Jose Marin

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .

Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IG Expansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.

Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.

Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
13
Jose Marin has made 13 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jul 1, 2011, when Ticketbis raised $1.30M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Aug 6, 2015 Rebag Seed $4M E-Commerce Detail
Jul 8, 2015 ZoomCar Series Unknown $11M Automotive Detail
Jun 18, 2015 Managed by Q Series A $15M Enterprise Software Detail
Apr 23, 2015 Headout Seed $1.80M Mobile Detail
Apr 14, 2015 Ticketbis Series E €3M E-Commerce Detail
Apr 2, 2015 SeatGeek Series C $62M Ediscovery Detail
Mar 23, 2015 LendingHome Series C $70M Financial Services Detail
Feb 2, 2015 Havenly Seed $20K Consumer Detail
Jan 22, 2015 Button Series A $12.30M Enterprise Software Detail
Dec 24, 2014 BTCjam Series A $6.10M Bitcoin Detail
Aug 20, 2014 RecargaPay Series Unknown $6.60M Financial Services Detail
Jul 1, 2014 Rebag Seed $800K E-Commerce Detail
Jul 1, 2011 Ticketbis Series A $1.30M E-Commerce Detail