Redwood Ventures

Founded in 2017 and based in Guadalajara, Mexico, Redwood Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups with high growth potential across various sectors, including healthcare, financial services, energy, consumer products, and business services. The firm takes an industry-agnostic approach, focusing on companies with scalable business models.

Alejandro Gonzalez

Managing Partner

Ian Paul Otero

Managing Partner

Juan Pedro Sánchez Robles

Investment Principal

Past deals in Mexico

minu

Series B in 2024
minu is revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. The company works with HR divisions of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech's leading institutional investors globally, including QED.

minu

Secondary Market in 2023
minu is revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. The company works with HR divisions of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech's leading institutional investors globally, including QED.

parco

Venture Round in 2023
Parco is a mobile payment platform that facilitates seamless transactions for parking and related services. It allows users to pay for parking in various locations, including shopping centers, restaurants, and hospitals, directly through their mobile devices. In addition to parking payments, the platform offers features such as roadside assistance insurance, utility bill payments, and access to promotions at participating venues. By streamlining the payment process, Parco helps customers save time and avoid the hassle of parking queues, enhancing the overall mobility experience.

Vexi

Venture Round in 2023
Founded in Mexico City in 2016, Vexi offers a digital credit card service targeting young underbanked populations. Users can manage expenses, create payment plans, and build credit history through its mobile application.

Carttera

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Carttera, established in 2022 and headquartered in Zapopan, Mexico, specializes in streamlining payment processes for businesses. Its core offering is a collection and payment platform that facilitates automated tasks such as sending payment reminders, processing payments, and reconciling accounts. This enables companies to adopt diverse payment methods, enhancing customer convenience while saving time and minimizing errors.

Genius Foods

Seed Round in 2020
Genius Foods, established in 2014 and headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, specializes in transforming food waste into valuable, nutrient-rich products. The company's primary offerings include a powder derived from dehydration and extraction processes, used in baking, supplements, and sausages, and Manguifer, a natural fiber serving as a caramel color substitute. Genius Foods aims to extend the shelf life of food products and promote sustainable practices within the industry.

Atexto

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2016, Atexto specializes in creating, collecting, annotating, and transcribing audio data to train voice assistants. Its products include speech-to-text transcription services, enabling businesses to access affordable, high-quality audio data for machine learning model personalization.

parco

Venture Round in 2019
Parco is a mobile payment platform that facilitates seamless transactions for parking and related services. It allows users to pay for parking in various locations, including shopping centers, restaurants, and hospitals, directly through their mobile devices. In addition to parking payments, the platform offers features such as roadside assistance insurance, utility bill payments, and access to promotions at participating venues. By streamlining the payment process, Parco helps customers save time and avoid the hassle of parking queues, enhancing the overall mobility experience.

Sojourn

Seed Round in 2019
Sojourn Hospitality, Inc. specializes in the operation, management, and leasing of hospitality properties, providing both short-term rental and leasing services for hotels and apartments. The company caters to property owners, students, and universities, offering a technology platform that enhances property management through customer support, marketing, pricing assistance, and security features. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with additional offices in Mexico and Colombia, Sojourn focuses on delivering upscale short-term rentals in high-demand locations such as New York, Mexico City, San Juan, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, and Bogota. By master leasing entire residential buildings, Sojourn ensures a consistent and high-quality experience that combines the reliability of hotel accommodations with the value and local flavor sought by modern travelers.

Yotepresto

Seed Round in 2019
Yotepresto is a Mexican online marketplace that connects individual and institutional investors with near-prime borrowers seeking personal loans. It employs a proprietary scoring model to assess risk and determine interest rates, fostering a community-based lending model.

Gurú de Viaje

Seed Round in 2018
Gurú de Viaje operates an online travel booking platform that offers flights, hotels, and tour packages. Founded in 2014 and based in Zapopan, Mexico, the company aggregates travel options from airlines and other partners and enables customers to book complete holiday packages through a single platform.
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