Anna Raptis
Founder, Amplifica Capital
Built the first Latin American fund designed to both raise from and invest in women.
Anna Raptis is an economist and CFA charterholder with more than 25 years of experience, who founded Amplifica Capital — described as the first female-focused venture capital firm in Mexico — with a dual gender thesis: attracting capital from women, and deploying it into women-led companies.
The fund closed $11M for its debut vehicle at the end of 2022 and invests primarily at seed stage into Mexico-based startups, across ag and food-tech, healthtech, fintech, mobility and climate.
Raptis also serves on the jury of the Cartier Women’s Initiative and is among the investors profiled by LAVCA, the regional private-capital association.
How she invests
The dual mandate is the unusual part, and it addresses the less-discussed side of the funding gap. Where a company’s capital comes from is decided one level above the founder — by who the limited partners are. A fund whose LP base is entirely male will, over time and without anyone intending it, come to reflect that base in what it finds fundable. Raising deliberately from women changes the input rather than arguing about the output.
What an individual investor can take from it
In a market with a small venture ecosystem, the constraint usually sits on the capital side rather than the deal side: there are more credible founders than there are cheques. That points to a route individual investors often overlook — becoming a limited partner in a local fund instead of picking companies directly. It buys diversification a single angel cheque cannot, and access to deal flow that would take years to build alone, at the price of control and a management fee.
Where the lesson stops
Fund investing is not a shortcut past diligence, it relocates it. Instead of judging companies you are judging a manager — their track record, their fee structure, and whether the fund is large enough to matter to them. Emerging-market funds are also typically closed-end with capital locked for the better part of a decade, so the diversification is bought with illiquidity, not with convenience.
First LatAm fund built to both raise from and invest in women.
Sources
- TechCrunch — Amplifica Capital wants to be the fund LatAm’s female founders reach first ↗
- Cartier Women’s Initiative — Anna Raptis ↗
Facts here reflect public reporting at time of writing — roles and fund affiliations change; verify current details directly with Amplifica Capital.