Sergio Romo

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

61 past transactions

Bright

Seed Round in 2015
Bright offers residential solar for the developing world at $0 upfront. They operating first in Mexico, where electricity rates are 2-3x (that of the US), there's 40% more sun, and installation costs are half as much.

Oolu

Seed Round in 2015
Oolu is the fastest growing off-grid solar company West Africa. Our Vision is to be the leading energy and financial service provider to millions of customers in the developing world. Our model, developed with local communities, allows us to reach off-grid households in rural villages offering them modern energy access. With a monthly payment model reducing barriers to access, as well as maintenance, parts and battery replacements included in our service, we save our clients money and assure them a continuous, dependable source of energy. In Wolof, a national language of Senegal, Oolu means ‘trust’. By building trust with the communities in which we work, we can grow together.

Konta

Seed Round in 2022
Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with its headquarters in Monterrey, México.

Qurable

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Qurable is a SaaS/BaaS platform that is revolutionizing loyalty programs through its artificial intelligence and blockchain-based product. It simplifies the creation of interconnected loyalty programs and personalized rewards, thereby enhancing customer engagement. Moreover, it transforms points into valuable assets that can be exchanged within multi-brand ecosystems, making loyalty more accessible and user-friendly. Company detail in https://qurable.co

Orchata

Seed Round in 2021
Orchata develops a Software-as-a-Services platform for grocery stores and other food suppliers. Its platform allows suppliers to receive orders online, accept payments, optimize delivery routes, and launch promotions and referrals; and revenue, orders, and customer analytics. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Monterrey, Mexico.

HigherMe

Seed Round in 2015
HigherMe Inc. operates a platform that uses information and videos to help retail and management employers find, screen, and recruit employees. Its platform enables employers to search through database of candidates; digitize onboarding paperwork; automate monthly recruitment; screen tax credits; customize assessments; and track applications. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brighton, Massachusetts.

Vitau

Seed Round in 2019
VITAU MEDICAL, S.A.P.I. DE C.V. operates an online subscription pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases. The company allow users to choose products and quantity they need, share address and payment method, and receive products. VITAU MEDICAL, S.A.P.I. DE C.V. was founded in 2019 and is based in Monterrey, Mexico.

Pulse

Seed Round in 2017
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mureni

Seed Round in 2019
Mureni helps dentists in Latin America to increase their revenue and improve their operation through technology. We are a fast-growing healthcare startup based in Mexico city, operating in Mexico and Brazil.

Justo

Venture Round in 2020
Justo is to provide custom-built e-commerce websites for restaurant brands and provide order and delivery for a maximum of 15 percent take — plus the owners get to keep the precious data accrued from the service.

Public Goods

Seed Round in 2017
Public Goods manufactures and markets unisex health, beauty, household, grocery, and vitamins and supplements. The company offers products, including hair and body products, dental care, menstrual care, essential oils, travel, gifts, cleaners, tree free paper, laundry, kitchen, bathroom, linens, candles, cereals and breakfast, beverages, pastas and sauces, baking, soups, canned goods, spices, condiments, oils and vinegars, snacks, and vitamins and supplements for women's health, men's health, heart, hair/skin/nails, immunity, stress, fitness, and protein powders. The company sells its products online. Public Goods was formerly known as Morgans. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

100 Ladrillos

Seed Round in 2017
The first Marketplace for Real Estate fractions traded 100% online powered by BlockChain

Oja.la

Seed Round in 2014
Oja.la is an online learning platform for computer skills in Latin America. Oja.la has developed 1,500 classes.- 70 tech programs, released 16 new programs last month and are planning to double the new release of new courses monthly.

SimpleCitizen

Seed Round in 2016
SimpleCitizen, Inc. develops digital immigration and visa solution for customers. The company offers citizenship; green card; employment authorization document; visa; and marriage based green card applications. It also provides green card application streamlining and tracking services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of September 17, 2020, SimpleCitizen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP.

Unbabel

Seed Round in 2015
Unbabel enables modern enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, with always-on, scalable translation across digital channels. Powered by AI and refined by a global community of translators, Unbabel combines the speed and scale of machine translation with the authenticity that can come only from a native speaker. Unbabel has raised over $31M in funding and has over 200 employees across its Lisbon headquarters and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh. Leading brands like Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and EasyJet use Unbabel to make their customers happier and their support operations vastly more efficient.

Disclosures.io

Seed Round in 2017
Disclosures.io builds software to help real estate agents manage property disclosures.

Asistia

Seed Round in 2016
Mexico's best home care marketplace. Through Asistia you can find the perfect caregiver or nurse for your family. We certify 100% of our Associates, making the process for you and your family easy and safe. Tell us what you need and when do you need it, we will automatically show you the best nurses and caregivers available for you.

FutureLeague

Seed Round in 2014
FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Paid

Seed Round in 2014
Paid Inc. provides online billing solutions. The company offers Autopilot, a billing API for accounts receivable. It allows users to accept money through various payment methods, including ACH, credit cards, wires, checks, and Paypal; and track, store, and bill payments. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

SimpleCitizen

Seed Round in 2019
SimpleCitizen, Inc. develops digital immigration and visa solution for customers. The company offers citizenship; green card; employment authorization document; visa; and marriage based green card applications. It also provides green card application streamlining and tracking services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As of September 17, 2020, SimpleCitizen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP.

Grin Scooters

Seed Round in 2018
Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.

Upgraded

Seed Round in 2016
Upgraded operates an online platform that helps users to upgrade their phones, tablets, computers, and accessories. Pick from any number of phones, tablets, computers and accessories from your favorite brands. Time upgrades on your own terms—like every year for your phone, or every three years for your laptop and pay just one low monthly price. No more keeping track of old devices, or selling them on craigslist. Upgrades and exchanges happen automatically according to your plan.

ShiftLabs

Seed Round in 2015
Shift Labs makes beautifully designed, human-centered technologies that improve the lives of people around the globe. They use innovative engineering to create low-cost solutions to everyday problems.

Bulletin

Seed Round in 2017
Bulletin, Inc. develops and operates a wholesale marketplace where individual designers and brands sell their products online. The company sells home decor products, such as prints, planters, kitchen items, bedding, decor, furniture, goods, lighting, jewelry, and cards online. In addition, the company hosts shared storefronts and vacant commercial spaces, as well as fills them with emerging designers' works to sell their products in person. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Unima

Seed Round in 2019
Unima developed a fast and low cost diagnostic and disease surveillance technology for low resource settings. This technology allows anyone, even those with no technical training, to diagnose a disease at the point of care, without the need of lab equipment, with results on 15 minutes and at $1 per test. The company's goal is to solve the problem of lack of access to timely diagnostic regardless of where you live and your ability to pay.

cottonTracks

Seed Round in 2013
CottonTracks is the journal of your online discoveries. Its browser extension replaces your browser history and bookmarks with an automated systems that privately records the best of what you read on the web and organizes it in a comprehensive way. Currently available on Opera, Chrome and other Chromium based browsers.

Runa

Seed Round in 2018
Businesses from every walk of life use rewards to acquire, retain and thank customers but the current process is broken. Sending rewards, incentives and non-cash payouts is manual, expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. WeGift changes this. Operating in more than 30 countries, in 22 languages, 20 currencies, with over 700 brand partners, and hundreds of clients, like Perkbox, Sodexo, New Look and Halfords among others, WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally. Established in 2016, WeGift is backed by leading entrepreneurs and investors.

Rappi

Seed Round in 2015
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

Skyways

Seed Round in 2017
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization. The company's focus in the immediate future is on cargo transportation with the idea to then fund a new personal air transportation vehicle that will be operated as a service. Skyways has a big focus on software to enable full autonomy and large scale fleet operations. Skyways was founded in 2017, is YC-backed and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Poliglota

Seed Round in 2021
Poliglota was founded in 2012 and aims at changing the way people learn languages. It gathers people in small social groups in coffee places instead of classrooms, led by expert teachers, and using a social methodology. It is based on a program of innovative and social activities, focusing on social skills that create faster and more effective learning progress. Poliglota won the Avonni award for Innovation, was selected by the IDB as one of the disruptive educational innovations in Latin America and is selling over USD $2 M in language plans, while they keep expanding their model.

Ripio

Seed Round in 2013
Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using the blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions with credit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.

Cambly

Seed Round in 2014
Cambly Inc. develops a mobile application that connects students who want to learn a language with a native speaker who can help them learn. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the San Francisco, California.

bxblue

Seed Round in 2017
bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordable personal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.

Boxouse

Seed Round in 2017
Boxouse is the product of curiosity and mishap by Luke and Heather. They build beautiful, sustainable, portable, affordable houses for everyone. Inspired by portable, modular shipping containers and fed up with paying rising rents in San Francisco for non ideal housing they set out to redefine the landscape in which they lived and rethink housing for modern aspirations. Boxouse started on a vacant lot in 2013 and quickly grew into a community of friends who all shared a common goal of experimenting with sustainability and building. They still run all their production out of beautiful Oakland California. Their catalogue offers a variety of houses from minimal to a luxe edition with wheels, solar and full utilities.

Cambly

Seed Round in 2016
Cambly Inc. develops a mobile application that connects students who want to learn a language with a native speaker who can help them learn. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the San Francisco, California.

Orchata

Seed Round in 2021
Orchata develops a Software-as-a-Services platform for grocery stores and other food suppliers. Its platform allows suppliers to receive orders online, accept payments, optimize delivery routes, and launch promotions and referrals; and revenue, orders, and customer analytics. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Monterrey, Mexico.

Redspread

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Redspread is a collaborative deployment tool for managing environments from development to production. It enables the deployment of Docker projects to a Kubernetes cluster using a single command. Redspread was launched in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BIOS

Seed Round in 2017
BIOS is developing a full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions. BIOS began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and an R&D office in Montreal, Canada.

Skyways

Seed Round in 2017
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization. The company's focus in the immediate future is on cargo transportation with the idea to then fund a new personal air transportation vehicle that will be operated as a service. Skyways has a big focus on software to enable full autonomy and large scale fleet operations. Skyways was founded in 2017, is YC-backed and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

PingStamp

Seed Round in 2015
Complete loyalty platform for businesses and users, for the first time in Mexico. PingStamp provide a simple solution to a common problem, manage and improve your relationship with your costumers, with a fun and user friendly way to do it.

Livement

Seed Round in 2016
Livement provides tickets and concessions for sports stadiums. Livement builds feature-rich websites and mobile apps. Livement provides the most comprehensive and friendly admin tool to manage events, ticketing, food and drinks, merchandise, and parking.

Moshi

Seed Round in 2012
Digital media portafolio with an audience of over 5 million unique visitors each month. Our main asset is eslamoda.com an online magazine that was born over 8 years ago, focused on young women.

Solugen

Seed Round in 2017
Solugen is a specialty chemicals ​manufacturer creating chemistries that are safe, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly. The company manufactures and supplies of registered biocides and specialty bio-based solutions for divalent control in process flow assurance and asset integrity. Solugen's patented approach takes advantage of bio-inspired reactions to use plant material as a low-cost feedstock to produce novel products cost-competitive with the competition.

Beek

Seed Round in 2016
Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.

Tab

Seed Round in 2015
With Tab, Inc. develops a marketplace for travelers and tourist business. Its application enables users to book hotels, hostels, activities, and tours while they are abroad. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in California.

Billpocket

Convertible Note in 2016
Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.

instaDM

Seed Round in 2012
instaDM develops mobile application for direct messaging service through Instagram. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Mexico.

Returnbase

Venture Round in 2017
Returnbase offers reverse logistics as a service to help retailers sell returned and excess inventory.

Kiwibot

Angel Round in 2017
Kiwi Campus, often referred to as Kiwi, is an on demand convenience service that delivers what you need, day or night. Our Kiwibots - cute little delivery robots - deliver right up to your doorstep. Kiwibot is making deliveries more affordable and accessible for communities. We're helping people with deliveries that are cheaper and faster than ever before. Kiwibots mesh seamlessly within the fabric of our sidewalks and empower anyone to get anything they want in under 30 minutes.

String Publisher

Seed Round in 2012
String Publisher is a solution to create digital publications via the PC web browser. Users can add videos, audios, image galleries, and more, with drag and drop options. They can create catalogs, comicbooks, magazines, eBooks, journals, portfolios, and other kind of documents and publications. The app is available for iOS and Android devices.

Runa

Seed Round in 2018
Runa Hr LLC develops human resources software for small to medium-sized companies. The platform allows calculating payroll and managing employees' data. It also allows to request vacations or make request and to review employee’s used and available time. The company’s features include employers can check payroll; edit an employee’s data; verify RFCs; timbrado which perform the process of payroll stamping, to obtain the folios of employees; and download and send payment receipts and CFDi. Runa Hr LLC was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

Wright Electric, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Wright Electric, Inc. is building technologies for large commercial airplanes. The company is currently developing their flagship Airplane, the Wright 1, which will be a 186-seat single aisle airliner with an 800 mile range. The company hopes to achieve entry to service for the Wright 1 by 2030 and is working with commercial airlines including easyJet and VivaAerobus. In addition to the newly announced U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E funding, the company is funded by Y Combinator, the Clean Energy Trust and venture funds.

Pocket Supernova

Seed Round in 2014
Pocket Supernova develops video-messaging and other mobile applications. The company developed Unda, an application that enables its users to record videos and decorate them with text and graphics; Video Selfie; and WatchMe, a messenger app. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Hostspot

Seed Round in 2014
Hostspot is a Multichannel platform that helps you discover and understand trends and behavior of customers within their stores Hostspot helps you to enhance in-store shopping experiences. Their fully integrated suite works based on beacons & wifi proximity technology, enables your company to measure, interact and communicate with customers in real time. You can not improve what you can not measure. Know exactly what’s happening in-store in real time for optimizing operations.

Payit

Seed Round in 2017
Payit is an application that allows you to make payments easily and safely. Payit is revolutionizing the way that people, businesses, governments, and others interact when it comes to payments.

Rappi

Series B in 2016
Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.

SinDelantal

Seed Round in 2010
SinDelantal México, S.A. de C.V. owns and operates an online food delivery platform. The company was formerly known as Mi Orden Online S.A. de C.V. and changed its name to SinDelantal México, S.A. de C.V. in January 2012. The company is based in Mexico City, Mexico. As of February 13, 2015, SinDelantal México, S.A. de C.V. operates as a subsidiary of JUST EAT plc.

Onlulo, Inc

Seed Round in 2015
Onlulo is a cloud-based platform that enables startups to manage contacts, sales, tasks, and projects online. The company is based in Columbia, Maryland.