LAVCA Women
Women investors and founders remain underrepresented in Latin America, mirroring global trends. In private capital, women hold only ~10% of senior roles, and just 17% of venture-backed startups worldwide have a female co-founder. This portal consolidates LAVCA’s key directories, surveys, interviews and gender-diversity data across asset classes in the Latin American investment ecosystem.
Top & Emerging Women Investors in Latin America
Published on 10 December 2025
The Top Women Investors list highlights 223 senior-level women investment professionals, along with notable angel investors who complete three or more investments per year across the region.
LAVCA’s Emerging Women Investors list recognizes 350 junior- and mid-level women investment professionals building careers across Latin America’s private capital industry.
Emilie Abrams
Livia Abreu
Johanna Achcar Bengtsson
Paloma Acosta
Amanda Ades
Luz Adriana Rocha Vargas
Camila Agosti
Rebecca Aguiar
Maria Jose Aguilar Belmont
Maria Gracia Agurto
Valerie Aizpuru
Victoria Akerman
Giovanna Albuquerque de Sa
Maria Fernanda Alcocer
Eva Alonso
Maria Antonia Alvarenga
Daniela Ambrosano De Carlucci
Cecilia Ampuero
Ana Sofia Ancira Fonseca
Cecilia Arandia Teran
Ilana Ararat
Ana Maria Aristizabal
Laura Ariza
Joseline Avendaño
Isabella Ayres
Maria Tereza Azevedo
Amanda Bastos
Samantha Batista
Isadora Benedini
Isabela Berdu
Ethel Berdugo
Beatriz Bergman
Laura Biava
Andresa Bicudo
Ana Paula Blanco
Teresa Boada Serret
Valentina Bojaca
Mirella Bonadio
Beatriz Bonetto
Jacqueline Bonny Cariz
Lee Borges
Thaissa Brandão
Graciela Budinich
Camila Bustamante
Katalina Cabrera
Montserrat Calderon
Andrea Calderón Vidal
Aline Camelier
Diana Cardona Restrepo
Natalia Cardoso Martins
Caroline Carlos
Daniela Carneiro
Ana Carolina Musa
Carolina Carvalho
Brenda Castaneda
Maria Alejandra Castro Chaves
Maria Cecilia Martinez
Natalie Charney
Lin Chen
Marimer Cisneros
Alessandra Cisneros Avendaño
Maria Clara Al Makul
Alexa Clark
Cristina Collazos
Itali Collini
Paula Cordero Grey
Cecilia Cordova
Karen Correa
Fernanda Cortes
Larissa Cosmo Rezende
Mariana Costa
Ana Coutinho
Francisca Cox
Catarina Crepaldi
Skarlet Cruz
Regina Cuadra
Caterina Viana da Rosa Gomes
Luisa Dalla Costa
Caroline Dallacorte
Maria Daniela Veintemillas Valdez
Beatriz Dauzacker
Raquel de Almeida Menezes
Maria Eduarda de Costa Veloso
María de Fátima Torales
Pilar de la Barra
María Trinidad de la Vega Hadida
Elena de Lara Diaz
Luiza De Munno
Leticia de Oliveira Barros
Maria Beatriz de Orleans e Bragança
Juliana de Podestá
Adriana del Conde
Gisela Denisse Balbi
Lorena Deolino
Carolina Deprá Mondadori
Patricia Deza
Teresita Di Marco
Stella Dias Ferreira
Bianca Diaz Moncayo
Sofia Diniz
Julia Duarte Bernardo
Lidia Eckert Reckziegel
Amanda El Ghossain
Renata Elias Buck
Lourdes Sofia Elizondo Guajardo
Maria Eugenia Elorza
Maria Angelica Enriquez
Stephanie Ens
Cecilia Ezquerro
Renata Faraco Lemos
Paula Favaro
Melissa Fernández
Isabella Fernandez Castro
Natalia Fernandez de Araoz Sanchez
Marina Ferraz
Julia Figueiredo
Thais Fontoura
Helena Forace
Fernanda Forjaz de Toledo
Juliana Franco Orjuela
Luana Fricks
Isabella Frigerio
Isabele Furini
Giovanna Furtado
Milena Gabriele
Ana Cristina Gadala-Maria
Sara Gandini Gubinelli
Fernanda Garcia
Manueli Garcia
Natália Garcia Plaza Teixeira
Pilar Gaviria
Valeria Gelsi
Carolina Giannini
Isabella Goldman
Camila Gonçalves
Laura Gontijo
Lia Gonzalez
Nicole Gonzalez
Cecilia Gonzalez Corral
Giulia Griesius Moraes
Aitana Gudiño
Ester Guerchenzon
Melissa Guevara
María Guillén Uribe
Juliana Guimarães
Josefina Gutiérrez
Daniela Guzman
Jasibe Guzman
Nicole Heidkamp
Cibelle Higino
Marialexandra Horna Arrieta
Vivian Hurtado
Andrea Isaza-Roquebert
Heloisa Ishii
Natasha Jafet
Maria Jesus Illanes Vergara
Carolina Jimenez
María José Navarro
Ana Julia Fraccaroli
Ximena Karaman Lian
Karina Katz
Camila Katz
Silvia Kerr
Catarina Kreitlon
Patricia Krieger
Dora La Porta Rüthschilling
Leticia Lage Neves
Italia Lastiri González
Joselin Layme
Luiza Leite
Alice Lepique
Camila Lillo
Gabriela Lima
Larissa Souza Lima da Silva
Luciana Linhares
Lucia Llosa
Isabela Lopes
Ana Paula Lopes
Thaisa Lopes
Antonia López Huneeus
Alejandra López Valdés
Ana Luiza P.
Carolina Lunardelli
Ana Carolina Lustosa Rosario
Gabriela Macedo
Liz Macedo
Julia Maffei
Sophie Malca Ruiz
Jessica Maldonado Estepa
Laetitia Marcadé
Luana Marcondes
Carolina Margozzini
Luciana Martella
Karina Martinez
Cristina Martinez-Acitores de la Mata
Maria Carolina Martino
Rafaela Martins
Maria Inés Mayagoitia Groso
Magdalena Mayol
Paulina Melo
Giovana Melo Gonçalves
Ana Paula Mendoza
Caroline Mie
Sofia Misan
Thaisa Miyazaki
Natalia Mondragon
Consuelo Monje
Celina Montano
Maria Carolina Monteiro
Luiza Morandini
Mosi Mosquera
Lina Maria Moya
Liz Mulazzani
Laura Muñoz Cordoba
Maria Jose Musalem Araos
Maureen Nakamura
Diana Narvaez
Anakaren Nava
Maria Noel de la Paz
Andrea Ojeda Valle
Montserrat Olguin
Flora Oliveira
Angélica Opazo Valenzuela
Paula Orjuela
Emiliana Pacheco
Marcella Paias
Gabrielle Paixão
Leticia Pamplona Cabral
Beatriz Papoti Alves
Yetzibel Pardo
Carolina Parente
Juliana Pascowitch
Tainá Passos
Ana Paula Bolio Castillo
Maria Paz Tempe
Estrella Peinado-Vara
Olivia Pellegrini
Yenni Peña Mendoza
Maria Gabriela Penner Heinsohn
Jimena Perez
Paloma Pérez Verdeja
Dashiel Pérez Vivó
Andrea Pérez-Gil Pitashny
Isadora Perim
Gabriela Perulles Vargas
Maria Pia Morante
Isabella Picchi
Antonia Piedrahita
Marília Pinheiro de Almeida Veríssimo
Daniela Pinto
Margaret Pollack
Laura Prado
Julia Prado
Camila Prata
Natalia Prieto Canal
Ana María Prieto Peña
Rayane Quadra
Fernanda Quesada
Laura Quiñones
Nathalia Quiros
Mishelle Ramirez
Sofía Ramírez Calvo
Edith Ramos
Amabile Rebeschini
Lucía Rego Urrunaga
Lia Reich
Alejandra Revueltas
Fernanda Rezende
Maria Ribeiro
Ana Luz Rios Pulido
Pia Rivas Lozada
Gabriela Rivera
Karen Rizkallah
Ana Rocha
Maria Isabel Rodas
Clarissa Rodrigues
Isabella Rodriguez
Leticia Rodriguez
Ana María Rodriguez Almirón
Catalina Rodríguez Fischer
Maria Claudia Rojas Avella
Cinthia Romaro
Sara Romero
Mariana Romero
Julieta Romero
Betsy Rosales Gaborit
Ursula Rossi Becker
Montserrat Rubio Hernandez
Laura Ruiz
Monica Salazar
Nicole Salim
Julia Salles
Olivia Salles
Angie Salom
Juliana Salvatierra
Alice Samaia Ferreira
Clara Sanchez
Ximena Sanchez Alcala
Cristina Santisteban
Larissa Santos
Sara Santos
Laura Sanz Fernandez
Valeria Sarmiento Durán
Eduarda Saurin
Rafaella Saviano Al Makul
Catalina Scaglione
Fabiana Scionti
Renata Scopel Lemos
Lia Secomandi
Stephanie Shao Ni Ng
Regina Sierra
Valentina Silva
Helen Silva
Giovanna Silveira Reis
Daniela Simons Arango
Angela Sodi
Renata Solana Carvajal
Florencia Solari
Luana Stamato Caldeira
Mariana Strficek
Tarcila Sugiyama
Luana Tenório
Catherine Thome
Monica Toscano
Inés Tran Dinh
Tricia Treviño Navarro
Paola Troncoso
Luiza Ulysséa
Esperanza Uranga
Tatiana Uribe
Julia Valdivia Alva
Quitterie Valette
Luisa Van Erven
Juliana Vanegas Grimberg
Micaela Vargas
Manuela Vasquez
Jimena Vasquez Echecopar
Irene Vaszquez Gallarosa
Marijose Vazquez Munoz
Celia Velasco
Juanita Velez
Ana Victoria Vera
Isidora Verdugo
María Camila Vernaza
Maria José Vesga Cabeza
Julieta Vidal
Maria Jose Vinueza Ruedas
Debora Vizeu
Valeria Wetzel
Isabelle Weyne
Camila Zamudio
Barbara Zanin Lopes
Juliana Zapata Ramírez
Diane Zehil
Tiantian Zhang
-
Top & Emerging Women Investors in Latin America 2025
Read more -
Top & Emerging Women Investors in Latin America 2024
Read more -
Top & Emerging Women Investors in Latin American Tech 2023
Read more -
Satellite Analytics & Irrigation Systems: Interview with Kilimo COO Tatiana Malvasio
Read more -
Maria Pia Iannariello, MGM Innova Capital
Read more -
AQ Top 5 Champions of Gender Equality: Susana García-Robles
Read more -
Creative Diversity in Brazil: An Interview with CREATORS Co-Founder and CMO Nohoa Arcanjo
Read more -
Coding is the Future: Interview with Arukay Co-Founder and CEO Vicky Ricaurte
Read more -
A Brand Laboratory: Interview with Foodology Co-Founder Daniela Izquierdo
Read more -
Less Paperwork, More Employee Retention: An Interview with Worky Co-Founder and CEO Maya Dadoo
Read more -
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Interview with Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Unima
Read more -
Women in STEM & The Gender Dividend: An Interview with the Creators of Wise
Read more -
Gaszen CEO & WeXchange Winner Jennifer Reyna on Energy Disruption
Read more -
Ben & Frank Challenges Eyewear Shopping Norms in Mexico
Read more -
Healthtech & the Opportunity to Reduce Diabetes in Mexico
Read more -
ESCALA Educación is Breaking Down Barriers to Higher Education in Colombia
Read more -
Chile’s Lab4U Talks Winning WeXchange and the US$37.8b Edtech Opportunity
Read more -
Peru’s Laboratoria Tackles Coding Gender Gap in Latin America with International Funding
Read more -
IFC Alum Focuses Efforts on Teaching Brazilian Women to Code with {reprograma}
Read more -
Mediação Online Raised R$500K from 500 Startups to Tackle Brazil’s “Litigation Culture”
Read more -
Johanna Posada, Founder & Managing Director, Elevar Equity
Read more -
Apli Disrupts Recruiting in Mexico After Landing US$1.5m from Global & LatAm VCs
Read more -
Entrepreneur Profile: Carolina Reis and Andrés Ochoa, CEO and CTO of OneSkin
Read more -
Marta Cruz on Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (en español)
Read more -
Marta Cruz on Latin America’s Technological Future (en español)
Read more -
Entrepreneur Profile: 2015 WeXchange Winner – Liza Velarde, Co-Founder, Semka Biomedical Technologies
Read more -
Entrepreneur Profile: Angela Cois, LastRoom
Read more
Methodology
LAVCA’s Top and Emerging Women Investors in Latin America lists recognize women who are actively contributing to the region’s private capital and technology ecosystems through their work on investment teams and as angel investors. All women showcased must meet the following baseline criteria:
- Active investment role: The candidate must be actively involved within the firm’s investment team, whether through sourcing, investment analysis and due diligence, or direct participation in investment-making decisions.
- Latin America investment focus: The candidate’s responsibilities and focus must explicitly include Latin America or one or more of its countries. For professionals at global investment firms, LAVCA requires confirmation (either directly from the firm or through secondary sources, such as the firm’s website or public materials) that Latin America is a defined part of the candidate’s mandate.
Top Women Investors in Latin America
The Top Women Investors in Latin America list recognizes senior-level female investment professionals and select angel investors meeting the following criteria:
- Asset classes: Senior women on investment teams in private capital strategies, including Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Private Credit.
- Angel investors: Female angel investors who are investing in three or more Latin American tech startups per year, with at least USD50k per year deployed directly into startups in the region.
- Seniority and titles: Candidates who explicitly hold one of the following titles are eligible for consideration: Chairman, CEO, Senior Partner, Founding Partner, General Partner, Partner, or Head (e.g., Head of Investments, Head of Venture Capital, Head of Latin America).
- Track record and time frame: Investors must be active within these roles over the last five years.
- Full-time status: Only investors with a full-time position within a firm are eligible for consideration, with the exception of active angel investors who may operate independently or alongside other professional roles.
Emerging Women Investors in Latin America
The Emerging Women Investors in Latin America list recognizes junior- and mid-level female investment professionals with responsibilities within investment teams. Eligible candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Titles: Candidates must explicitly hold one of the following titles: Analyst, Associate, Senior Associate, Vice President, Principal, Investment Officer, or Director.
- Active investment involvement: LAVCA must have confirmation that the candidate is actively involved in investment-making decisions within the firm. This can include responsibilities such as sourcing, evaluating and modeling potential investments, and/or participating in investment committees.
Confirmation Process
LAVCA relies on a combination of peer nominations, direct confirmations from firms and independent research by LAVCA Research to identify and evaluate candidates. All profiles are vetted to ensure alignment with the criteria above and to reflect the diversity of strategies, geographies and firm types that characterize Latin America’s evolving private capital ecosystem.
Nominate an Investor
This list is not exhaustive; if you know of a junior- or mid-level investment professional working on Latin American tech deals who should be on this list, contact [email protected]