Nazca
Alonso de Córdova 2600 of 32, Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Overview
Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highly impactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.
- Total investments
- 44
- Lead investments
- 10
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- EdTech
- FinTech
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.
- Duppla
Participated · Equity · Aug 2026
Founded in 2020, Duppla offers a 'compra mientras arriendas' (rent-while-you-pay) model that lets clients make an initial down payment (at least 15%) and rent the property while Duppla finances the remainder over an initial five-year period. The model is designed to help workers with variable incomes, contractors and informal workers build payment history and accumulate capital to qualify for traditional mortgages. Duppla operates mainly in Bogotá and Medellín and has accompanied more than 300 families since launch, mobilizing over 10,000 million Colombian pesos in transactions as of 2025. The company aims to reach 1,500 families by 2027. In July 2026 it raised US$60 million in a mixed debt and equity round to expand its financing capacity and geographic coverage. Duppla positions itself as a bridge between institutional capital and households excluded from formal mortgage markets.
- Ábaco
Participated · Equity · Jul 2026
Ábaco is a Salvadoran fintech specializing in digital factoring for small and medium-sized enterprises (PYMEs). The company enables SMEs to access liquidity by digitizing and financing receivables. In its announced Seed round it raised $53 million in a mix of equity and debt, a notable capital infusion for an early-stage regional fintech. Reporting highlights the raise as a historic milestone for El Salvador and Central America, though specific operating metrics, revenue figures, or user counts were not disclosed. Details on future product plans or exact use of proceeds were not provided in the articles.
- Xepelin
Led · Equity · Jan 2026
Xepelin offers an end-to-end digital platform that gives SMEs fast access to working capital, invoice financing and other embedded financial products. Since its founding, the company has served more than 70,000 businesses and currently generates roughly US$100 million in annual revenue. Management is focusing on Mexico, where it is pursuing a Sofipo license to broaden its product set and position itself as the “Nubank for SMEs” by 2026. Xepelin employs about 500 people and recently strengthened its tech leadership by hiring former Fintual CTO Martín Ugarte as vice-president of engineering. The company was previously valued at about US$720 million after its 2022 Series B, but that figure has reset to around US$400 million in the latest round. Historically, Xepelin has combined equity and significant debt facilities, including a US$30 million equity plus US$200 million credit Series A in 2021 and a US$140 million debt line from Goldman Sachs. Founders include Sebastián Kreis, Nicolás de Camino, Diego Contreras, Felipe Puntarelli, Carlos Veloso and Guillermo Molina. The firm remains one of Chile’s most heavily funded tech startups and aims to scale regionally toward unicorn status.
- Vambe
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
Founded in 2023 in Santiago, Chile, Vambe provides an AI-driven conversational commerce platform that lets B2C enterprises automate everything from first contact to sales, retention and support. Its no-code architecture deploys autonomous AI agents across WhatsApp, Instagram and other messaging channels while integrating with existing CRM and payment systems. The software enables seamless collaboration between human staff and AI, helping brands launch chat-based sales flows without engineering resources. Vambe plans to use fresh capital to deepen operations in Chile and Mexico, enter Colombia, and launch in Brazil, while tripling its customer-facing teams. The company is also developing an agent-to-agent advertising recommendation engine to boost personalized upsells. With the new round, Vambe has secured $14 million in outside funding, positioning it for accelerated regional expansion.