When was Start-Up Chile founded?

Start-Up Chile was founded in 2010.

Where is Start-Up Chile's headquarters located?

Start-Up Chile's headquarters is located in Santiago (Chile).

How big is Start-Up Chile's investment team?

Start-Up Chile has a team of 54, including 7 partners.

How many companies has Start-Up Chile invested in?

Start-Up Chile has invested in 1018 companies, including Opendoor & Cabify.

Which companies has Start-Up Chile invested in lately?

ACELER.AI & NoArk are the latest investments by Start-Up Chile.

How many exits has Start-Up Chile been involved in?

Start-Up Chile's portfolio has seen 11 IPOs and 49 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Start-Up Chile's portfolio?

There are 2 unicorns in Start-Up Chile's portfolio.

Start-Up Chile - 2026 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends

1. Opendoor

Provider of digital platforms for buying and selling residential property. The business facilitates real estate transactions by enabling owners to list properties for sale and providing buyers with direct purchase options. It manages the underlying processes for home exchanges and coordinates with homebuilders to offer inventory to prospective buyers.

Key facts about Opendoor

Founded Year: 2014
Location: Tempe (United States)
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $1.35B
Employee Count: 1,449 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: Access Industries, Vibhu Venture Partners and 76 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 18, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Public

2. Cabify

Provider of ride-hailing, taxi, and delivery services via a mobile application. The company offers transportation solutions for individuals and corporate clients. It facilitates connections between passengers and drivers through its platform. The platform provides options for booking rides, managing expenses, and tracking trips.

Key facts about Cabify

Founded Year: 2011
Location: Madrid (Spain)
Valuation: $*****
Stage: Series E
Total Funding till date: $517M
Employee Count: 4,864 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: Western Technology Investment, Bayrock and 43 Others
Latest Funding Round: Venture Debt, Jan 11, 2024, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

3. Fracttal

Cloud-based enterprise asset management solutions. It helps in monitoring the physical assets in real-time. The software features are asset management, inventory management, condition monitoring, issues management, maintenance tasks, and more. It gathers data from all connected devices using IoT and performs real-time analysis to figure out anomalies in the data. Such anomalies are routed through the issue management and investigated further to avoid any potential losses, in industries including manufacturing, mining, technology, construction, transportation, food & drinks, and more.

Key facts about Fracttal

Founded Year: 2014
Location: Santiago (Chile)
Stage: Series C
Total Funding till date: $52.3M
Employee Count: 252 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: Riverwood Capital, Scale Capital and 8 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jan 21, 2026, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

4. Méliuz

Meliuz.com.br is a platform that combines loyalty program and discount coupons for online Brazilian stores. The site allows users to purchase discounted products from e-commerce websites like Casas Bahia, Submarino, and Extra.com.br and offers them cashback when a purchase is done. It got merged with Berlin-based deal sharing community, Pepper.com to launch Pelando.com.br, a social commerce platform.

Key facts about Méliuz

Founded Year: 2011
Location: Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $40K
Employee Count: 262 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: Graph Ventures, Lumia Capital and 7 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jun 13, 2025, $*****
Highlight: Public

5. Mediclic

Online platform offering a wide range of healthcare services. The platform offers a list of medical specialties to book video consultation services, and home-based healthcare services. Also, it offers an app for measuring the vital signs of a body.

Key facts about Mediclic

Founded Year: 2016
Location: Santiago (Chile)
Stage: Seed
Total Funding till date: $5.3M
Employee Count: 182 as on Aug 31, 2026
Investors: Raspberry, Kormeli and 6 Others
Latest Funding Round: Seed, Nov 17, 2016, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Start-Up Chile has invested in 1018 companies over the last 16 years, with an average of 35 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in ACELER.AI and most recent follow-on round was in Husky.

Here are Start-Up Chile's Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2026 (YTD)	0	0	0
2025	1	0	1
2024	1	0	1
2023	0	0	0
2022	1	0	1
2021	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0
2019	48	4	52
2018	113	2	115
2017	99	0	99

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Start-Up Chile has made 492 investments in Grant (prize money) stage with an average round size of $95.5K, 350 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $53.7K, 2 investments in Angel stage and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $3M.

Here are Start-Up Chile's investments by stage:

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Grant (prize money)	492
Seed	350
Angel	2
Series A	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Start-Up Chile has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail, High Tech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 760 Tech companies, 492 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 427 Software companies and at least 419 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Start-Up Chile's investments by sector:

Sector	No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications	290
Consumer	237
Retail	93
High Tech	77
Vertical SaaS	71
Others	810

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Start-Up Chile has made most investments in Chile (286), followed by United States where it has made 178 investments.

Here are Start-Up Chile's investments by geography:

Country	No. of Investments
Chile	286
United States	178
Argentina	63
India	43
Brazil	34
Others	234

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Start-Up Chile has not made any investment in 2026 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Start-Up Chile:

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Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Feb 14, 2025	ACELER.AI	Chile	Grant (prize money)	8949	-
Jun 2024	NoArk	India	Grant (prize money)	1705	-
Aug 09, 2022	Pura Mente	Argentina	Seed	9331	500 Global [+2]
Aug 23, 2019	Husky	United States	Grant (prize money)	3092	-
Jul 04, 2019	Astrek Innovations	India	Seed	8377	-

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Start-Up Chile has 2 unicorns in its portfolio - NotCo and Cabify. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is NotCo. It became a unicorn in 2021, 5 years before Start-Up Chile first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Start-Up Chile's portfolio:

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Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
58	NotCo	-	2015	Food and Agriculture Tech	Santiago	Series D	hoiojdy
71	Cabify	Provider of ride-hailing, taxi, and delivery services via a mobile application	2011	Consumer [+4]	Madrid	Series E	omtmczv

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11 of Start-Up Chile's portfolio companies have become public. Opendoor got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Dec 2020 and Méliuz got listed on the Brazil Stock Exchange (B3).

Here are Start-Up Chile's portfolio companies that went public:

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Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Opendoor	Dec 21, 2020	Jun 02, 2014	Grant (prize money)	2485
Méliuz	Nov 06, 2020	Nov 16, 2012	Seed	9784
Aumentality	-	Feb 15, 2013	Seed	9436
Biofab	-	Nov 2014	Seed	5347
RingCaptcha	-	Nov 19, 2013	Seed	1175

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49 companies from Start-Up Chile's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Driv.in in Jul 2026 by Descartes for $*****.

Here are Start-Up Chile's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

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Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Driv.in	Jul 06, 2026	Dec 28, 2016	Grant (prize money)	4769
Talana	Jun 27, 2025	Dec 28, 2016	Grant (prize money)	8821
Genomawork	Mar 17, 2025	Nov 30, 2018	Grant (prize money)	5617
Upswot	Dec 11, 2024	-	-	5115
JobConvo	May 06, 2024	-	-	8608

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Start-Up Chile has a team of 54 members including 7 Partners, 10 Venture Partners and 11 Principals located in Chile, India and 9 more locations. Start-Up Chile's team sits on the board of 1 company.

Here is a list of top team members in Start-Up Chile:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact Details
Smith Natasha	Partner	Vietnam	-	1 Email
Neeraj Jain	Partner	Homestead	-	1 Email
Marina Gosselin	Partner	Santiago	-	1 Email
Omkar Kulkarni	Partner	Bengaluru	-	1 Email
Falashaladinka Tan	Partner	Indonesia	-	1 Email
Vania Lizana Díaz	Partner	Santiago	-	1 Email
Cristian H Rodriguez-Chiffelle	Partner	Switzerland	-	-
Luis Chau	Venture Partner	Peru	-	1 Email
Renato Borges	Venture Partner	-	-	-
Claudia Wrobel	Venture Partner	-	-	-
Juan Jose Roca Rey Valdez	Venture Partner	-	-	-

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Over the past 16 years, 560 investors have co-invested in Start-Up Chile's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.

Invested before Start-Up Chile: Wayra Deutschland, NXTP Labs and 99 others have invested in rounds before Start-Up Chile. There are 7 companies where Wayra Deutschland has invested before Start-Up Chile and 7 companies where NXTP Labs has invested before Start-Up Chile.
Top Co-investors of Start-Up Chile: 22 investors entered a company along with Start-Up Chile. These include investors like Wayra Deutschland (3 companies).
Invested after Start-Up Chile: A total of 437 investors have invested in Start-Up Chile's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include 500 Global (17 companies) and Parallel18 (10 companies).