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Investo

Founders Jonathan Lewy Sergio Romo

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 56
Rounds per year 4.93
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 5
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
Summary

Investo is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Mexico City. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in Mexico.

The fund was created by Jonathan Lewy, Sergio Romo. The overall number of key employees were 6.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Rappi, Solugen, Grin Scooters Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Payments, Internet. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Investo, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, NXTP Labs, FundersClub. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Brad Flora, Liquid 2 Ventures, monashees. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FundersClub, Soma Capital, Notion.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Investo performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Investo is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Holacasa

Financial Services
FinTech
Real Estate
$500K05 Apr 2023 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Cometa

Financial Services
$5M17 Mar 2023 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Cuentame

Health Care
Human Resources
Wellness
$1M23 Sep 2022 Mexico City, Mexico

Konta

Accounting
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$2M28 Feb 2022 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Qurable

Art
Blockchain
Consumer Software
Cryptocurrency
Fashion
Information Technology
Internet
Marketplace
Web Apps
$1M01 Dec 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Orchata

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
$4M12 Aug 2021 Mexico, Nuevo León, Mexico

Orchata

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
$4M01 Aug 2021 Mexico, Nuevo León, Mexico

Poliglota

Education
Language Learning
Social Network
$2M22 May 2021 Chile, Chile

Justo

E-Commerce
Food Delivery
$2M10 Dec 2020 Chile, Chile
News
Orchata raises $4M, aims to build a ‘Gopuff for Latin America’

– Orchata, a mobile app enabling consumers to get groceries delivered in 15 minutes, with no substitutes and at supermarket prices, raised $4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Y Combinator and joined by JAM Fund, FJ Labs, Venture Friends, Investo and Foundation Capital, and angel investors Ross Lipson, Mike Hennessey, Brian Requarth and Javier Mata.

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Total investments 69
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 4.93
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Holacasa

Financial Services
FinTech
Real Estate
$500K05 Apr 2023 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Cometa

Financial Services
$5M17 Mar 2023 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Cuentame

Health Care
Human Resources
Wellness
$1M23 Sep 2022 Mexico City, Mexico

Konta

Accounting
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$2M28 Feb 2022 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Qurable

Art
Blockchain
Consumer Software
Cryptocurrency
Fashion
Information Technology
Internet
Marketplace
Web Apps
$1M01 Dec 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Orchata

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
$4M12 Aug 2021 Mexico, Nuevo León, Mexico

Orchata

E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Information Technology
$4M01 Aug 2021 Mexico, Nuevo León, Mexico

Poliglota

Education
Language Learning
Social Network
$2M22 May 2021 Chile, Chile

Justo

E-Commerce
Food Delivery
$2M10 Dec 2020 Chile, Chile
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