What VamosVentures does

VamosVentures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital fund that invests at the Seed and Series A stages in tech-enabled, U.S.-incorporated companies led by Latinx and other diverse founders. The fund concentrates capital in four thesis verticals — Health & Wellness, Future of Work, FinTech, and Sustainability — and targets market-rate returns alongside explicit impact, with stated portfolio breadth of 30+ named companies including Zócalo Health, Handspring, Brex (exited via Capital One's $5.15B acquisition completed April 8, 2026), Kira, Form Energy, Aalo, Influur, and Trustible. Roughly only ~2% of VC dollars flow to Latinx founders, and the fund is positioned to capture deal flow in this underserved segment.

The firm's core operational technology is a HubSpot-hosted Founders Form on its WordPress website, which standardizes inbound deal intake with defined criteria (diverse teams, Seed/Series A, U.S.-incorporated, thesis-aligned sectors) and a 2-week response SLA. Deal sourcing is reinforced by a multi-year MBA Associate and Scout pipeline running across 2020-2026 cohorts, plus curated event partnerships including the Plug In Ventures Founder & Investor Roundtable Series in Los Angeles and Speed Pitch 2026 with The Startup Station in New York. Brand reach is built through owned channels (Medium blog, newsletter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter), earned media (Bloomberg Línea, Crunchbase News, The FinTech Times, Fast Company), and partner features (Female VC Lab, MBIT, Inclusive Collective podcasts).

Revenue mechanics follow standard VC fund economics: management fees on committed capital from limited partners plus carried interest on successful investments. Investment terms (ticket size, valuation, equity stake) are not publicly disclosed and deals are evaluated case-by-case. The core team of seven (Managing Partner Marcos Gonzalez, Partner Ashley Ryder, COO & Partner Andres Morin, Investment Partner Xavier Del Rosario, Principal Valeria Martinez, Associate Maya Trujillo, Analyst Andrew Gonzalez) is supplemented by an extended Scout and MBA Associate network. The firm is privately held with no disclosed fund size, AUM, LP base, or capitalization details in the source material.

Name

VamosVentures

Legal name

VamosVentures

Website

https://vamosventures.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

VamosVentures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital fund that invests Seed and Series A capital in U.S.-incorporated, tech-enabled companies led by Latinx and other diverse founders across Health & Wellness, Future of Work, FinTech, and Sustainability.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Fund management fees & carried interest: LA-based venture capital fund that invests in Seed and Series A rounds, generating revenue from limited partners through management fees on committed capital and carried interest (carried interest / fund economics) on successful investments, targeting market-rate financial returns alongside impact.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

VamosVentures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital fund that provides Seed and Series A equity capital to U.S.-incorporated, tech-enabled companies led by diverse founders, with a primary focus on Latinx-led teams. The fund invests across four thesis verticals: Health & Wellness, Future of Work, FinTech, and Sustainability. Deal flow is sourced through an online Founders Form and a structured pipeline of MBA Associates and Scouts, with the fund generating revenue via management fees from limited partners and carried interest on successful exits.

Product overview

VamosVentures is a single, unified offering rather than a platform-plus-modules product: an LA-based venture capital fund that provides capital and partnership to diverse-led (with a primary focus on Latinx) teams building tech-enabled, U.S.-incorporated Seed and Series A companies. The fund is organized around four co-equal investment verticals — Health & Wellness, Future of Work, FinTech, and Sustainability — which together represent the "products" available to founders, and each vertical is populated by a portfolio of named companies (e.g., Zócalo Health and Handspring in Health & Wellness; Brex, Finix, Kira, and Ocho in FinTech; Aalo and Form Energy in Sustainability). Wrapping the investment verticals are two talent-pipeline programs that recruit, train, and develop the next generation of investors — the MBA Associates Program and the annual VamosVentures Scout Program — and a single founder-facing service, the Founders Form pitch intake, which is the structured entry point for prospective portfolio companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Seed and Series A Investment Capital across Four Thesis Verticals (Health & Wellness, Future of Work, FinTech, Sustainability)

Quantifiable outcome

• Brex (portfolio) acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered mid-tier event partner and minor ecosystem partner.

• The Startup Station (Speed Pitch 2026)mid-tier event partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerEcosystem partner hosting Speed Pitch 2026 in New York on March 25, 2026, connecting 62 startups with 19 venture capital funds in a curated meeting format; half of the startups were female-led and 90% featured diverse teams. Next event scheduled for New York Tech Week 2026.
• Plug In Venturesmid-tier event partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerPlug In Ventures hosts the Founder & Investor Roundtable Series in Los Angeles focused on early-stage startup growth and founder-investor collaboration; VamosVentures participated alongside Kapor Capital and Freedom Trail Capital. Topics included fundraising, AI, infrastructure, and a special presentation for NBA Foundation Pitch Competition finalists.
• Freedom Trail Capitalminor ecosystem partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerFellow participant alongside VamosVentures and Kapor Capital in Plug In Ventures' Founder & Investor Roundtable Series in Los Angeles, focused on early-stage startup growth.
• Kapor Capitalminor ecosystem partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-participant with VamosVentures in Plug In Ventures' Founder & Investor Roundtable Series in Los Angeles, focused on early-stage startup growth and founder-investor collaboration.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Harlem Capital: Early-stage venture fund focused on investing in diverse founders, with a thesis directly comparable to VamosVentures' Seed/Series A diversity focus. Valeria Martinez previously invested at Harlem Capital, illustrating direct operational overlap.
• Kapor Capital: Impact-focused Seed venture fund backing underrepresented founders, and a co-participant with VamosVentures in Plug In Ventures' Founder & Investor Roundtable Series. Directly comparable on thesis, stage, and diversity mandate.
• Backstage Capital: Seed-stage fund investing in underestimated founders, including people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ founders. Operates in the same Seed/Series A diversity-investing niche as VamosVentures.
• MaC Venture Capital: Seed-stage fund investing in founders of color and other underestimated backgrounds. Highly comparable thesis, stage, and target-founder profile to VamosVentures.
• Slauson & Co. Early-stage venture firm investing in the future of work and commerce, with a focus on underestimated founders in Los Angeles. Overlaps directly with VamosVentures on Future of Work vertical and LA-based, diverse-founder deal flow.
• Zeal Capital Partners: Early-stage venture firm investing in high-growth companies led by diverse founders across FinTech and other verticals. Comparable stage, target demographic, and FinTech exposure to VamosVentures.
• BBG Ventures (Built By Girls): Seed-stage fund backing female and diverse founders in consumer and enterprise tech. Operates in the same diverse-founder Seed thesis as VamosVentures, with overlap in Future of Work and FinTech.
• Pipeline Angels: Network and angel investing group focused on increasing investor and entrepreneur diversity, including in venture. Comparable on mission and on the diversity pipeline-building narrative VamosVentures emphasizes through its Scout program.
• Impact America Fund: Venture fund investing in companies led by underrepresented founders building solutions for overlooked communities. Directly comparable thesis of combining impact with market-rate returns, similar to VamosVentures' stated approach.

Broad incumbents

• Unusual Ventures: Seed-stage venture fund led by operators with a broader sector mandate than VamosVentures. Comparable on stage and operator-led model, but does not specialize in the Latinx / diverse-founder niche, making it a broader incumbent rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/vamosventures
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vamosventures
• Instagraminstagram.com/vamosventures
• Facebookfacebook.com/VamosVentures-113958317401581

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments36 records

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