Wayra is Telefónica’s global open-innovation hub that connects entrepreneurs with Telefónica to generate joint business opportunities. Operating in ten countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela—Wayra serves as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing access to networks, partners, and potential customers through acceleration programs and collaboration initiatives.

InQlab is a venture capital firm based in Bogota, Colombia, founded in 2013, that invests in early-stage technology startups across Colombia and Latin America, maintaining a sector-agnostic approach and backing tech-enabled ventures with potential for significant growth.

Kaszek Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, with origins in Argentina. It invests in early-stage technology companies across Latin America, focusing on Seed, Series A and Series B rounds, and provides portfolio companies with strategic and operational guidance, including growth, product, technology, and fundraising support. The firm targets software, fintech, education, healthcare, e-commerce, marketplaces, and related sectors, aiming to back innovative businesses across the region. By combining capital with hands-on expertise and an extensive network, Kaszek Ventures helps founders scale from inception to growth-stage phases.

Magma Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Santiago, Chile, with offices in California, Colombia, Mexico and China. It backs early-stage Latin American startups and global companies with Latin American tech teams targeting the US market, focusing on fintech, insurtech, blockchain, marketplaces, e-commerce and software as a service. The firm invests across Latin America, including Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru, and operates programs such as the Sino-Latin American accelerator to help Chinese entrepreneurs do business in Latin America, and vice versa.

Nazca Ventures, also known as Mountain Nazca, is a venture capital firm that backs bold technology-enabled entrepreneurs seeking to build breakout, globally ambitious businesses. It offers multi-stage funding alongside a strong local and global network, market intelligence, and guidance on strategy, deployment, and execution, as well as legal and regulatory advice, talent sourcing, and access to premium business partnerships. The firm concentrates on Latin American and United States companies with global ambitions, supporting breakout propositions in Latin America and untapped markets as well as innovations from early-adopter markets like the United States. It maintains operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Santiago, with additional hubs through Mountain Partners, enabling a broader international reach. Nazca Ventures was established in 2014 by prominent Latin American technology entrepreneurs and later merged with Mountain Partners to expand global capabilities.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

Polymath Ventures is a Bogotá-based venture studio and seed-stage investor in Latin America. It builds and funds technology startups through its venture studio and targets early-stage companies in vertical software-as-a-service, financial technology, and health technology. The firm aims to create impact by serving the emerging middle class, driving inclusive growth and disruption across Latin America.

EWA Capital is a Bogota-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies with disruptive, scalable business models across the Americas. Founded in 2015 and previously known as Mountain Nazca Colombia, the firm pursues a hands-on value-creation approach, drawing on experience as institutional investors, entrepreneurs, and fund managers to help portfolio companies scale. Its investments span education, healthcare, retail, financial services, technology, edtech, and agtech, with a particular emphasis on ventures that use technology to transform the region. The firm places importance on gender diversity, seeking leadership teams or end clients that include women. Through this approach, EWA Capital aims to generate high returns while driving social change and regional transformation.

QED Investors is a venture capital and growth-investment firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. It backs high-growth fintech and financial services companies from seed and early stages through growth, combining capital with hands-on strategic support and direct engagement. The firm emphasizes data-driven decision making and a culture of experimentation and learning. Through multiple funds and partnerships, QED invests across the United States, the United Kingdom, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa, targeting disruptive financial technologies and software-enabled financial services.

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.

INVX is a venture capital firm based in Medellin, Colombia, founded in 2014. It invests in early-stage companies across Latin America.

Dalus Capital is a Mexico-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage and growth investments in Latin America, with a primary emphasis on Mexico and regional opportunities in Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Chile. It backs technology-driven companies across sectors such as financial technology, software, internet and digital services, business productivity, climate innovation and digital consumers, pursuing scalable, market-leading ventures throughout the region. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $10 million per portfolio company and participates in co-investments. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Monterrey with an office in Mexico City, Dalus seeks purposeful entrepreneurs building enduring, scalable businesses.

Monashees is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, investing in technology-enabled companies across South America and Mexico. It backs founders from early stages and supports growth through expansion funding, guided by a human-values-first approach that aims to improve people’s lives through technology. The firm’s portfolio spans artificial intelligence, climate tech, consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, SaaS and services, reflecting activity in software, platforms and digital networks. The Monashees community includes more than 150 portfolio companies and 300 founders.

Innogen Capital is a Latin America–focused venture capital firm that backs early-stage and growth technology companies across Central America, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia. It prioritizes proven business models and, where applicable, companies with a social impact mission, supporting growth through its network of professionals across diverse fields. Based in San Salvador, El Salvador, the firm aims to provide partners with expertise and exposure through strategic connections within the region.

Tribeca Asset Management is a Colombian private equity firm based in Bogota, founded in 2006. It pursues growth investments through share acquisitions, aiming for full control or majority stakes, or meaningful minority positions with participation in decision making. The firm targets opportunities across healthcare, consumer markets, micro-markets, energy, media and communications, industrial goods and services, and luxury sectors, with a geographic focus on Colombia and Latin America, including Central America and the Andean region. It works with companies typically valued between $10 million and $100 million in sales and with EBITDA between $5 million and $20 million, and investments generally range from $3.4 million to $70 million. The firm seeks to partner with management to drive expansion, consolidation, and value creation in sectors such as power generation, infrastructure, software, apparel and accessories, oil and gas, and other growth-oriented industries.

Founded in 2019, Simma Capital is a venture capital firm based in Bogota, Colombia. It invests in early and growth-stage companies that are cofounded by exceptional teams, have scalable business models, strong unit economics, and connections with Colombia and the rest of Latin America.

Incofin Investment Management is an impact investment manager focused on financial inclusion in developing countries. The firm manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions and aims to reach rural populations and smallholder farmers by providing access to credit, savings and insurance through MFIs and related financial services. It also invests in rural and agricultural SMEs, cooperatives and intermediaries servicing the agricultural value chain, using debt, guarantees and equity to support growth. Headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with offices in Bogota, Chennai, Nairobi, Luxembourg and Phnom Penh, it seeks to deploy capital in regions including Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, prioritizing rural and underserved markets. The firm partners with MFIs and other funds, sometimes taking board seats, to promote financial inclusion while maintaining a focus on sustainable development.

K50 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that serves as the first institutional check and long-term partner for founders who use technology to improve access and affordability for the world’s working class in health, finance, and work. The firm pursues a mission-driven thesis to make health, education, finance, and housing more affordable, accessible, and sustainable, supporting companies across the United States and Emerging Markets. Its portfolio includes Self, Mammoth Biosciences, Frubana, Groww, Real, Narmi, Shef, and Easyknock, among others, reflecting a track record of backing mission-driven ventures with broad impact. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, K50 Ventures concentrates on healthcare, technology, and financial sectors and has supported over 140 mission-driven companies.

Velum Ventures is a venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage information-based businesses in Colombia and Latin America. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, the firm focuses on early-stage companies with operations in Colombia and leverages technology to enable growth across the region.

Founded in 2019, Crestone is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage fintech companies across emerging markets. It focuses on embedded fintech, financial infrastructure, and consumer finance sectors.

Palm Drive Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that provides early-stage and growth capital to technology companies across the United States. It focuses on software-related sectors, including software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, e-commerce, and deep-tech and enterprise software, with an emphasis on US-based opportunities. The firm maintains a national footprint beyond New York, including activity on the West Coast and presence in major tech centers across the Northeast, Midwest, and South, with offices in New York and Miami. Palm Drive Capital operates as a registered investment adviser.

Solid Ventures is a growth capital firm based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, providing growth capital to technology companies in the scale-up phase. It focuses on sectors including marketplaces, digital, SaaS, fintech, enterprise software, sustainable mobility, smart energy, and smart city solutions, and operates in the Netherlands and Colombia. The firm typically makes investments ranging from €0.5 million to €5 million per company.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 and based in New York. It engages in private and public market investments focused on technology-driven growth, selecting opportunities across global companies. The firm employs public equity strategies including long/short and growth, and pursues private equity investments spanning early to late stages across various industries. Its approach emphasizes identifying high-quality growth companies and working with portfolio businesses throughout their lifecycle, with activity across the United States, China, India, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and other regions.

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.

Berry Seven is a venture capital firm established in 2016 and based in Bogotá, Colombia. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage startups, particularly in the services and logistics sectors, as well as real estate and e-commerce within the Colombian market. With a focus on fostering innovation and growth in these industries, Berry Seven aims to support and develop promising entrepreneurial ventures in the region.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs pre-seed and seed-stage startups. It adopts a founder-first approach, aiming to improve the early-stage experience for founders by leveraging software and sharing growth techniques rooted in network effects and visibility into the methods of successful technology companies. The firm emphasizes entrepreneurship among its founders and highlights a track record of supporting portfolio companies that achieve large exits across multiple industries and geographies. NFX invests across a broad range of sectors, including software, data products, fintech, AI, biotech, gaming, crypto, proptech, marketplaces, and related technology-enabled businesses, with activity spanning the United States and international markets.

Promotora is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Medellín, Colombia, founded in 1987. It invests in small and medium enterprises across sectors including health and life sciences, agribusiness, information and communications technology, logistics, security and safety services, industrial engineering, chemicals, and related services, typically taking minority equity stakes and seeking board seats. The firm targets investments of roughly $50,000 to $5.6 million in companies with sales of about $1.2 million to $18.5 million, spanning seed through growth rounds. It provides capital and strategic support to help portfolio companies expand markets and introduce new products, with a typical exit horizon of 3 to 6 years, focusing on opportunities in Colombia with proven business models.

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based venture capital firm that supports Mexican entrepreneurs and startups. Founded in 2005, the firm provides equity investments, debt financing, and strategic guidance to portfolio companies, aiming to add value through its entrepreneur network, deep knowledge of the Mexican market, and the experience of its partners. It focuses on information technology, software, commercial services, and consumer non-durables, seeking to help ventures grow and scale.

InvestoMex is a venture capital firm that specializes in direct and indirect investments in seed-stage and start-up companies, primarily in the information technology sector. The firm focuses on participating in the first rounds of seed capital and Series A rounds of its portfolio companies, preferring to invest between $0.5 million and $3 million per firm. InvestoMex seeks to co-invest in technology and innovative startups in the United States and Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Mexico City, the firm also has offices in Bogotá, Colombia, and San Francisco, California. InvestoMex takes minority equity stakes between 10 percent and 30 percent in its investments, provides advisory services to its portfolio companies, and aims to take a board seat on these companies.

IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

Integer.pl Group is a leading private postal group in Europe that has rapidly expanded its InPost parcel locker network across numerous countries worldwide. Within three years, the company deployed its locker technology in Australia, Chile, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The service has earned high customer satisfaction, reflected in a Net Promoter Score of 89% as of February 2019, and has received several industry awards, including the World Mail Awards 2013, Retail Innovation of the Year 2013, and Delivery Innovation Excellence UK 2014. Integer.pl Group continues to build a strong global footprint in the logistics sector through its innovative locker solutions.

Vertical Partners is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Medellín, Colombia, with an additional office in Barcelona. The firm targets investments in Latin America-based companies across sectors such as property technology, fintech, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, retail technology, mobility and logistics.

Odiseo is a venture capital firm based in Medellin, Colombia, that focuses on early-stage companies across various sectors, including new materials, clean energies, transportation and logistics, food, health, biotechnology, engineering, education, agribusiness, financial services, and information technology. The firm actively seeks to invest in passionate and committed entrepreneurs who lead scalable and profitable businesses with validated products and services. Odiseo primarily invests between 0.25 million and 1 million in equity per transaction, leveraging its deep understanding of Colombia's entrepreneurial landscape to support local startups.

Austral Capital is a venture capital firm based in Santiago, Chile, that invests in technology services companies with growth potential across Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. It focuses on growth and early-stage opportunities, supporting companies that offer core digital platforms for financial, retail and healthcare markets, and seeks to back businesses operating in sectors such as healthcare, biofuel, B2B, digital media, mobile, retail, finance, industrial and agriculture.

Cardo Health is a digital health company that aims to improve health outcomes in emerging markets by investing in and scaling early-stage digital health startups in each market. It provides funding, scalable technology, and operational know-how to help local digital health champions grow into leading platforms. The company builds and supports a portfolio of regional health tech ventures, including Kena Health in South Africa, PROSPERiA in Mexico, Vibe Saude in Brazil, and doc-doc in Colombia.

MrPink VC is a venture capital firm based in Punta del Este, Uruguay, founded in 2021. It makes early-stage investments in startups across Spanish-speaking Latin America and Spain, including the CAPUC region (Chile, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, and Colombia). The firm targets companies in blockchain, artificial intelligence, education, food, technology, and services, with a focus on ventures that strengthen social connections and improve human well-being. It emphasizes a founder-centric, long-term partnership built on honesty and clarity.

Prosus is the international internet assets division of Naspers and a global consumer internet group and technology investor. It blends venture capital and operating capabilities to fund, acquire, build and scale technology businesses across multiple platforms and geographies. The company operates across the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, pursuing investments and active management in internet services, e-commerce, fintech, and related sectors. It maintains meaningful holdings in large technology platforms and online services, including Tencent, Mail.ru, Ctrip and Delivery Hero. Through its operating model, Prosus aims to identify high-potential companies and provide them with strategic support to scale globally, contributing to growth in the communities where they operate.

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm focused on financial services and fintech. The firm invests across insurance, payments, personal finance, lending, credit, asset management, banking, capital markets, and related sectors, seeking to support early- and growth-stage companies. It leverages an ecosystem of institutional allocators, policymakers, and hedge fund managers to provide value to portfolio companies. Since its founding in 2015, Clocktower Technology Ventures has backed numerous fintech companies across North America, Europe, and Latin America.

Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Mexico City, Mexico. The firm invests in technology-focused startups across Latin America, with emphasis on digital, software, digital economy, software-as-a-service, internet of things, big data, fintech, and mobile sectors. It targets early-stage rounds, including pre-seed, seed, and Series A investments, and prioritizes opportunities in Spanish-speaking Latin America, with a strong presence in the Mexican market.

Maya Capital is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2018, it concentrates on early-stage technology companies in Latin America, including Brazil, and seeks to support ventures that drive accessibility, transformation and efficiency across the region.

Canary (Brazil) is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, established in 2017, that invests in early-stage companies across fintech, crypto, climate, healthcare, consumer, business-to-business, and enterprise software sectors, with a focus on Brazil and Latin America. It is described as a leading partner for LatAm founders and an institutional investor supporting the region's next-generation companies.

IGNIA is a Mexico-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that concentrates on early-stage investments in health, financial services, education and technology, with a focus on solving fundamental needs for people at the base of the pyramid in Latin America. It backs companies across fintech, healthtech, edtech, SaaS, e-commerce and related sectors that serve low-income populations and expand access to essential services. The firm operates funds targeting impact and growth, with a regional emphasis on Latin America, including Mexico, and typically invests several million dollars per company while seeking governance participation to support scale.

NXTP Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with offices across Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina. It focuses on early-stage investments, writing checks from $500,000 to $5 million in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, and concentrates on four B2B verticals: Cloud and SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The firm has backed more than 130 startups, with a portfolio that includes six unicorns and 32 exits, and it has helped companies raise substantial capital through a Latin American network designed to support regional expansion. NXTP collaborates with other investors and provides extensive hands-on support, including access to more than 400 experts who assist with operational and growth challenges. The firm emphasizes helping founders scale, validate viable business models, and extend operations across borders within Latin America, leveraging regional market insight and partner ecosystems.

Soma Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that focuses on software-driven startups and seed-stage investments. It backs companies across B2B software, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and consumer sectors, with a global footprint spanning Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. The firm has a track record of backing startups that grow into unicorns, reflecting an emphasis on founder-led software businesses with scalable models. Soma Capital operates as a registered investment adviser.

ONEVC is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 with offices in São Paulo, Brazil and Silicon Valley. It focuses on seed-stage investments in Latin America, backing early technology companies with the potential to address large, multi-billion-dollar markets and demonstrated product-market fit. The firm maintains a generalist, category-defining approach, investing early in a selective portfolio of transformational companies with the potential to become market leaders. Its partners bring more than 50 years of combined venture experience across angel investments, growth funding, and technology IPOs, and have backed over 70 companies in Silicon Valley and Brazil.

Quona Capital is a venture capital firm focused on financial technology companies that promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. Founded in 2014, it backs startups developing innovative financial products and services beyond microcredit, including alternative lending, remittances, insurance, prepaid services, payments, and related software that expands access to banking and payments in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia (notably India and Southeast Asia), and Latin America. The firm invests across stages from seed to growth, typically in the range of one to ten million dollars, and supports ventures creating digital lending, SME lending, wealthtech, and adjacent sectors such as agriculture, health, education, commerce, and mobility finance. Quona maintains headquarters in Washington, DC, with additional offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City, and it aims to scale inclusive financial services by leveraging technology to improve quality, access, and affordability for underserved consumers and businesses.

Marathon Ventures is an early-stage, B2B-focused venture capital firm that invests in Latin American startups. It also operates as a talent hub, helping entrepreneurs and portfolio companies with strategic talent acquisition and providing access to a network of operators and advisors to support growth across stages.

Unpopular Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology companies. It makes active investments across a broad range of startups, supporting companies through various growth stages. Since inception it has deployed approximately 75 million dollars across roughly 500 startups, including Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir, reflecting a high level of ongoing deal activity.

H20 Capital is a venture capital firm that backs disruptive entrepreneurs aimed at building large, lasting companies and creating new markets. It positions itself as a hands-on partner to help founders execute growth strategies and add value. The firm focuses on B2B enterprise software (SaaS), B2B marketplaces, and B2B fintech in Latin America and the United States, with a particular emphasis on LatinX and immigrant founders in the US.