Investors in Chile

Aurus is a Chilean investment firm that manages funds in the venture capital, real estate, and capital markets. We are pioneers in Latin America’s Venture Capital industry, dedicated to developing the ecosystem and investing in the region’s most impressive talent, and scalable technologies. We believe that Chile is the best platform in which to invest in our region because of its investment friendly policies, commitment to innovation, and industry leadership. As local investors, we realize where the biggest transformations are occurring. We add value to our portfolio companies through experience, insights, best practices, and network. Our investment decisions are aided by the advice of outstanding advisory committees for each of the funds. All of them are also LPs in the fund and a valuable resource to Aurus and our investees, both in evaluating a prospective investment and later adding value to them through our mentoring program.

ALAYA Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early and expansion stages and emerging growth investments. It seeks to invest in sectors such as innovative information technology, fintech, e-health, agribusiness and educational technologies, biotechnology and KPO (knowledge process outsourcing) and Digital TV. It seeks to invest in Latin America, with a focus on Argentina and Chile. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.5 million and holds its investments for five years, taking a minority stake. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina; with additional office in Cordoba, Argentina; Santiago de Chile, Chile and California, US.

Bezos Expeditions manages Jeff Bezos' personal venture capital investments.

Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm started by a group of investors and entrepreneurs with over 60 years of experience creating and backing successful ventures globally. Kalei is on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs creating global leaders based in the region. It was born with a clear focus on international expansion and global leadership for its portfolio companies, as demonstrated by the fact that its partners have lived and invested in startups across four continents and their networks span the whole globe. Kalei held its first closing in January 2019 and has already invested in companies based in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the USA. All the entrepreneurs we have backed have developed international careers themselves. Mexico, Colombia, and Peru also form part of our core geographies to source leading entrepreneurs. In order to marry our international passion and expertise with the strengths of the regional ecosystem in Latin America, our investment thesis revolves around sectors where Latin America can create global leaders, either because of the quality of the education system and importance of regional companies in a particular sector or because of the global importance of the region as a percentage of the global output in a given sector. These sectors include software development applications (e.g. marketplaces, consumer internet, fintech, edtech) and sectors that heavily benefit from new trends like Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (e.g. healthtech, agtech, logistics). Kalei stands for ‘Kaleidoscope’, which symbolizes the importance of diversity of thought background, ethnicity, and gender in our team.

Accel-KKR LLC is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, debt investment and middle market investments. It also makes mezzanine investments. The firm seeks to invest in buyouts of divisions of larger companies, divisional carveouts, subsidiaries and business units or operating assets from public companies; acquisitions and recapitalizations of closely held private companies; and going-private transactions of small and micro cap public companies. In buyouts, the firm specifically targets assets that are considered or are likely to be considered non-core assets that will typically include businesses with business models that are inconsistent or are incompatible with the parent and may have been under-invested in for some period. It pursues acquisition and recapitalization of private companies that prefer to remain private or which currently do not have the scale and/or growth profile to access the public markets but whose shareholder desire liquidity and/or access to growth capital including acquisition financing including founder and family owned businesses. The firm pursues going private transactions in public companies that are either subscale for the public markets or whose management teams have a business plan that is most appropriately executed as a private company. It primarily invests in technology industry including software, Internet technologies, online services, internet retail and IT enabled services as well as in various sub-segments including enterprise and infrastructure software, vertical market application software, technical software, networking software, enterprise computing and data storage, storage networking, data communications, telecommunications equipment, Internet services, business process outsourcing, supply chain, and professional IT services. It seeks to invest globally. The firm commits a wide range of capital, from less than $10 million to over $100 million, and typically invests in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $200 million. It prefers to acquire majority ownership position, control investments, and minority growth investments. The firm is an affiliate of Accel Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Accel–KKR LLC was founded in February 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia and London, United Kingdom.

Linzor’s private equity investing targets middle market companies in the region with primary focus on Chile, México, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay and Perú. The firm operates out of four local offices in Santiago, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Bogotá. The Partners are all locals in their respective markets, have complementary skills, and benefit from extensive regional networks having worked their entire careers in the Latin American investment and financial markets. In 2000, Tim Purcell and Alfredo Irigoin founded J.P. Morgan Partners Latin America, L.P. (“JPMPLA”), one of the leading private equity funds in the region. Additionally, Tim Purcell was responsible for J.P. Morgan Capital Corporation’s Latin American private equity portfolio from 1996 to 2005. Carlos Ingham was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan for approximately nineteen years where he was the Senior Country Officer responsible for the bank's activities in the Southern Cone, including Argentina, Chile, Perú and Uruguay. Prior to joining Linzor as Partners in 2010, Carlos Gomez and Cipriano Santisteban founded and managed Palmfund, a regional private equity fund. Matias Gutierrez has been with Linzor since 2007, having previously worked at JPMorgan.The Partners’ substantial track record includes strong returns on investments totaling over $930 million in 45 Latin American transactions across 10 industries.

GAWA Capital is impact investment company that promotes social and economic development by leveraging private capital markets. It raises and manages investment funds to support the growth of social enterprises in under-served markets, while seeking financial returns for investors and a positive impact for society.

Credit Suisse Private Equity is the private equity arm of global private bank and wealth manager, Credit Suisse. The division invests in mezzanine, buyouts, secondaries, primarily in Europe and North America. The firm is based in London, United Kingdom.

Angel Ventures started in 2008 as the first professionally managed angel investor network in Latin America seeking to "link great ideas with capital". It now has more than 300 members, comprised of Angel Investors and other senior executives, to co-invest in early stage, high potential companies. In 2012 the firm raised its´ first VC fund of 20 million dollars which is invested in 21 companies. AV is now raising its second fund. This second fund is the official Pacific Alliance VC Fund with a target size of 120 million dollars to be invested in the region countries (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru).

Endeavor Global, Inc., Investment Arm is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth equity investments. It seeks to invest in firms with revenues between $0.5 million and $15 million. The firm seeks to take 10 percent stake in its portfolio companies. The firm will co-invest in any $5 million-plus financing rounds completed by its companies. 80 percent of the proceeds will be set aside for direct investment in Endeavour companies, while the rest will be used to fund its operations. The firm prefers to invest alongside professional investors. It seeks to follow exactly same terms as the lead investors. Endeavor Global, Inc., Investment Arm is based in New York, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Africa.