Emma Group is a venture studio with a proven track record.

Emma Group

Founded by a team of former Endeavor executives, Matterscale aims to bridge the seed stage funding gap for Latin founders.

MatterScale Ventures

We invest in early and growth-stage companies that are cofounded by outstanding teams, are scalable, have solid unit economics, and are connected with Colombia and the rest of Latin America.

Simma Capital

TBD Angels is a group of like-minded angel investors who thrive on sharing advice, guidance, and capital with talented entrepreneurs. TBD Angels provide critical advice and connections to jumpstart the companies it invests in.

TBD Angels

Salkantay is a venture capital firm that creates value by collaborating with intrepid entrepreneurs, visionary investors and its allies to identify innovative ideas and transform them into successful and highly profitable companies. Salkantay invests in companies with high potential for financial return and impact in Latin America. The Fund has a generalist approach, investing in companies that are solving big regional market pains at scale and efficiently, using technology.

Salkantay Ventures

Established in 2016, Beta Ventures provides <Founder Capital>, encompassing hands-on, practical support of amazing early-stage founding teams in Brazil & Latam,  through angel investments and mentoring by a fellow operator and fund-raiser.

Beta Ventures

Titan Angels is a seed and early-stage investment firm.

Titan Angels

The Ark Fund provides networked capital to talented entrepreneurs at an early stage: when most needed. Investment at this stage helps finance working capital, helps validate the business during or after an acceleration or incubation program, allows entrepreneurs to reach initial customers, validate their market and to measure value, with the goal to prepare them for their next investment round. Latin America boasts two of the biggest emerging economies in the world, a 500M spanish-speaking population and a $5 trillion economy. The region offers a tremendous opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to create the next big thing that will change our world. Angels play an important role in helping to create these successes. By providing structured access to dealflow, investment training and community, The Ark provides high-net worth individuals and professional investors with a gateway to this transformative opportunity. The Ark enables opportunity to lead innovation and transformation of industries and economies.  TheArk has built a collaborative funding ecosystem, providing investment training through active funding in extraordinary startups. We challenge ourselves to be better and challenge humanity to be better.

The Ark Fund

Torre

Automated recruiting is difficult but inevitable. We’re solving it by building the global matching network for work.

<div><p>Torre is a platform which utilizes machine learning to pair businesses with freelancers for project-based work. The platform features work categories including sales, software development, copywriting, and business analysis.</p></div>

The on-demand economy has finally reached white collar work.

Online Freelancing Platforms

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    Torre is a platform which utilizes machine learning to pair businesses with freelancers for project-based work. The platform features work categories including sales, software development, copywriting, and business analysis.
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    The platform’s activity has increased in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching 1.5 million profiles and 500,000 active users per month. Torre receives approximately 22,000 unique job postings per month.
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    Torre raised USD 5 million in its seed round funding from a consortium of individual investors including Diego Piacentini (former VP of Amazon and Apple), Mike Shoemaker (former Global Director of Product Operations at Uber), and  Rodrigo Schmidt (senior Head of Engineering at Instagram) in July 2020. The fresh funds will be used to experiment new work categories such as marketing and customer service based on increased demand in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. 
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    Tempo is a UK-based platform connecting businesses to local freelancers. The company is currently based in London and Manchester.
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    The company claims it can significantly lower hiring lead time and cut recruitment costs by 65%. As of February 2022, the platform has worked with 2,500+ clients in sectors such as financial services, software, and e-commerce. The platform has a pool of 80,000 candidates up for permanent and temporary roles.
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    The platform’s most recent funding came in June 2020 when it raised its Series A extension worth USD 6.4 million led by industry incumbent  The Adecco Group. The fresh capital will be used to fuel its expansion across the UK and boost hiring from 35 to 50 team members in 2020.
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Tempo

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    Textbroker is a platform for creative writing freelancers to connect with businesses. Textbroker freelancers work on projects such as social media posts, news stories, and blog posts. The platform provides content in over 35 languages, while connecting businesses with freelancers in the target country.
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    As of October 2020, the platform served over 80,000 clients and has processed over 10 million orders. The platform's pricing starts at USD 1.5 cents per word and serves clients including Ebay and Staples.
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Textbroker

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    Procurement Freelancers provides freelancers for procurement functions such as sourcing/category management, quality control and assurance, and advisory.
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    The platform is free to use for freelancers, while clients purchase subscriptions to hire and manage freelancers at no added cost.
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    In March 2019, the company acquired Dragon Sourcing, a procurement and sourcing service provider.
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Procurement Freelancers

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    Kolabtree  is a UK-based  freelancer marketplace connecting businesses and scientists. The platform provides businesses with skills such as data analysis, product development, scientific consulting, desk research, and other science related services within 24 hours of receiving business requests.
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    As of September 2020, the platform had a pool of over 15,000 freelancers (across 170+ countries) qualified in over 2,000 scientific disciplines. In addition, the company has worked with over 3,500 businesses over the past three years and has 8,000 active users. 
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kolabtree

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    Codersera is a freelance marketplace for businesses seeking developers. The company claims to provide the top 1% of developers through its five tier vetting process. The platform’s freelancers cover a spectrum of developer and data science technologies such as iOS, Android, Python, and Java.
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Codersera Inc

Solutions use AI/Ml for to match freelancers with clients and to vet freelancers

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