Vertical Partners

Vertical Partners is a venture capital investment firm based in Medellín, Colombia, with an additional office in Barcelona. The firm focuses on monitoring and investigating global business trends across various industries before making investment decisions. Vertical Partners primarily targets Latin America-based companies, with particular interest in sectors such as property technology, fintech, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, retail technology, and mobility and logistics. By concentrating on these areas, the firm aims to capitalize on emerging opportunities within the region.

Esteban Urrea

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

28 past transactions

IUS.earth

Seed Round in 2024
IUS.Earth is a technology company that provides a digital platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage and enhance their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The platform integrates open data with a company's internal metrics to assess ESG impact, fosters sustainable practices within supply chains, ensures compliance with ESG standards, and facilitates swift decision-making. This enables businesses to drive meaningful sustainability actions and effectively communicate their ESG progress.

Sherpal

Seed Round in 2024
Sherpal provides academic tutoring service connecting young tutors with high school students who need academic support

Rewind Sustainable Life

Seed Round in 2024
Rewind Sustainable Life is a community-based app that promotes environmental awareness and helps people to meet sustainability goals.

Cuidefy

Seed Round in 2024
Cuidefy is a platform that connects families with reliable caregivers for children, the elderly, and pets. It offers on-demand services, flexible hour packages, and monthly memberships, providing personalized care solutions to support families' well-being and peace of mind.

Planet Oliver

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Planet Oliver is a food company dedicated to minimizing food waste by marketing surplus food that remains unsold by farmers and supermarkets. In addition to its commitment to sustainability, the company operates an online food ordering and restaurant discovery platform that helps customers find and explore dining options. This platform provides critical information about food ordering and dining experiences, allowing restaurants to concentrate on their core operations while enhancing customer satisfaction. Through these initiatives, Planet Oliver addresses both the challenges of food waste and the need for improved accessibility to dining choices.

Keybe

Seed Round in 2023
Keybe is a business-to-business SaaS platform focused on enhancing revenue and growth for companies through artificial intelligence. The company leverages advanced AI technologies to optimize sales processes, enabling businesses to increase their sales team's efficiency by as much as 40% and achieve conversion rates of up to 30%. Keybe offers a range of tools, including Smart Chat, which utilizes advanced analysis and automated data enrichment to facilitate better customer interactions. Additionally, the platform provides omnichannel multi-agent capabilities and customer relationship management (CRM) tools that centralize and streamline advertising processes. By utilizing these innovative solutions, Keybe empowers clients to effectively manage customer relationships and significantly boost their sales through digital marketing strategies.

Auco.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Auco.ai helps to manage and store all company's documentation, team's productivity and perform all documentation processes automatically

Give Me Five

Seed Round in 2023
Give Me Five is a micro-credit platform that facilitates peer-to-peer lending by connecting individuals who have saved capital with those in need of loans. The platform allows lenders to review detailed borrower profiles and referrals, ensuring informed lending decisions. By enabling lenders to charge fair interest rates, Give Me Five promotes the circulation of savings, allowing lenders to earn returns on their investments while providing borrowers with access to necessary funds. The company aims to create a fair lending ecosystem where both parties can benefit.

Velocity

Seed Round in 2022
Velocity is a dark micro-fulfillment store that delivers through digital channels. They assist with handling digital sales channels to grow company direct-to-consumer sales. It allows your store to be accessible via digital platforms like Rappi, Mercado Libre, Linio, Merqueo, or your own e-commerce.

Netail

Seed Round in 2022
Netail is a technology company that provides solutions for retailers to enhance their competitive edge in the digital marketplace. Its platform enables retailers to automatically identify competitors online, track their product assortments, and optimize pricing in real time. This functionality is designed to significantly boost traffic, profits, and revenue for retail businesses. By leveraging Netail's technology, retailers can effectively attract, convert, and retain digital consumers, thereby improving their overall market performance.

Mantel

Seed Round in 2022
Mantel is a company focused on advancing carbon capture technology aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions and achieving net-negative emissions. Its innovative system is designed to operate within boilers, kilns, and furnaces, utilizing biomass waste and residue to facilitate significant carbon removal. By leveraging liquid-phase chemistry, Mantel's technology targets key industrial sectors such as industrial heat, steel, and chemicals. This approach not only mitigates sustainability concerns but also enables clients to reduce the costs associated with carbon capture, emissions, and storage, ultimately contributing to broader environmental goals.

Quipu Bank

Seed Round in 2022
Quipu is building the first digital bank for the informal economy in LATAM. Using proprietary AI algorithms, Quipu assesses informal microbusinesses’ creditworthiness using over 80,000 alternative data points. Quipu leverages this data to provide working capital loans through a local supply chain financing system that allows microbusinesses to buy supplies, ingredients and materials at wholesale price. The company is building an uncollateralized loan protocol to boost their loan operation. Quipu’s goal is to become the one-stop-shop for financial services for micro-businesses in LATAM providing easy, fair and alternative access to working capital.

Leal

Series A in 2022
Leal is a prominent SaaS platform based in Latin America that specializes in AI-driven customer engagement, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value. The platform features a robust AI Decisioning engine that facilitates loyalty, offers, and campaign management, enabling brands to deliver hyper-personalized experiences at scale. Key components of Leal's offering include a Customer Data Platform that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior, a Campaign Management Suite for orchestrating multi-channel communication, and a Customer Experience Module designed to assess and improve customer sentiment. Additionally, Leal provides a Loyalty & Rewards Engine that supports various incentive models, fostering repeat purchases and brand loyalty. Its API-first infrastructure ensures seamless integration with existing technology stacks, boasting over 350 integrations with major systems. Trusted by reputable brands and backed by notable investors, Leal empowers retailers to transform customer data into actionable insights that drive revenue growth.

WOW Concept

Seed Round in 2022
WOW Concept is a retail company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Madrid. It operates an omnichannel platform that serves as a curated marketplace for lifestyle brands, catering primarily to millennials and Gen Z. By integrating both unique physical locations and a digital marketplace, WOW Concept allows early adopters to discover new products and experiences. The company focuses on connecting brands with their customers, enhancing sales, and providing carefully curated selections that range from established brands to emerging designers. Through its innovative approach, WOW Concept aims to redefine the shopping experience by blending physical and digital retail environments.

PeakU

Pre Seed Round in 2021
PeakU offers access to international IT talent and offers jobs. PeakU was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Velocity

Seed Round in 2021
Velocity is a dark micro-fulfillment store that delivers through digital channels. They assist with handling digital sales channels to grow company direct-to-consumer sales. It allows your store to be accessible via digital platforms like Rappi, Mercado Libre, Linio, Merqueo, or your own e-commerce.

Newlab

Series A in 2021
Newlab is a collaborative community designed to support entrepreneurs, engineers, and innovators in addressing significant global challenges through transformative technologies. It provides an interdisciplinary workspace that includes resident spaces, on-site product development facilities, and specialized programming. By fostering collaboration among its members, Newlab enables the exploration and creation of innovative solutions across various fields, including robotics, artificial intelligence, and material science. The organization connects its members with city agencies, venture capitalists, domain experts, and corporate partners, ensuring that entrepreneurs have the necessary resources and support to advance their projects and define the future of technology. Through its focus on sustainable solutions, Newlab is dedicated to making a positive impact on health, the environment, media, urban development, and infrastructure.

Carryt

Seed Round in 2021
Carryt is a company specializing in last-mile logistics services, focusing on the delivery needs of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and direct-to-consumer (D2C) businesses. It empowers gig economy drivers through advanced route optimization technology, which enhances delivery efficiency. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Carryt analyzes purchasing history to assist independent resellers in managing their inventory levels and pricing strategies effectively. This approach not only improves delivery operations but also supports organizations in optimizing their supply chain processes.

Amogy

Funding Round in 2021
Amogy is a pioneering company focused on developing carbon-free energy solutions for hard-to-abate sectors such as maritime transport, power generation, and heavy industries. The company's core technology involves patented ammonia cracking, which efficiently splits liquid ammonia to produce electrical power in conjunction with hydrogen fuel cells, enabling zero-emission operations at competitive costs.

Wip

Seed Round in 2021
Wip is a software company specializing in the development of cloud-based applications aimed at enhancing field assistance logistics operations. Its platform provides a suite of digital tools that include GPS tracking, route optimization and planning, real-time delivery allocation, address management, and timeline report generation. By offering these features, Wip assists businesses in streamlining their operations, improving delivery efficiency, and consolidating service data, thus enabling better management of logistics and operational performance.

Vertical Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Vertical Labs incubate and accelerate technology-based startups through valuable mentoring led by large corporations and entrepreneurs.

Nodos Tech

Seed Round in 2021
Nodos Tech provides supply chain system by improving the use of warehouses and making the supply of space more flexible.

Enterapia

Seed Round in 2021
Enterapia is a company focused on enhancing the well-being and productivity of Latino Spanish-speaking contributors through an innovative online psychological therapy platform. This platform facilitates access to therapy sessions for individuals experiencing psychological crises, offering services such as individual, couples, family, and teenage therapy. By enabling patients and psychotherapists to connect online while ensuring confidentiality, Enterapia aims to optimize human talent investment for organizations, ultimately leading to increased productivity rates. The company's mission is to transform the lives of its users and improve workplace dynamics by addressing mental health needs within the Latino community.

Starter Company

Seed Round in 2021
Startco hosts live startup auctions and entrepreneurship events, aiding early-stage tech and business innovations.

Waves Tech

Seed Round in 2021
Waves Tech is a tele rehabilitation system that facilitates remote rehabilitation monitoring and guidance.

Enveda Biosciences

Seed Round in 2020
Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company that employs artificial intelligence-powered tools to investigate and define molecules sourced from living organisms. Its primary objective is to build an exhaustive database of chemical biodiversity, thereby expediting the discovery of novel medicines. The company's innovative drug discovery platform integrates machine learning, metabolomics, and robotics to analyze natural samples for both chemical structure and biological activity, eliminating the need for isolating individual compounds or extensive experimentation. This enables healthcare industry clients to develop a wide range of new medications, from antibiotics to hypotensives.

Future Cardia

Seed Round in 2020
Future Cardia is a healthcare company focused on developing a compact cardiac device aimed at monitoring heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. The system utilizes a digital health insertable device that is placed under the skin and covered with a specialized bandage. This device continuously analyzes heart sounds and rhythms, employing cloud-based pattern recognition to track the progression of heart failure. By doing so, it helps reduce unnecessary hospitalizations by transmitting encrypted cardiac data directly to a smartphone, allowing for timely monitoring and intervention. Future Cardia's innovative approach addresses critical needs in cardiac care, enhancing patient outcomes through advanced technology.
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