Luis Barrios

Luis Xavier Barrios Parlange is the founder of Arkangeles, a Mexican platform for investing in Latin American startups. El Sol de México described Arkangeles as an international crowdfunding platform focused on funding early Latin American technology startups, and its current site says it is operated by Angeles en Ark, S.A.P.I. de C.V., an Institución de Financiamiento Colectivo authorized and supervised by Mexican financial authorities.

Before Arkangeles, Barrios co-founded The Pool in 2013, a Mexico City workspace and entrepreneurial community with locations including Polanco, San Ángel, and Montes Urales. El Sol de México reports that he is an industrial engineer from Universidad Iberoamericana and earned an MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts.

Barrios joined the Kauffman Fellows Program in 2015 and also attended Singularity University in Silicon Valley. In 2017, he launched Arkangeles to broaden access to startup investing and channel capital toward entrepreneurs building solutions for Latin America.

Arkangeles’ legal page, updated January 29, 2026, lists Luis Xavier Barrios Parlange as the UNE contact holder and gives [hidden] as one of the official UNE email addresses. The same page states that Angeles en Ark is a CNBV-authorized collective financing institution.

• Arkangeles is built around democratizing startup investing: Barrios told El Sol de México that his goal was to “movilizar capital hacia emprendedores” and industries that can improve quality of life.
• The platform focuses mainly on pre-seed and seed investments, with some Series A opportunities, according to Arkangeles’ own angel-investing guide.
• Arkangeles says it evaluates legal documentation, shareholder lists, market analysis, and current traction/growth before accepting companies onto the platform.
• Arkangeles’ 2021 guide says it accepted about 6% of companies applying to raise on its public platform at that time.
• Barrios emphasizes diversification and investor education; in El Economista, he argued that investors should understand risk and mitigate it by diversifying.
• The firm’s current site positions Arkangeles as a way for startups to present projects to an international investor community and raise capital through a structured, digital process.