G2
Melissa Gómez Hindle

Partners · Ciudad de México

Melissa Gómez Hindle

Partner, Financial Advisory

Practices
Capital raising · Mergers and acquisitions
Sectors
Fintech and payments · Insurtech · B2B SaaS

Melissa Gómez Hindle is a partner at G2 Investment Banking and at the group’s investment vehicles, G2 Momentum Capital and G2 Fintech Fund. She has been part of the firm’s team for more than nine years, leading financial advisory engagements and designing capital-raising and M&A strategies for startups and scaleups across Latin America.

From the financial advisory practice she supports companies in structuring their investment rounds, positioning themselves before venture capital funds and running strategic acquisition processes. She has taken part in multiple closed transactions in fintech, insurtech and SaaS. Her active relationship with venture capital funds gives her a view of both sides of a transaction: what the founder needs and what the investor requires.

She has been recognized in several editions by LAVCA, the Latin American private capital association, as one of the Top Women Investors in Latin American Tech, for her contribution to strengthening the region’s ecosystem.

She holds a degree in communication sciences from Tecnológico de Monterrey and a master’s in Business and Technology from Collective Academy, training that brings a strategic, technological and business perspective to her work with founders and investors.

Perspectives

Deal analysis

Betterfly acquires Minu: consolidation of benefits and financial wellness in Mexico

The Chilean wellness and benefits platform buys Mexico’s Minu, an earned wage access and voucher provider, for USD 100 million in debt and stock according to Expansión and Diario Financiero; according to Ecosistema Startup, the amount was not disclosed.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Deal analysis

CoStar Group: purchase of Zonda from MidOcean Partners for USD 800 million in cash

CoStar paid in cash, with no stock and no earn-out, for the new-home data and software provider that MidOcean Partners had controlled since 2019; a financial sponsor’s exit to a strategic buyer for a subscription business with net retention above 100%.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Deal analysis

Klar: acquisition of Yave to enter mortgage lending

A neobank with more than 7 million users buys a digital mortgage originator with MXN 5 billion placed, in the year of the slowest growth in Mexican housing credit in two decades.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Deal analysis

Nuvocargo acquires Mentum: AI agents for cross-border freight

A digital carrier between the United States and Mexico buys a Y Combinator startup building artificial-intelligence agents to fold into its transport management system; second acquisition in four months and undisclosed terms.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Deal analysis

Grupo OMNi acquires Jüsto and commits USD 100 million in the first year

One month after Jüsto suspended operations, Grupo OMNi acquired the shares of Jüsto USA at an undisclosed price and committed USD 100 million to restart the online supermarket, while FEMSA and General Atlantic exited the capital.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Deal analysis

Rocket Companies: acquisition of Mr. Cooper for USD 14.2 billion in stock

The largest mortgage originator in the United States absorbed the largest servicer in an all-stock transaction, conditioned by the FHFA to a 20% cap on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac servicing; a reference for mortgage consolidation in Mexico.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Deal analysis

UPS and Estafeta: the acquisition that did not close

Fourteen months after the announcement and four after Cofece’s approval, UPS reported it could not satisfy the closing conditions; the case shows where sales of Mexican operators to global strategic buyers break down.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 5 min read

Perspective

How to prepare a Series A for an investment committee

What a committee reads before deciding is not the deck. It is the model, the cap table and the quality of the answers once the questions stop being polite.

By Melissa Gómez Hindle · · 6 min read