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.

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.

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.

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.

Winnipeg Capital is an investment and financial services firm based in Lima, Peru. Established in 2017, it operates four business lines: Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Capital Markets, and a Multi-Family Office. The firm connects high-potential Latin American companies with growth opportunities through customized financial services and strategy advisory, supporting entrepreneurs across EdTech, AgTech and SaaS to scale regionally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alaya Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cordoba, Argentina, focused on investing in and scaling Latin American startups. It supports technology-driven ventures across the region, with a regional footprint that includes partnerships across Spanish-speaking Latin America. The firm targets sectors such as information technology, fintech, e-commerce, and consumer products and services, aiming to create value and promote a new economy in Latin America based on tech and knowledge.

Endeavor Global is a non-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs in developing countries. It operates a global community of high-impact founders across nearly 40 countries, offering mentorship, peer learning, and access to networks and capital to help scale their companies. The network comprises more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose ventures generate over $28 billion in revenue and have created more than 3.9 million jobs, reflecting Endeavor’s role in enabling growth and long-term impact.

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.

Acumen LatAm Impact Ventures, also known as ALIVE Ventures, is a unique Latin American fund manager focused on impact investing. They prioritize measuring impact through a data-driven approach, emphasizing understanding how lives are being positively affected. With a strong commitment to gender lens investing, ALIVE Ventures aims to create a community of investors dedicated to making a difference and learning from their investments. By collaborating and sharing knowledge, they strive to expand the impact investing landscape in Latin America. While prioritizing social impact, ALIVE Ventures also aims to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to their investors.

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.

McCombs Partners is the corporate venture arm of McCombs Enterprises and serves as its investment management division. Based in San Antonio, Texas, the firm invests in startups and early-stage companies across automotive, financial services, logistics, medical, and sports sectors, seeking to support growth and strategic partnerships.

Compass Technology Partners is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 1988 that invests in emerging technology companies across various stages, with a preference for startups and early-stage ventures. It focuses on developers of new technologies and innovative applications in silicon-related technologies, life sciences, communications and information technologies, software, optoelectronics, and other enabling technologies. The firm also explores opportunities in biotechnology that leverage mature semiconductor manufacturing, including lab-on-a-chip devices, sensors, medical devices, and related laboratory instruments.

Kayyak Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in Chile and Mexico. It concentrates on seed and Series A investments in technology companies based in Latin America or led by Latin founders, prioritizing mission-driven entrepreneurs with scalable, capital-efficient business models and solid unit economics. While primarily backing Latin American ventures, Kayyak Ventures also supports Latin founders in the United States and Europe, and participates across early rounds, including seed, Series A, and Series B, typically investing between 1.5 million and 5 million per new investment and may lead or participate in deals. The firm emphasizes building strong teams and long-term value, aiming to help portfolio companies scale sustainably.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a large Canadian financial services company with North American operations. Headquartered in Toronto, it offers a broad range of financial solutions for individuals and businesses, including commercial banking, wealth management, personal banking, small business services, and cross-border banking. The organization also provides investment banking services through its subsidiaries, handling debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and capital markets activities. Its asset management units manage portfolios for high net worth individuals, pension plans, foundations, and institutions, and they launch mutual funds and hedge funds. The venture capital and private equity arm, CIBC Capital Partners, makes direct, fund and mezzanine investments to support growth, restructurings, and acquisitions across sectors in North America and abroad. The company emphasizes client-focused service, long-term investment in its people and communities, and strong cross-border capabilities.

Endeavour Silver Corp is a Canadian mineral company engaged in the evaluation, acquisition, exploration, development, and exploitation of precious metal properties in Mexico and Chile. It operates the Guanacevi and Bolanitos silver mines in Mexico and the El Cubo silver-gold mine in Guanajuato; it is developing the Terronera project and maintains exploration programs in Mexico, Chile, and the United States. In 2012 it acquired Mexgold Resources and its subsidiaries, expanding its producing assets in the Guanajuato district.

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.

Carao Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in San José, Costa Rica. It specializes in early-stage investments across Latin America, with emphasis on software, artificial intelligence and machine learning, biotech and healthtech, fintech, consumer products, e-commerce, and related technology-enabled sectors. The firm focuses on opportunities in smaller LatAm markets in Central America, the Northern Andean region, the Dominican Republic, and select other countries, aiming to back startups with high potential that may lack local funding resources. Carao combines early-stage VC practices with venture-building and accelerator-style support to help portfolio companies grow and access a broader investor network. The leadership is headed by Allan Boruchowicz.

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.

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.

Rethink Education provides a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to design simple mobile-first courses for employees or students, accessible on any device at any time with minimal data usage, and eliminates the need for local backup or storage. The solution focuses on delivering training and educational content across devices, ensuring reliable access without device-specific constraints.

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.

Creation Investments Capital Management is a private equity and impact investment firm focused on financial services in emerging markets. Founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, it has offices in Dallas, Mexico City, and Bangalore. The firm makes growth equity, private equity, and private credit investments in microfinance institutions, SME lenders, emerging-market banks, and BOP financial service providers, as well as related areas such as leasing, factoring, insurance, payments, and mobile money. Its investment approach seeks to build diversified portfolios that deliver financial returns while expanding access to finance for the unbanked and underbanked in the developing world. The firm pursues opportunities across venture to mature stage companies, often taking majority stakes, and targets a broad set of financial services and social ventures, including fintech, housing, healthcare, agriculture, renewable energy, and technology-enabled services, across regions including North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Elevar Equity is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 that focuses on impact investing in emerging markets. It backs early-stage and growth companies across financial services, microfinance, housing, education, healthcare, and agriculture, as well as MSMEs serving low-income communities. By financing scalable, affordable distribution models, the firm seeks to deliver both financial returns and meaningful social impact. Elevar operates with a cross-border approach in regions including India, Latin America, and other emerging markets, partnering with entrepreneurs to expand access to essential products and services and strengthen local economies.

Nakama Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2022 and located in Las Condes, Chile. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies across various sectors, aiming to support innovative entrepreneurs in their growth journeys. By providing financial resources and strategic guidance, Nakama Ventures seeks to foster the development of new ideas and technologies, contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region.

IMPAQTO Capital is a venture capital firm that provides flexible financing to social enterprises in the Andean region, aiming to close the capital gap for impact-driven businesses.

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.

Daedalus Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2022 and headquartered in Santiago, Chile. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in Latin America, specifically targeting sectors such as fintech, software-as-a-service, and marketplace startups. Daedalus Ventures seeks to partner with exceptional entrepreneurial teams that possess a global vision and a strong commitment to their ventures. By concentrating on these industries, the firm aims to support innovative companies that can drive growth and transformation in the region.

Advance Venture Partners is a California-based private equity and venture capital firm that targets technology, commerce and media companies, with a focus on software and consumer sectors. It pursues venture and growth investments, typically in early to growth stages, and provides active, hands-on support to help entrepreneurs scale. The firm invests about $10 million to $30 million per investment and maintains a strategic investor network through Advance Publications, a major media and technology company. Its portfolio has included Curology, Rent the Runway, Farfetch and Compass, among others.

Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is a leading European innovation engine focused on Sustainable Energy. It invests in early-stage climate tech and energy companies across Europe and the US, providing equity minority investments and added value services to de-risk projects.

Salkantay Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm based in Lima, Peru, that backs startups across Latin America. It pursues a generalist approach, investing in companies addressing large regional market pains at scale through technology, with a focus on sectors including e-commerce, ad tech, health tech, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. The firm aims to deliver strong financial returns while generating meaningful impact by collaborating with intrepid entrepreneurs and investors to transform innovative ideas into successful companies.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which offers traditional retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and related services to retail customers; and Institutional Clients Group, which delivers wholesale banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivatives, equity and fixed income research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. The firm maintains a global footprint and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility as part of its business strategy.

Carabela is a venture capital firm based in Guadalajara, Mexico, that backs early-stage Latin American startups across sectors such as ICT, e-commerce, fintech, edtech and food-tech. It concentrates on early-stage opportunities and does not impose a minimum revenue requirement; instead it evaluates ventures with a minimum viable product and market validation through user testing to assess opportunity, with a focus on technology-enabled ventures that aim to positively impact lives in Latin America.

Seaya Ventures is a Madrid-based European venture capital platform that invests in technology-enabled startups across Europe and Latin America. Since its inception in 2013, it has raised and manages a substantial capital base, with over €600 million across multiple early-stage funds, and backs founders building global technology companies. The firm supports portfolio companies through a global platform, an extensive network of founders, investors and multinational corporations, and its experience helping companies scale internationally. Seaya pursues opportunities across software, mobility, greentech, healthcare, energy, climate, circular economy, fintech, proptech and related sectors, emphasizing technology-driven growth and sustainable impact. It maintains a climate technology initiative alongside core tech investments, reflecting a commitment to applying technology to address climate challenges and accelerate the global adoption of climate solutions.

Krealo is the corporate venture capital arm of Credicorp Capital. Founded in 2018 and based in Lima, Peru, it focuses on fintech startups in the Andean region and Mexico. Krealo builds, invests in, and manages fintech ventures as Credicorp's open-innovation unit, supporting technology-driven financial solutions.

2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey. It backs technology startups across the United States and Canada, leads pre-seed rounds with high conviction, and writes checks typically ranging from $500,000 to $2 million to support initial rounds and ongoing company building. The firm operates as a hands-on partner, leveraging its background as operators and product-focused investors to help founders refine product plans, accelerate growth, and close follow-on rounds. Its investment focus spans artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, hardware, healthcare technology, biotechnology, machine learning, robotics, Internet of Things, augmented and virtual reality, climate tech, e-commerce enablement, business-to-business marketplaces, and SMB vertical SaaS. Since 2018, it has backed over 200 startups, reflecting long-term partnerships with ambitious founders building technologies of the future.

GoHub Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Global Omnium, based in Valencia, Spain, with additional offices in Seville and Barcelona. It invests in technology companies at seed to growth stages, focusing on B2B software, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Internet of Things, robotics, AR/VR, and cybersecurity, and broadening to Web3, fintech, climate tech, and digital health. Typical ticket sizes range from approximately €0.5 million to €3 million, and the firm backs founders across Europe, North America, and Latin America, supporting portfolio companies from early development through growth.

Angel Hub is a venture capital firm based in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, established in 2020. The firm is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and business leaders by investing in innovative and scalable projects with global potential. Angel Hub focuses on early-stage startups primarily in Latin America, providing access to significant investment opportunities in high-potential ventures both within Mexico and internationally. Through its network of angel investors, Angel Hub aims to foster growth and development in the startup ecosystem.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Rye, New York, Ospraie Ag Science is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital investments within the agriculture sector. The company invests in both public and private markets, leveraging its commercial experience and extensive network across the agricultural value chain to source unique investment opportunities.

Latin Leap is a venture capital studio that focuses on building and supporting purpose-driven technology companies in Latin America. It creates a platform to facilitate the entry of international scale-ups into the region and provides market access for deploying their solutions locally. The organization mobilizes global capital and expertise to strengthen the Latin American entrepreneurship ecosystem and supports knowledge-intensive businesses through education and mindset development.

Femto Partners is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage information technology and internet-related startups in Japan. It provides strategic guidance, helps assemble teams, grows customer bases, and attracts new investors for its portfolio companies. Founded in 2017, the firm supports entrepreneurs and management teams in turning innovative ideas into scalable businesses, with a focus on Tokyo-based opportunities within Japan.

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2006 with bases in Luxembourg and London. It makes investments across incubation, seed, startup, growth capital, and early to mid‑stage ventures, with a focus on digital businesses in internet, digital media, e-commerce, electronics, transportation, and gaming. The firm invests globally and often serves as a sounding board for portfolio companies, including co-investment activity with partners.

GR Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 with a pan-European focus. Headquartered in London, the firm backs fast-growth technology companies with proven teams and scalable models, particularly in health, wealth, housing and mobility. It targets growth equity at late-stage venture rounds (Series B to D) and co-invests alongside other investors to help portfolio companies expand markets, talent, operations and opportunities across Europe. The firm pursues a hands-on approach, drawing on capital and connections to accelerate growth.

Founded in 2020, Taram Capital is a venture capital firm based in Santiago, Chile, with additional offices in Miami, USA. It invests primarily in early-stage B2B technology companies focused on eCommerce, Fintech, Data Driven Solutions, and Web3 sectors, targeting SMEs and large enterprises globally.