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As the first chilean “robo advisor” platform, Fintual allows people to invest and organize portfolios with different risk levels using algorithms. At the core of the value proposition is the simple interface that allows to easily enroll and manage investments while educating users in a casual, easier to understand language and tone.
Galgo (previously Migrante) was born in mid-2018 as a financial for-profit company meant to attend the growing community of immigrants that were struggling to financially integrate and build a credit history. Over time, the company expanded their offerings to selling online and financing motorcycles for the underbanked. Now, it’s the largest marketplace with integrated financing of motorcycles in Latin America.
Mudango is an end-to-end marketplace to move furniture, as moving services do. With operations in Chile, Colombia and most recently Mexico, it aims to become Latam’s go-to shop for any moving need. The platform works by allowing users to seamlessly book, coordinate and execute a moving service 100% online in an efficient and transparent way by combining an array of user-friendly tech products (charming bots and algorithms), with a network of trusted and trained truck owners, moving companies and storage facilities. The company’s goal is to create a brand that is trusted and loved by users while also empowering small moving companies that partner with them. Ultimately, it aims to become the winner-takes-most digital champion of moving services, freights, and self-storage in the region.
Colektia is an online platform that executes personalized communication strategies for each client to maximize debt collection of a given company in an integrated platform that also allows to monitor the process. Personalization optimizes communication channels (Email, SMS, Call), tone (e.g. gentle, friendly) and timing (day of the week and time) by using machine learning tools for an iterative learning process to continuously adapt and improve communication strategy with debtors.
Forest is London’s most affordable and environmentally sustainable micro mobility platform. Forest has completed over two million rides and saved over 250 tonnes of CO2 being emitted into London’s air since the bike sharing app launched in 2021. Forest’s operations are zero emission (every bike in the fleet, as well as all service vehicles are powered by certified renewable energy,) it is one of just two micro-mobility companies globally to have B Corp accreditation and the only micro-mobility company to have received Verra validation.
Colombian startup offering business-to-business services to streamline complex financial tasks by developing automation. Simetrik’s tool leverages no-code development and generative AI to simplify record centralization, reconciliation, control, and accounting. By automating all reconciliations from start to finish, the platform eliminates repetitive tasks and enhances business value for their clients (companies that make more than $150 million in sales.) Simetrik has a global footprint spanning over 35 countries.
Shinkansen aims to provide a solution for fast money transfer and transactions in the banking and fintech sectors. The company offers a unique and simple API integration that facilitates money movement in the fragmented Latin American market, avoiding the complications of country-specific integrations. The company utilizes Artificial Intelligence to automate operations and integrate its APIs with banks in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and soon in Peru. Additionally, its business model is “regulator-friendly” as it does not handle the flow of money directly, ensuring security and traceability in every transaction.
Bioeutecticts is a disruptive Argentinian company that seeks to revolutionize the solvent market by replacing petrochemical solvents used in industrial processes. The company utilizes deep green solvent eutectic technology to produce solvents entirely from renewable resources, ensuring a sustainable and environmentally friendly manufacturing process. Their proprietary process utilizes bio-sourced ingredients derived from natural materials, such as natural acids, amino acids, alcohols, and sugars. By eliminating the use of toxic petrochemical solvents, Bioeutectics aims to address the environmental challenges associated with traditional solvents, including toxicity risks, soil contamination, and hazardous waste.
Dapta is a low-code/no-code platform for building API and AI integrations fast and easy. Started by Nicolas Rojas, self taught programmer and second time founder, who founded a software factory serving the US market with over 100 employees 10 years ago. Companies use Dapta to streamline their marketing and sales activities with AI, integrating their favorite tools and workflows with AI tools. The Colombian startup is based in Miami, USA.
Splight builds a layer of digital infrastructure to monitor, operate, and automate real-time physical energy infrastructure through the use of artificial intelligence. In this way, it allows for increasing the capacity of said infrastructure, eliminating congestion, and optimizing operations to ensure the delivery of clean energy. That is to say, it truly generates clean energy on a large scale. Its mission is to achieve more renewable energy at scale with the infrastructure already built.
Michroma is a foodtech startup revolutionizing the way ingredients are produced by developing fungal-based biofactories to produce natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. Produced using synbio and precision fermentation, Michroma’s first product is a high-performance natural red colorant well suited for all diets and food applications. By leveraging the power of our fungal biofactories, Michroma is producing additional high-value-added ingredients such as flavors and fragrances in a sustainable and cost-efficient way to replace petroleum-based ingredients, which are harmful to humans and the planet’s health.
Capitalizarme is a marketplace for real estate assets that aims to simplify the investment process for its clients. The company selects the best investment options and helps clients make responsible investment decisions. Capitalizarme provides support throughout the investment process, including managing mortgage credit and monitoring the stages of the asset.
Chattigo is a Omnichannel SaaS Platform that enhances customer services for organizations through Analytics and integrated, controlled and efficient human and/or automated ChatBots while using AI and natural language. This allows the company to improve their efficiency rate, since through the platform supervisors are able to manage different channels such as their own webpage, social media, SMS, email and whatsapp. Additionally, companies can see the data through a real time dashboard and export analytics to undertake strategic actions.
Houm is an end to end platform that was born as an online alternative to the traditional rental experience which is time consuming and expensive for landlords and tenants from the search to management processes. Founded in late 2018, Houm is a solution that allows landlords to find tenants for their properties only having to take care of the initial description.
AgendaPro is a complete web-based management platform for beauty/health-related businesses in Latin America such as Hair Salons, Spas, Esthetic Clinics and Doctor Practices. The platform that started as an online appointment module only, has grown into an all-in-one solution that allows users to also manage cash, inventory, marketing campaigns, loyalty programs, and customer relationship (CRM).
Poliglota is a language learning EdTech that started in 2010 teaching languages with a social methodology in different coffee shops starting in Santiago and then expanding to Mexico and Peru. The idea behind the concept is that language students need to feel comfortable in order to practice the verbal application of the theory. After the pandemic made it impossible to follow this model, the company pivoted aggressively and adapted its strategy and business model focusing on having a social learning experience called “Online Groups”. Today, with its new online platform, it has formed a true social learning community with exponential growth and with plans that attract individuals as well as companies looking to train their employees.
Andes Bio offers a pioneering solution for carbon capture, leveraging the natural capabilities of microorganisms to accelerate the conversion of carbon dioxide into minerals, a process called carbon mineralization. By integrating these microorganisms with agricultural crops during planting, they enhance the soil’s ability to sequester and store CO2. This innovative approach represents a significant advancement in combating climate change. Last funding: Series A round in 2023 co-led by Leaps by Bayer and Cavallo Ventures
Destacame is a digital financial management platform that empowers individuals by giving them control over their financial data to get a clear overview of their situation, build financial capabilities and gain easier access to financial products. The solution is available for consumers and also companies that would like to implement it as an employee benefit.
Vita Wallet is a fintech that enables individuals and businesses to send and receive international transfers, in national currency and also in cryptocurrencies, in more than 50 countries, between persons and companies. Furthermore, is 5 times faster than other solutions, decreasing fees charged to consumers.
Footech company with a focus in Accelerating the world’s transition to clean, healthy and functional food through a proprietary Tech platform – Charaka(TM) – that blends Plant, Protein, Gene & Microbial DBs with AI-ML and Precision Fermentation. Latest Active Functional Ingredients (AFIs) innovations from the company include Breast Milk Fat & Postbiotic Ingredients made from Precision Fermentation. Last funding in 2021 Pre Series A.
Wibond is a “buy now pay later” fintech that allows online shoppers to enjoy the flexibility of paying over time, without credit card. For businesses is an opportunity to attract new clients and fidelize the existing ones with an easy method of payment, receiving the total amount at the moment of the closing which result on an increasing of sales and traffic.
Leasity is an online platform that allows for the automation of real estate property management through powerful and user-friendly technology. Its mission is to assist property managers in facing their digital transformation with a simple tool that enables process automation and optimizes the financial return on real estate investments. It handles the collection and payment of rents online, allowing administrators to review information regarding the status of rent payments, utility bills, common expenses, taxes, and municipal cleaning services, all in one place, securely stored in the cloud.
Kunzapp is a Chilean-Mexican startup that makes managing software in a company much easier. They provide complete visibility and control over every dollar, contract, app usability, renewals, etc. Thanks to more efficient management, they generate savings of up to 20% for companies, increasing their control and visibility, and simplifying the CFO’s task. Their promise is that if they do not generate savings equivalent to one year of subscription, they will refund the money.
Wynwood House is a platform offering a combination between home and hotel through a network of apartments and villas in the best areas of the main cities of Latin America, for short, medium, and long stays. Its business model consists of leasing apartments to their owners and then fitting them out and offering short-term rentals to customers who value the spaciousness of an apartment and, at the same time, the comfort and consistency of hotels. Its mission is to change the way people travel and see the world, and to build the hospitality brand for a new generation of travelers in the region.
Chipax is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution aimed at controlling the finances of small and medium-sized companies, allowing the business owner to have vision and control of their finances in real time. The solution connects and integrates online data from accounting software, banks and the local tax service to be able to cross-check strategic information that is then displayed on control dashboards. Through these connections, the SME can automatically charge its expenses and record of bank movements to make reconciliations and view its balance before the tax services, where with the above, historical and future graphs can be displayed according to accounts payable and their due dates.
Enviame is a logistics platform and API integrating module that allows the connection of online stores to a wide offer of distribution/last-mile service providers. By using enviame.io stores and marketplaces can easily plug-in their websites and make available delivery services for their customers, allowing them to easily choose or combine different shipping providers while administrating the dispatch processes to offer transparency and control.
Spora Biotech focuses on the development of environmentally friendly biotechnology solutions for modern industries. The first and current product in development is Sporatex, a leather-like material based on fungal mycelia. This alternative is sustainable, seeking to replace both animal and synthetic leather, tackling environmental pollution, animal abuse, and unfair labor practices.
Reveniu is a web-based SaaS for recurring payments management and collection that allows users to centralize, visualize, schedule, edit and analyze all the payments of their clients. Within the functionalities the software integrates payment gateways, handling of payment vouchers, mass and specific mailing campaigns, and generation of payment links. The company’s typical clients are foundations, media, other SaaS, subscription ecommerce, and apps. Eventually, with the aggregation of data, Reveniu will be able to provide recommendations to its clients to better retain their customers.
Get on Board is the biggest tech recruitment platform connecting Latin-American tech professionals with remote global tech companies. The company leverages its unique data on candidate performance across job applications to offer unbiased, transparent, skill-based tech recruiting at low implementation costs.
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Publica.la is SaaS multi-tenant platform that allows the creation of digital content marketplaces without the need of technical programming skills. The seamless technology provides front-end design for improved buyer experience, multimedia reproductor based on web technologies supporting different formats such as epub, pdf and audio for interactive experiences, and a dashboard for metrics visualisation. Additionally, an individual can create its own online media store, choosing from publica.la’s marketplace a wide variety of content at convenient prices.
Flycrew is a platform that makes it easy for independent fitness creators in Latin America to manage and grow their businesses. The platform helps them by organising their training sessions, automating payments, giving them an overview of their traction and financial situation while also exposing them to a larger potential client database. Furthermore, trainers can seamlessly integrate with useful tools such as Zoom, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.
Lenk was born as Phillipo, focused on generating mortgages through a fully digital process that covered everything from application to closing. As Lenk, the company is leading the adoption of technologies by Latin American financial institutions to provide their customers with an experience that is less paper-intensive, more transparent, and digital. They provide the cloud infrastructure to support the mortgage origination process, increasing conversion, reducing costs, and improving the user experience for clients
Contact lenses selling platform that serves both vendors and direct customers. Livo (previously Lentesplus) was born to create a seamless buying experience and democratize access to visual health by offering the first online contact lenses subscription model in Latin America. By connecting customers’ orders directly with the producer, it offers the largest contact lens inventory in the region, with prices 30% lower than those at brick-and-mortar stores, and efficient delivery.
Chazki started operations in 2015 in Lima to serve the peruvian ecommerce market, offering programmed, same day and express deliveries powered by an internally developed algorithm to optimize routing.
Citysense leverages IoT (Internet of Things) providing a shared infrastructure and tools needed to deploy and scale Smart City solutions. The small sized devices have sensors that measure air quality, sound, temperature, and also detect signals from smart devices. Founded by a father and son both with an entrepreneurial mindset, after two years the company got an exclusive agreement with a danish design company to optimize the urban satellites design and started installing them across Santiago to test and develop solutions.
Ameiz is a service platform that allows clients to schedule a selection of wellness and beauty services at home/offices/hotels such as hairdressing, manicure, chiropody, massages, makeup, etc. through a web and mobile app. This modality in the past existed but informally. Once a user makes the reservation and payment of the experience, Ameiz optimizes the professional in charge and the route of the day.
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