.

Crehana

Series B in 2021
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Tu Canton

Venture Round in 2016
Tu Canton is a leading PropTech player developing a real estate full-stack marketplace in Mexico. Through its scalable, tech-first solution the company focuses on helping clients buy and sell their homes in the easiest possible way. Focused on the region's largest economic segments (C-D), the company is using technology to empower those most in need.

Econduce

Seed Round in 2015
ECONDUCE, S.A.P.I. DE C.V operates as an on demand electronic scooter company. The company offers shared electronic scooter services with a network of charging stations. It also offers mobile application to book scooters online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico. As of March 31, 2019, ECONDUCE, S.A.P.I. DE C.V. operates as a subsidiary of Grow Mobility.

Sistema Biobolsa

Series A in 2019
Sistema Biobolsa fabricates and sells a patented high quality biodigester system and promotes education and capacity building. Our clients save money, time, and improve their quality of life by treating waste and producing energy and fertilizer. By fabricating a durable good with standard sizes, providing a high direct margin and promotional tools, we can grow through existing distribution networks to a large market. Divided in three segments: 1) subsistence farmers living on less than $2/day with low purchasing power in rural areas with a few animals and farmland; 2) rural small farmers that have agricultural production for consumption and commercialization, who have improved purchasing power and limited access to micro-credit; 3) medium-scale farmers that have commercial agricultural operations, higher purchasing power, access to credit but are still too small for an industrial scale biodigester system. There are 400 million of these farmers worldwide with 5 million in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. We aim to serve 6-10 thousand per year in 3-5 years. Sistema Biobolsa provides a robust piece of farm infrastructure that acts as a waste treatment, energy production, and fertilizer system that can have deep health, economic, and environmental benefits for the end users. With a full package of technology, products, methodology, and promotion, we offer a large opportunity for entrepreneurs that want to distribute and sell Sistema Biobolsa in their local markets.

Dvdendo, Llc

Series A in 2018
Dvdendo makes investing as easy as spending. To become an investor and Dvdendo member, sign up from your smartphone, link your bank account and the debit or credit card you use most frequently, and then sit back as our service automatically invests a small portion of your daily expenditures in a portfolio of thousands of stocks and bonds. Becoming an investor is easy and should be available to everyone. With Dvdendo you can own a piece of the world's greatest companies with just $5.

KUSHKI S.A.

Series A in 2020
Kushki is a payment platform tailor-made for Latin America that uses local logic and pricing and can be rapidly integrated. It connects LATAM through payments. Kushki offers clients an integrated payments platform and omnichannel solutions for e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical stores. The startup’s API standardizes the ecosystem’s fragmented payments landscape, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks with over 300,000 physical points of payment. Founded in New York City in 2016, by serial entrepreneurs, Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, the company has operations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, USA and Canada.

Urbvan

Series A in 2019
Urbvan is an App-based mass transit mobility network that smartly connects inner-city commuting by providing a safe, comfortable, and efficient commute. Founded in 2016, Urbvan is a daily commute transportation system that aims to make commuting in LATAM more efficient, secure, and comfortable all through a mobile app. Urbvan provides express routes service with no intermediary stops and with selected close-to-each-other pickup and drop-off locations.

Outlet de Viajes

Seed Round in 2013
Outlet de Viajes is one of the leading e-commerce companies in Mexico, aimed to provide online buyers a unique shopping experience with exclusive deals and special offers from different online shops.

Petsy

Series A in 2013
Petsy.mx is Mexico's premier petcare e-tailer. It offers a wide selection of products across a broad variety of pet types, helping its customers avoid the hassle of walking to and from the store and the convenience of having the widest assortment of pet supplies in the country right at their fingertips. The company operates daily to offer pets a variety of quality products and an excellent delivery experience directly to a home and at a good price. Petsy.mx was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Mexico.

Crehana

Series A in 2019
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Crehana

Venture Round in 2020
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.

Petsy

Venture Round in 2013
Petsy.mx is Mexico's premier petcare e-tailer. It offers a wide selection of products across a broad variety of pet types, helping its customers avoid the hassle of walking to and from the store and the convenience of having the widest assortment of pet supplies in the country right at their fingertips. The company operates daily to offer pets a variety of quality products and an excellent delivery experience directly to a home and at a good price. Petsy.mx was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Mexico.

Emptor

Seed Round in 2019
We train emulated minds to do work better and faster than humans

Kinedu SAPI de CV

Series A in 2018
Kinedu is an app that provides fun and age-based daily activity ideas to do with your little one. Each activity targets a key developmental area, helping your baby reach every milestone.

Tu Canton

Venture Round in 2015
Tu Canton is a leading PropTech player developing a real estate full-stack marketplace in Mexico. Through its scalable, tech-first solution the company focuses on helping clients buy and sell their homes in the easiest possible way. Focused on the region's largest economic segments (C-D), the company is using technology to empower those most in need.

Shoe Lovers, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Shoe Lovers, Inc. owns and operates an internet community, Yo Amo los Zapatos, for shoe lovers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Resuelve tu Deuda

Venture Round in 2020
Resuelve tu Deuda was founded by Javier Velasquez and Juan Pablo Zorrilla, who found a new alternative to solve the problem of over-indebtedness in Mexico. The idea was born while they were pursuing a master's degree in business at Stanford University (California, USA) and after several months of hard work in September 2009 they began their operations to become the first credit repair company in Mexico. Resuelve emerges as a company capable of resolving the unpayable debts of thousands of Mexicans who were victims of over-indebtedness registered between the years 2002 to 2009. In Resuelve we understand the great need of Mexicans to have a reliable advisor to help them solve their financial problems . At the same time, we are able to repair the past due loans of banks, which has suffered a great deterioration in recent years.

BYHOURS

Venture Round in 2020
ByHours Travel SL operates an online platform for booking hotel rooms. Its platform allows users to book hotels in Valencia, Bilbao, Barcelona, Seville, and Madrid, Spain; Edinburgh, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

BEWE (formerly miora)

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2016 and launched in five countries — Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — BEWE operates a SaaS platform for beauty & wellness centers.

Camino Financial, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Camino Financial, Inc. operates an online platform for small businesses that provides advice on securing capital and building business credit. Its platform provides access to business funding and assists its clients in applying for various funding products, including term loans, SBA express loans, merchant cash advances, and invoice financing. The company also offers financial services, including credit analytics and technical assistance. Camino Financial, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Camino Financial, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Camino Financial, Inc. operates an online platform for small businesses that provides advice on securing capital and building business credit. Its platform provides access to business funding and assists its clients in applying for various funding products, including term loans, SBA express loans, merchant cash advances, and invoice financing. The company also offers financial services, including credit analytics and technical assistance. Camino Financial, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.