Top 35 Biotech VC Funds & Investors in Mexico (October 2023)

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• Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
• Senzai AI — Senzai AI uses machine-learning and casual inference techniques to estimate the impact of different treatments on expected customer outcomes.
• Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

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• ChektAhora — ChektAhora provides access to Confidential, Convenient and Pain-Free Sexual Health Tests for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Latin America
• Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
• Aqua Cultured Foods — Whole muscle-cut sustainable seafood alternatives made using biomass fermentation. Our product looks and tastes just like traditional seafood.

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• Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
• Windfall Bio — Naturally Transforming Methane Into Organic Soil Nutrients.
• Debut — Debut Biotech is a biotechnology company that focuses on providing specialty enzyme solutions combined with continuous manufacturing. It combines the power of enzymes with continuous manufacturing to create and modify small and large molecules for a wide range of industries and applications.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in SanDiego, California.

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• springbig — The Leading Cannabis Marketing Platform increase retention, boost revenue, build customer loyalty, & create smarter cannabis marketing campaigns. Schedule Demo Read our Text Marketing Guide Our Features our features our suite of tools will put the power of a cannabis marketing agency at your fingertips loyalty strengthen customer engagement to increase loyalty and purchase frequency
• Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
• Willow Industries — Willow Industries Ozone Systems. Mitigate Mold & Bacteria. Willow systems provide clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.

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• Andes — Andes empowers microbes to enable positive action against climate change.
• Done Properly — Creating innovative, healthy, and sustainable bio-ingredients through fermentation. An extraordinary change in the food industry
• The Live Green Co — Driven by millennials, the plant-based foods market is already US$10Bn in size today. And it is projected to be US$25Bn by 2026. Visionaries like Bill Gates, Richard Branson & Leonardo Dicaprio have all invested big. In our pilot market, Chile, Jeff Bezos invested US$30Mn in the Not Co. But, the existing alternatives still use syntheticadditives, highly processed ingredients, and plastic packaging. And, their R&D costs millions of dollars and many years!That is why, at The Live Green Co, we use technology to make plant-based foods tastier, healthier & more sustainable. Our Recommendation Software (Charaka) blends our Ancestral Indian Science of Plant Nutrition and modern Tech, profiles the synthetic, processed & animal additives in our daily food, and recommends 100% natural plant-based Product Formulations... at just a fraction of the R&D cost & time! And, our Proprietary Production Process uses Natural Processing, Frugal Engineering & Circular Economy principles to cut down pollution, and usage of energy, land & water by more than 50%.It is no more about a few people following a sustainable lifestyle perfectly. It is about millions doing it, even if imperfectly.

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• VOA — Our platform is a market place for farmers and pilots with drones, creating connections based geographic location, availability and technical capacity. Our platform offers a fully automated drone service delivery for biological agents, fertilisers and chemical products. VOA was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.
• Seedz — Seedz is a platform that brings farmers, resellers, rural producers, and agricultural entrepreneurs together boost agri - industry.
• Sioma — We create a technological ecosystem that increases the yields of tropical farmers.

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• Slik — Slik es la plataforma para medir, analizar y accionar la Experiencia y Compromiso del Empleado en tiempo real.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
• Wheel the World — Wheel the World is the leading solution for accessible travel to book accessible hotels and experiences with all the accessibility you need

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• Matter. — We are an innovation company pioneering technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics.
• Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
• Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

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• Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
• Proxtera — Bridging Global Trade Proxtera is building an open global digital ecosystem of MSMEs with trusted credentials to enable global, cross-border trade through services for financing & fulfilment. Get in Touch Watch Video "BSB (Business sans Borders) is designed to connect different platforms globally to help SMEs seamlessly access a much larger ecosystem of buyers and
• Gemelli Biotech — Our mission is to support the discovery of novel diagnostics and therapeutics for the human microbiome by bringing biotechnology innovations to market in a fiscally responsible and socially conscious way.

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• Koda Health — At Koda Health, we empower patients to take control of their medical care with our digital advance care planning tools. Our legal and easy-to-use directives seamlessly integrate with your organization's workflow, ensuring your patients receive the care they deserve.
• Inso Biosciences — Inso Bio (formerly Tico Bio) is an early-stage biotechnology startup out of Cornell University developing platform technologies for biological sample preparation.
• ClearBlue Markets — ClearBlue Markets offers specialization in carbon sales, consulting, project development, solutions and services.

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• Talently — Talently offers an intensive program that helps software developers get a better job in the technology industry, anywhere in the world. It is the accelerator of the careers of Latin American tech talent.
• Carryt — Carryt performs efficient last mile deliveries by empowering gig economy drivers with our route optimization technology and impact strategy.
• Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.

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• Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
• Prompt AI — Prompt AI offers a platform that enables users to convert visual data into a searchable database, allowing them to prototype visual AI solutions, share their workflows with the larger community, and ask questions about these events, transforming visual data into insights.
• Odyssey — Provider of an online platform intended to streamline the development of mini-grids in emerging markets. The company's online platform manages how mini-grid data is analyzed and communicated via software tools, data analytics and marketplaces, enabling mini-grid project developers to connect with investors, suppliers, donors and other marketstakeholders.

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• PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
• Willow Industries — Willow Industries Ozone Systems. Mitigate Mold & Bacteria. Willow systems provide clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
• Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.

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• Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
• C3 Industries — Building a premier, vertically-integrated cannabis company with a national presence, high-quality products, and strong brand recognition. Learn more.
• Front Range Biosciences — Front Range Biosciences brings modern agriculture to cannabis and hemp to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety for cultivators and consumers. They provide advanced agricultural science services to plant growers.

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• 8base — 8base is the best way to build, run and grow professional-grade web and mobile applications that power your business | Ask us how.
• GrowerIQ — Compliance, Cultivation, Manufacturing, Quality Management System, and CRM all in one easy-to-use platform for cannabis operators globally.
• Safely — Let us help you protect your home with Short Term Rental Insurance & Comprehensive Guest Screening for your Airbnb. Contact us today!

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• Assis — Assis goal is to empower business owners by helping them grow their companies through technology that gives customers an amazing experience each and every time they connect with them.
• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
• Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

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• Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
• Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
• Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.

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• CellFE — CellFE is a company developing a microfluidics based device to deliver gene-editing molecules. CellFE developed microfluidic device and process that can efficiently deliver gene-editing molecules into the human cells.
• rabbit — Revolutionizing human-machine interaction
• Vayu Robotics — Vayu Robotics is an AI robotics company that develops and commercializes automotive sensing, autonomous vehicles, and robotics technology.

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• Bucha Bio — Bucha Bio creates a novel biomaterial grown from infinitely renewable bacterial-nanocellulose. Strands of natural fibers interlock to form a high-performance textile with a luxuriously soft handfeel. Produced in weeks rather than months or years, use it in premium applications instead of animal leather, polyurethane, latex, vinyl, and so much more.Creating a reliable material is our goal, adding plastics and petrochemicals like PU polyurethane would make it easy, but we’ve never taken the easy way out. Committed to sustainability, Bucha Bio’s team is dedicated to creating a completely biodegradable textile that enables the next generation of designers to create products for a more sustainable future. Our biomaterial is water-resistant, scratch-resistant, sunlight-resistant, flame-resistant, and so many more reasons to test it out in your next product.
• microTERRA — Sustainable, scalable and affordable plant-based protein, grown in aquafarms, reducing waste water output for farms and allowing the uptake of more sustainable aquaculture methods.
• Aqua Cultured Foods — Whole muscle-cut sustainable seafood alternatives made using biomass fermentation. Our product looks and tastes just like traditional seafood.

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• Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
• Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.
• Odyssey — Provider of an online platform intended to streamline the development of mini-grids in emerging markets. The company's online platform manages how mini-grid data is analyzed and communicated via software tools, data analytics and marketplaces, enabling mini-grid project developers to connect with investors, suppliers, donors and other marketstakeholders.

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• Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
• Compassionate Cultivation — Compassionate Cultivation is a medical cannabis company that grows, processes, and dispenses CBD medicine.The company provides patient consultations, physician outreach resources, and detailed information on their products and retail merchandise. Conditions including epilepsy, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, spasticity, ALS, autism,terminal cancer, CTE, and other incurable neurodegenerative disorder now have access to medically prescribed cannabis.
• Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.

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• Unima — Unima is decentralizing rapid testing across industries by taking diagnostics out of the lab to the place these are needed the most to secure a timely diagnostic for everyone, anywhere.Unima is solving is the centralization of lab testing, which limits the access to a timely diagnostic for billions. Current technology for diagnostics is veryprecise and can detect almost any disease known, but the problem is these require labs with expensive equipment and specialized technicians making lab testing impossible to scale up to provide universal and timely access to diagnostics.To solve this problem Unima developed Find, a rapid testing technology platform for real time diagnostics which allows anyone to diagnose a disease directly where it is needed, without using lab equipment, with results in 15 minutes or less and at a very low cost. With Find anyone can have access to a timely diagnostic even in the most remote areas of the world.The Find platform uses shark antibodies modified with genetic engineering to detect disease biomarkers in blood, saliva, urine or water samples. These shark antibodies are used in microfluidic cards and generate a visual reactions when in contact with specific biomarkers of the disease to be tested. Then to evaluate the result of the test, a picture of the testing card is taken with the proprietary Xplora smartphone app which runs image analysis process and neural network algorithms to generate an inmediate result. Then this result,along with contextual information like geolocation, date and time, is sent to a cloud server where it can be used for real time disease tracking.
• VenoStent — VenoStent is a clinical-stage tissue engineering company that’s developed tunable, bioabsorbable smart polymer wraps in order to fundamentally transform the 5 million vascular surgeries performed each year.
• C16 Biosciences — C16 Biosciences is a biotechnology firm that uses microbiology to brew sustainable alternatives to palm oil.It was founded in 2017 with the objective of creating a sustainable, environmentally friendly alternative to conflict palm oil. By offering producers, refiners, traders, and consumers of palm oil an opportunity to invest part of theirproduction into bio-based oils and sustainability efforts, C16 Biosciences' aim is to reduce the environmental footprint of palm oil production and protect precious natural land, wildlife, and resources in the process.Fermentation is a well-proven commercial process that has been used for centuries to convert raw materials into consumable commercial products consumed by billions of people every day. C16 Biosciences believes that brewing palm oil like beer is the most likely path to developing a truly sustainable palm oil alternative.C16 Biosciences' palm oil is sustainable which doesn't involve deforestation, endangering precious animal species, or forcing inhumane labor practices. The result is a world where consumers can enjoy the products they love without worrying about the dangerous practices involved in making them.

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• Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.

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• microTERRA — Sustainable, scalable and affordable plant-based protein, grown in aquafarms, reducing waste water output for farms and allowing the uptake of more sustainable aquaculture methods.
• New Culture — New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

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• TravelX — TravelX is a company that provides online travel services. TravelXchange develops the new blockchain-based infrastructure for secure, decentralized, frictionless, efficient, transparent, and profitable travel industry. E-mail contact used for inquiries.
• Codiga — Customizable Real-Time Static Code Analysis engine. Works anywhere you write code.
• Stämm Biotech — Stämm Biotech specializes in life sciences. During the past two years, Stämm has designed a novel bioproduction system that leverages microfluidics, electroporation and robotics to solve the main constraint of the biotech industry: scaling up. Solving this problem could unlock a $700B market in the next 10 years. Today, after integrating thesestate-of-the-art technologies, the company is unveiling the future of biomanufacturing. Stämm downsized a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, plug-n-play desktop unit: the Bioprocessor, which has proven to be at least 70x more productive than traditional bioreactors.

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• NuCicer — NuCicer is a crop genetics company expertise, pioneering ultra-high protein varieties of chickpea.
• Nutropy — Nutropy produces real milk ingredients, identical to those produced by cows, to develop premium cheese alternatives that taste just as good as cow’s cheese but are more sustainable, healthier and better for the animals. No animals involved, full cheese experience.
• InPlanet — Carbon removal projects with impact! We focus on carbon removal through enhanced rock weathering together with farmers in the tropics.

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• Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
• Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
• Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.

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• Unima — Unima is decentralizing rapid testing across industries by taking diagnostics out of the lab to the place these are needed the most to secure a timely diagnostic for everyone, anywhere.Unima is solving is the centralization of lab testing, which limits the access to a timely diagnostic for billions. Current technology for diagnostics is veryprecise and can detect almost any disease known, but the problem is these require labs with expensive equipment and specialized technicians making lab testing impossible to scale up to provide universal and timely access to diagnostics.To solve this problem Unima developed Find, a rapid testing technology platform for real time diagnostics which allows anyone to diagnose a disease directly where it is needed, without using lab equipment, with results in 15 minutes or less and at a very low cost. With Find anyone can have access to a timely diagnostic even in the most remote areas of the world.The Find platform uses shark antibodies modified with genetic engineering to detect disease biomarkers in blood, saliva, urine or water samples. These shark antibodies are used in microfluidic cards and generate a visual reactions when in contact with specific biomarkers of the disease to be tested. Then to evaluate the result of the test, a picture of the testing card is taken with the proprietary Xplora smartphone app which runs image analysis process and neural network algorithms to generate an inmediate result. Then this result,along with contextual information like geolocation, date and time, is sent to a cloud server where it can be used for real time disease tracking.
• Terapi — Terapi is the most comprehensive online psychological platform for taking care of your mental health. Find psychology professionals for remote psychology sessions. Also, access resources to take care of your well-being, such as therapeutic journals, mindfulness courses, self-directed sessions, and much more.
• QMATCH - eCommerce Intelligence — QMATCH® is the most accurate eCommerce information extraction, analysis and comparison web tool on the market, thanks to its innovative data validation technology. QMATCH® searches your products in all eCommerce worldwide, extracting all the necessary information so you can use it and achieve competitive advantages.

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• WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
• New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
• Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

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• Seedz — Seedz is a platform that brings farmers, resellers, rural producers, and agricultural entrepreneurs together boost agri - industry.
• Pure Ocean Algae — Pure Ocean Algae is a biotechnology company that integrates value chains from macro-algae and other marine resources. The company has over the winter of 2019/20 deployed its first trial lines of Palmaria palmata to sea, with initial results being extremely positive. It has also taken primary research in tank-based vegetative production andsucceeded in developing a pilot commercial plant that can produce commercial volumes of Palmaria palmata, at levels approaching 100% per week.
• Ascribe Bioscience — Ascribe develops natural crop protection products that help farmers reduce disease and increase yield without harming the environment or human health.

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• microTERRA — Sustainable, scalable and affordable plant-based protein, grown in aquafarms, reducing waste water output for farms and allowing the uptake of more sustainable aquaculture methods.

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• Natrx — Delivering high-performance, nature-based coastal resilience through innovative, proprietary technologies and real-world implementation experience.
• Mondra — AI-driven environmental insights platform that supports food system players to accelerate Scope 3 progress, reduce the cost of Net Zero, and drive competitive advantage.
• SnoFox Sciences — SnoFox Sciences provides analytics focused on increasing efficiency and decreasing energy usage for the cold industrial space. It has developed a thermodynamically-informed data analytics platform for cold chain monitoring and preventative maintenance.

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• Muse — Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements to help you build a consistent meditation practice.
• HealingMaps — Find Ketamine Clinics and other psychedelic therapy providers near you. We are changing the way we treat mental health.
• Wonder Sciences — Wonder sciences provides mental health and wellness ecosystem that pioneers innovative approaches to treatment and research.

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• Unima — Unima is decentralizing rapid testing across industries by taking diagnostics out of the lab to the place these are needed the most to secure a timely diagnostic for everyone, anywhere.Unima is solving is the centralization of lab testing, which limits the access to a timely diagnostic for billions. Current technology for diagnostics is veryprecise and can detect almost any disease known, but the problem is these require labs with expensive equipment and specialized technicians making lab testing impossible to scale up to provide universal and timely access to diagnostics.To solve this problem Unima developed Find, a rapid testing technology platform for real time diagnostics which allows anyone to diagnose a disease directly where it is needed, without using lab equipment, with results in 15 minutes or less and at a very low cost. With Find anyone can have access to a timely diagnostic even in the most remote areas of the world.The Find platform uses shark antibodies modified with genetic engineering to detect disease biomarkers in blood, saliva, urine or water samples. These shark antibodies are used in microfluidic cards and generate a visual reactions when in contact with specific biomarkers of the disease to be tested. Then to evaluate the result of the test, a picture of the testing card is taken with the proprietary Xplora smartphone app which runs image analysis process and neural network algorithms to generate an inmediate result. Then this result,along with contextual information like geolocation, date and time, is sent to a cloud server where it can be used for real time disease tracking.
• EmpleosTI — EmpleosTI is a Software Developer, Fullstack, Java Programmer or .Net, IT Scholar, Digital Marketing, Project Manager and more.
• parco — Pay, administrate your expenses and your invoices of all your Parking, Gas, High way pools, Subway and valet parking transacctions through Parcoapp

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• Willow Industries — Willow Industries Ozone Systems. Mitigate Mold & Bacteria. Willow systems provide clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.