Latin America Venture Capital

The Firm

Founded in 2013, Escala.VC is an early stage venture capital fund focused on startups with Latin American founders, markets or operations.

Escala.VC es un fondo de capital de riesgo fundado en el 2013 enfocado en emprendimientos con operaciones, fundadores o mercados Latino Americanos.

You can find additional references to Escala.VC under our AngelList profile here or follow us on twitter at @escalavc.

The Managing Partner

Patrick Wakeham

has completed over 20 startup and growth related investments since 2011, in addition to being a founding member of an ecommerce startup in New York.  An active mentor for accelerator programs in Latin America such as 500 Startups, NXTP Labs, Founders Institute and NeXT, Patrick typically spends his time meeting entrepreneurs in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

For more information on Patrick please see his profile on AngelList or LinkedIn, or follow him on twitter at @wakehamp.

Contacting us:

Please send us a short email to (just click here) with a brief note on your startup. If we don’t know you, don’t be shy. Go ahead and use 3 full paragraphs to explain the problem and how it is being dealt with today, the solution you propose and how it would work and how your team is uniquely positioned to address it, and quantify the size of the opportunity.