Ganas Ventures
7040 Avenida Encinas, Suite 104-924, Carlsbad, CA, 92011, United States
Overview
Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Leracom AI
Participated · Seed · Jan 2026
Leracom AI, founded by Guillermo Treviño Pavón (co-founder of Yaydoo), delivers a conversational-analysis and interaction-automation platform tailored for contact centers. The system applies artificial intelligence to generate complete analytics on customer calls and chats while automating routine responses to improve efficiency. Currently operating in Mexico and Colombia, the company plans to expand into Chile as its next step toward broader Latin-American coverage. Management intends to use its newly raised capital to accelerate this regional rollout and scale product adoption. Although detailed operating metrics such as revenue or user count were not disclosed, the company positions itself as an infrastructure layer for customer-service teams across the region. Its technology aims to lower operational costs for contact centers while boosting customer satisfaction through real-time insights and automation.
- Unvale
Participated · Equity · Sep 2025
Unvale provides creators with tools to organize and share character pages, backstories, concept art, and writing while layering social features that help them attract and engage followers from day one. The platform prohibits AI-generated content, positioning itself as a creator-first hub that supports original intellectual property rather than machine-produced work. Users have generated more than 3 million stories, 30 million story views, and 15 million meaningful social interactions, driving 250 thousand sign-ups to date. Infrastructure upgrades now support roughly one million meaningful social interactions per month, alongside automated moderation and cross-platform sharing. Unvale aims to capture a share of the $470 billion fiction, comics, and animation market, with ambitions to become the world’s largest producer of animated content and a top career destination for young creatives. Future product plans include deeper publishing capabilities that allow creators to release novels, comics, or animations directly on the platform. To date, the company has raised $1.8 million from a roster of early-stage investors to fuel continued growth and product development.
- Nufi
Participated · Seed · Apr 2025
Nufi provides AI-powered identity verification and comprehensive background-check solutions for individuals and companies. Customers can verify identities using a photo of the INE ID or by entering basic personal details; the platform leverages more than 100 data sources including CURP, RFC, judicial records, and social media. The product supports both individual and business registration checks and targets banks, fintechs, insurers, proptechs and HR firms. Nufi serves over 330 B2B clients. The company raised $1.5M in seed funding and will use the proceeds to expand national coverage, enhance document processing and business-registration products, and continue improving its identity verification technology. Nufi is headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico.
- PilotDesk
Participated · Seed · May 2024
Swivel (formerly PilotDesk) offers a no-code AI workflow automation platform designed to remove repetitive work in ad operations and account management. The company focuses on AI-driven orchestration, unified analytics, and seamless integrations with ad servers, DSPs, SSPs, and OMS platforms. Swivel says its automation engine has already produced measurable results — in a deployment with LG Ad Solutions it performed over half a million automated actions, equating to roughly 25,000 hours of manual ad-operations time saved and moving from pilot to a long-term partnership. The team includes co-founders Joe Hirsch, Matt Dearborn, and Rich Lin, plus President Frans Vermeulen and CTO Geir Magnusson Jr., bringing deep adtech and technical experience. The company rebranded from PilotDesk to Swivel as it shifts to building more intelligent systems to eliminate the need for staff to "swivel-chair" between multiple ad platforms and to enable automation in revenue operations at scale. Funding announced in April 2025 will support team growth and accelerate product development focused on deeper AI orchestration and integrations. UnVale is a platform for storytellers to develop entire worlds of content, enabling writers, illustrators, and animators to grow an audience and publish long-form work in serialized pieces. The product breaks down long-form content into easy-to-digest releases so creators can expand their fanbase with each update. The company positions itself as an alternative to short-form influencer-focused social platforms, emphasizing public worldbuilding and story craft. Operating metrics cited in the announcement include 150k users (700% growth year-to-date), 1M pieces of original content, and 3M social interactions (28x growth YTD). UnVale said the $1M pre-seed raise will accelerate growth through 2025. The company is actively hiring backend engineers and aims to use its momentum to help creators self-publish and signal audience interest to publishers.
- Avify
Participated · Seed · Dec 2023
Avify offers a subscription platform that centralizes inventory and connects it directly to sales through WhatsApp, updating digital and physical channels in real time. The product automates manual tasks such as creating shipping guides, sending orders, updating inventory, and processing payments to improve operational efficiency. The company will use the recent funding to advance its conversational commerce engine and build a network for consignment order management and physical points. Avify plans regional expansion across several Central American countries and to strengthen its academy with workshops, free resources, and in-person events in Guatemala and Honduras. The team highlights recent traction including first place in the Startup Avenue Competition (Seed & Early Stage) at Volcano Summit 2023 in Guatemala. Founders Pedro Gutiérrez, Pilar Sánchez, Pablo Gutiérrez, and Alexis Gonzalez are residents of Costa Rica and the company currently serves customers in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States.