Investors in Argentina

CITES (Spanish acronym for Centro de Innovación Tecnológica Empresarial y Social) (Social and Business Technology Innovation Hub) belonging to Sancor Seguros Group, is an investor of early- stage venture capital with capabilities to incubate and accelerate science and technology-based startups. It accompanies startups by offering support in business, management, intellectual property and technology, and provides an exclusive incubation space with access to common laboratories fully-equipped with nanotechnology, biotechnology, engineering, and ICT for up to two years. It also offers support from the corporate areas of Sancor Seguros Group. CITES invests in verticals such as Insurtech, Fintech, ICT, Edutech, Agtech, Pharma, Healthtech and Life Science.

Eklos is the open innovation area of Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes (AB InBev). Operating since 2015, it functions as a Venture Client, connecting technology startups with the company's value chain to implement digital solutions and strategic pilots without a traditional investment fund model.

Grid Exponential is a firm with a Company Builder model targeted at the creation of science-based companies to link science, entrepreneurs and capital, implemented in four stages: 1) Explore stage: they explore the scientific system together with the CONICET, universities and research centers, and work in conjunction with entrepreneurs’ centers and business schools to find entrepreneurs who can lead those projects. 2) Ignite stage: they intervene on that scientific opportunity to create a high impact science-based startup. 3) Launch stage: they invest up to USD 200,000 to launch the product to the market. 4) Build stage: they accompany the startup’s growth with a national and international contact network.

The Abraaj Group is a private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firm specializing in early venture, seed, growth capital, emerging growth, mid venture, late venture, expansion capital, industry consolidation, mezzanine, subdebt, PIPES, buyouts, bridge, recapitalization, infrastructure, and buy and build in mature companies. It seeks to invest in small and medium sized enterprises in emerging markets. The firm typically invests in oil, gas and consumable fuels, metals and mining, agricultural machinery and equipment, agricultural services, auto parts and equipment, leisure facilities, pharmaceuticals, services outsourcing, water utilities, real estate, health care and clean energy, manufacturing, food products, FMCG, construction, healthcare services, industrials, telecommunications, resource and infrastructure services, education, information technologies, aviation, materials and logistics, agribusiness, energy, and food industries. It focuses on consumer goods and services, within which it also focuses on fast moving consumer goods manufacturing, retail, and food & beverage. Within financial services it also focuses on banking, non-bank financial institutions (such as mortgage or consumer finance specialists), insurance companies (life, general and reinsurance), and payments and fintech businesses. Within healthcare it focuses on hospitals & clinics and other type of service providers in the healthcare domain. Within education, it focuses on private K-12 schools and traditional graduate and post-graduate, campus-based universities. We are also investing in clean energy power generation, i.e., renewable power generation assets. We will also selectively invest in base-load gas-fired power generation assets and select midstream and downstream energy infrastructure assets including transmission and distribution assets that complete the value chain. It invests in companies based in Far East, the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Asia with a focus on Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, Pakistan, Turkey, the Palestinian territories and the six Gulf Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. The firm also seeks to invest globally with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa including Ivory Coast region; Latin America including Argentina, Brazil; Central Asia; and Southeast Asia including India and the Philippines. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $0.5 million and $100 million; typically investing $10 million to $100 million in private equity investments as well as in real estate. It prefers to invest between $100 million and $300 million in its portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in companies with revenue between $6 million to $35 million. The firm acquires controlling or significant interest and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. It typically exits its investments within a period of three years to five years through structured exits to strategic and trade buyers or onto public markets in the region. The firm seeks majority and minority positions in public enterprises ranging between 10% and 49%. The Abraaj Group was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with additional offices across Asia, Africa, and Europe.

We are an investment Fund created by and for entrepreneurs. We search for the best Argentinian and LATAM teams willing to solve problems and challenges that face the countries within our region.

Wollef is a venture capital firm specializing in early venture investments. The firm does not seek to invest in seed startups. The firm prefers to invest in internet ventures -SaaS, Big Data, fintech and marketplaces. It also look at other sectors but only opportunistically. It has a special focus on Latin America, Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and South America except Brazil. The firm prefers to invest in companies having at least 1 year of operations with KPIs and at least 6 months of recurring revenues. It do not invest in businesses whose revenues come from government sources. It prefers to invest between $0.2 million and $3 million. Wollef was founded in 2013 and is based in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico with an additional office in Argentina.

17Sigma is a venture capital firm specializing pre seed, seed/startup, early venture and growth capital investments. The firm specializes in directly investing. The firm primarily invests in digitalization and tech ecosystem. The firm seeks to invest in the companies based in Latin America. 17Sigma was found in 2021 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina with an additional office in Mexico City, Mexico; New York, New York and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

We invest in technology-based projects. We like the verticals of Edtech, Fintech, Insurtech, Energy, Blockchain, but we are open to all kinds of projects that are innovative, scalable and that generate impact. We are focused on the region of Cuyo but we receive applications from all over Argentina. Startups must have MVP with users and / or first sales. We are looking for entrepreneurs who have deep knowledge of the problem they want to solve. We are willing to accompany them to pivot the solution. We focus on helping to generate real sales because there is no better proof of product / market adjustment than people willing to pay for the service / product. We are looking for teams with complementary profiles, preferably a founder with knowledge of technology and a founder with knowledge in management. We are looking for projects with global scale potential and with simple and clear business models. We invest between USD 25,000 and USD50,000 for 10% equity. We have 2 calls per year where we select 5 projects in each one, which during 5 months carry out our acceleration process.

Incutex is a Company Builder investing in technology startups in Argentina. They are actively involved in the startups’ strategic development and growth and have several experts focused on different aspects such as marketing, technology, finance, client development and sales, in order to provide support to entrepreneurs. In addition, they offer access to a network comprised by more than 100 mentors, investors, entrepreneurs and referents from several specialization areas and geographical locations. They have a co-working space for 130 persons and offer training programs to the entrepreneurial community. They work in connection with the business and science-technology sector and the VC ecosystem, with a federal approach. Incutex invests in verticals such as B2B/Enterprise, E-commerce, Finance, Education, Health, and Transport.

Grupo Pegasus is a private business group that develops, manages and invests in companies in Argentina and across Latin America.Founded in 2000, Pegasus has led private investments in the healthcare, retail, agribusiness, real estate, technological, and financial sectors.With corporate offices in Buenos Aires and Bogota, Pegasus has developed a regional presence through its portfolio companies that operate in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States.

Globant Ventures is the venture capital arm of Globant, a digitally native company where innovation, design, and engineering meet scale, focusing on transforming industries through AI, digital evolution, and enterprise software.

We invest in founders based in CAPUC (Chile, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, and Colombia). We're industry agnostic, but we mostly look at deals in FinTech, AgTech, Food Tech, Marketplace, EdTech, AI/ ML, SaaS, DTC. Digital Transformation is disrupting all social interactions, changing the way we learn, collaborate, and connect with new people. We invest to solve problems at the core of our envisioned future.

BridgeLane Argentina is the local investment arm of the Australian BridgeLane Group with presence in the country for 40 years being the major shareholder of LIAG Argentina, one of the largest agricultural producers in Latin America. The company’s strategy is to invest in early stages of start-ups with high technological impact, strong growth potential and regionalization in LatAm projecting medium to long term horizons and fostering extraoridnary returns. Furthermore, we look for start-ups that can generate strategic synergies with our core agricultural business, both upstream and downstream in the production chain. BridgeLane Argentina invests especially in AgTech and FoodTech verticals.

54 Ventures is a firm focused on investing in high-impact tech startups in Latin America. Its team helps companies scale, define and develop a successful strategy for their regional and international expansion. It also provides access to a wealth of intellectual, network and financial capital. 54 Ventures invest in several types of verticals.

AIR Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed, series-A, seed/startup, early stage investments. The firm is sector and technology agnostic with focus on artificial intelligence, space tech, biotech, brain-computer interfaces, advanced organs-on-chip, nuclear fusion, blockchain, robotics, clean energy, advanced mobility, Internet of things, biomanufacturing, long-read sequencing, advanced computing, bioinformatics, electric vehicles, synthetic biology, foodtech, agtech and nanotech. The firm seeks to invest globally including US, Europe, Israel and Latin America. AIR Capital was founded in 2021 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

InnovaTekne is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed/startup, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in the Argentinean National Scientific System, namely in technology, agro-chemistry, and electronics. It also invests in the areas of research equipment, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, physics, nanotechnology, chemistry, electro-medicine, computer science, mathematics, and engineering. The firm seeks to invest between $0.15 million and $0.35 million per project. It prefers to exit its investments after a period of time between five and ten years. InnovaTekne was founded in 2006 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

There's a new generation of Latin founders that work to create a better reality, transforming Latam (and the world) by innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. For the best of them we created Newtopia, a Latam’s VC firm investing in very early-stage startups -from idea to product-market fit. With our hands-on approach and intensive accompanying, we help these entrepreneurs reduce risks during the implementation stage and guide them across the valley of death. We are a Community, with a combination of LPs and advisors who have succeeded in entrepreneurship, and founders who engage every day in peer to peer collaboration. Together we are enhancing the development of the Region.

IG Expansión is out of business. It is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed or startups. The firm prefers to invest in technology and clean tech companies. It seeks to invest in companies of North American and Western European origin and helps them in creating subsidiaries in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and Eastern Europe. The firm seeks to invest between €5 million ($7.36 million) and €10 million ($14.72 million) in companies with revenues between €100 million ($147.21 million) and €300 million ($441.63 million). It prefers to exit its investments through call/put option after four years. The firm was formerly known as Iberoamerican Group. IG Expansión was founded in 2005 and is based in Madrid, Spain with additional offices in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.

MarketX Inc. is a venture capital specializing in seed/start-up, early stage companies of Series A, mid venture, late venture and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in Artificial Intelligence fintech, deep tech, semiconductors, energy transformation, climate tech and vertical SaaS sectors. The firm primarily invests in China, India, Africa, Middle East, Israel, Europe, Norway, Latin America, Argentina, United States. The firm prefers to make equity investment between 0.50 and 1.50 million. It operates an investment platform for pre-IPO companies. It serves offices, funds, high net worth individuals, and asset partners in the United States and internationally. MarketX Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Asia, Europe, South America and the Middle East.

Axia Ventures is a Company Builder which is also focused on capital investments in high-potential startups in Latin America. Its mission is to project Latin American innovation to the world; create innovative startups and grow them into successful global companies; and empower talented Latin-American entrepreneurs. Axia Ventures invests in verticals such as TMT & Software, Innovation Real Estate, Cleantech, Agtech and Life Sciences.

Early-stage, long-term investors in deep tech and decentralization. We partner with those who rebuild society through empathy and technology.

Humus Capital Partners is a firm focused on investing in mid-market companies from South America, in general, family-owned companies at a growth stage, in need of capital and better management/governance practices, aimed at consolidating their track record and maximizing their potential

NXTP Labs is an early stage venture firm that invests in technology startups that generate positive impact at scale throughout Latin America. With local offices throughout the region and a presence in Silicon Valley,NXTP’s first fund has invested in more than 190 startups over the past 7 years. In addition to launching a second investment fund focused on making series A investments,NXTP Labs run innovation programs with large corporations and manages corporate venture funds of various sizes and verticals.

We invest in four main domains: SaaS and Cloud, B2B Markeplaces, E-commerce enablers and Fintech.

VERVE CAPITAL, Inc. is venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. The firm prefers to invest in Ed Tech, enterprise solutions, fin tech, health tech, Insurtech, log tech, media tech, music tech, philanthropy tech, retail tech, and sport tech. It primarily invests in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, and the United States of America. VERVE CAPITAL, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil with additional office of Miami, Florida.