Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in LATAM (October 2023)

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• Qanlex — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
• Sidcodx — Sidcodx is a tool that collects and digitalizes data automatically in the job site to speed up critical construction processes such as progress control and the formwork stage.
• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Morado. — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
• Spot² — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.

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• Bider — Bider finds the best real estate offer to the user's criteria and needs. It began operation on March 1, 2016, with its headquarters in Florianópolis in Brazil.
• Kaasa — Kaasa is a technology startup that connects real estate with repair and maintenance service providers.
• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

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• Docket — Docket optimizes the search, management, and analysis of documents with legal value, reducing costs and time. The platform makes the processes of formalization, as well as the business sectors, more strategic and efficient. Docket was established in 2016 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Speedio — Speed ​​IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.
• Spotlar — Proptrech; Real Estate

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• Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
• Maqui — Maqui is a business-to-business platform helps garment brands in improving supply chain management by reducing manufacturing waste.
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

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• Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
• Sensix — Through the FieldScan platform, Sensix uses analytical intelligence and machine learning to consolidate and correlate data from drones, satellites, machines, climate and soil and plant samples, generating input application maps, greater crop predictability and greater profitability for farmers. The web-based platform FieldScan is capable ofdelivering weed localization maps, quantifying planting gaps, identifying vigor and biomass variability and soil and plant sampling maps for variable rate application of fertilizers, nematicides, regulators (cotton), resistance inducers and insecticides, communicating directly with the agricultural machinery and impacting in saving of inputs, greater homogeneity of the crop and increase of yields.
• Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.

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• CodiumAI — With CodiumAI, you get non-trivial tests suggested right inside your IDE, so you can code smart, create more value, and stay confident when you push.
• Otterize — Automatically grant access to intended service-to-service calls, and block anything else. Make secure access transparent for developers. Cloud-native, open source, with no new infrastructure and no maintenance.
• Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.

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• Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
• GrowinCo. — GrowinCo., is the lead sourcing platform for the CPG industry, connecting suppliers, co-packers, co-manufacturers, and business partners.
• MeuChapa — MeuChapa is a logtech digital platform that provides workforce solutions for logistics and supply chains.

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• Mywacc — We are a fintech that offers valuation services to provide start-ups and small businesses with accurate, reliable, and affordable financial valuations (leveraged in AI), as well as access to capital and additional services that could help them make better financial decisions and improve their chances of success. Funded by Corfo Chile. Partnershipfrom UDD Ventures. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
• Audibots — Otro sitio de WordPress
• Remote Waters — Remote Waters provide water purification systems with low O&M and fast installation for remote communities with limited access to potable water.

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• CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.
• Captei — Captei is a CRM platform which provides smart search for advertisement and owner in the real estate sector.
• Approva Facil — Easy Approve provides real estate, technology, promoting meetings, social mobility, digital transformation, residential property management, digital platform, proptech, and startup services. They also provide buying, selling, and renting properties.

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• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
• Mate Fertility — Mate Fertility Is the Fastest Growing Fertility Network That Makes Care Affordable In A Warm Clinic Setting With Compassionate Providers.
• Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
• Devolut — Devolut offers a product designed for businesses and enhancing customer experience. The Company uses intelligent algorithms to boost sales, reduce costs, and improve customer experience through reusable shipments and a real-time management portal.

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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.

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• Topkey — Topkey is an app that tracks expenses by property, sync transactions across systems, and save tons of money on bookkeeping. Topkey was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in San Francisco, USA.
• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
• Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.

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• Palomma — Palomma is a tech company that saves merchants in the community money on card fees by allowing customers to pay directly from their bank at checkout. It enables users to make secure payments with their bank account with a single click and earn rewards in affiliated businesses. With secure, one-click bank payments, merchants can reduce processingcosts while increasing conversion.
• 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.
• MEDU Protection — Sustainable protective clothing that can be washed 50 times without losing their protective properties, reducing cost and waste.

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• TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
• Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
• VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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• Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Blip — Blip unlocks personalized, engaging, and powerful bill management experiences for fintech and bank customers.

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• Freemodel — Freemodel handles the financing, design, construction and management of pre-sales home renovation. In-person project directors are assigned to each project and work with agents directly. No upfront payments, Freemodel is paid when the home sells.
• Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.
• Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.

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• Inspectral — Inspectral offers environmental consulting solutions with technology via data intelligence, monitoring, analysis, and integrated technology.
• Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
• EPIC Digitais — EPIC Digitais is a corporate transmedia projects.

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• Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
• Trace Finance — Trace Finance is building a seamless global banking solution for Startups, beginning in LatAm. We help Startups bring funding into local operations with a better, cheaper and faster alternative.
• Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.

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• Tipspace — Tipspace allows to any gamer monetize their matches and create new game modes on competitive games.
• Beekeeper — Frontline business leaders use Beekeeper to connect and engage their whole workforce with our productivity app that teams love to use.
• KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.

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• idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
• Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
• Tripeese — Get started with the all-in-one system for your travel business, including: itinerary management, quote + proposal tools, simple crm, forms and website builder. Start your free trial today.

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• Pulses — Pulses is a SAAS and DIY platform for HR professionals and leaders who deal with Engagement, Performance, Culture and Employee Experience. It envisions that leaders and employees can become empowered transformation agents with autonomy, empowerment of their data, and tailored insights to transform their work environments into more enjoyable,productive, and healthy places.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Itajaí, Brazil.
• Sonica — Sonica is a software development firm focusing on the integration of Web3 applications.
• Darwin Seguros — Darwin Seguros is a insurance technology company.

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• Uello — Uello uses technology to solve a very difficult problem that is still old fashioned approached - The Urban Logistics market. We provide guidance and smart logistics decisions to a huge workforce of independent resources.Different from peer-to-peer on demand solutions, we provide drivers with optimized routes and a more attractive compensation,making the last mile cheaper for customers and operationally sustainable.We focus on small & medium size companies whose access to great carriers are limited or non-existent. We want to improve the logistics experience and to empower small companies with a first class logistics service at an affordable price.
• Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.
• Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.

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• Andi — Andi is building search for the next generation - visual, conversational and factually accurate. Search is broken. Results are overwhelmed with ads, clickbait and spam. Andi solved this by pioneering conversational search, the first smart search assistant using generative AI to find the right answers and give you clear summaries of the bestresults, like chatting with a smart friend. Free for anyone to use, Andi is ad-free and completely anonymous with no personal data tracking.
• ENTR — ENTR is an enterprise SaaS company that empowers the food and beverage industry to streamline compliance practices and intelligently formulate higher-quality, more sustainable products.
• Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

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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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• Pignus — SaaS tool that uses VR and AI in order to detect behavioral deviations in workers, facilitating preventive decisions to reduce accidents and improve productivity.Currently, there is a version for operational workers and one for supervisors, both of which are capable of generating behavioral traceability by identifying competencies and behaviorsthat affect people's safety and productivity.
• VITECH by Fukai Data — VITECH is a cutting-edge Al startup that is revolutionizing the way mining companies monitor and analyze their mobile equipment. Our solution uses advanced vibration analytics and artificial intelligence to predict failures on trucks, such as Caterpillar AC 798, and others mobile equipment, and provide early detection of damages, real-timemonitoring, detailed reports, and notifications in case of an early stage failure to prevent accidents and improve time availability per equipment.

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• Zypp Electric — Zypp is building the Largest Same Day Delivery Sustainable Fleet in India & Region providing Lowest cost same day delivery solution for multiple B2B customers by superlative utilization of a vehicle via passion economy. Idea is to disrupt and transform the future of the last mile delivery with right EVs, Battery swapping infrastructure, IOT,AI, ML Tech platform while making it sustainable and affordable for businesses of all types including kiranas to large e-retail customers.
• ImmersiveLabz — We have built two innovative learning products - SimuLab (virtual science lab) and Cadaviz (virtual human dissection table).
• Autocracy Machinery — Increase productivity with amazing Trencher Machines for sale available on Autocracy Machinery at unbeatable discounts. Experience the wide range of benefits with our best Trencher Machines in India

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Obie — Obie is simple, affordable, and transparent insurance for landlords and real estate investors. Protect yourself and your rental properties.
• Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Escappy Travel — ESCAPPY TRAVEL es una Travel Tech que por medio de experiencias 100% personalizadas (Automatizados), Virtuales (Realidad Virtual) y viajes Sorpresa (Travel to Surprise) hacemos el match perfecto entre deseos y el mejor plan/experiencia. Por medio de tecnología y analítica de datos se logra entender, analizar y conectar con aliados, generandovalor en el Match realizado. Pionera en Latam con este modelo de negocio disruptivo y escalable.

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• Stant — Stant offers construction services. Marcelo Menezes, Rafael Gaia, Ralph Vasco, and Rodrigo Rossiter founded it on October 20, 2013, with its headquarters in Brazil.

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• Correcto. — Correcto identifies every grammatical error written, ensuring everything you write comes across the way you intend, creating peace of mind to consumers and businesses.
• MelodyArc — Running a business is hard; your customer service shouldn't be. Quality Agent support, simplified and super-powered. No minimums. Pay only for what you use.
• Axion Ray — AI platform & predictive digital thread for engineering program management. Currently in stealth mode until public launch in Q4 2021. Axion enables leaders to help their teams do what they do best: creative work.

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• WATS — WATS is a digital platform for business waste management to enable cost savings and emissions reductions through operational efficiency.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
• Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

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• Já Vendeu — Compre e venda produtos usados
• 123Projetei — 123Projetei: A nova forma de viver a casa dos sonhos!
• GeekHunter Brasil — GeekHunter is an online platform developed to capture, test and select the best IT professionals on the market and present them dynamically to technology companies, reversing the traditional recruitment process. We pre-select candidates through our selection algorithm, which are then evaluated by automated testing of programming logic and videointerview. Only the top 5% are featured in online hiring rounds involving GeekHunter's partners and customers. Today GeekHunter has a portfolio of more than 250 customers! Some examples are Ambev, CI & T, Dafiti, Bank Facil, Chaordic, Mercado Livre, GuiaBolso, among others.

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• AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Kelvin — The Radiator Labs system provides room level temperature control and eliminates overheating in all radiator-heated buildings

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
• Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.

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• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• AOA — AOA based in Boston, New York, and London developing cancer diagnostics in the field of women’s health.AOA is a female-led company, is committed to bringing the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy ovarian cancer diagnostic test to market that will improve clinical practice, help reduce patient mortality and deliver cost savings to payers.
• Craniometrix — Catch Alzheimer's 3x as accurately as a doctor & 10 years before symptoms. All in 5 minutes on your computer!

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Mi Compa — Ominchannel Chatbot to Make Financial services accesible for the underserved
• KUKUN — KUKUN provides rental and hospitality services.

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• Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
• Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

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• Zippi — Zippi provides financial services for gig workers in Latin America.
• Nomad — Nomad is providing financial services.
• Galena — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.

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• Quansa — Changing the way workers access financial services.
• Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
• Rough Diamonds — Are the first digital collectibles celebrating elite up-and-coming soccer players who have what it takes to become the next biggest star.

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• Instock — Instock offers a gravity-defying ecommerce fulfillment.
• ZipperTax — AI copilot for tax professionals and taxpayers
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups

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• Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
• 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.
• Source — Discover SOURCE Water, a renewable, clean drinking water solution made possible by the power of Hydropanels

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• WAS Company — WAS Company started in June 2019, focuses on the development of new sustainable building materials, with negative carbon and circular economy, based the transformation of plastic, construction and mining waste. Satisfying the environmental objectives of the mining and cement industries, providing low- emission materials, with better properties andat a competitive price.Science-based company for the development of solutions for the construction industry. MISSION: WAS Co focuses on the development of new sustainable building materials from the transformation of plastic, construction, and mining waste. VISION: Become a worldwide reference of excellence in the use of industrial waste for the creation of sustainable construction materials.

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• Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
• Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
• Speakeasy — Speakeasy product & overview

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• EQUIP — In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon.