Investors in Ecuador

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BuenTrip Ventures

BuenTrip Ventures is a venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2021 and based in Quito, Ecuador. It focuses on pre-seed and seed B2B software startups that aim to transform the Latin American economy. As an ecosystem builder, it identifies, mentors, and invests in software-driven ventures that have the potential to scale across the region, supporting founders with capital and guidance to accelerate growth.
Made 3 investments in Ecuador

IFU

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.

Citigroup

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.
Made 3 investments in Ecuador

SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.
Made 7 investments in Ecuador

Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that funds technology startups across early, growth, and late stages. It concentrates on internet-native opportunities at the applications layer, internet services, and web services that generate large networks and network effects, with an emphasis on software, fintech, e-commerce, media, mobile, and related sectors. The firm typically makes initial investments around one million dollars, with occasional larger early-stage bets of two to three million, and it aims to deploy as much as twenty million dollars in a single company. Founded in 2003, Union Square Ventures operates globally with investments in companies based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and elsewhere, seeking scalable businesses that leverage information technology to transform markets and create significant network value.
Made 3 investments in Ecuador

Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Francisco. The firm invests across seed through growth stages in consumer and enterprise software, cloud/SaaS, data and analytics, security, and related information technology sectors, and may participate in areas such as advertising, fintech, health tech, and open source infrastructure. It often seeks board oversight of portfolio companies and prioritizes investments in the United States, India, China, Europe and Israel, with occasional activity in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

Mighty Capital

Mighty Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that backs software and technology companies in the seed and early growth stages. The firm focuses on B2B software as a service, security, health artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, cloud, and related technology sectors. Founded in 2017 by SC Moatti and Jennifer Vancini, Mighty Capital leverages product-management insights to evaluate startups, drawing on Moatti's Products That Count network to understand market needs and product-market fit. This approach aims to identify emerging trends early and support portfolio companies with rapid execution and strategic value creation. The firm emphasizes hands-on partnership with founders and seeks to generate strong returns by combining domain knowledge with active network-driven support.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group is a Stamford, Connecticut-based corporate venture capital and investment firm focused on the digital currency and blockchain ecosystem. It provides funding and support to fintech and blockchain companies across bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and related sectors, and it owns and operates notable subsidiaries including CoinDesk, a media and events platform; Genesis Trading, a bitcoin brokerage; and Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset management firm.
Made 4 investments in Ecuador

Wayra

Wayra is a corporate venture arm and innovation hub connected to Telefónica, operating as a global accelerator and open-innovation platform that links startups and scaleups with the Telefónica group. With a presence in ten countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, Wayra collaborates with entrepreneurs to identify and develop joint business opportunities. It serves as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, providing access to networks, capital, mentorship, and potential pilot deployments. Wayra runs accelerator programs and themed calls, such as the Wayra Call and the Health Hub with partners, to support tech startups across sectors like health tech, cybersecurity, smart city, and IT, aiming to scale startups through engagement with Telefónica's global assets and corporate partnerships.
Made 4 investments in Ecuador

NXTP Ventures

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.
Made 5 investments in Ecuador

Boost VC

Boost VC is a San Mateo-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in deep technology startups. Founded in 2012 by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, the firm backs hardware and software companies across aerospace, robotics, bio/health, AI, crypto, VR/AR, energy and climate, defense, oceans, and materials. It typically participates in pre-seed rounds and has a track record of leading early rounds, targeting rapid initial funding to help startups establish product-market fit. The firm emphasizes transformative technologies and long-term impact, supporting companies from inception through initial growth stages.
Made 3 investments in Ecuador

Core Innovation Capital

Core Innovation Capital is a California-based venture capital firm focused on fintech and technology-enabled startups that serve small businesses and everyday Americans. Founded in 2009, the firm concentrates on early-stage investments in financial services and related technologies with the aim of delivering cost, access, and outcome improvements. Its portfolio targets sectors where regulation and complexity have slowed innovation, seeking companies that offer scalable solutions with clear consumer value, time savings, and upward mobility. Rooted in the Financial Health Network and inspired by inclusive-finance pioneers, Core Innovation Capital emphasizes disciplined investment in technologies that can transform under-served markets and expand financial inclusion across the United States.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

FJ Labs

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.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

GAWA Capital

GAWA Capital is an impact investment firm based in Madrid that supports social enterprises in underserved and low-income markets by providing debt and equity capital, with the aim of achieving financial returns for investors and measurable social development.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Western Technology Investment

Western Technology Investment is a venture debt firm founded in 1980 and based in Portola Valley, California. It specializes in providing debt and lease financing to revenue-generating, VC-backed technology and life sciences companies, including acquisition financing and fully usable growth capital. Typical financings range from $250,000 to $30 million, and in selected cases may include equity through warrants or a combined debt-and-equity structure. The firm targets companies with substantial scale, aiming for at least $25 million in annual sales within five years. As a registered investment adviser, Western Technology Investment structures its financing to support early through mid-stage growth, across North America. The firm emphasizes venture lending and has historically supported a broad range of technology and life sciences ventures.
Made 3 investments in Ecuador

EchoVC Partners

EchoVC Partners is a Lagos, Nigeria–headquartered venture capital firm that concentrates on seed and early-stage technology investments. The firm pursues opportunities across North America, Africa and Southeast Asia, including underserved markets in Africa and Southeast Asia. It backs ideas in internet platforms and services, consumer internet (social, mobile, commerce, local, media and entertainment), smart data (machine learning, computer vision, predictive analytics, search and discovery), semantic technology and ambient sensing, as well as enterprise software, cloud infrastructure and decision support. Sectors of interest include e-commerce, digital media, content, advertising, software, fintech, health tech, energy, sustainable mobility, and connectivity, with a preference for women entrepreneurs and underserved geographies. Investment sizes vary widely, from tens of thousands to several million dollars, depending on stage and needs. EchoVC Partners focuses on cross-border tech opportunities and aims to support growth through resources and networks in its target regions.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Amplo

Amplo is a global venture capital firm based in Spring, Texas. Founded in 2017, the firm backs companies across technology-driven sectors, including financial technology, software, artificial intelligence, education, mental health, and financial services.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Digital Finance Group

Digital Finance Group is a venture capital firm established in 2015, with roots in Silicon Valley and a headquarters in Singapore, focusing on cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and blockchain technology. It pursues minority investments in blockchain, cryptocurrency, defi, and web3 projects, aiming to support high-quality ventures globally. The firm has grown to a multinational operation with more than 200 employees and manages over $1 billion in assets under management, including primary and secondary market exposures. Its portfolio includes early investments such as Bloq, Brave Browser, LedgerX, and Circle, reflecting involvement across blockchain infrastructure, regulated exchanges, and ecosystem development. Digital Finance Group emphasizes a forward-looking venture approach and seeks to back leading projects in the sector.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

DNX Ventures

DNX Ventures is a San Mateo-based venture capital firm founded in 2011, with an additional office in Tokyo. It backs early-stage B2B startups, typically at seed and Series A rounds, across the United States and Japan, with focus areas including SaaS/cloud, cybersecurity, deep tech, sustainability, hardware, retail, and finance. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser and leverages a CXO network to help portfolio companies validate product-market fit and connect with Fortune 500 firms, enabling partnerships and commercial opportunities.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

Singularity Investments

Singularity Investments is a venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, that targets early and growth-stage companies in disruptive technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. It focuses on Africa and North America, particularly the United States and Canada, and seeks to support mobile and web-based services, technology and software, digital infrastructure, and digital media. The firm typically makes equity or equity-linked investments ranging from about $0.2 million to $2 million, often taking a board seat and acting as lead investor in its deals. It emphasizes strategic value through its network and experience to help portfolio companies scale.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

UTEC Ventures

UTEC Ventures is an accelerator and venture capital firm affiliated with the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. It supports early‑stage technology startups through its accelerator program and direct investments, aiming to help founders accelerate product development, market entry, and growth. The firm backs ventures across sectors such as fintech, health tech, software, e‑commerce, real estate, transportation and education technology, and seeks to partner with teams at the earliest stages. Investments are typically minority stakes in seed to early‑stage companies, with a focus on building scalable businesses in Latin America and beyond.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is a Menlo Park-based investment firm and venture capital firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and blockchain technology. Founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, the firm initially managed macro hedge fund investments before concentrating on crypto-focused advisory services. It operates as a private investment adviser and backs seed- through later-stage companies across blockchain, fintech, software, cybersecurity, and related infrastructure.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.
Made 2 investments in Ecuador

Finnovista

Finnovista is an impact organization that accelerates financial services and insurance industry transformation by connecting large corporations with fintech and insurtech startups. Founded in 2012, it runs collaboration programs, including conferences, acceleration and scale-up initiatives, and corporate innovation programs, to drive innovation journeys for startups and corporate clients. It operates primarily in Latin America and Spain, sourcing and investing in transformative fintech and insurtech ventures and promoting community-led initiatives such as FINNOSUMMIT, a leading fintech and insurtech conference in Latin America. Finnovista runs accelerator and venture activities, often in partnership with corporate clients like Visa, BBVA, HSBC, Scotiabank and Fiinlab by Gentera, and is part of Rainmaking Group. With headquarters in Madrid and an office in Mexico City, Finnovista seeks to advance financial inclusion by enabling collaboration between startups and financial institutions.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Revolution

Revolution is a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm founded in 2005 by Steve Case. It partners with entrepreneurs to build technology-enabled businesses, investing across stages from early-stage to growth, with a focus on innovating traditional industries. The firm operates a family of funds, including Revolution Ventures and Revolution Growth, and emphasizes geographic diversification via initiatives such as Rise of the Rest Seed Funds to support startups in high-potential regions. Its teams pursue opportunities in consumer internet, media and entertainment, software and services, healthcare IT, financial services, energy, and other technology-enabled sectors across the United States. The firm frequently leads early rounds and may take board seats to help portfolio companies scale.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Itochu

Itochu is a leading Japanese general trading company established in 1858 by Chubei Itoh. As a sogo shosha, it conducts domestic and international trading across sectors including textiles, machinery, chemicals, metals, energy, food, and general merchandise, and engages in related services such as insurance, finance, construction, real estate, and warehousing. The group maintains a broad global footprint with offices in more than 80 countries and operates across investment and business ventures to support its trading activities. Through its information technology and other business units, Itochu also sponsors strategic ventures and partnerships, leveraging its extensive network to create value across industries. The company emphasizes diversified operations, long-term relationships with suppliers and customers, and growth across traditional trade, consumer products, and energy-related sectors.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Mouro Capital

Mouro Capital is a fintech venture capital firm based in London that backs entrepreneurs shaping the future of financial services. Backed by Banco Santander as an anchor investor since 2015, the firm manages about $400 million in assets under management and invests across the fintech value chain in early to growth stage startups across Europe, North America and Latin America. It maintains teams in London, San Francisco and Madrid and pursues a diversified portfolio across North America, Europe and Latin America.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Tekton Ventures

Tekton Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that partners with ambitious founders to build category-defining companies. The firm focuses on early investments worldwide, with activity in Silicon Valley, London and Israel, and in mobile and digitally connected markets in Asia such as China, Korea and India. Tekton emphasizes partnerships with local venture ecosystems and leverages a global network of entrepreneurs and investors to support startups at inception. The team brings decades of early-stage investing experience and seeks to back startups that have the potential to define new market categories.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Fenbushi Capital

Fenbushi Capital is a Shanghai-based blockchain-focused venture capital firm founded in 2015 by veterans from blockchain and traditional finance. It positions itself as a pioneering investor in the space and has supported numerous blockchain projects across multiple continents, spanning finance, healthcare, supply chain and consumer goods. The firm aims to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem and serves as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio companies.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Magma Partners

Magma Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santiago, Chile, with offices in California, Colombia, Mexico, and China. Founded in 2014, it backs Latin American entrepreneurs aiming to launch and scale in the US market and also supports global startups with Latin American tech teams targeting the US. The firm focuses on fintech, insurtech, blockchain, and marketplaces, with activity across information technology and software-as-a-service sectors. Magma Partners also manages the Sino-Latin American accelerator, a program that facilitates business between Chinese and Latin American startup ecosystems.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Draper Associates

Draper Associates is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups worldwide, investing from pre-seed to Series A and maintaining an industry-agnostic, opportunistic stance. It seeks transformative ideas across AI, robotics, biotech, fintech, crypto, space, defense, software as a service, cloud, new media, gaming, and other deep technologies, aiming to support teams with the potential to disrupt markets and drive substantial growth. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Orange

Orange is a leading digital operator that provides mobile and internet services in Europe and Africa, with a global corporate telecommunications arm that serves large enterprises, local authorities and SMEs worldwide. Through Orange Business Services, the group offers integrated voice and data, IT and cloud solutions, data center and network management, security, and unified communications designed to manage international operations. It supports complex projects across industries with end-to-end services, including IP voice, WAN-LAN design, application management and managed services. The company also maintains an innovation network and startup ecosystem through initiatives like Orange Fabs. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Paris, France, Orange operates in around 30 countries and serves hundreds of millions of customers globally.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

CSC Upshot Ventures

CSC Upshot Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs seed and early-stage technology companies. It focuses on enterprise software, artificial intelligence, healthcare, fintech, and marketplaces, and operates with a global reach across the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and South Africa.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Fenway Summer Ventures

Fenway Summer Ventures is a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage fintech and financial services startups in the United States. Founded in 2013, the firm backs pre-seed and seed-stage companies, offering capital and guidance to entrepreneurs building innovative financial services platforms, software, and brands. Its investment approach centers on partnering with founders reinventing the financial services industry, with a history of supporting ventures through early growth and, at times, promising growth-stage opportunities. The firm emphasizes US-focused opportunities in software and financial services, aiming to help companies scale with strategic insights and hands-on support.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Three Fish Capital

Three Fish Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in New York, founded in 2014. The firm invests across multiple industries, including cleantech, consumer internet, enterprise software, mobile, and healthcare.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Red Swan Ventures

Red Swan Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm established in 2011 that backs pre-seed and seed-stage startups. The firm focuses on early-stage entrepreneurs who delight customers, create strong culture, and disrupt industries, aiming to back companies with the potential to become movements as much as businesses.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

FundersClub

FundersClub is a venture capital firm and online investment platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on seed and early-stage investments in technology and technology-enabled companies, providing capital and guidance through an online model. The firm has backed a portfolio that includes Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, and GitLab, and it operates globally to pursue seed and Series A rounds. Backed by a network of well-known investors, FundersClub emphasizes accessible venture investing by connecting founders with capital and resources.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Proxy Ventures

Proxy Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that backs early-stage startups in the United States and Europe, distinguishing itself through an in-house design studio that rebrands the portfolio companies it invests in and operates as a private company built by entrepreneurs investing their own funds, described as not being a traditional venture fund.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

VisionPlus

VisionPlus is a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm that invests in digital products and services, including software-as-a-service, gaming, mobile applications and internet services. The firm supports companies across software platforms and digital offerings, drawing on a management team with extensive technology experience in seed investing, entrepreneurship, and scaling development and business operations globally. VisionPlus focuses on early- to growth-stage opportunities in software, gaming, mobile apps and internet services, aiming to help founders bring new digital products and content to market through strategic guidance and resource backing.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Kaszek Ventures

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.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

North Base Media

North Base Media is a venture capital firm based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, founded in 2013. It specializes in digital media investments, supporting companies such as IDN Media, Pocket Aces, TheNewsLens, and Capital Digital. The firm’s leadership includes co-founders Marcus Brauchli, former editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and Sasa Vucinic, former CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund. North Base Media focuses on identifying opportunities in the digital media landscape and seeks to back emerging platforms and content businesses with global reach.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

Amasia

Amasia is a thesis-driven global venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on sustainability and climate, investing in founders with global ambitions from seed to Series B, across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America. The firm supports portfolio companies with access to global markets, best practices and knowledge to accelerate growth.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador

MCH

MCH, formerly known as MCH Private Equity, S.L., is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Madrid, Spain, specializing in investments in mid-sized companies across various sectors. Founded in 1998, MCH focuses on early-stage, mezzanine, and mid-market investments, as well as management buy-outs and expansion capital. The firm seeks to invest between €1 million and €80 million in non-publicly traded companies that generate revenues exceeding €30 million and have an enterprise value ranging from €15 million to €200 million. MCH's investment strategy emphasizes sectors such as internet services, commercial surveillance, restaurants, telecom, and new technologies, while explicitly avoiding startups, real estate, and industries like tobacco and gambling. The firm aims to take significant stakes in its portfolio companies, with a preference for exiting investments within four to six years. MCH is also involved in advising venture capital funds, managing over €500 million across its investment vehicles.
Made 1 investment in Ecuador