Canary (venture capital fund)

Canary is a venture capital fund that invests in technology companies in Latin America. It describes itself as the first institutional investor in major Latin American tech startups. Founders quoted on its site praise it for helping with go-to-market work and hiring, and for building a founder community.

What Canary offers

• Investment: funding for technology companies across Latin America.
• Company building: Canary co-founded Alice with its founders and introduced them to a co-founder.
• Go-to-market help: support with launching in new markets and recruiting key leaders in Brazil.
• Founder community: a network of founders to lean on.

Who it works with

Founders in fintech and insurtech and other sectors. Portfolio companies named include Clara, which offers corporate spend management, Cobre, a workplace bank, Pier, a digital insurer, Alice and Buser. They operate in markets such as Brazil and Colombia.

Key facts

• Region: Latin America
• Focus sectors: fintech, insurtech and consumer technology
• Approach: puts founders and their companies first, as its portfolio founders describe it