Top 10 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Colombia in October 2023

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• Aanika Biosciences — Molecular-level solutions to global scale problems. Aanika is revolutionizing how products are tracked through supply chains.
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• Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.
• PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.
• PredictionStrike — PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares.

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• Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
• Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
• Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.

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• Zenfi — Zenfi is an online application that allows its users to track information along with renders alerts and tips to improve credit scores.
• Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
• Hero Guest — Hero Guest is a digital platform focused on evolving restaurants’ experiences. It improves business profitability through empowered staff, engaged customers, and strategic data. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico.

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• UBITS — UBITS is an online learning platform for skilling employees in Latin America. Through education we empower every person and every organization in Latin America
• Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
• Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.

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• Allegrix — Allegrix assists software developers to develop their applications with ASP enable for hosting. Allegrix was acquired by Progress in June 2001. Allegrix was founded in 2000 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
• CrowdMob — CrowdMob is a programatic user acquisition platform for growth hackers on mobile. It aims to help mobile publishers find underpriced inventory and users via RTB.
• Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.

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• Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
• MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
• Dayta AI — SaaS Shopper Analytics - Cyclops presents you insightful data like shopper demographics, bahavioral metrics and many more. Drive more sales and traffic with AI now!

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• Zenfi — Zenfi is an online application that allows its users to track information along with renders alerts and tips to improve credit scores.
• Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
• Hero Guest — Hero Guest is a digital platform focused on evolving restaurants’ experiences. It improves business profitability through empowered staff, engaged customers, and strategic data. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico.

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• Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.
• Ottometric — Ottometric provides an intelligent verification framework that gives deeper understanding of events and anomalies, helping the industry deliver safer vehicles. The race to get reliable ADAS features to vehicles is speeding up, from driver assistance to full self driving. The industry is investing greatly to innovate. Today, the auto industry isdelivering Level 1 to Level 3 Autonomous capabilities that industry stakeholders have called out as sub-par.
• Electric Era Technologies — Electric Era is enabling affordable charging stations for electric vehicles (EV) by providing infrastructure and state-of-the-art high power battery storage.

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• Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
• Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
• BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.