Kalei Ventures

What is Kalei Ventures?

Kalei Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Avenida Vlez Sarsfield 576, Cordoba, AR, focusing on early-stage investments across Latin America, particularly in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia. They aim to invest in sectors capable of producing global leaders out of Latin America, with a strong emphasis on software development applications such as marketplaces, consumer internet, fintech, and edtech. Additionally, they channel investments into sectors leveraging new trends like artificial intelligence, the internet of things, healthtech, agtech, and logistics.

Kalei Ventures targets investment ticket sizes between $50,000 and $250,000 (with a sweet spot of $250,000) and seeks companies with valuations between $1 million and $6 million. They have a strategic orientation towards backing exceptional founders who possess deep experience and mastery of their targeted sectors, showing a preference for serial entrepreneurs.

The firm prioritizes companies that demonstrate initial signs of validation, including a relevant number of paying customers, monthly revenues above $20,000, high growth rates, and robust customer retention. As part of their portfolio construction, they include pre-seed, seed, and Series A investments, focusing on adding value to startups that represent their specialties within Latin America.

Kalei Ventures’ team includes partners and an investment team who are committed to empowering talent in Latin America, nurturing a portfolio of companies that have potential for global impact, as shown in the diverse collection of startups presented on their website.

What they say:

We invest in sectors where Latin America can create global leaders. These sectors include software development applications (e.g. marketplaces, consumer internet, fintech, edtech) and sectors that benefit greatly from new trends such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things (e.g. healthtech, agtech, logistics). Our investment tickets range between $100K and $300K (target $250K) and we seek valuations between $1 and $6 Million. We are looking for outstanding founders, with extensive experience and high mastery of the sector they are targeting. We prefer serial entrepreneurs. We focus on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia; in pre-seed and seed rounds. We go early and bet mainly on founders, but prefer to see initial signs of validation (relevant # of paying customers, monthly revenues above $20k, high growth rates, good retention).