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Fen Ventures

El Bosque Norte 177, office 16, Las Condes, Region Metropolitana, Chile

Overview

Fen Ventures is an early stage VC fund investing in tech-enabled companies that are building a better future for Latam

Total investments
18
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Selenios

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Selenios provides an AI-agent platform that automates sourcing, preselection, candidate interactions (including via WhatsApp) and first-round interviews while leaving empathetic hiring decisions to humans. The company reports automating about 75% of recruiters' tasks, conducted over 20,000 AI-driven interviews in June 2026, and serving nearly 50 enterprise clients across Latin America since its commercial launch in December 2025. Clients have seen time-to-fill reductions of up to 40% and the platform can enable recruitment teams to review roughly four times the number of candidates they previously could. The founding team includes Esteban Zecler, Julián Bender, Jonathan Muszkat and Leandro Simari, combining HR and AI product experience. Selenios plans to expand its regional footprint with a strategic rollout in Mexico and aims to have 20 enterprise clients there by the end of 2026, targeting processing of over 500 job opportunities per month. The company raised a ~ $1.2M pre-seed round to fund product development, market expansion and operational scaling.

  • Forest

    Participated · Series B · Apr 2026

    Forest operates a zero-emission shared e-bike platform in London, powering its fleet and service vehicles with renewable energy. Founded in 2020 by Agustin Guilisasti alongside Caroline Seton and Michael Stewart, the company serves about 1.5 million users and completes around two million rides per month across 18 boroughs. Forest has deployed roughly 2,600 parking bays and offers users up to 30 free cycling minutes per day, having gifted 110 million free minutes since 2021. Recent commercial wins include sole-operator tenders (notably in Richmond) and it claims the largest continuous operating area of any shared e-bike provider in London. The company plans to use new capital to expand its London operations, invest further in cycling infrastructure, and enhance its app, parking compliance and safety features. As part of its latest financing, OKAI invested equity and took a minority stake, and Fintex Capital expanded an asset-backed facility to support fleet financing.

  • Wibond

    Led · Seed · Apr 2026

    Wibond builds a white-label, B2B Fintech-as-a-Service platform that lets companies integrate payments, credit and digital wallets without obtaining financial licenses or building infrastructure from scratch. The platform operates behind client brands so end users are unaware of the third-party technology, and customers like PedidosYa and Tienda Nube have deployed it in production. Wibond incorporates artificial intelligence into its stack for use cases such as alternative credit scoring and fraud detection, leveraging transaction and behavioral signals from partner platforms. The company emphasizes serving large underserved populations in Latin America, highlighting that roughly 83% of digital natives in the region lack credit cards. Wibond participated in Y Combinator and is using the US$6M seed to scale regionally, with Mexico identified as the next strategic market.

  • Cifrato

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Cifrato builds an AI-powered accounting platform that automates end-to-end accounting workflows, including processing invoices, applying taxes, and managing inventory in real time. The company uses proprietary orchestration architecture that integrates directly with Colombia’s electronic invoicing systems. Cifrato primarily serves accounting firms that manage multiple businesses. It was founded by Juan Pisco and Yerson Cacua and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia. Following its Seed raise of over $1 million, the company plans to expand integrations with ERP and POS systems and develop new AI features such as bank reconciliation. No revenue, user, or other operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

  • Lebane

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

    Lebane is a proptech startup that offers an AI-driven management system functioning as a real-time assistant for construction companies and property developers. Delivered primarily through WhatsApp, the software centralizes financial and operational data, automates tasks such as invoice processing and budgeting, and instantly answers queries on costs, payments and project progress. Launched in 2024, the platform is already entrenched in Argentina and serves 50–60 customers in Mexico, replacing spreadsheet-based workflows with real-time visibility and traceability. With fresh capital, the company will deepen its Mexican presence, solidify its Argentine base and later move into Brazil. Lebane is also building embedded financial products—payments, receivables, yield accounts and contract-backed credit—aiming to evolve into a digital bank for builders. By leveraging clients’ live operational data, it intends to create its own risk score to offer better financing terms. Management targets a three- to four-fold increase in annual recurring revenue and a net revenue retention lift of over 30% while keeping operations efficient.

Team

  • Cristóbal Silva Bengolea

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner

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  • Ricardo Levy

    Partner

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  • Pedro Felipe Iñiguez

    Director

  • Vicente Montero

    Investment Analyst

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