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UTEC Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

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Lima, PeruWebsite

UTEC Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Lima, Peru investing in Deep Tech, Marketplace, Food / AgTech. The firm has 8 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
8 companies on record
Partners
1 listed
AUM
$100M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Deep Tech, Marketplace, Food / AgTech, Consumer, AI / ML, Healthcare
HQ
Lima, Peru
Check size
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-12

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

8+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

University-linked early-stage investor in Peru and Latin America, backing science and technology startups. While broad, it is known for regional early-stage investing and could be relevant if the product has notable technical differentiation.

How UTEC Ventures invests

UTEC Ventures is a vc firm based in Lima, Peru. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Deep Tech, Marketplace, Food / AgTech, Consumer, AI / ML.

UTEC Ventures manages approximately $100M in assets. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.

UTEC Ventures has backed 8 companies in our records, including Manzana Verde, Retrieva, Vegetalia.

Partners & Team

U

Unknown

GP

LatAm
Early-stage

Industry Focus

Invests In

Deep Tech
Marketplace
Food / AgTech
Consumer
AI / ML
Healthcare

Funds

UTECH Ventures Fund II

$150M2021
actively investing

UTECH Ventures Fund I

$100M2019
fully deployed

Portfolio Companies (8)

Other

MA

Manzana Verde

Food tech / delivery·Early funding / seed-like support

Online food delivery company serving Latin America.

RE

Retrieva

AI / NLP software·Not specified

Provides natural-language-processing-based solutions and services.

VE

Vegetalia

Not specified·Not specified

Not enough detail in the gathered source to describe precisely.

FY

Fyusion

AI / computer vision·Venture round

Computer vision and 3D imaging technology company.

DR

Dragonfly Technology / Locix

Technology / hardware-software·Series A financing referenced

Technology company later referenced as Locix; UTEC’s news page says it invested in Dragonfly Technology.

OX

Oxford Quantum Circuits

Quantum computing·Venture investment

Quantum computing company from Oxford University.

GO

Goryo

Healthtech / diagnostics·Not specified

Cancer fluorescence diagnostics company.

TA

Tagcyx Bio

Biotech·Financing round

Bio company that raised JPY 500 million with UTEC as an investor.

How to pitch UTEC Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Deep Tech, Marketplace, Food / AgTech — the sectors they actively back.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Unknown, GP.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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