Top 20 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in LATAM (October 2023)

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• Kontempo — Kontempo provides embedded payment solutions for B2B e-commerce. Its API's make it easy to offer alternative payment methods, such as BNPL and interest-free installments, to your B2B clients.
• UnDosTres — UnDosTres is revolutionizing the consumer payments landscape in Mexico. We are building the country's leading platform that allows Mexican's to pay for anything and everything at the tap of a button! We are amongst the fastest-growing startups in Mexico and were recently crowned the Best Fintech Startup in Emerging Markets.
• Random Games — Random Games is a development studio spearheading concept in videogames with a community empowerment, blockchain technology.

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• The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
• PolicyMe — Online, affordable term life insurance. Simple application. Backed by Canadian Premier Life Insurance. No obligation. Same-day coverage.
• LISA Insurtech — LISA Insurtech streamlines insurance processes with high technology that uses blockchain and artificial intelligence. We collaborate with traditional insurance companies to streamline technological processes of value chain. Some of their services are automating the payment management process, suppliers, and claims, processing claims automaticallyfrom insurance companies, and orchestrating the communication process with all the actors involved in the aftermarket value chain. LISA Insurtech is dedicated to solving problems in the insurance industry.

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• Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
• Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
• Mauve — Fully Compliant, Non-Custodial Exchange

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• Nebia — Transform your daily shower experience. 10x more immersive for you. 65% more sustainable for the planet.
• Starcity — Starcity is a San Francisco-based owner and operator of Coliving communities. As of early 2020, Starcity has just under 500 beds in operation across San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with a current committed development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units.Their 45-person team spans multiple disciplines including real estate, technology,design, and hospitality with employees from companies like Airbnb, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Fairmont Hotels, FivePoint, Google, Tesla, Lyft, SoulCycle, The Standard, and Uber. They are urban housing enthusiasts on a mission to make great cities accessible to everyone.Starcity’s approach is different from other groups in the Coliving space. They are set up as both a General Partner and Operator with full-stack real estate development, design, and management capabilities. They love working on all aspects of design to maintain a keen focus on project details, and they enjoy having skin in the game when the opportunity presents itself.
• Homie — Busca un inmueble para rentar sin necesidad de aval en las mejores colonias de la CDMX o renta tu inmueble de manera segura y busca al mejor inquilino.

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• Converus — Converus provides scientifically validated credibility assessment technologies that help protect countries, corporations, and communities from corruption, crime, and threats. Today, Converus offers 3 main products.It has developed a technology called EyeDetect that detects deception by scanning the human eye in a non-invasive manner. Converusalso offers a product called IdentityDetect, a quick and simple web-based test or mobile app that can quickly verify a person’s identity. While it IntegrityDetect is a unique integrity-assessment test designed to replace the traditional integrity test.
• Angel Studios — Get free unlimited access to film and TV series that amplify light through high quality fan-owned entertainment.
• kubo.financiero — Kubo.financiero is the only 100% digital regulated finance company in Mexico. It offers savings accounts, personal loans and term deposits to its clients. Kubo’s lean model allows for lower interest rates for borrowers and higher return rates for depositors and investors. Its innovative model and strategic approach aim to encourage a “multipliereffect” to generate and strengthen Mexico’s emerging middle class through customer-centered financial services.

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• Humata — Humata is an AI research assistant that provides answers to questions asked by the user on files such as technical papers and reports. It also allows users to upload files and documents.
• Openly — Openly provides exceptional insurance by delivering truly comprehensive coverage through independent agents without surprise or concern. We do this because we exist to make insurance remarkably simple.
• LastMile AI — Prototype and productionize generative AI apps. Built for engineers, not just ML practitioners

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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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• Wirelane — Wirelane is a full service provider in the field of electric mobility. The company is currently active in 5 countries (D, F, S, NL, CH) and has experience with large industrial customers (VW, Vattenfall, Bouygues and others). In addition to their software solutions, they also offer specially developed charging stations that set standards throughthe use of advanced technology such as radar sensors and tap payment. The company works with customers from all industry sectors to develop solutions for tomorrow’s mobility needs. Wirelane is one of Europe’s leading specialist providers of hardware, software and app solutions.
• Charquiqui — Charquiqui specializes in manufacturing red meat products intended to offer cured meat snacks. It offers retail products and packages of red meat that contains beef bites, cured in natural brine, and partially dehydrated on grills.
• 13 Fronteras — Latin American Cuisine

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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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• Fetch — Fetch was born out of the frustration of trying to rent other trucks. They hated the long lines, hidden charges for mileage and insurance, and anxiety in remembering to refill the gas tank. They just wanted to get their job done as quickly as possible.They're changing the model. Instead of quoting one price, but charging for every smalladd-on, they provide everything in one simple hourly price. Instead of having to travel to a rental center, they'll deliver your Fetch rental to you. Instead of outdated, hard-to-drive trucks, their vans are modern, safe, and easy to drive.You're their partner; not just a customer.Transportation should be convenient and fast. You have a job to do, and Fetch helps you get it done.
• Joy — Experience wedding planning the way it should be, from beautiful wedding websites and invitations, to registries and online RSVP.
• Finta — Finta lets founders and operators easily manage taxes, bookkeeping, and financial insights - all in one platform.

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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.
• LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
• Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.

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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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• 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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• Lidya — Lidya is unlocking credit for africans by providing financial insititutions with the mos effective tools to streamline their loan processes
• Movii — Cuenta digital para pagarlo todo.
• kubo.financiero — Kubo.financiero is the only 100% digital regulated finance company in Mexico. It offers savings accounts, personal loans and term deposits to its clients. Kubo’s lean model allows for lower interest rates for borrowers and higher return rates for depositors and investors. Its innovative model and strategic approach aim to encourage a “multipliereffect” to generate and strengthen Mexico’s emerging middle class through customer-centered financial services.

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• Odetta — Odetta is a digital platform that enables individuals to buy and sell used cars safely and at a fair price, from the comfort of their homes.
• Parkimovil — We're a platform that smartly manages and processes interactions and payments with different mobility nodes.
• HAMOC — HAMOC uses cutting-edge tech to provide unparalleled Lease Underwriting & Management Services to make our customers feel both supported and relaxed, the HAMOC way .

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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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• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Fondeadora — Fondeadora is a provider of digital banking services used to eliminate the inefficiencies related to the traditional banking system. The company offers a completely free debit card linked to a powerful app to save, use, and manage money. Its first product is a mobile app and an international MasterCard debit card where anyone can pay, store, anddistribute money without complications.Fondeadora was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

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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.
• Destinus — Destinus is a transportation technology company building near-space vehicles and the infrastructure to power the transportation network.
• Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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• Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
• InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.