Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

SPAKIO offers a platform that lets users quote, schedule pickups, manage digital inventories and request on-demand deliveries of stored items, avoiding traditional self-storage moves. Founded by Luis Orestano, Santiago González Baqué and Marcos Suárez, the company aims to build the largest flexible storage network in Mexico and Latin America. SPAKIO serves both residential and corporate customers and lists clients including Amazon, Oxxo, Royal Caribbean, Fresenius Kabi, Teletón and Síclo. Operationally, it manages about 10,000 m² of storage space and reports approximately 1,600 active customers. Financially, SPAKIO has grown monthly recurring revenue 13.2x over three years, equivalent to a 136.4% compound annual growth rate. With the recent Seed extension, the company has raised $3.2M in total and plans to invest in technology, operational infrastructure and network expansion.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

1Money is building the world’s first Layer 1 payments network exclusively for stablecoins, designed to deliver sub-second confirmations, low fixed fees, and native compliance. The protocol uses a patent-pending Byzantine Consistent Broadcast (BCB) design intended to eliminate long delays, surge-pricing fees, security vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps on existing blockchains. Key features include instant transaction confirmation (under one second), fixed low-cost fees with plans for gasless transactions through partners, native multicurrency stablecoin support, and network fees charged in the transacted stablecoin. The network claims scalability above 250,000 transactions per second and includes embedded compliance mechanisms to automate sanctions controls. 1Money emerged from stealth with over $20 million in seed funding and plans to launch the 1Money Network in Q2, using the capital to power product development and the network rollout. The company emphasizes simplifying the Web3 experience by removing complex tokenomics, staking, and governance layers to accelerate mainstream and enterprise adoption of stablecoin payments.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2018

BEWE.io provides management software and services tailored to the beauty, health and wellness sectors, offering a SaaS platform to help small businesses digitalize and professionalize their processes. The company is led by entrepreneur Diego Ballesteros and is headquartered in Madrid. BEWE.io reports over 2,000 clients in 18 countries. The business focuses on positioning itself as a leader in Latin America and Spain. With the new funding it intends to consolidate that leadership and begin commercializing its SaaS platform in the United States. The article classifies the operation within the software sector and labels the financing as venture capital.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2018

MPOWER offers educational loans to high‑potential international and DACA students and works with over 200 universities and colleges. The company serves students from more than 200 countries and helps borrowers build credit while providing personal finance education and career support. Since 2014 MPOWER has received nearly $1 billion in loan application volume through its platform. The newly raised capital will be used to support new product growth, technology enhancements, and to finance an expanding student loan portfolio. MPOWER emphasizes financial access to global education and aims to scale its lending and product offerings. The company is based in Washington D.C. and partners with capital providers to fund its loans.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2018

Yogome provides a digital learning and children’s education platform with a content portfolio of over 2,000 games, interactive books, and videos developed around nine key subjects for learners ages four to ten. Its content is offered in six languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. The platform reports 6 million monthly active users across more than 50 countries, with a majority of subscribers located in the United States, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Yogome was founded by Manolo Diaz and Alberto Colin and is based in Mexico and San Francisco, CA. The company raised $26.9M in a Series B to accelerate growth into new markets, including China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. It plans to use the funds to expand academic content and grow its subscriber base. Yogome offers a subscription-based educational gaming service for iOS and Android tablets (soon to be available on desktop browsers) targeting children aged 6–11. Its library of mini-games covers eight subjects — from math to coding to health — and is available in four languages. The games are developed with educational experts and Yogome worked with Yale University to measure the efficacy of its math games for first graders. The app is free to download with a limited trial (25 credits ≈ 2 hours); parents pay monthly or yearly subscriptions for unlimited access and use a separate parent dashboard. About 95% of subscribers are in the U.S., Latin America, and Southeast Asia, and the product has seen uptake in more than 50 countries. Yogome is pursuing geographic expansion (China, Korea, Japan) and aims to reach 1 million subscribers. Yogome develops educational games for children ages 6–12 for iPhone, iPad and browser platforms. The company aims to help kids learn and discover the world through games and works with a board of pedagogical advisors to maintain high educational standards. Founded by Manolo Diaz and Alberto Colin from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Yogome combines educational rigor with engaging gameplay. The company joined the Mountain View-based 500 Startups Accelerator and will receive up to $100k in funding as part of the program. Accelerator participation also provides access to a network of designers and mentors to support product and growth. Yogome is additionally backed by angel investor David Weekly.