Patrick Wakeham

Overview

An active angel investor based in New York City, focusing on early-stage companies across various sectors. Patrick has completed over 13 startup and growth-related investments since 2011, in addition to being a founding member of a digital startup in New York. He has been an active mentor for accelerator programs in Latin America, including 500 Startups, NXTP Labs, Founders Institute, and NeXT, spending his time meeting entrepreneurs in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Apurata, a company based in Community of Madrid, Spain, focusing on fintech and emerging markets. His investment interests include financial services, technology, and consumer goods, with a particular emphasis on e-commerce, healthcare, education, logistics, media, food and beverage, retail, real estate, fintech, clean technology, impact investing, and specialty retail. His investment sizes typically range from $100,000 to $5,000,000, targeting seed and early-stage companies in the United States and Latin America.

Investment Focus

• Seed and early-stage companies
• Focus on technology, financial services, consumer goods, e-commerce, healthcare, education, logistics, media, food and beverage, retail, real estate, fintech, clean technology, impact investing, and specialty retail
• Geographical focus on United States and Latin America

Portfolio Companies