Top 20 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in LATAM in October 2023

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• Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
• ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
• Exactly — Exactly is a decentralized, non-custodial, open-source protocol providing an autonomous fixed and variable interest rate market.

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• Hariken — Every second a website produces thousands of information about each visitor such as, pages accessed, interests, purchases made, origin, time, among others. With this information collected and targeted, Hariken can generate profiles and organize them by creating a strategic big date. In addition, Hariken allows this data to be used in the mainactivation tools: CRMs, Email Marketing, Yahoo / Oath / Doubleclick, Appnexus, and even Facebook and Instagram. Hariken not only collects and organizes information but also works so that the manager has full control of all the data generated in the company and the freedom to access them whenever they want. Hariken is a data hub and the possibilities are endless. Some cross data online with Offline, others exchange data with partner companies; lease data from non-competing companies to strengthen their campaigns, etc. Anyway, the data is yours and the decision on how best to take advantage of them as well.
• Sensorweb — Sensorweb is a technology company that develops solutions with the Internet of Things for Health, connecting environments, devices, and people. Sensorweb helps institutions in their journey of success, through innovation and excellence of its services.
• Wevo — Wevo is the first iPaaS in Latin America, a SaaS platform for APIs, systems and data integrations, with pre-built connectors to connect different kinds of softwares like Magento, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Zendesk, VTEX, Rakuten, Mercado Livre, among other applications, with customers in 10 countries.

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• Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
• ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
• Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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• Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
• Ping. — SaaS
• Doutor Ao Vivo — Doutor ao Vivo is a digital health platform for telemedicine. Doutor Ao Vivo is a health tech software company.

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• Amicci — Amicci provides services to retail and industry to generate better sales, profits and consumer loyalty.
• Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
• DEX Screener — DEX Screener is a real-time blockchain analytics app used by 1.5M+ crypto traders every month.

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• uMov.me — UMov.me is a mobile application platform for building enterprise mobile applications without programming.Launched in January 2011, uMov.me pioneered the technology platforms of corporate mobility in the cloud segment, serving more than 10,000 users in more than one hundred clients, as Allis, Claro, DIPAM, Filtralub, City Hall canoes, InterCity,Nissin, Stemac and Top Target, surpassing in 2012 the milestone of 1 million and 600 000 field operations and having more than 50 partners in Brazil and five other countries.
• ALavadeira — A lavanderia por assinatura para toda a sua roupa.

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• Veggi — Veggi is the first vegan delivery platform in Brazil.
• CowMed — CowMed is an agricultural service company of technological solutions for health, nutrition, and reproduction for milk cattle. It also develops animal monitoring products for precision livestock, generating value, and ensuring the sustainability of the business.The company was named 2018 - NEOVIA's Future Farm, 2017 - Ideas for Milk andAcceleration Criatec 3, and 2017 & 2016 Tecnova Notice SEBRAE.CowMed was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
• E-Comprei — E-Comprei is a company that buys and sells beauty and hygiene products for small shop keeper.

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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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• OPTIMOZ — OPTIMOZ is a digital transformation company that enables enterprises and federal agencies to accelerate development and delivery of applications that engage customers and drive revenue. Our mission is simple - Empower customers to increase their delivery capabilities with the effective and efficient use of the technology. OPTIMOZ specializes in allaspects of Cloud Computing, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and Application Development leveraging on microservices and API architecture. OPTIMOZ has successfully helped its customers refactor and migrate applications to Amazon AWS Cloud and Container platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift. We have setup state of the art Agile DevSecOps development processes including CI/CD that allow our customers to deploy application releases on a zero downtime bases. OPTIMOZ is also an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner - https://aws.amazon.com/partners/find/partnerdetails/?n=Optimoz%2C%20Inc&id=001E000000gL4GhIAK
• Luminae Energia — Luminae has been in the market for 10 years and has established itself as an absolute reference in the national lighting and energy efficiency sector. Luminae has grown from 70% to 80% per year over these 10 years and today is the largest lighting company for Retail in Brazil, also having great performance in other segments such as Industrial,Logistics Sheds, Educational Establishments, Pharmacies, among others. many others. It was a pioneer in the implementation of a LED lamp factory in Brazil in 2014 with 100% of its own investment, bringing automated machines from Japan and having the advice of the largest LED manufacturer in the world, the Japanese company NICHIA, which is also the creator of LED technology.
• ESDS Software Solution Limited — "ESDS Software Solution Private Limited" started operations in the year 2005 from a small office on College Road, Nashik. Initially ESDS was into outsourced hosting support business and offered backend technical support to the customers of web hosting companies from US and the UK. ESDS then changed the line of Business in the year2007 and chose to step into web hosting business. ESDS now has more than 30000 Customers worldwide, a significant amount of them being corporate entities relying on their Internet presence and Government Organizations from India and abroad. ESDS has indigenously developed the concept of a high specification; carrier-neutral and fully managed Datacenter in the state of Maharashtra, and has successfully turned their vision into reality. ESDS is a group of Web Hosting companies based in India, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The complete infrastructure in Nashik including the Datacenter is fully-owned by ESDS without any mortgage.The state-of-the-art ESDS Data center is the first Green Datacenter in India with negligible sensible heat load in a country where ambient goes above 40°C. ESDS support managed hosting, managed servers, server racks & cages, co-location and system security including Co-location, Managed/Unmanaged Dedicated Servers, Cloud Computing, on-demand Grid/Virtualization Computing, Application Services, Datacenter consultancy and Turnkey solutions to build a Datacenter.

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• Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.

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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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• Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
• 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.
• MegaBite Food — MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations.

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• Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
• Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
• AORA — Aora is a complete digital solution for home services. Headquartered in Equador.

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• Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.

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• Isomark Health — Isomark Health is a patented AI-based, real-time and 100% green breath technology that detects and prevents bacterial and viral infections.
• Rantizo — Rantizo provides drone spraying systems and support services for custom applicators, agribusinesses and contractors. Elevating precision ag.
• Glanris — Glanris developed a completely green, non-toxic, filtration media for water purification from an agriculture by-product. This agricultural product is grown around the world, is plentiful, and can be used locally to ensure clean drinking water in developing countries. It also gives local farmers a significant additional income source for a productthat today they are throwing away.This media has been independently tested over the last two years of development and is ready for production.

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• Kilimo — Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.
• Agrired — Agrired is a an ag-inputs e-trading market based on a B2B concept. In Argentina, it has been operating since 2017, where hundreds of companies raised billions of dollars per year. In 2021, Agrired opened a branch in Brazil, the second biggest market for ag-inputs in the world. Its desembarkation was under the name of “AgriAcordo”. One of its majoradded values is that demands orders are upload to the platform (instead of offer intentions), and are announced to all the users by alerts. The platform uses a system of "dutch auction" to carry out buyers needs and matches orders between offers and demands. All the transactions are recorded by a software inhouse developed and analyse by Business Intelligence to elaborate metrics and statistics of orders, offers, demands, prices and volumes of agro supplies. This information is display real time in the platform. Agrired provides boost and create business opportunities for agro providers. This is why Agrired is an electronic market not an agro Marketplace.

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• medIQ — medIQ is integrated virtual care platform’ providing on-demand healthcare at the point of need in Pakistan.
• Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
• Happioh Inc — Almost one in five people waste more than a third of their time at work. We care about freeing up people's time at work so they can spend more time on deep work and what makes them happy. Happioh is the only platform-and language agnostic SaaS meeting intelligence product in the market - born to safeguard and protect people againstlow-quality meeting hours. Happioh was nominated for the 2022 Product Award and 100 Most Promising Technology Companies. Semi-finalist at the Startup World Cup Silicon Valley, 2022, and WEF Technology Pioneer, 2023.The Scandinavian UX and design make it delightful and super easy to use. Happioh turns complex and manual meeting processes at work into simple automated solutions. A side-effect of Happioh is it helps you improve your attention, and memory, and lower your cognitive stress. Please contact us if you are interested in investing in our future rounds or learning more.

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• Omens — Omens is a telehealth company dedicated to men's healthcare.
• vitamine•se — Vitamine•se is the 1st nutritional customization platform, deliver personalized nutrients designed for each person's nutritional reality.
• Sanar — 26K Followers, 709 Following, 489 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sanar (@sanar)

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• REG — Onboarding and lifecycle solutions for regulated businesses. In a regulated world with ever increasing challenges we're transforming how businesses meet, connect and start trading in a faster, smarter and safer ecosystem.
• Roomer — Roomer is the peer-to-peer marketplace for hotel rooms. Traveling soon? Use Roomer to book your hotel room at a great price from someone who can't use theirs.
• Tantalum Corporation — Tantalum Corporation is a company within the Connected Car and Telematics industry. The company services develop driver analysis and driver identification technologies utilized by OEM automotive manufacturers, fleet operators and insurance companies which aggregates data from various sources, enhances it with external data and with output from itsmodels, uses the results to develop unique and valuable insights for the end user, both about the vehicle and how it is driven. It also offers a plug-and-play device designed to reduce vehicle fleet running costs by providing data on fuel consumption and wastage.

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• Loft — Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Systemica — Systemica is a business that designs, creates, and puts into action programmes to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as trade the resulting environmental assets.
• Enviva — Enviva Partners is a publicly traded master limited partnership that aggregates a natural resource, wood fiber, and processes.