A public business accelerator founded in 2010 by the Chilean government. It aims to attract global entrepreneurs to launch their businesses in Chile, offering a large portfolio of up to 160 startups annually through distinct programs tailored to different stages.
Wayra UK is the corporate venture arm and accelerator of Wayra, the global open-innovation program of Telefónica. It runs accelerator programs for early-stage technology startups across industries including health care, information technology, cybersecurity, smart transport and smart city, and 5G, providing investment and acceleration support. The unit connects startups with Telefónica’s networks and partners to enable collaboration and scale opportunities, aiming to generate joint business opportunities between innovators and Telefónica. As part of a worldwide network spanning multiple countries, Wayra UK positions itself as a bridge between entrepreneurs and corporate-scale opportunity, facilitating access to capital, mentorship, and business development.
Magma Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that supports Latin American entrepreneurs seeking to launch and scale in the US market, with a focus on fintech, insurtech, blockchain, marketplaces and software-as-a-service. The firm is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, and maintains offices in California, Colombia, Mexico and China. Since its founding in 2014, it has backed a broad set of startups across Chile, the US and other Latin American markets, and operates the Sino-Latin American accelerator to facilitate cross-border ventures.
Rockstart is an early-stage accelerator and impact investor based in Amsterdam with international reach, founded in 2011. It supports purpose-driven founders building in energy, health, agrifood, and emerging technologies by providing capital, hands-on mentorship, and access to a global network of co-investors, mentors, partners, and corporates. The firm operates across Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Bogota, and maintains a team of professionals who help startups scale, connect to markets, and navigate funding rounds. Rockstart has backed more than 350 startups, with a focus on generating positive social or environmental impact while achieving growth.
Dalus Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015, headquartered in Monterrey with an additional office in Mexico City. It specializes in early venture and growth stage investments, focusing on technology-driven companies addressing significant problems in Latin America. The firm invests across four themes: Inclusion, Climate Innovation, Business Productivity & Digital Consumers.
Established in 2018, Krealo serves as the open innovation arm of Credicorp Capital, focusing on building, investing in, and managing fintech startups primarily operating within the Andean Region and Mexico.
Founded in 2011, NXTP Ventures is a venture capital firm based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina. It invests in early-stage startups, typically providing checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. The firm principally supports founders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces.
Founded in 1832, Scotiabank is a global financial services leader offering personal and business banking, brokerage, insurance, private wealth management, and commercial, corporate, and institutional services. With over 86,000 employees serving more than 21 million customers in over 55 countries, the bank is committed to helping individuals, companies, and communities thrive by delivering practical advice and relevant solutions.
Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. With operations in nearly 40 countries, Endeavor's network comprises over 2,000 entrepreneurs who have created more than 3.9 million jobs and generated revenues exceeding $28 billion.
Alaya Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina, that invests in and scales Latin American startups. It operates with a diverse team and partners across major Spanish-speaking markets in Latin America, supporting portfolio companies to grow globally. The firm aims to advance a new economy in Latin America based on technology and knowledge by increasing the value of regional technology ventures.
Linzor Capital Partners is a Latin America focused private equity firm that targets mid-sized companies across sectors such as technology, IT, healthcare, B2B services, media, retail, industrials, fintech, and related areas. The firm pursues growth through strategic initiatives and operational improvements, often seeking to acquire controlling stakes and to exit via strategic sales, IPOs, or recapitalizations. It focuses on Latin America excluding Brazil, with activity in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Argentina, and has historically invested in companies with enterprise values roughly $100 million to $400 million and EBITDA of $10 million to $100 million, typically placing investments in the $20–$90 million range. Established in 2006 and based in Santiago, Chile, Linzor operates with additional offices in the region to support mid-market opportunities and co-investments with limited partners when appropriate.
Kalei Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Argentina, specializing in seed and early-stage investments. It focuses on Technology companies across Latin America, with a mission to support outstanding entrepreneurs creating global leaders from the region.
Victoria Capital Partners, established in 2006, is a private equity firm headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with additional offices in Brazil, the United States, and Colombia. The firm specializes in buyout, middle market, and growth equity investments in South American companies, primarily based in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. Victoria Capital Partners targets control, joint-control, and significant minority positions, actively engaging in board participation. It typically invests between $40 million and $100 million per transaction, focusing on companies with a regional focus.
Founded in 1995, SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in New Jersey. It focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in deep tech innovations, primarily in bio-tech/life sciences and hardware/robotics sectors, with a commitment to human and planetary health.
GeoPark is a Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator, and consolidator with assets in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina. The company generates revenue from the sale of crude oil, condensate, and natural gas.
Kaszek is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 with offices in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, focused on technology-driven startups in Latin America. The firm targets early-stage investments, typically Seed to Series A, and offers more than capital through hands-on guidance in strategy, product, growth, operations, team-building, fundraising, and networking. Kaszek backs ambitious founders building software-enabled platforms across sectors such as financial services, education, healthcare, e-commerce, marketplaces, and enterprise software, including SaaS. It operates with a regional lens, identifying opportunities across Latin America and helping portfolio companies navigate local markets, regulatory environments, and scaling challenges. The firm emphasizes practical expertise and operational support to accelerate growth, with the aim of helping portfolio companies achieve durable, regionally scaled businesses.
Fen Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Santiago, Chile, focused on early-stage investments in tech-enabled companies across Latin America and Mexico. It supports early growth in sectors including consumer technology, healthcare, information technology services, financial technology, software-as-a-service, agriculture and climate tech, education technology, human resources technology, insurance technology, digital health, cybersecurity, real estate technology, pet technology, and supply chain technology, among others.
Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.
Founded in 2018, Innogen Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Salvador, El Salvador. It invests in early-stage technology companies with proven business models across Central America, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.
CAF is a development bank dedicated to promoting sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean through various financial services. It provides credit operations, grants, and technical support, as well as financial structuring for projects in both the public and private sectors. By facilitating efficient resource mobilization, CAF aims to enhance regional integration and deliver high-value services to its clients. Headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, the bank operates offices in several major cities, including Buenos Aires, La Paz, Brasilia, Bogotá, Quito, Madrid, Panama City, and Lima. CAF's membership includes 18 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, along with 14 private banks from the Andean region.
Suanfarma Biotech engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of raw materials and finished dosage forms for pharmaceutical, biotechnological, veterinary, nutritional, and cosmetic sectors. It offers generics and active pharmaceutical ingredients, such as anti-infective, cardiovascular system, central nervous system, digestive system, endocrine system, oncology, respiratory system, and pain and inflammation products; and food supplements, and medicinal and dietary plants, including non-native vegetable species, dietary supplements, plant extracts, jellies, syrups, oligotherapy, litotherapy, etc.
Suanfarma Biotech also provides active ingredients for veterinary industry, such as antibiotics, NSAIDs, antiparasitics, glucocorticoids, nutritional, reproduction, and others; and develops alternative routes of synthesis for obtaining active pharmaceutical ingredients and their subsequent industrial scale-up. In addition, it invests in seed and early-stage biotechnology companies; delivers its expertise to biotech companies on issues related to business and commercial management; and provides support on scientific, industrial, regulatory, and financial development.
Suanfarma Biotech serves customers in Spain and internationally. It began operation in 1993, with its headquarters in Alcobendas in Spain and locations in Phoenix in Arizona, Fair Lawn in New Jersey, Naucalpan de Juárez in Mexico; Bogotá in Colombia, Caracas in Venezuela, Sao Paulo in Brazil, Buenos Aires in Argentina, Santiago in Chile, Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, Fitbourg in Switzerland, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Navi Mumbai in India, and Shanghai in China.
Frontier Car Group is a Berlin-based startup focused on developing and operating used automotive marketplaces in emerging markets, including Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. The company aims to simplify the process of buying and selling used cars through its online platform, which features a digital quote engine that provides instant pricing for vehicles. This technology not only enhances the efficiency of transactions but also facilitates quick vehicle inspections at designated locations. By leveraging innovative business models and infrastructure, Frontier Car Group is able to create value for all stakeholders involved in the used car market. Additionally, the company is engaged in joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland, further expanding its reach and impact in the automotive sector.
Kushki is a Latin America–focused digital payments platform that offers an integrated payments solution and omnichannel capabilities for e-commerce, m-commerce, and brick‑and‑mortar retail. It provides an API that standardizes the region’s fragmented payments landscape by supporting card payments, bank transfers, and cash networks, with access to more than 300,000 physical payment points. The platform emphasizes local logic and pricing to simplify cross‑border and local transactions and enables rapid integration for merchants. Founded in 2016 in New York City, Kushki operates across Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Canada.
LATAM Airlines Group is a Latin American airline group that operates passenger and cargo air transportation across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Through its subsidiaries, it provides domestic services in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, as well as regional and long-haul flights to international markets. The group also offers ground handling, courier, logistics, and maintenance services. It serves approximately 145 destinations for passengers in 26 countries and about 151 cargo destinations in 29 countries, and it runs a loyalty program to support customer engagement. The business encompasses both passenger and cargo networks, leveraging passenger aircraft for belly cargo and dedicated freighters to move freight internationally.
Imagine Lab serves as an investment arm of Microsoft, operating as an incubator and accelerator focused on the Fintech sector and innovative technology-based ventures in Latin America, particularly in Chile and Argentina. The firm specializes in providing seed capital and early-stage investments in areas such as augmented reality, virtual reality, Internet of Things, Big Data, and automation. Typically, Imagine Lab makes equity investments ranging from $15,000 to $88,000 and runs an acceleration program where startups can receive initial funding of CLP 10 million, with potential follow-up investments up to CLP 50 million. The firm generally acquires a minority stake of no more than 7 percent in the startups it supports. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santiago, Chile, Imagine Lab aims to develop and strengthen innovative ventures by offering mentorship and connecting them with established corporations.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.
Founded in 2017 with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, The Yield Lab LATAM is a venture capital firm investing in AgriFoodTech companies across Latin America, spanning the entire food and agriculture innovation spectrum.
Glovo is a Barcelona-based start-up that revolutionizes access to local goods through its on-demand delivery application. The platform connects customers with independent couriers who deliver a wide range of products, including food, groceries, and personal items, within 60 minutes. Glovo operates in several countries, including Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. Users can browse their favorite restaurants and shops, place orders, and track deliveries in real-time using the app's geolocation feature. This service effectively acts as a personal courier, allowing customers to receive goods and complete errands quickly and efficiently.
Founded in Chile in 2008, Austral Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on growth-stage technology services companies across Latin America. It invests primarily in firms offering core digital platforms for financial, retail, and healthcare markets.
Founded in 2014, Australis Partners is a New York-headquartered private equity firm with an office in Santiago. It specializes in mid-market investments across Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, focusing on financial services, consumer goods, healthcare, retail, and transport companies.
Kayyak Ventures is a purpose-driven venture capital firm founded in 2020, headquartered in Chile and Mexico. The company selectively invests in mission-driven entrepreneurs globally, with a focus on Latin America. They typically support seed to series B rounds, investing $1.5 million to $5 million per round, and prioritize companies with attractive margins, capital-efficient models, and exceptional teams.
Founded in 2005, Monashees is a leading venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil. It partners with exceptional founders transforming large markets through technology. With a human-centric approach, Monashees supports entrepreneurs from their early stages, fostering growth and innovation across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and more.
Cuponatic is a prominent e-commerce platform founded in 2010, specializing in daily deals across Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. As the second largest player in the daily deal market in these regions, it has established a substantial presence with over 130,000 daily visits and more than 2,000 transactions. The company boasts a diverse merchant base of over 12,500 businesses, offering more than 80,000 deals annually. Cuponatic has cultivated an active customer base of 342,000 individuals across four emerging markets and has demonstrated consistent profitability since 2013, with significant revenue growth. The firm employs a skilled in-house IT team that leverages a proprietary technology platform, allowing for rapid innovation and flexibility. Cuponatic's business model focuses on an omnichannel strategy that includes inventory expansion and offline pick-up centers. The company is well-positioned in a favorable market characterized by a growing middle class and increasing internet accessibility, particularly through mobile devices.
Pantheon Ventures (UK) LLP is a private equity firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. It invests in regional primary funds-of-funds; mature global secondary funds; venture capital funds, global infrastructure fund-of-funds; secondaries (direct and indirect) and customized separate account programs. For co-investments, the firm makes buyout investments and has interest in growth equity, early venture, emerging growth, middle market, mid venture, late venture and special situations. It targets investments in all geographies specifically in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm co-invests between $10 million and $50 million in its portfolio companies. It also co-invests alongside other General Partners. The firm typically invests in early or late-stage venture capital; small buyouts; mid-sized buyouts; large buyouts; mega buyouts and special situations (including distressed debt, restructuring and mezzanine funds). It can occasionally invest in subordinated debt funds. The firm makes investments in Europe, North America with a focus on United States, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa. In primary funds, it primarily invests in the United States, Europe, and Asia and in secondary funds, the firm invests globally. The firm seeks to invest in secondary acquisitions ranging from $500,000 in a single fund to over $1.5 billion in a portfolio acquisition. It also makes secondary and co-investments in the infrastructure sector with a focus on mature operating assets and existing assets with refurbishment needs (“brownfield”). It invests in all sectors including but not limited to energy, transport, communication, water and social infrastructure. It seeks to make primary, secondary and co-investments in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru. The firm usually commits capital for over three to four years, and the funds in which it invests commit their capital over 3-6 years. It also structures and manages customized and tailored segregated accounts for institutional, high net worth individual, and family office clients. The firm’s separately managed account programs targets investors with investment minimums of $75 million. It offers structured programs regionally in Europe, Asia, and United States. Additionally, it allocates a portion of these structured programs is allocated to secondary investment opportunities. It structures its investments in the form of cash, quoted paper, staged payments, and earn-outs. The firm also invests in Australia and Oceania. Pantheon Ventures (UK) LLP was founded in 1982 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across Asia, Europe, and South America, North America and Australia.
InQlab is a venture capital firm based in Bogota, Colombia, founded in 2013, that invests in early-stage technology-driven startups across Colombia and Latin America. The firm is sector-agnostic and backs ventures whose technology enables significant growth, maintaining a strong ownership mindset and a commitment to the development of its portfolio companies.
IndieBio is an accelerator that supports startups using biology to solve major problems, delivering four-month programs for companies and teams with ideas. Based in San Francisco with an office in New York, it focuses on life sciences, biotechnology and synthetic biology, investing in seed and early-stage ventures that place biology at the core of their technology across products, processes and software. The program favors teams with two or more co-founders and generally provides equity-based funding in the early stages, often combining direct investments with additional financing options. Founded in 2014, IndieBio operates within the SOSV accelerator network, a global platform that supports portfolio companies through mentorship, resources and cross-border programs.
Parallel18 is an accelerator firm and international innovation hub based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Founded in 2015, it supports software startups across Latin America, the United States, and Puerto Rico by offering funding, mentorship, business connections, and investment to help underrepresented founders scale globally.
Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company based in Latin America that focuses on providing electronic payment solutions for businesses. Leveraging blockchain technology, Ripio aims to create a more accessible financial system in emerging markets. The company facilitates international transactions for merchants using credit cards or bitcoins at lower costs and allows consumers to purchase bitcoins instantly with cash. Operating in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador, Ripio's platform accepts various payment methods, including bitcoin and credit cards, and offers services such as local currency payouts for merchants, a digital wallet, and financing options for installment payments. Through these services, Ripio seeks to strengthen the digital economy by offering alternatives to traditional banking.
Manutara Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in Latin America and the Caribbean. It backs companies in consumer applications and services, software, mobile, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and related tech with B2B and B2C models. The firm provides capital plus hands-on support, including access to talent, market intelligence, policy and regulatory insights, business development, and brand-building. Founded in 2016, it is based in Santiago, Chile, with an office in Miami. It makes equity and debt investments ranging from USD 0.08 million to USD 30 million and takes equity stakes up to 30% in portfolio companies.
Mirasol Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring and exploring mineral properties in Chile and Argentina, with a primary emphasis on gold, silver, and copper deposits. The company holds 100% interests in several projects, including the Gorbea gold project, Los Amarillos gold-silver project, Altazor gold project, and Zeus gold project, all situated in Northern Chile. In Argentina, Mirasol owns 100% interests in various projects such as Claudia, Virginia, La Curva, Santa Rita, and Sascha, among others, located in the Santa Cruz province. Additionally, the company holds an option to acquire the Inca gold project in Northern Chile. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Mirasol Resources is committed to sustainable exploration practices and aims to make significant mineral discoveries that create value for its stakeholders.
Founded in 2007, SP Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm headquartered in São Paulo. It focuses on early-stage technology-based companies, with a particular interest in information and communication technologies, health technologies, agricultural technologies, new materials, and nanotechnologies.
U.S. Global Investors is a boutique investment management firm specializing in actively managed equity and bond strategies, with expertise in gold and precious metals, natural resources, and emerging markets. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, the company manages a family of no-load mutual funds across various asset classes.
Aqua Capital, established in 2009, is a private equity firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. The company specializes in mid-market control growth equity investments, primarily focusing on the agribusiness and food sectors across Brazil and South America.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), established in 1956, is a member of the World Bank Group dedicated to fostering private sector development in emerging markets. It provides financial services, including loans and equity investments, ranging from $1 million to $100 million, with a focus on projects that drive economic growth and social impact. IFC invests across various sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, education, technology, and financial services.
Tiger Global Management is a New York based investment firm that manages public and private market strategies to pursue technology-driven growth opportunities worldwide. Founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman, the firm invests in leading global companies across various industries, with a particular emphasis on technology-enabled growth. In public markets it employs long/short and growth strategies, while in private markets it targets opportunities from early to late stage. The firm operates globally, including the United States, China, India, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and works with portfolio companies across their lifecycle to drive long-term value.
Founded in 2014, Nazca Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports bold entrepreneurs building transformative technology-enabled businesses. The company provides multi-stage funding alongside strategic resources such as global networking, market intelligence, and operational support to founders across Latin America and the United States.
GLL Real Estate Partners GmbH, based in Munich, is an independent real estate fund manager established in 2000 by former executives of HypoVereinsbank in collaboration with Lend Lease Corporation and Assicurazioni Generali. The company specializes in investment management services, including asset management and various fund structures, catering to a diverse range of investors. GLL focuses its investments across Europe, the United States, and select Latin American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. With established local offices and extensive networks in these markets, GLL aims to identify opportunities, maintain asset value, and drive growth. Its strong track record has earned GLL a reputation as a reliable partner, facilitating access to deals and fostering trust with vendors, banks, and other key market participants.
ACON Investments is a Washington, DC-based private equity firm founded in 1996 that targets investments in mature and middle-market companies through buyouts, industry consolidation, and turnarounds. It avoids real estate and conventional infrastructure assets and seeks opportunities in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The firm typically deploys equity in the 20 to 150 million range, seeks board seats, and aims to hold investments for about five years. It invests across the capital structure, including controlling and significant minority equity as well as quasi-equity instruments, across sectors such as energy and energy-related services, consumer goods and services, healthcare, financial services, media and entertainment, software and services, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. ACON maintains offices in Washington, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Madrid, and Bogota, and manages private equity funds and dedicated investment partnerships.