Top 40 Education Startup Investors in Mexico in October 2023

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• Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
• Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
• Lentesplus — Lentesplus.com brings the Latin American contact lens market online and into the 21st century, offering competitive prices between 20% and 30% below market standards. The company offers clients ease and efficiency, delivering the correct product straight to their homes or offices, in many cases on the same day as the order was placed. With a strongfocus on customer service, Lentesplus makes reordering contact lenses as simple as two clicks. Currently have operations in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina

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• Academlo — Academlo is an online programming school offering courses without down payment. Students only pay a percentage of their salary when they get a job.

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

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• 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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• Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
• Brik — BRIK - [Re]Constructing Construction.
• Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.

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• Academlo — Academlo is an online programming school offering courses without down payment. Students only pay a percentage of their salary when they get a job.

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• FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
• Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
• Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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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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• 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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• 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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• STRADE — STRADE is the first marketplace for luxury sneakers in LATAM. Where we authenticate luxury items and add a digital certificate of authenticity on the blockchain (an NFT). Connecting re-sellers with buyers, providing transparency to users and giving them the confidence to buy a luxury product online.
• DataRebelsMX — DataRebelsMX offers data literacy content & data project management software to improve data project adoption.

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• Lizza — Finnu is a financial services technology company based out of Barcelona, Spain, giving its users access to affordable asset-backed consumer loans via its mobile app.Finnu leverages machine learning and alternative phone usage data points, as well as mobile device management (MDM) technology to deliver credit to those, who are usually overlookedby other lenders. With Finnu, users can not only fully digitally apply and receive loans via their phones, but use their phones as collaterals to significantly reduce interest rates. Finnu is backed and supported by top-tier venture capital funds from Europe and Latin America.
• GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
• Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.

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• mmhmm — Make every virtual meeting better by being on screen with your presentation. Works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, and more. Download mmhmm for free.
• Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
• Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.

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• Amplify Education — Amplify partners with teachers to make learning rigorous and riveting for every student. At Amplify, we believe all teachers and students des
• Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
• Nexford University — Nexford is a next-generation online university based in Washington DC. Earn a globally affordable, accredited degree program at a flexible pace. Master competencies. Move forward in life.

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• Wimet — Wimet is the platform that helps companies manage workspaces in a flexible way, allowing people to work from anywhere. - Booking desks and rooms in the office. - Access to workspaces on-demand - Data insights and reports. Easy. Simple. Flexible!
• Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
• Collective Academy — Collective Academy is a neo-university that identifies learners and connects them to the collective knowledge to re-invent the future together. They achieve this through their Master’s in Business Technology, a degree that accelerates the professional talent of Latin America. In addition, our innovation experts deliver internal Corporate Learningprograms for companies to help their key decision makers to be prepared for the future.

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• Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
• SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
• Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

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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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• Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
• Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
• Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

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• Grupo Turistore — Turistore is the leading souvenir retail chain in Mexico’s top tourist locations. Turistore currently operates more than 16,000 m2 of retail floor space spread across the Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta, and Los Cabos, concentrated in tourist avenues, cruise docks, and shopping centers. The stores operate under diverse brands and sell handicrafts,souvenirs, clothing, pharmacy, totaling over 27,000 SKUs.
• Mexarrend — Docuformas has grown to be the second-largest independent leasing company. The company is offering financing solutions to rapidly-growing and underserved small and medium-sized enterprises for the acquisition of productive assets and equipment to support growth. Docuformas provides reliable and competitive funding sources through its six mainbusiness lines capital leasing, operating leases, transportation services, factoring, cash financing, and equipment financing.
• Lottus Education — Lottus Education is a higher education provider in mexico.

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• Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
• BlaBlaCar — BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can evenspecify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers.Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers.BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries.
• Builder.ai — Turn any idea into tailor-made apps, websites or wearables with our easy software builder. No code? No problem. Start building your app today!

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• Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
• Belo — Crypto for everyone, everyday
• Pigeon — Pigeon Loans is a peer-to-peer lending platform that facilitates loans between family, friends, and loved ones. The platform provides their users the ability to generate legal contracts, make online payments, store loan documentation, enable automatic bank withdrawals, and make international transactions, all in an easy to use interface.PigeonLoans was founded by Brian Bristol and Anna Matilde Tanga in 2020 and is based in San Diego, CA, USA.

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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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• 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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• CoreZero — Unleash the potential of zero-waste
• DataRebelsMX — DataRebelsMX offers data literacy content & data project management software to improve data project adoption.
• Cargamos.com — Cargamos is a cloud-based logistics platform allowing businesses of any size to store and fulfill their inventory ultra-fast from a nationwide of independent distribution centers, all at a ridiculously low price.The supply chain is a fragmented industry with hundreds of independent companies and mini-bodegas that rely on analog systems tocompete. Cargamos provides these companies with a single platform that increases their competitiveness and ability to deliver the next-gen of supply chain.In other words, Cargamos blend the physical and digital worlds to create a delighted shipping experience

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• 2020 Mom — To increase and improve maternal mental health awareness, diagnosis and treatment, by convening stakeholders to exchange ideas, 2020 Mom, a national organization focused on maternal mental health like postpartum depression.
• LineVision — LineVision is accelerating the net zero grid by equipping our utility partners with unique monitoring and analytics that improve the capacity, resilience, and safety of the grid.
• UtilityAPI — UtilityAPI is a mission-driven software company that enables standardized data transactions for the new energy economy. Hundreds of companies use this everyday for quote generation, feasibility analyses, and asset management, measurement, and verification. UtilityAPI is based in oakland, California.

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• Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
• Coolmate — Coolmate is an online shopping mall committed to providing a complete shopping experience for Vietnamese male customers. It allows users to order up to 10 items like t-shirts and socks for under US$20. The company is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Quotabook — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.

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• WtEnergy — Technology company focus on provide advanced solutions for the transformation of biomass and non-recyclable waste into clean energy.
• DataRebelsMX — DataRebelsMX offers data literacy content & data project management software to improve data project adoption.
• Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.

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• Frizata — Frizata is the first digitally native, vertical brand in the flexitarian frozen food space.
• Capitalizarme — Capitalizarme.com is an E2E marketplace, just like Amazon or MeLi, but for real estate assets. They basically choose the best investment options and simplify the process to make a responsible investment. Discover opportunities and investment guidance, buy and manage online with just a few clicks using state-of-the-art tech.
• Katapult Commerce — Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.

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• Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
• Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
• Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.

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• Rocketfy — Rocketfy is an e-commerce that offers solution to sell online.
• Top-E University — Tope University aims to democratize higher education. We develop masters programs that are taught by the best entrepreneurs and business leaders instead of academics. Our methodology is based on microlearning and focuses on highly practical and key educational concepts. Our students learn as if they were watching Netflix. They only need 20 minutesa day over a period of 10 months. Also, they can boost their networking trough events and workshops within their region.
• DitoBanx — Our main objective is to enable Bitcoin Financial Services for medium size business and big size corporations. Our services include Bitcoin Merchant tools, Bitcoin Savings Accounts, Bitcoin loans, Crypto Debit card and more.

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• Summer​ — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
• 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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• Curipod — Join the growing movement of teachers using Curipod to make interactive lessons filled with creativity, reflection and critical thinking
• Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
• Cartwheel — Cartwheel provides multi-tiered, evidenced-based mental health support from licensed clinicians, designed around your entire school community.

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• Academlo — Academlo is an online programming school offering courses without down payment. Students only pay a percentage of their salary when they get a job.
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• Lindy — Lindy is an AI assistant that puts your life on autopilot.
• Cortina — Cortina is an ecommerce marketplace saas platform helping brands sell complementary products without inventory or capital risk.
• Dorsia — Dorsia is the # 1 clinic in cosmetic surgery and medicine in Spain. We have 84 clinics throughout Spain and Andorra and we continue to grow because you ask us to. We like to fulfill your wishes for improvement and we advocate for a Responsible Beauty.

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• Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
• Turion Space — Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite.
• Sixfold Bioscience — Sixfold Bioscience engineers programmable oligonucleotide delivery systems are able to deliver RNA exclusively to diseased cells. It is based in London.

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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.

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• DD360 — DD360 is an intelligent ecosystem for real estate developments.
• Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
• ReshaMandi — reshamandi.com is a one-stop sourcing platform with a wide range of customisable natural-fibres products tailored to cater to your business needs.

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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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• Caribu — Caribu is a family video calling and reading platform that provides an engaging long-distance communication experience for kids. It integrates children’s picture books into a simple, child-friendly video calling app. It also brings together interactivity and education to create a communication tool for the modern family.Caribu was founded in 2016and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
• Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
• GoodBuy Gear — The safest curated online marketplace to buy and sell baby & kid stuff. We keep quality second hand baby gear in circulation longer.

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• Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!