Leap Global Partners

What is Leap Global Partners?

Leap Global Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to the long-term success of dynamic founders who boldly challenge the status quo in Commerce, Fintech, and Software as a Service (SaaS). They are research-driven, high-conviction investors who leverage their domain expertise and network to provide valuable insights and introductions to their portfolio companies.

As sector specialists, Leap Global Partners focuses on identifying secular growth opportunities and offering differentiated support in their core industries. They partner with early-stage companies that possess the potential to transform Commerce, Fintech, and SaaS.

Leap Global Partners values the role of diverse and first-time founders, including those from unconventional paths, and support them with conviction. Their investment approach involves closely working with founders and leaning into dynamic teams with a blend of domain expertise, vision, and grit.

The team at Leap Global Partners is composed of investors, operators, and founders with deep domain expertise and extensive networks in their target markets. Managing Partner Roman Leal has a strong background in financial services and fintech with experience in PayPal and Goldman Sachs.

General Partner Roberto Aguayo specializes in SaaS e-commerce technologies and actively supports their portfolio companies. Moreover, Leap Global Partners produces proprietary research and shares unique insights into their key investment themes, keeping their stakeholders informed through research articles and newsletters. They commit to being high-conviction, long-term partners to the founders they back.

What they say:

We aim to catalyze the next generation of global innovation.

What we look for: We invest in underrepresented founders driving innovation across the Americas, focusing on FinTech and SaaS.