Participated · Seed · Oct 2022

Cuéntame is a Mexican, data-driven platform that promotes employee mental health across Latin America using machine learning and a recommendation algorithm. Its 3-in-1 platform identifies, prevents and resolves psychosocial risks and offers personalized tools including soft-skills training, meditation, mindfulness and online psychological therapy with certified psychologists. The company began operations in 2019 and has worked with 30 high-impact organizations, including Nestlé, Kavak and Bitso, serving more than 64,000 employees and family members. Cuéntame reports up to a 60% reduction in turnover of key talent and a 40% improvement in worker well-being among client companies, and says 70% of users accessed mental health tools for the first time through employer adoption. The startup plans to strengthen expansion mainly in Mexico, Colombia and Chile and to accelerate region-wide growth. It positions its anonymous data and HR-aligned insights as central to preventing presenteeism, absenteeism and loss of productivity.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2021

Orchata, founded in 2020, operates a mobile app that enables consumers to get groceries delivered in 15 minutes with no substitutions and at supermarket prices. It runs a network of micro-fulfillment centers and technology for efficient picking and hyperfast delivery, and is already operating in two cities. Having launched four months prior, the company is processing thousands of orders and reporting 100% monthly growth. The new funding will be used to expand into three new Mexican cities, with future expansion plans targeting Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Chile. Orchata aims to be the "Gopuff for Latin America" and plans to eventually introduce its own brands and foods. Founders Luis Mario Garcia and Javier Gonzalez pivoted to owning fulfillment and inventory themselves to control the end-to-end customer experience.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2021

Nowports provides a digital freight‑forwarding platform that tracks shipments from ports to destinations across Latin America and automates related services such as insurance and financing. Its software combines platform integrations and AI-driven algorithms to help customers plan and predict shipment timing and manage containers. The company serves SMEs and larger clients, aiming to modernize and digitize slow, manual international logistics processes. Nowports has expanded operations with offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay and a ~160-person team. In 2020 the company reported revenue growth of 605% versus 2019 and set a 2021 revenue growth target of 400%–600%. Since its 2018 inception it has raised over $24 million in cumulative funding. Nowports builds digital management software and services to track freight shipments from ports to destinations across Latin America. Its platform combines algorithms, AI and integrations to connect suppliers, customs brokers, carriers and transportation companies so customers can plan and predict shipment timing. The company says it is working with over 40 customers and aims to address a market that moves almost 54 million containers annually, nearly half of which are delayed or lost. Nowports has offices in Monterrey, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay and plans to expand to Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The startup intends to use new funding to enter new markets, grow its team and integrate with more companies in the fragmented Latin American logistics industry. The two co‑founders met at a Stanford program and cite 10 years of industry expertise, with CEO Maximiliano Casal having worked at a long‑standing freight forwarder.

Participated · Series A · May 2021

Founded in 2016, Poliglota began as in‑person conversational language groups and evolved into a digital EdTech platform offering guided online and offline group practice. The company teaches five languages (English, Italian, French, Portuguese and German) and combines social conversation with coach guidance. As of the articles, Poliglota has trained more than 40,000 students, employs around 90 staff and works with 350+ active coaches, while corporate sales account for roughly 45% of revenue. The startup has focused its expansion on Mexico (now a primary growth market) and is pushing toward the U.S. Hispanic market, supported by recent fundraising. Poliglota plans to integrate AI and new personalization tools by 2025 to tailor learning paths while preserving its social learning model. The company’s historical valuation surpassed $50M after the 2021 financing that included participation from Y Combinator and Harvard’s investment fund.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2019

SimpleCitizen provides a digital immigration and visa solution designed to streamline employer-sponsored visa processes for global enterprise companies and to guide candidates from visa application through naturalization. The company’s platform lets users apply, submit, and track immigration status online, reducing manual friction. Led by CEO and co-founder Sam Stoddard, SimpleCitizen has empowered thousands of immigrants to complete applications using its software. The company closed a $5.8 million seed plus growth financing and has raised over $6.3 million to date. SimpleCitizen intends to use the funds to expand operations, grow its business reach, and continue developing its platform. SimpleCitizen provides an online solution to help users navigate the complex, multi-year U.S. green card and citizenship process. Launched in July 2015 by CEO Sam Stoddard and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the service produces accurate, completed documents ready for submission to USCIS. The company targets the large annual cohort that goes through green card and citizenship processes. SimpleCitizen intends to use new funding to add processing capabilities for different visa types and green card renewals. The company also plans to increase marketing efforts to grow adoption. Its current financing round signals early-stage support for product development and go-to-market expansion.