Kalei Ventures is a Latin American venture capital firm started by a group of investors and entrepreneurs with over 60 years of experience creating and backing successful ventures globally. Kalei is on a mission to find outstanding entrepreneurs creating global leaders based in the region. It was born with a clear focus on international expansion and global leadership for its portfolio companies, as demonstrated by the fact that its partners have lived and invested in startups across four continents and their networks span the whole globe. Kalei held its first closing in January 2019 and has already invested in companies based in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the USA. All the entrepreneurs we have backed have developed international careers themselves. Mexico, Colombia, and Peru also form part of our core geographies to source leading entrepreneurs. In order to marry our international passion and expertise with the strengths of the regional ecosystem in Latin America, our investment thesis revolves around sectors where Latin America can create global leaders, either because of the quality of the education system and importance of regional companies in a particular sector or because of the global importance of the region as a percentage of the global output in a given sector. These sectors include software development applications (e.g. marketplaces, consumer internet, fintech, edtech) and sectors that heavily benefit from new trends like Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (e.g. healthtech, agtech, logistics). Kalei stands for ‘Kaleidoscope’, which symbolizes the importance of diversity of thought background, ethnicity, and gender in our team.
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Favs
Seed Round in 2024
Favs is for real friends only. It lets users share what's on their mind, and see what's new. Favs was founded in 2023 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
BrainLogic AI
Seed Round in 2023
BrainLogic AI is a cutting-edge startup developing AI products that foster positive change across Latin America. Creators of Zapia.com
Moova
Venture Round in 2023
Moova is a technological platform focused on enhancing last-mile logistics by optimizing idle delivery capacity. It connects e-commerce and retail businesses with a network of independent couriers, known as "Moovers," who utilize bicycles, motorcycles, cars, or vans to fulfill deliveries, thereby creating additional income opportunities. The platform features route optimization software, real-time tracking, and electronic proof of delivery, allowing businesses to offer multiple delivery options to their customers. With its flexible warehousing and analytical capabilities, Moova aims to improve the efficiency of urban logistics in Latin America, supporting the growth of the e-commerce sector while promoting sustainable delivery practices.
Toket
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Toket is a company that specializes in providing user-friendly APIs and no-code tools for the development of NFT-based applications. By offering a multichain approach to non-fungible tokens, Toket enables both developers and individuals without technical backgrounds to easily create and manage NFT platforms. The company's solutions allow users to make informed decisions and design optimal blockchain integrations without requiring extensive blockchain experience. This accessibility helps broaden the use of NFTs and supports the growing interest in digital assets across various sectors.
Moova
Series A in 2022
Moova is a technological platform focused on enhancing last-mile logistics by optimizing idle delivery capacity. It connects e-commerce and retail businesses with a network of independent couriers, known as "Moovers," who utilize bicycles, motorcycles, cars, or vans to fulfill deliveries, thereby creating additional income opportunities. The platform features route optimization software, real-time tracking, and electronic proof of delivery, allowing businesses to offer multiple delivery options to their customers. With its flexible warehousing and analytical capabilities, Moova aims to improve the efficiency of urban logistics in Latin America, supporting the growth of the e-commerce sector while promoting sustainable delivery practices.
Elery
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Elery is a network of specialty clinics operating in Mexico, focused on transforming access to affordable, high-quality specialty healthcare for the middle class in Latin America. The company utilizes an online-to-offline healthcare platform that connects patients with a network of affiliated physician specialists. By guiding patients throughout their healthcare journey, Elery aims to ensure that the experience is both accessible and enjoyable, ultimately making medical expertise more attainable for its customers.
AgroForte
Seed Round in 2022
Agroforte is a digital credit service aimed at supporting rural producers by promoting financial inclusion in the countryside. The company has developed an online personal credit line platform that provides small farmers with access to collateral-free digital credit. Utilizing credit analysis based on data from integrators—such as production volume, batch quality, and debt history—Agroforte offers loans with lower interest rates. These loans are deposited directly into the farmers' accounts, allowing for repayment within a few months. Through its services, Agroforte seeks to enhance the financial well-being of rural producers and facilitate their access to necessary funding.
Kargoru
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kargoru is a digital platform that connects logistics providers with businesses in need of their services. It operates as a comprehensive logistics marketplace, facilitating international air and maritime transport, customs agency, land transport, insurance, and storage. Kargoru aims to enhance the customer experience by integrating various logistics processes into a single user interface, allowing clients to track their entire supply chain in real time. The platform enables users to compare prices and quotes from different suppliers, receive automatic notifications, and manage documents effectively. By digitalizing logistics operations, Kargoru helps businesses streamline their logistics chains and reduce costs.
CURADOR
Seed Round in 2022
Create simple yet powerful tools, powered by Artificial Intelligence, help for daily tasks.
HUNTY
Seed Round in 2021
HUNTY is a human resource technology platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence to enhance recruitment processes for businesses in the talent and HR sectors. The platform is designed to assist job seekers in finding positions that align with their skills by connecting them with mentors and providing various tools to streamline their job search. Additionally, HUNTY facilitates connections between candidates and potential employers, ensuring that job-seeking individuals can discover suitable employment opportunities effectively.
Enigma.art
Seed Round in 2021
We are the open one stop blockchain technology marketplace for artists and creators from Hispanic America to develop themselves by experimenting with new formats that allow them to deepen the bond with their fans as well as test new ways to monetize content.
Nilus
Seed Round in 2021
Nilus is an impact-driven company focused on eradicating malnutrition by leveraging technology to provide affordable and healthy food to low-income individuals. It operates a food waste management platform designed to address food insecurity by improving supply chain efficiencies. By utilizing artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Nilus rescues edible food that would otherwise be discarded and redistributes it to community kitchens. This approach not only reduces food loss and waste but also ensures that low-income groups gain access to nutritious food markets at lower prices. The company's vision is to become the largest and most impactful food enterprise in the Americas, targeting the needs of over 360 million people living in poverty.
Wúru
Seed Round in 2021
Wúru is a software company focused on enhancing health processes for healthcare providers and professionals. By leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence, Wúru analyzes both its own and external databases to generate findings, recommendations, and benchmarks. This information helps healthcare teams implement specific action guidelines effectively. The software optimizes patient flow and promotes operational efficiency, empowering health institutions to improve their work procedures. As a result, Wúru enables healthcare professionals to make informed, data-driven decisions, ultimately enhancing their performance while conserving time and resources.
Mudango
Seed Round in 2021
Mudango is a technology-driven startup that offers on-demand moving and storage services across Latin America, currently operating in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, with plans for expansion into Brazil. The company's user-friendly platform allows customers to declare a budget and efficiently book and coordinate various services, including moving, bulky item delivery, and self-storage. By connecting clients with suitable moving services that align with their financial needs, Mudango aims to simplify the logistics of relocation and storage, making the process more accessible and affordable.
HUNTY
Pre Seed Round in 2021
HUNTY is a human resource technology platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence to enhance recruitment processes for businesses in the talent and HR sectors. The platform is designed to assist job seekers in finding positions that align with their skills by connecting them with mentors and providing various tools to streamline their job search. Additionally, HUNTY facilitates connections between candidates and potential employers, ensuring that job-seeking individuals can discover suitable employment opportunities effectively.
Moova
Corporate Round in 2021
Moova is a technological platform focused on enhancing last-mile logistics by optimizing idle delivery capacity. It connects e-commerce and retail businesses with a network of independent couriers, known as "Moovers," who utilize bicycles, motorcycles, cars, or vans to fulfill deliveries, thereby creating additional income opportunities. The platform features route optimization software, real-time tracking, and electronic proof of delivery, allowing businesses to offer multiple delivery options to their customers. With its flexible warehousing and analytical capabilities, Moova aims to improve the efficiency of urban logistics in Latin America, supporting the growth of the e-commerce sector while promoting sustainable delivery practices.
Olipay
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Olipay is building the biggest embedded consumer lending platform for LATAM. There is a USD$350 billion consumer credit gap in the region and we're fixing it. Olipay has partnered with leading consumer wallets such as AME Digital (Lojas Americanas) to offer microcredit to its millions of customers
Hometuls
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hometuls is a platform that connects products and services with construction and infrastructure projects through data. Hometuls built a data-driven business model, where we process thousands of construction projects and connect them with suppliers that can meet their needs. Hometuls allow builders to digitise the procurement process, and suppliers to have a sales channel for the long-tail of builders in an effective way. We are focused on the SME segment of construction companies, which represents more than 90% of the market.
Someone Somewhere
Venture Round in 2020
Someone Somewhere is a lifestyle brand on a mission to get millions of artisans out of poverty. Combining traditional embroidery with fresh products aimed at the millennial market, Someone Somewhere is a digitally native vertical brand that provides employment to artisans in Mexico’s poorest villages.
Wibond
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Under the “buy now pay later” business model, Wibond is a 100% flexible digital payment method to pay in installments and without a card. It provides financial access to a large community offering payment options according to the possibilities and the profile of each user. - Companies increase their sales by approaching a new user community and offering an innovative payment alternative. - Users access a universe of stores and businesses to be able to pay in installments without a card. The platform sets out an ambitious vision and seeks to promote trade in Latin America, a very complex region. Their next steps include landing in Chile and Mexico. Wibond was founded in Argentina in 2020 by Ezequiel Bucai and Alejandro Silvestre. In 2013 they created a platform where users accessed a network of more than 2,500 gyms and sports centers located in 30 cities in Argentina, Mexico and Chile. Then Classpass, the US Unicorn, acquired Clickypass.
Someone Somewhere
Seed Round in 2019
Someone Somewhere is a lifestyle brand on a mission to get millions of artisans out of poverty. Combining traditional embroidery with fresh products aimed at the millennial market, Someone Somewhere is a digitally native vertical brand that provides employment to artisans in Mexico’s poorest villages.
Moova
Seed Round in 2019
Moova is a technological platform focused on enhancing last-mile logistics by optimizing idle delivery capacity. It connects e-commerce and retail businesses with a network of independent couriers, known as "Moovers," who utilize bicycles, motorcycles, cars, or vans to fulfill deliveries, thereby creating additional income opportunities. The platform features route optimization software, real-time tracking, and electronic proof of delivery, allowing businesses to offer multiple delivery options to their customers. With its flexible warehousing and analytical capabilities, Moova aims to improve the efficiency of urban logistics in Latin America, supporting the growth of the e-commerce sector while promoting sustainable delivery practices.
Mudafy
Seed Round in 2019
Mudafy is a real estate broker based in Mexico City, Mexico, specializing in the Latin American market. Founded in 2018, the company utilizes a technology-driven platform to enhance the buying, selling, and renting processes for homeowners. Mudafy offers a comprehensive suite of services, including support from registered professional brokers and a team of marketing and photography experts who help create appealing property portfolios. This approach aims to streamline the real estate experience for users, making it easier to navigate the complexities of property transactions.
TinyBytes Games
Series A in 2018
TinyBytes is ‘The Social Gaming Company for Action Players on Mobile’. We develop the best social features for mid-core mobile players around the world, like real-time multiplayer, clans, chats and messaging. Our players team-up, communicate, interact, and build communities around our games. We are also building our own proprietary technology solution to deliver real money rewards to the best mobile players around the world who compete in our own eSports Tournaments.
Podcast App
Seed Round in 2018
The Podcast App is an audio platform dedicated to enhancing the user experience in discovering and enjoying various audio content. It provides a mobile application that simplifies the process of finding, saving, and listening to podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations. Users can explore a vast array of topics, including news, education, comedy, politics, and crime, making it easier for individuals to connect with content that resonates with their interests. By aggregating high-quality audio offerings from leading experts and creators, the Podcast App serves millions, supporting their pursuit of happiness through engaging and informative audio experiences.
mGrana
Seed Round in 2017
mGrana uses AI and alternative data to unlock access to financial services in Brazil. mGrana's smartphone app processes millions of data points and delivers credit within minutes. Power customers access other financial products as well as AI-based financial advice.
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