Enrique Loyola
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$100,000 - $5,000,000
Angeles Ventures is a Chicago-based, Latino- and woman-led seed fund ($20M Fund I, oversubscribed, backed by Bank of America and Talipot). Its thesis is that Latino-led companies are growing about 10x faster than the market, yet Latinos receive under 2% of U.S. venture funding despite being over 20% of the population. The fund writes $100K to $1M+ seed checks into tech-enabled B2B and B2C startups based in the U.S. or Latin America with a U.S. market presence, and Fund II will add AI, quantum, and supply chain. It looks for founders in fast-growing markets who can show the data, with Latino growth at the core through founders, investors, board members, or a Latino-focused product, and who are ready for the fund’s network to help them scale. That network is its main edge: Angeles Investors has about 400 members, 30+ angel deals since 2019, and sponsors like J.P. Morgan, Google, AWS, and KPMG, while the GPs bring 100+ angel deals and 3 unicorns, with a track record that includes ShipBob, MarginEdge, Grin, Canela Media, and The Mom Project. Current portfolio companies include Certiverse, CodeGPT, Helios AI, Linker Finance, SIGO Seguros, Storybook, and Valiot, and founders can reach the team at angelesvc.com or info@angelesvc.com.
