Clocktower Technology Ventures

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2015. It specializes in financial services and fintech, investing in lending, credit and banking, payments, insurance, capital markets and investments, personal finance, enterprise financial software, and real estate finance. As the technology investing arm of Clocktower Group, it supports fintech companies globally, with a portfolio across North America, Europe, and Latin America. Since its inception, it has invested in 96 fintech companies.

Natalie Charney

Associate

Ned Daoro

Principal

Miles Dowling

Analyst

Steve Drobny

Partner

David Lofthouse

Venture Partner

Ally McCloskey

Principal

Kanishka Narayan

Principal

Adriana Saman

Principal

Ben Savage

Partner

Benjamin Savage

Partner

Charlotte Stephens

Analyst

Danielle Zhang

Associate

Past deals in Latin America

Grupago

Seed Round in 2024
Grupago specializes in digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America. It uses artificial intelligence, group collateral, and community distribution to provide credit access to micro-SMBs traditionally overlooked by conventional lending avenues.

Momento

Seed Round in 2023
Momento is an insurtech company focused on transforming the insurance landscape in Latin America, particularly in the auto insurance sector. Leveraging technology and data, Momento aims to enhance the user experience by simplifying the purchasing process and offering personalized pricing tailored to individual drivers. The platform provides comprehensive services, including driving behavior analysis, information on fines, theft risk assessments in specific areas, and details about affordable gas stations and parking options. Additionally, Momento streamlines the claims process, making it automated and user-friendly, while also targeting the uninsured demographic in Latin America to broaden its market reach.

Kala

Seed Round in 2023
Kala is a fintech platform dedicated to enhancing financial inclusion for underbanked segments in Latin America. It operates through a B2B2C credit model, providing innovative lending solutions that streamline access to credit for individuals and businesses. The company's initial offering, Pension Deducted Loans, targets the Silver Economy in Colombia, facilitating loan repayments directly through government-backed pension funds. Kala collaborates with various lenders, including banks and credit unions, to create a fully digital credit process that ensures a seamless experience for users. By focusing on the unique needs of its clientele, Kala aims to optimize revenue generation while contributing to the broader goal of financial accessibility in the region.

Caju

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2019, Caju offers a digital platform that enables companies to manage employee benefits efficiently. It provides employees with a single Visa card for various benefit categories such as food, mobility, culture, health, education, and home office.

Naya Homes

Seed Round in 2022
Naya Homes is a property management and hospitality platform focused on enhancing the short-term and vacation rental experience for homeowners in Latin America. The company assists clients in maximizing revenue and alleviating the challenges associated with operating rental properties. Naya Homes provides a range of services including revenue optimization through data-driven insights, multi-channel listing and marketing to increase visibility, financing for furniture and equipment, and interior design solutions. Additionally, the company prioritizes guest satisfaction, ensuring that visitors enjoy a comfortable stay. By offering these comprehensive services, Naya Homes empowers homeowners and real estate developers to improve their financial returns while simplifying property management.

Kushki

Series B in 2022
Kushki is a Latin America–focused digital payments platform that offers an integrated payments solution and omnichannel capabilities for e-commerce, m-commerce, and brick‑and‑mortar retail. It provides an API that standardizes the region’s fragmented payments landscape by supporting card payments, bank transfers, and cash networks, with access to more than 300,000 physical payment points. The platform emphasizes local logic and pricing to simplify cross‑border and local transactions and enables rapid integration for merchants. Founded in 2016 in New York City, Kushki operates across Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Canada.

Habi

Series C in 2022
Founded in 2019, Habi is a technology-driven real estate company headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia. It simplifies the homeownership lifecycle for middle-class customers throughout Latin America by providing a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform that enables faster and more efficient buying and selling of homes.

Dolado

Series A in 2022
Dolado is a Latin American platform that helps small businesses increase sales, improve purchasing, and streamline operations through an integrated suite of e-commerce and financial services. It targets merchants in suburban areas and tier-2 cities where technology adoption is lower, providing tools to buy and sell a wide range of products, such as cell phone accessories, food items, automotive goods, and toys, and to manage inventory, payments, and other retail processes more efficiently.

Kamino

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kamino is a comprehensive financial management platform tailored for medium-sized businesses in Brazil. It offers embedded B2B payments, real-time data access, and a rigorous approval system for secure payment processing. By automating accounts payable and reconciliation, Kamino has significantly saved businesses time and improved operational efficiency.

Sumer

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Sumer is a technology company based in Bogotá, Colombia with offices in Mexico City. It empowers micro small businesses by providing simple digital tools to grow sales and improve management. The company's core offering is a '15-second store' feature that enables businesses to create an online storefront rapidly, along with a digital ledger and advertising tool to reach new audiences.

BHub

Series A in 2021
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

Kala

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kala is a fintech platform dedicated to enhancing financial inclusion for underbanked segments in Latin America. It operates through a B2B2C credit model, providing innovative lending solutions that streamline access to credit for individuals and businesses. The company's initial offering, Pension Deducted Loans, targets the Silver Economy in Colombia, facilitating loan repayments directly through government-backed pension funds. Kala collaborates with various lenders, including banks and credit unions, to create a fully digital credit process that ensures a seamless experience for users. By focusing on the unique needs of its clientele, Kala aims to optimize revenue generation while contributing to the broader goal of financial accessibility in the region.

BHub

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

Caju

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2019, Caju offers a digital platform that enables companies to manage employee benefits efficiently. It provides employees with a single Visa card for various benefit categories such as food, mobility, culture, health, education, and home office.

Kushki

Series B in 2021
Kushki is a Latin America–focused digital payments platform that offers an integrated payments solution and omnichannel capabilities for e-commerce, m-commerce, and brick‑and‑mortar retail. It provides an API that standardizes the region’s fragmented payments landscape by supporting card payments, bank transfers, and cash networks, with access to more than 300,000 physical payment points. The platform emphasizes local logic and pricing to simplify cross‑border and local transactions and enables rapid integration for merchants. Founded in 2016 in New York City, Kushki operates across Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Canada.

Graviti

Seed Round in 2021
Graviti offers the products needed the most, financed for months. No credit or debit card, no initial payment, no arrears, and with credit approved immediately. It wants to make sure every family in LATAM is able to buy basic appliances for the home by offering fair and accessible financing to acquire them. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico.

Habi

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2019, Habi is a technology-driven real estate company headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia. It simplifies the homeownership lifecycle for middle-class customers throughout Latin America by providing a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform that enables faster and more efficient buying and selling of homes.

Kushki

Series A in 2020
Kushki is a Latin America–focused digital payments platform that offers an integrated payments solution and omnichannel capabilities for e-commerce, m-commerce, and brick‑and‑mortar retail. It provides an API that standardizes the region’s fragmented payments landscape by supporting card payments, bank transfers, and cash networks, with access to more than 300,000 physical payment points. The platform emphasizes local logic and pricing to simplify cross‑border and local transactions and enables rapid integration for merchants. Founded in 2016 in New York City, Kushki operates across Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Canada.
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