Rhombuz VC

Rhombuz VC is a private equity firm based in Hong Kong that focuses on investing in emerging markets. The firm targets sectors such as healthcare, media, financial services, and consumer industries, and it aims to support disruptors globally. Rhombuz VC invests primarily in early-stage companies, from seed to Series A, particularly in the Americas, while remaining open to exceptional opportunities at any stage around the world. The firm emphasizes providing access to its global network to facilitate cross-border collaborations and aims to establish itself as a trusted advisor and mentor to its founders. Its portfolio includes notable companies like Frete, Merama, WealthSimple, Treinta, Swap, Albo, and Finhay.

Diego Luz

Partner

Jony N.

Founder

34 past transactions

Radar Treasury

Seed Round in 2023
Radar is the enterprise treasury management solution for Latam. Radar ensures that businesses have full visibility of their cash flows with tools to automate payment reconciliation, disbursement, and collections, enabling them to make savvy decisions on acquiring and investing corporate capital.

Koywe

Seed Round in 2023
Koywe is a technology company that specializes in providing payment APIs and SDKs, enabling businesses to integrate cryptocurrency services into their offerings. The company focuses on developing web3 wallet technology that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. By offering well-documented and user-friendly tools, Koywe allows developers to quickly leverage blockchain technology to create applications for remittances, digital wallets, and investment services. This approach helps companies seamlessly connect their wallets and portfolios, enhancing their financial service capabilities in the evolving digital landscape.

Bendo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bendo operates a social commerce platform that allows users to create their own businesses through social networks. The platform enables users to resell products from third-party suppliers and earn a commission, thereby facilitating a risk-free dropshipping model. By providing access to direct sales and private channels, Bendo maximizes inventory and streamlines processes for both suppliers and sellers. This unique system allows suppliers to leverage a network of vendors to distribute their products effectively while empowering users to generate income from their smartphones.

Conomy app

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Conomy is the unique digital wallet which is able to pay in any physical or digital store and works with any phone brand, helping people to manage all their money in one single place. Conomy is all cards in one (mastercard prepaid card).

Koywe

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Koywe is a technology company that specializes in providing payment APIs and SDKs, enabling businesses to integrate cryptocurrency services into their offerings. The company focuses on developing web3 wallet technology that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. By offering well-documented and user-friendly tools, Koywe allows developers to quickly leverage blockchain technology to create applications for remittances, digital wallets, and investment services. This approach helps companies seamlessly connect their wallets and portfolios, enhancing their financial service capabilities in the evolving digital landscape.

Tipspace

Seed Round in 2022
Tipspace operates an online betting platform that enables gamers to monetize their skills by wagering on matches in competitive games. Players participate in matchmaking by paying an entry fee, and each match concludes with a monetary prize. The platform focuses on creating an engaging experience for users, allowing them to select their preferred games while facilitating secure and easy transactions for tips. Catering to the growing interest in Web3, metaverse, blockchain, and NFT-based games, Tipspace offers a unique opportunity for gamers to earn money while enjoying their favorite activities.

Treinta

Series A in 2022
Treinta is a digital ledger application tailored for microbusinesses in Latin America, where a significant majority still rely on traditional pen-and-paper methods for record-keeping. The app enables users to efficiently track sales, expenses, debts, and inventory while providing real-time insights into key business metrics like cash flow and profitability. By digitizing financial processes, Treinta helps business owners save up to 30 minutes daily on bookkeeping tasks and enhances overall operational efficiency by over 30%. This innovative tool supports the estimated 50 million microbusinesses in the region by facilitating informed decision-making and streamlining financial management.

Philippo

Seed Round in 2022
Philippo is a technology company focused on transforming the real estate market by offering innovative solutions for property transactions. The company specializes in facilitating immediate liquidity for property sellers by managing legal procedures and providing a model where sellers can receive cash for their homes while continuing to live in them as renters. This approach allows individuals to access funds tied up in their properties without the pressure of incurring significant debt or rushing to sell. By enabling sellers to transition smoothly and at market value, Philippo addresses the challenges of traditional real estate transactions, ultimately helping people navigate the complexities of property sales.

Kontempo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kontempo is a prominent B2B payments platform tailored for the industrial sector in Mexico. It offers software solutions for wholesalers, manufacturers, and distributors, enabling them to provide flexible payment options such as credit and installment plans to their customers. By utilizing advanced APIs and AI-driven risk models, Kontempo allows businesses to process more credit for a wider range of clients while minimizing financial risk and the need for additional capital. The platform also facilitates alternative payment methods, including buy now, pay later and interest-free installments, helping suppliers enhance sales and improve cash flow for their small business customers.

Weltio

Angel Round in 2021
Weltio is a trading platform that provides users with the ability to open accounts in US dollars for investing in stock exchanges and cryptocurrencies. The platform focuses on wealth management, aiming to empower users to make informed investment decisions. By connecting to a global community of investors, Weltio enables individuals, particularly from middle and middle-upper classes, to trade fractional shares. This accessibility allows a broader range of people to engage with various assets and investment opportunities, fostering financial inclusion in the investment landscape.

Worc

Seed Round in 2021
Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.

Gira

Seed Round in 2021
Gira operates a B2B marketplace that caters specifically to small and medium-sized businesses, facilitating efficient and secure transactions between sellers and buyers. The platform enables retailers to easily make wholesale purchases from apparel suppliers, streamlining the purchasing process from the convenience of their own locations. By prioritizing simplicity and risk mitigation, Gira aims to enhance competitiveness and provide valuable knowledge to millions of entrepreneurs, ultimately supporting their pursuit of financial independence.

CargoX

Series F in 2021
CargoX is a technology-driven freight marketplace based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, established in 2013. The platform connects shipping companies with a network of over 1.4 million trucks, effectively addressing the issue of excess capacity in the transportation sector. By providing real-time information on available truck capacity, CargoX enhances freight visibility and helps shippers identify optimal solutions for transporting a wide range of products throughout Brazil. This approach not only reduces shipping costs for clients but also increases earnings for truck drivers while minimizing CO2 emissions associated with empty trucks on the road.

Perfekto

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Perfekto is an online retail platform focused on delivering imperfect produce directly from farms to consumers. By offering subscription boxes filled with deformed, disproportionate, and damaged fruits and vegetables, Perfekto aims to minimize food waste while providing customers with high-quality, fresh products that prioritize taste over appearance. This approach not only fosters a community of conscious buyers but also promotes sustainable consumption practices. Through its service, Perfekto allows consumers to conveniently purchase seasonal products online and have them delivered, contributing to the reduction of food waste in the region.

Mensajeros Urbanos

Venture Round in 2021
Mensajeros Urbanos is a B2B messenger service company based in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2013. It offers express messenger and delivery services through a network of independent messengers, utilizing technological platforms, applications, and webpages to connect users with drivers using various modes of transportation including motorcycles, bicycles, cars, vans, trucks, and micro-warehouses. The company is the largest and most diverse collaborative logistics network in Colombia and one of the fastest-growing in Mexico and Latin America. It provides fast, flexible, and cost-efficient last-mile logistic solutions across multiple industries such as courier services, e-commerce, restaurants, pharmacies, supermarkets, convenience stores, retail, and consumer packaged goods.

Merama

Series B in 2021
Merama is an e-commerce platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, with an additional office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The company partners with brands to enhance their growth by providing exceptional human resources and non-dilutive capital. Merama aims to establish itself as the leading online group of brands in Latin America, focusing on leveraging its resources to support and accelerate the development of its partner brands.

Verde

Seed Round in 2021
Verde is a digital platform focused on enhancing access to working capital loans for small and medium farmers in Brazil. By providing a more agile and transparent approach to rural credit, Verde simplifies the loan application process through digital means. The platform not only facilitates access to loans but also offers additional financial services, such as insurance and digital banking, aimed at supporting the growth of farmers' businesses. Through its innovative solutions, Verde enables farmers to obtain the necessary financial resources more efficiently, thereby promoting sustainable agricultural development in the region.

Kocomo

Seed Round in 2021
Kocomo is an early-stage proptech startup focused on revolutionizing second home ownership through a transparent marketplace for luxury properties. The company offers a co-ownership model that allows up to eight families to jointly own vacation homes, making luxury living more accessible. Users can browse available properties on the platform and reserve dates for their visits, ensuring that they enjoy well-equipped homes with all necessary amenities at a subsidized cost. Initially launched in Mexico, Kocomo aims to help individuals achieve their dream of vacation home ownership while fostering memorable experiences. With backing from prominent investors across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, Kocomo is positioned to expand its innovative approach to property ownership globally.

Treinta

Seed Round in 2021
Treinta is a digital ledger application tailored for microbusinesses in Latin America, where a significant majority still rely on traditional pen-and-paper methods for record-keeping. The app enables users to efficiently track sales, expenses, debts, and inventory while providing real-time insights into key business metrics like cash flow and profitability. By digitizing financial processes, Treinta helps business owners save up to 30 minutes daily on bookkeeping tasks and enhances overall operational efficiency by over 30%. This innovative tool supports the estimated 50 million microbusinesses in the region by facilitating informed decision-making and streamlining financial management.

Striga

Seed Round in 2021
Striga is a developer of a blockchain platform that provides a comprehensive suite of APIs for digital assets and financial services. The company enables businesses to integrate compliant payment solutions into their applications without the complexities associated with regulatory licensing, such as MiCA and EMI. Striga's platform offers services including user onboarding, custody, trading, IBAN issuing, and card issuing, catering to a diverse clientele that includes FinTech startups, Web3 innovators, banks, and crypto exchanges. By simplifying access to compliant financial services, Striga allows its customers to securely utilize cryptocurrency for payments across more than 30 countries in the European Union.

Alohome

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Alohome is a technology company focused on digitizing new home transactions in Latin America and the US. The company provides a platform for real estate professionals that enhances efficiency in the sales process by enabling fully digital transactions. This platform allows homebuilders and sales teams to expand their market reach through various online channels, including marketplaces and brokerages, while also centralizing analytics to track customer behaviors. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Alohome's tools facilitate faster transactions and improve overall homebuyer satisfaction, ultimately transforming how new housing projects are marketed and sold.

Wealthsimple

Private Equity Round in 2021
Wealthsimple Financial Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in providing digital investment advisory services across Canada and operates additional offices in Brooklyn, New York, and London, United Kingdom. Founded in 2014, Wealthsimple offers a range of financial tools designed to help investors grow and manage their money. The company builds diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on behalf of its clients, offering accessible and affordable investment management without the high fees and account minimums typical of traditional firms. Wealthsimple also provides on-demand financial planning solutions and a hybrid savings and spending product known as Wealthsimple Cash. As of September 2020, Wealthsimple operates as a subsidiary of Purpose Advisor Solutions Inc.

Merama

Series A in 2021
Merama is an e-commerce platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, with an additional office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The company partners with brands to enhance their growth by providing exceptional human resources and non-dilutive capital. Merama aims to establish itself as the leading online group of brands in Latin America, focusing on leveraging its resources to support and accelerate the development of its partner brands.

Hapi

Seed Round in 2021
Hapi is a stock trading app tailored for consumers in Latin America, offering a platform that aims to democratize access to the stock market. It allows users to register quickly, transfer funds for investment, and trade stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in real-time without incurring any commissions or minimum investment requirements. In addition to traditional stock trading, Hapi has expanded its services to include the ability to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrencies. With a focus on simplicity and ease of use, Hapi seeks to empower individuals to manage their investments and track their returns effectively.

GlucoGear

Pre Seed Round in 2021
GlucoGear is focused on transforming diabetes treatment through the development of an AI-driven healthcare platform that enhances glycemic control for patients. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the company predicts blood glucose levels and identifies potential risks of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. This innovative approach allows for the generation of personalized insulin dosing, which aims to prevent extreme fluctuations in blood sugar levels and improve overall clinical outcomes. The platform also provides patients with alerts regarding their sugar levels and offers recommendations for preventive measures, thus moving diabetes management towards a more personalized and precision-based model of care.

SWAP

Seed Round in 2020
SWAP provides a modular payment platform that enables companies to enhance their financial operations through innovative technology and a unique business model. By offering APIs for end-to-end, white-label financial solutions, SWAP allows clients to create comprehensive financial ecosystems that include features such as pre-paid cards, digital wallets, and various financial services. This platform facilitates secure money disbursements to merchants, assists with fund collection and bill payments, and supports peer-to-peer transactions via QR codes. By integrating these services, SWAP empowers businesses to expand their core offerings, eliminate barriers, and develop new revenue streams, effectively establishing internal fintech capabilities.

Enjoy.it

Seed Round in 2020
Enjoy is a startup that focuses on enhancing consumer convenience and operational efficiency for beverage establishments through its innovative IoT platform. The company connects the entire value chain, from beverage manufacturers to end consumers, by offering on-tap beverage automation. Its platform integrates with existing infrastructure, such as electric beetles, counters, cold rooms, and containers, to streamline the beverage service process. Additionally, Enjoy provides valuable tools for inventory management and data analytics, allowing businesses to gain insights into beer consumption and sales management. This enables entrepreneurs to make informed decisions that can lead to increased profitability and improved operational practices.

Yema

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Yema is a manufacturer and retailer of consumer care products that offers a diverse range of items including meals, personal care products, home goods, children's items, pet products, and dietary options. Their product line features snacks, drinks, chocolates, beauty products, kitchenware, tableware, and various accessories. Yema focuses on providing prepared foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, and confections, ensuring a quick delivery service within ninety minutes. The company aims to enhance everyday experiences for its customers by delivering quality products that meet their preferences for taste, effectiveness, and affordability.

Naluri Life

Seed Round in 2019
Naluri Hidup Sdn Bhd, founded in 2017 and based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, provides professional coaching, guidance, and therapy focused on enhancing mental resilience and achieving personal life goals. The company offers both in-person counseling sessions with qualified psychologists and a digital therapeutics platform that integrates behavioral science, data science, and digital design. This platform aims to support users in adopting healthier lifestyles, managing stress, and addressing cardiometabolic and mental health conditions. By combining these elements, Naluri helps individuals and organizations predict, prevent, and manage health challenges, ultimately promoting sustained health outcomes.

Fanatiz

Seed Round in 2018
Fanatiz is a streaming platform that specializes in live sports broadcasting, particularly focusing on Latin American audiences since its inception in 2017. The service offers a wide range of sports channels for both live and video-on-demand events, allowing users to access content on various devices, including web browsers, smartphones, smart TVs, and streaming devices like Amazon Fire TV and Roku. Fanatiz provides a 7-day free trial, during which users can explore the available content without incurring any fees if they choose to cancel. With a subscription model, Fanatiz caters to sports enthusiasts by delivering comprehensive access to sporting events and channels, ensuring a flexible viewing experience across multiple platforms.

Bepretty

Seed Round in 2018
Bepretty is an online marketplace based in Santiago, Chile, that facilitates the search, discovery, and booking of beauty appointments for women. Launched in April 2015, the platform serves as a comprehensive urban beauty guide, showcasing exclusive beauty, health, and wellness treatment centers. By offering tools for users to compare services and book appointments, Bepretty enhances the customer experience while also enabling beauty professionals to promote and manage their businesses online, thereby facilitating their growth in the digital landscape.

Finhay

Angel Round in 2018
Finhay is a wealth management platform based in Hanoi, Vietnam, aimed at transforming how individual investors access financial products. Founded in 2017 by Huy Nghiem and Minh Tri Do, the platform allows users to make micro-investments in mutual funds, starting from as little as 50,000 Vietnamese Dong (approximately US$2.15). Utilizing advanced machine learning, Finhay provides personalized investment recommendations tailored to different risk preferences, enabling investors to accumulate and invest small amounts of capital flexibly. The platform is designed to assist retail investors in building their portfolios and securing their financial futures through convenient digital access to a variety of investment opportunities.

albo

Venture Round in 2017
Albo is a prominent Mexican challenger bank that provides a financial platform designed to simplify money management for its users. It offers a mobile banking app and a Mastercard, enabling clients to easily track their spending, saving, and investment activities. The platform allows users to receive and transfer money effortlessly, with features that include real-time tracking of monetary movements and categorized expense and income reports. Albo focuses on adapting to individual lifestyles by delivering honest and innovative banking services that enhance financial management.
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