Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm started by a group of investors and entrepreneurs with over 60 years of experience creating and backing successful ventures globally. Kalei is on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs creating global leaders based in the region. It was born with a clear focus on international expansion and global leadership for its portfolio companies, as demonstrated by the fact that its partners have lived and invested in startups across four continents and their networks span the whole globe. 
Kalei held its first closing in January 2019 and has already invested in companies based in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the USA. All the entrepreneurs we have backed have developed international careers themselves. Mexico, Colombia, and Peru also form part of our core geographies to source leading entrepreneurs.
In order to marry our international passion and expertise with the strengths of the regional ecosystem in Latin America, our investment thesis revolves around sectors where Latin America can create global leaders, either because of the quality of the education system and importance of regional companies in a particular sector or because of the global importance of the region as a percentage of the global output in a given sector. These sectors include software development applications (e.g. marketplaces, consumer internet, fintech, edtech) and sectors that heavily benefit from new trends like Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (e.g. healthtech, agtech, logistics). 
Kalei stands for ‘Kaleidoscope’, which symbolizes the importance of diversity of thought background, ethnicity, and gender in our team.

Kalei Ventures

General Partner

Moova raised $3600000 on 2021-02-10 in Corporate Round

Moova is a technological platform that captures idle logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of independent "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source of income. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America.

Moova

Someone Somewhere raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-01-11 in Venture Round

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.

Someone Somewhere

Nilus raised $1332000 on 2021-06-01 in Seed Round

Nilus is a social enterprise that applies AI and crowdsourcing to reduce food loss and waste. It rescues edible food that is about to be discarded and distributes it among community kitchens.

Nilus was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal.

Nilus

Mudafy raised $1800000 on 2019-08-19 in Seed Round

Mudafy operates as a real estate broker in Mexico. It offers services for homeowners to sell and rent out their properties. Mudafy was founded in 2018 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Mudafy

Wibond raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-01-06 in Pre Seed Round

Under the “buy now pay later” business model, Wibond is a 100% flexible digital payment method to pay in installments and without a card. It provides financial access to a large community offering payment options according to the possibilities and the profile of each user.
- Companies increase their sales by approaching a new user community and offering an innovative payment alternative.
- Users access a universe of stores and businesses to be able to pay in installments without a card.
The platform sets out an ambitious vision and seeks to promote trade in Latin America, a very complex region. Their next steps include landing in Chile and Mexico. 
Wibond was founded in Argentina in 2020 by Ezequiel Bucai and Alejandro Silvestre. In 2013 they created a platform where users accessed a network of more than 2,500 gyms and sports centers located in 30 cities in Argentina, Mexico and Chile. Then Classpass, the US Unicorn, acquired Clickypass.

Wibond

Agroforte raised $1140012 on 2022-02-02 in Seed Round

Agroforte

Moova raised $10000000 on 2022-06-14 in Series A

Hometuls raised $295000 on 2020-12-31 in Pre Seed Round

Hometuls makes the interaction between buying and selling companies from the construction industry much simpler and faster, by delivering procurement and sales services to them, while assuring their easy access to financial services.

Hometuls

elery raised $480000 on 2022-02-20 in Pre Seed Round

Elery Brands

HUNTY raised $2000000 on 2021-10-21 in Seed Round

HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.

HUNTY

HUNTY raised $250000 on 2021-03-21 in Pre Seed Round

Wúru raised $800000 on 2021-05-19 in Seed Round

Wúru

Mudango raised $1400000 on 2021-04-04 in Seed Round

Mudango is a marketplace for the moving experience. Users can seamlessly book and coordinate moving services, bulky item delivery, self-storage, among others. It currently operates in Chile and Colombia.

Mudango

Moova raised $1150000 on 2019-11-01 in Seed Round

The Podcast App raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-01-04 in Seed Round

The Podcast App is a minimalist podcast player enhanced with cutting-edge technology. They leverage machine learning to build customized podcast playlists for their users based on their interests and tastes.

The Podcast App

TinyBytes Games raised $988000 on 2018-07-01 in Series A

TinyBytes is ‘The Social Gaming Company for Action Players on Mobile’. We develop the best social features for mid-core mobile players around the world, like real-time multiplayer, clans, chats and messaging. Our players team-up, communicate, interact, and build communities around our games. We are also building our own proprietary technology solution to deliver real money rewards to the best mobile players around the world who compete in our own eSports Tournaments.

TinyBytes Games

mGrana raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-08-03 in Seed Round

MGrana offers algorithm that process data points from a user’s phone to provide a personalized loan and real-time cash.

The company provides microcredits with minimum requirements and quickly. MGrana's main goal is to help people who do not have easy access to credit at financial institutions. The company's team is comprised of mobile technology experts with experience in various industries, and complementary profiles covering the technical and product aspects of Finance with experience in Marketing and Data Science.