Astrid Soto

Ingredients Trader | Operationally-focused Board Member | Selective Investor

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor | Advisory Board
Jun 2020
Nilus is a technology company that aims to lower the cost of access to basic products for low-income people. The company was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs and operates as a digital retailer for the bottom of the pyramid, leveraging the power of disintermediation, food rescue and community group buying.
early stageRetail Groceries
Investor | Advisory Board
Sep 2018
Encantos PBC is an award-winning childrens entertainment + tech company. Named by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Encantos focuses on diverse stories and characters and brings them to life through apps, books, content, consumer products, and more. Its properties include the Emmy Nominated 2X kidscreen-winning preschool brand Canticos, the award-winning Tiny Travelers series, and the newly launched Skeletina. Encantos was named one of the top 100 startups by Business Insider and was recently celebrated by Apple as one of their featured creators and by Youtube for its cultural impact.
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2020
Investor | Advisory Board
Jun 2020
Nilus is a technology company that aims to lower the cost of access to basic products for low-income people. The company was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs and operates as a digital retailer for the bottom of the pyramid, leveraging the power of disintermediation, food rescue and community group buying.
early stageRetail Groceries
2019
Founder & CEO
Nov 2019
TiKo is a fully integrated technology platform offering customers around the world basic food ingredients direct from the source, branded FMCPG products, and rescued food products (displaced / secondaries / disinter-mediated /scrap / secondaries / imperfect product)
K Fund Capital Management
Investor | Advisory Board
Feb 2019
2018
Investor | Advisory Board
Sep 2018
Encantos PBC is an award-winning childrens entertainment + tech company. Named by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Encantos focuses on diverse stories and characters and brings them to life through apps, books, content, consumer products, and more. Its properties include the Emmy Nominated 2X kidscreen-winning preschool brand Canticos, the award-winning Tiny Travelers series, and the newly launched Skeletina. Encantos was named one of the top 100 startups by Business Insider and was recently celebrated by Apple as one of their featured creators and by Youtube for its cultural impact.
2017
Co-Founder | Board of Directors
Sep 2017
EXPONENT RAISES WOMEN DEALMAKERS to a new power by providing access to an existing ecosystem that delivers meaningful interactions and actionable content. We unite one of the largest collectives of women dealmakers on the east coast, creating a trusted network where impactful decisions are made.
early stageCapital Markets
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